The provocative, very instructive and extraordinarily interesting book of laureate Пулитцеровской the bonus of Tim Вейнера is sanctified to 60-years-old history of CIA. Research thousands of the archived documents, interview, underlay with operating agents, veterans and former leaders of the main American spy department. An author without decorations describes the soldiery operations of CIA on Cuba, in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and great number of other countries, exposes secret parties of relations of two great powers is the USSR and USA - in the period of cold war. Narrates about the errors of management into a department, thoughtless dispersion of huge budget and about that, how the miscalculations of CIA influenced on the state of national safety the USA, the tragedy of September, 11, 2001 became investigation of that. Warns of dangerous inability to see the world such, what he is, that impermissible at a threat world terrorism.