pt. 1. In the beginning, we knew nothing : the CIA under Truman, 1945-1953 --
1. Intelligence must be global and totalitarian --
3. Fight fire with fire --
4. The most secret thing --
6. They were suicide missions --
7. A vast field of illusion --
pt. 2. A strange kind of genius : the CIA under Eisenhower, 1953 to 1961 --
9. CIA's greatest single triumph --
11. And then we'll have a storm --
12. We ran it in a different way --
14. Ham-handed operations of all kinds --
15. A very strange war --
16. He was lying down and he was lying up.
pt. 3. Lost causes : the CIA under Kennedy and Johnson, 1961 to 1968 --
17. Nobody knew what to do --
18. We had also fooled ourselves --
19. We'd be delighted to trade those missiles --
20. Hey, boss, we did a good job, didn't we? --
21. I thought it was a conspiracy --
23. More courage than wisdom --
24. The beginning of a long slide downwards --
25. We knew then that we could not win the war --
26. A political H-bomb --
27. Track down the foreign communists --
pt. 4. Get rid of the clowns : the CIA under Nixon and Ford, 1968 to 1977 --
28. What the hell do those clowns do out there in Langley? --
29. USG wants a military solution --
30. We are going to catch a lot of hell --
31. To change the concept of a secret service --
32. A classic fascist ideal --
33. The CIA would be destroyed --
34. Saigon signing off --
35. Ineffective and scared --
pt. 5. Victory without joy : the CIA under Carter, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, 1977 to 1993 --
36. He sought to overthrow their system --
37. We were just plain asleep --
38. A free-lance buccaneer --
39. In a dangerous way --
40. He was running a great risk --
41. A con man's con man --
42. To think the unthinkable --
43. What are we going to do when the wall comes down?
pt. 6. The reckoning : the CIA under Clinton and George W. Bush, 1993 to 2007 --
45. Why in the world didn't we know? --
47. The threat could not be more real --
50. The burial ceremony --