Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA Graziano Michael
Reveals the previous underexplored influence of religious thought in building the foundations of the CIA.Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry…
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Reveals the previous underexplored influence of religious thought in building the foundations of the CIA.Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like "Wild" Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the