{"product_id":"ghosts-of-langley-the-untold-stories-of-cia-operatives-who-changed-history-without-a-name-9798233580352","title":"Ghosts of Langley: The Untold Stories of CIA Operatives Who Changed History Without a Name","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Damian Evernight\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Umar\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Umar\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Military - Intelligence \u0026amp; Espionage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the Memorial Wall at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, 140 stars are carved into white Alabama marble. Each represents an officer who died in service to the United States. But \u003cstrong\u003e53 of those stars have no name beside them.\u003c\/strong\u003e The operations that killed those officers remain classified. The sacrifice cannot be publicly acknowledged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGhosts of Langley\u003c\/em\u003e is the first comprehensive account of the CIA's most consequential unnamed operatives. Drawing on declassified archives, congressional testimony, and original interviews, \u003cstrong\u003eDamian Evernight\u003c\/strong\u003e reconstructs the human cost of institutional invisibility and asks what a democracy owes to the people it has relied upon but officially denied.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of paramilitary officers who commanded a \u003cstrong\u003e30,000-strong secret army in Laos\u003c\/strong\u003e without appearing on any government roster. Of female case officers whose operational achievements were attributed to male supervisors and erased from the record. Of the Berlin tunnel operation and the officers who built it, staffed it, and returned to desk assignments without a word of recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the story of foreign assets - Soviet colonels, Cuban officials, Chinese ministry officers - who risked execution for a country that would never claim them. Of NOC officers who spent a decade becoming someone else so completely that coming home required rebuilding themselves from evidence rather than memory. Of the analyst who tracked Osama bin Laden for nine years and was right when everyone senior said she was wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInside this book: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe secret war in Laos and the promise Washington did not keep\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBerlin Base, the CIA tunnel, and the operatives history cannot name\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe women whose achievements built the CIA record and were erased from it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeign assets who faced execution for a country that denied them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePost-9\/11 rendition, black sites, and the accountability gap anonymity enabled\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe bin Laden hunt and the decade of anonymous analytical work behind it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe reckoning problem: oversight, democracy, and the cost of permanent secrecy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The stars remain. Most of the names do not. That is either a necessary feature of democratic statecraft - or an intolerable evasion of it.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistory shaped in the dark is still history. \u003cstrong\u003eScroll up and grab your copy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Umar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47776021282967,"sku":"9798233580352","price":1907.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798233580352.webp?v=1777993821","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/ghosts-of-langley-the-untold-stories-of-cia-operatives-who-changed-history-without-a-name-9798233580352","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}