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Tim Weiner
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Tim Weiner

Tim Weiner Biography

Tim Weiner is a reporter for The New York Times. He has written on American intelligence for twenty years, and won the Pulitzer Prize for his work on secret national security programs. He has traveled to Afghanistan and other nations to investigate CIA covert operations firsthand.

He is the author of Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget and Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (winner of the 2007 National Book Award), and co-author of Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy.



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    Robert Littell was born on January 8, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York. He has been ranked amongst John Le Carre and Graham Greene for his masterful spy fiction. A Newsweek journalist in a previous incarnation, Littell has been ... (more)

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