"The fascination Tim Weiner (New York, 69) has with the CIA began when he was just 13, when he caught a man writing down the license plate on his father's car, a renowned psychiatrist and university professor, after the two attended a massive anti-Vietnam war protest in Washington D.C. After that incident, the family went through three years of aggressive tax audits."
"Trump is the greatest danger to American national security, says the Pulitzer winner in an interview about his latest book and his country's current political reality, which took place on October 21 in Madrid. After two months of military operations in the Caribbean, last Wednesday it came to light that Trump had authorized undercover CIA operations in Venezuela. The announcement, justified by Washington as a decisive step in its war on wrugs geared toward increasing the pressure on the regime of Nicolas Maduro"
A childhood encounter with surveillance at an anti-Vietnam War protest and subsequent audits instilled a lifelong focus on U.S. intelligence. Early spy fantasies gave way to encounters revealing mundane, morally compromised operations. A seminal 2006 book chronicled U.S. intelligence actions across the twentieth century. A recent account traces the CIA's post-Cold War activities and portrays the agency as fragile amid political pressures following Donald Trump's return to the presidency. Trump's public directives and authorization of covert operations in Venezuela revived memories of past U.S. interventions across Latin America. Historical coups and interventions, from Guatemala to Panama, illustrate long-standing interventionist patterns.
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