Last year, I read Tim Weiner's devastating book, "Legacy of Ashes: History of the CIA". It goes into detail about many of the events on this timeline.
I thought the book was a bit overly hostile -- surely the CIA isn't that incompetent -- and in looking for a rebuttal I found this on the CIA web site written by the "CIA History Staff": https://www.cia.gov/static/49561e0c75f85cc633453c8d40888e94/... . I found this a weak argument against the points made by Weiner but its interesting to read what the CIA thinks of its own history.
I thought the book was a bit overly hostile -- surely the CIA isn't that incompetent -- and in looking for a rebuttal I found this on the CIA web site written by the "CIA History Staff": https://www.cia.gov/static/49561e0c75f85cc633453c8d40888e94/... . I found this a weak argument against the points made by Weiner but its interesting to read what the CIA thinks of its own history.