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State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration

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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
January 3, 2006

Pages
  
256

Originally published
  
3 January 2006

Publisher
  
Free Press

Genre
  
Speculative fiction

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Hardcover

ISBN
  
0-7432-7066-5

Authors
  
James Risen, Steve Perry

Page count
  
256

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Subject
  
Central Intelligence Agency

Similar
  
James Risen books, Terrorism books, Other books

State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration is documentary review written by Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist for The New York Times James Risen. The book was released on January 3, 2006.

Risen writes in State of War that, "Several of the Iranian CIA agents were arrested and jailed, while the fate of some of the others is still unknown", after a CIA official in 2004 sent an Iranian agent an encrypted electronic message, mistakenly including data that could potentially identify "virtually every spy the CIA had inside Iran". The Iranian was a double agent and handed over the information to Iranian intelligence. This also has been denied by an intelligence official. Risen also alleges that the Bush Administration is responsible for transformation of Afghanistan into a "narco-state", that provides a purported 80% of the world's heroin supply.

Risen was subpoenaed twice to disclose his sources for the book, first by the George W. Bush administration and then by the Barack Obama administration. Risen declined to do so both times, but in January 2011, it was revealed that former CIA agent Jeffrey Alexander Sterling had illegally leaked classified information to Risen about the agency's involvement in Iran's nuclear program.

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