Excavating the CIA Archives

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 13, 2017

John Prados, expert on American intelligence history, senior fellow of the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C. and author of The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA's Heart of Darkness (The New Press, 2017), discusses what he learned from excavating the C.I.A. archives.

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