Intelligence historian Hugh Wilford discusses his new book, America’s Great Game: The CIA’s Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East. Here is a New York Times review of the book. His previous books include The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America,  The New York Intellectuals: From Vanguard to Institution, and The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?  ...