Recent CIA Memoirs Are Providing A Look Into How The Agency Runs

CIA Memoirs Offer Revelations And Settle Scores Among Spies -- Washington Post

In between his defense of secret prisons, coercive interrogations of al-Qaeda suspects and the shredding of highly sensitive videotapes, former CIA spymaster Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. makes room in his memoir “Hard Measures” to talk about the competition: other CIA memoirists.

These days, there are just so many of them — and so much controversy surrounding them. One measure of the fallout: The CIA is conducting an internal investigation to determine whether some spy memoirs are being censored merely to scrub out embarrassing details about the agency, rather than to protect against the release of classified information. But the CIA doesn’t seem to mind letting former officers praise or slam one another.

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My Comment: I call this a "DUH!!!" article .... why .... because memoirs from Washington are almost always about payback and/or justifying what you did when you were there. But this is still a must read article, and a revealing look at the egos of some the people who work .... or worked .... in our intelligence agencies.