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Laddar... Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy (utgåvan 2005)av Lindsay Moran
VerksinformationBlowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy av Lindsay Moran
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This is one of those true stories that reads like fiction. Lindsay Moran's memoir of the training and occupation of a CIA operative gives a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at a secret world. I would have liked to know what hoops she had to go through to be able to tell her tale, but unfortunately that isn't covered. She makes the loneliness and mundane tasks involved in being an agent much too real. Also of interest is the impact that 9/11/11 had on her world, and by extension the CIA. I guess you could call this book breezy, because that’s the tone, with a fair amount of worrying about weight and the acquisition and disposition of boyfriends, but basically this is about how sexism and inertia make the CIA dumb. Sexism in treating women agents worse, assuming that they’re more at risk of betraying the country for a man while letting male agents do anything with women, while also sending women agents out on the assumption that heterosexual men of other countries are more likely to spy for the US if a woman is the handler. Stupidity and waste in paying out huge sums for worthless information, with no apparent procedures in place for sorting good information from bad. September 11, 2001 made them more frightened but not any better at allocating resources. If you like your downers with a side of wacky adventures in training and avoiding surveillance, then this might be for you! Here, have another one, this time about the FBI.
One looks in vain for a serious message in her one-dimensional put-down of the Agency’s operational training. Moran doubtless will not endear herself to her erstwhile colleagues, but for a general readership she is a facile writer who comes across as a breezy romantic. Uppmärksammade listor
Call me naïve, but when I was a girl-watching James Bond and devouring Harriet the Spy-all I wanted was to grow up to be a spy. Unlike most kids, I didn't lose my secret-agent aspirations. So as a bright-eyed, idealistic college grad, I sent my resume to the CIA. Getting in was a story in itself. I peed in more cups than you could imagine, and was nearly condemned as a sexual deviant by the staff psychologist. My roommates were getting freaked out by government investigators lurking around, asking questions about my past. Finally, the CIA was training me to crash cars into barriers at 60 mph. Jump out of airplanes with cargo attached to my body. Survive interrogation, travel in alias, lose a tail. One thing they didn't teach us was how to date a guy while lying to him about what you do for a living. That I had to figure out for myself. Then I was posted overseas. And that's when the real fun began. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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This is certainly no James Bond novel. James Bond novels involve villains plotting to take over the world. This book starred a woman who was plotting to take over my last nerve.
I was expecting some joking/ridicule of the CIA from this book. She painted the CIA more like "The Office" filled with horribly incompetent agents - especially herself.
She comes across as whiny and I felt more like I was reading a Sex and the City episode with Lindsay so preoccupied with rock climbing, boyfriends and quality time with her girl friends.
If Lindsay is the type of person gathering intelligence, I worry for the safety of America. If she's the type of writer that America is producing now ... well, she's a decent enough writer.
This is a 1.3 star book. ( )