1. Setting the scene -- 2. So, you want to be a spy -- 3. Out of the ashes of the OSS -- 3. Getting out in the world: the early operations -- 4. Richard Bissel: from the U-2 to the Bay of Pigs -- 6. Years of change: assassination plans and secret wars -- 7. Richard Helms: from Chile to Watergate -- 8. The dismantling of the CIA: Schlesinger to Turner -- 9. The Casey years.