held in the developing world and led to a disastrous war in Vietnam.Īnderson tells the story through the lives of four young men who played important roles in the CIA in his book, "The Quiet Americans." I interviewed him last year when the book was published. Anderson concludes that the CIA's rigid commitment to anti-communism and willingness to topple democratically-elected governments squandered the goodwill the U.S. It was a time, Anderson writes, when Americans wielded great moral authority in the world, and nations struggling to throw off colonial rule looked to the United States as a beacon of freedom and democracy. Our guest today, writer Scott Anderson, has written a book about the early years of the CIA, when America was victorious in World War II and former soldiers were improvising a campaign of spying and covert operations to contain and undermine the nation's new adversary, the Soviet Union. We're used to a world in which American intelligence services operate with enormous power and reach. I'm Dave Davies in today for Terry Gross.
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