Tim Weiner is the author of two books and co-author of a third. A New York Times reporter, he has won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Weiner is a graduate of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and has worked for the Times since 1993, as a foreign correspondent in Mexico and as a national security correspondent in Washington, DC.
Weiner won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting as an investigative reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, for his articles on the black budget spending at the Pentagon and the CIA. His book Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget is based on that newspaper series.
He later won the National Book Award for his 2007 book The History of the CIA.
He is featured along with other foreign affairs experts in interviews in Denis Delestrac's 2010 "Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space".
Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget by Tim Weiner. Aspect. September 1990. Based on a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning articles, Blank Check unveils the U.S. President's secret treasury; provides a look at how the Pentagon spends the public's money without public consent or knowledge.
Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy by Neil A. Lewis, Tim Weiner, and David Johnston Random House, May 1, 1995. 308 pages. ISBN 9780679440505
The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner. Anchor Books. 2008. ISBN 9780307389008