How the CIA’s Cold War Ops and Secrecy Planted Seeds for ‘Deep State’ Conspiracy Theories

A new book explores an “Imperial History” of the spy agency’s hubris

When the United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the tip of the spear was a band of gung-ho CIA officers assigned to an operation dubbed Jawbreaker.  Riding horseback alongside tribesmen from the Northern Alliance, the Jawbreaker cowboys chased the Taliban from power and drove Al Qaeda terrorists to the mountains of Tora Bora (where they lost the tra…