"This definitive history of covert action is both timely and necessary."
         -- James Bamford, author of The Puzzle Palace, Body of Secrets, and A Pretext for War

"Prados brings together in one colorful narrative a sweeping history of America's covert wars."
         -- Kai Bird, coauthor of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

"Safe for Democracy is history for adults-not White House spin but what really happened and why."
         -- Thomas Powers, Pulitzer Prize winner for national reporting and author of Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda

"Highly readable, this is intelligence history, and intelligent history at its best."
         -- Lloyd Gardner, foreign policy specialist and author

"A comprehensive and up-to-date account."
         -- Norman Polmar, co-author of Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage

"Prados... constructs factual narratives of events based on thorough research with minimal analytic interpretation interspersed."
         -- Bruce Miller, Blue Voice

"Prados has performed a valuable service....A comprehensive and superbly researched effort that is both engrossing and disturbing."
         -- Booklist

"If you're studying the CIA's operations and routines you can't be without Safe for Democracy."
         -- Midwest Book Review

"This is the most detailed single volume on the modern history of US covert operations."
         -- Choice Reviews

"Prados is an extraordinarily tenacious researcher....[This book is] an impressive achievement."
         -- Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs

"A rare degree of success....His coverage is unusually comprehensive and objective....An authoritative, original work....Prados demonstrates his virtuosity."
         -- Journal of American History

"A well-researched, detailed, and vivid account....Prados proves a master of his subject."
         -- Dimitris Keridas, Poliltical Science Quarterly

"Factual and capacious...if anyone writes hereafter about CIA's covert actions without consulting Prados, the result will be woefully deficient."
         -- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., special assistant to President Kennedy and author of A Thousand Days

"The book has many strengths...[Prados] introduces a mountain of newly declassified documents and information from memoirs and interviews. The book thus contains much new detail about individuals involved in covert operations and project costs."
         -- The Historian

"Safe for Democracy argues its author's case very well, and it opens some very serious questions for scholarly military historians."
         -- Military History