Company Man: 30 years of controversy and crisis in the CIA

by John Rizzo

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From a former top-level insider - whom the Los Angeles Times has called `the most influential career lawyer in CIA history' - comes an unprecedented memoir filled with revelatory stories about the US government's intelligence program.

In 1975, fresh out of law school and working in a mind-numbing job at the US Treasury, John Rizzo took `a total shot in the dark' and sent his resume to the Central Intelligence Agency. He had no notion that, more than 30 years later, he would become a notorious public figure - both a symbol and a victim of the toxic winds swirling in post-9/11 Washington.

From approving the rules that governed waterboarding and other `enhanced interrogation techniques' to serving as the CIA's spokesperson during the Iran-Contra scandal, Rizzo witnessed and participated in virtually all of the significant operations of the CIA's modern history. He was the agency's top lawyer in the years after the 9/11 attacks, and oversaw actions that remain the subject of intense debate today.

In Company Man, Rizzo charts the CIA's evolution over the course of his career, and offers a direct window into the organisation during some of its biggest controversies. In doing so, he has produced the most comprehensive insider account of the CIA ever written - a groundbreaking, timely, and remarkable personal history of American intelligence.

  • ISBN10 1922247731
  • ISBN13 9781922247735
  • Publish Date 1 June 2014 (first published 7 January 2014)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 3 June 2021
  • Publish Country AU
  • Imprint Scribe Publications