Tim Weiner (born June 20, 1956) is an American reporter and author. He is the author of five books and co-author of a sixth, and winner of the

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and

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Biography

Weiner graduated from

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with a Bachelor of Arts in

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and from the

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. He worked for ''

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'' from 1993 to 2009 as a foreign correspondent in

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and

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and as a national security correspondent in

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. Weiner won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting as an investigative reporter at ''

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'', for his articles on the black budget spending at the

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and the CIA."Tim Weiner of ''The Philadelphia Inquirer''."
''The 1988 Pulitzer Prize Winner in National Reporting''. The Pulitzer Prizes. Archived fro
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: "For his series of reports on a secret Pentagon budget used by the government to sponsor defense research and an arms buildup." His book ''Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget'' is based on that newspaper series. He won the

in Nonfiction for his 2007 book '' Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA''."National Book Awards – 2007"
National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
(With acceptance speech by Weiner and interview.) In 2012, Weiner published ''Enemies: A History of the FBI'', which traces the history of the

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's secret intelligence operations from the bureau's creation in the early 20th century through its ongoing role in the war on terrorism. His latest book, ''The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare, 1945–2020'', was published in 2020. Among other things it describes how the CIA helped

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as a reliable anti-communist in Congo, or how

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's encounter with Pope

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led to a covert program to support the Polish Solidarity movement. Timothy Naftali cautions that Weiner may be overstating Putin's influence on the 2016 Presidential elections: "The

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phenomenon, which the Russians abetted but did not create, emerged from a broken nation." This is also the assessment of Rajan Menon who, in his review for ''The New York Times'', furthermore contends that he found no evidence supporting Weiner's suggestion that NATO expansion toward the Russian border in the 1990s sprang from the mind of Anthony Lake.

Books

''Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget''

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, 1990. . Based on a series of

-winning articles. ''Booknotes'' interview with Tim Weiner on ''Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget''.

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''Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy''
with Neil A. Lewis & David Johnston.

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, 1995. . * '' Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA''.

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, 2008. .
''Enemies: A History of the FBI''

, 2012. . * ''One Man Against The World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon''. Macmillan, 2015. . * ''The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare, 1945–2020''.

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, 2020. .

References

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, September 20, 2007.
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