| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the cia. By John Prados. (Chicago: Dee, 2006. xxxviii, 696 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-1-56663-574-5.)
John Prados in this volume walks a much-trodden path. But in retelling the story of the controversial covert operations undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), he achieves a rare degree of success. His coverage is unusually comprehensive and objective.	1
Prados makes relatively little use of the bourgeoning secondary literature in the field. His book is light on historiography and is not a conscious work of revisionism. Instead of drawing on published works, he relies on the primary documentation with which he has become familiar over many years of scholarship and publication in the field.	. . .

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