BEYOND REPAIR: THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE CIA

Book ID/图书代码： 05170009B32355

English Summary/英文概要： Charles Faddis, co-author of Operation Hotel California, offers gritty, hair-raising stories about the CIA, which has devolved into a giant bureaucracy of ass-coverers and careerists – not the kind of people you want in charge of preventing another 9/11. He discusses the birth of the CIA (then called the OSS) after an earlier Day of Infamy (12/7) under “Wild Bill” Donovan, the 20th-century American father of spy-craft, and how it works from the inside out, and why things have gone awry. In the face of threats that are multiplying and becoming increasingly complex, he tells why we need an effective CIA and how to go about building one.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《出版人周刊》相关评论：

Faddis (《加州饭店行动-伊拉克境内秘密战》)一书的合著者，前美国中央情报局的行动事务官员，在这部标志着批判性的书中，披露了美国情报机关的运作失常现实状况。在文中作者指出中央情报局的成立，曾是为了让美国免于另一场类似于珍珠港事件的爆发，作者同时还指出9.11事件的发生证明了美国情报机构不再能胜任这个职责，这个机构必须进行改革，否则将会被其他部门取而代之。在作者对中央情报局的描述中，那些昔日曾经的 “风险承担，勇于创新精神”都逐渐消失殆尽，现今的机构官僚习气盛行，资深领导人才的匮乏，人心受到“内部严重的清洗和政治迫害”的打击。作者归结出情报机构正在“逐渐迈入枯竭之境”，并提出情报机关应仿效战略情报局，及富兰克林•德兰诺•罗斯福在二战情报机构所催生出的美国中央情报局那样，并对“新的战略情报局提供了一份蓝图计划”。保留这个新的机构，就像其战时的前任那样，精简而高效。作者指出“好钢应该用在刀刃上”的道理。在现今世界正面临“越来越多复杂多变”的恐怖威胁情况下，Faddis对美国中央情报局的直面辛辣评估应值得一读的。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：“Faddis, a career CIA operations officer, pulls no punches in this provocative critique of the iconic and dysfunctional spy agency. . . . In a world where threats are multiplying and becoming more complex, [his] bleak assessment of the CIA should be required reading.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“If you want to know what’s wrong with today’s CIA—and how to fix it— this book is the place to start. Sam Faddis . . . describes the timidity of station chiefs terrified of getting blamed for mistakes, the obduracy of ambassadors who don’t want flaps, the ‘we’re all winners here’ training rules better suited for a kindergarten playground than intelligence work, the reluctance to hire and promote people who understand leadership. You read Beyond Repair and you realize: No wonder the CIA is screwed up! Faddis proposes a bold cure: Remake the CIA in the image of the World War II spy service, the OSS—smaller, flatter, tougher, smarter, meaner. If people would read this book and understand its message, it could save lives.”
—David Ignatius, Washington Post columnist and author of Body of Lies

“Drawing on his unique experience as a CIA operations officer, Charles Faddis makes a compelling case in Beyond Repair that the CIA must return to its Office of Strategic Services (OSS) roots to provide the United States with the intelligence it needs. Faddis has a deep appreciation for the OSS and great admiration for its legendary leader, General William J. Donovan, who frequently told OSS personnel that they could not succeed without taking chances. Faddis has taken such chances himself. General Donovan could have written this book. I know he would have read it and agreed wholeheartedly with its conclusion.”
—Charles Pinck, President of The OSS Society

About the Author/作者介绍：
一位退休的美国前中央情报局官员，有着在近东地区，南亚和南欧有着二十年经历的Faddis。曾在2003年率中央情报团队首次进入伊拉克。其后作为中央情报局大规模杀伤性武器恐怖主义负责人而退休。
其六部作品中有三部是非小说。
Faddis定居于安纳波利斯（美国马里兰州首府）附近，空闲时间会写作，驾帆远航，旅行和翻阅读物。
目前的Faddis仍然是情报界的咨询师。

A retired CIA officer and author. Spent twenty years undercover in the Near East, South Asia and Southern Europe. Took the first CIA team into Iraq in advance of the 2003 invasion. Retired as head of CIA’s WMD terrorism unit.
Author of six books, three works of non-fiction and three novels.
Lives near Annapolis, Maryland. Spends his free time writing, sailing, traveling and reading.
Still consults for the Intelligence Community.

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