Talbot is a far-left author. He was a senior editor for Mother Jones.
He is an "independent historian". He pushes far-left re-interpretations of history.
Too bad for Talbot that his book exposing the CIA was published in 2015 BEFORE the left fully embraced that organization because it went after Trump. Now the left wants us to believe the CIA is a respectable organization but one of their own told the truth about it BEFORE it became politically inconvenient to do so.