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12 Jun 2005 04:46:07 AM |
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OT: Stalin's Intelligence |
Stalin's Intelligence
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/12/books/review/12FERGUSO.html?pagewanted=all
By NIALL FERGUSON
Published: June 12, 2005
IN the past four years the United States has paid heavily for two major
intelligence failures. Before the 9/11 attacks, accurate warnings of
the threat posed by Al Qaeda were not acted upon. Conversely, before
the invasion of Iraq, inaccurate assessments about Saddam Hussein's
military capabilities were acted upon. The world would be a different
place today if the earlier intelligence had been heeded and the later
intelligence ignored. And thousands of Americans might still be alive.
WHAT STALIN KNEW
The Enigma of Barbarossa.
By David E. Murphy.
Illustrated. 310 pp. Yale University Press. $30.
STALIN'S FOLLY
The Tragic First Ten Days of World War II on the Eastern Front.
By Constantine Pleshakov.
Illustrated. 326 pp. Houghton Mifflin Company. $26.
STALIN
A Biography.
By Robert Service.
Illustrated. 715 pp. The Belknap Press/ Harvard University Press.
$29.95.
Stalin
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