bReveals the previous underexplored influence of religious thought in building the foundations of the CIA.b p Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history Perry Miller's iErrand into the Wilderness i1956, about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's iWilderness of Mirrorsi 1980, about the dangers and delusions inherent to the Central Intelligence Agency. Fittingly, iErrand into the Wilderness of Mirrorsi investigates the dangers and delusions that ensued from the religious worldview of the early molders of the Central Intelligence Agency. Graziano argues that the religious approach to intelligence by key OSS and CIA figures like Wild Bill Donovan and Edward Lansdale was an essential, and overlooked, factor in establishing the agency's concerns, methods, and understandings of the world. In a practical sense, this was because the Roman Catholic Church already had global networks of people and safe places that A