The Legacy of Ashes: History of the CIA

For the month of September, we read The Legacy of Ashes: History of the CIA by Tim Weiner! We discuss the author, our impressions, the one critique we found, and a hypotheticals of CIA existence and the need for CIA if the US was a socialist country.  Critique - https://americandiplomacy.web.unc.edu/2007/10/legacy-of-ashes-the-history-of-the-cia/ October - The Occult Book by John Michael Greer November -  Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti December - Hammer and Hoe by Robin D. G. Kelley January+ - Less than Nothing by Slavoj Zizek