The 2007 60 Minutes interview with George Tenet, who rose from public school in Queens to sit in the big chair at CIA longer than beside Dulles:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/25/60minutes/main2728375.shtml

Feature above-fold piece by the Times on Dewey Clarridge, ex-con career CIAist who’s been running a privatized intel network since getting convicted for Iran-Contra hijinks and bounced in the 80s.

This is precisely what Trento talks about in PRELUDE TO TERROR.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/world/23clarridge.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/world/asia/15contractors.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/us/politics/11blackwater.html?em

soon coming to a street near you.

Here is Prouty’s preface to the online edition, written in 1997. A piquant, charming teaser.

The book must be read, if one hopes to get a grip on the careering course of American foreign affairs since 1914. It’s not the Rosetta Stone, not sufficient, but necessary.