Legacy of Ashes is the first on-the-record history of the CIA. There are no anonymous sources, no blind quotes, no flies on the wall, no hearsay. It is documented fact. Among the revelations in Legacy of Ashes:
- On the record accounts of how American Presidents ordered the assassinations of foreign leaders and the overthrow of sovereign nations. Here, for the first time, are documented direct orders from Presidents to conduct coups, steal elections, and subvert elected governments in countries from Italy to Indonesia to Brazil.
- Documented evidence of how the CIA paid millions in bribes to win the allegiances of Presidents, prime ministers, and foreign ministers in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa - including some who still serve today.
- How the spy services of Moscow, Cuba, Teheran and Baghdad have deceived the CIA.
- Why the CIA has failed for sixty years to penetrate the countries that pose the greatest threats to the United States.
