The CIA and the Pursuit of Security
History, Documents and Contexts
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 26 May 2020
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781474428842
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages456 pages
- Size 244x170 mm
- Weight 1124 g
- Language English 65
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Short description:
Written by intelligence scholars and experts, this book chronicles the evolution of the CIA: its remarkable successes, its controversial failures and its clandestine operations. The history of the agency is presented through the prism of its declassified documents, with each being supplemented by insightful contextual analysis.
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Since its creation in 1947, the CIA has been at the heart of America’s security apparatus. Written by intelligence scholars and experts, The CIA and the Pursuit of Security offers the reader a lively survey of the CIA past and present. The history of the agency is presented through the prism of its declassified documents, with each being supplemented by insightful contextual analysis. The book chronicles the evolution of the CIA, its remarkable successes, clandestine operations, and its ongoing struggle to maintain American security in an age of proliferating threats.
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Foreword by Michael Morell
List of documents
Introduction
- Intelligence for an American Century: Creating the CIA
- The Berlin Tunnel: A ‘Gangster Act’
- The development of CIA covert action
- The CIA and the USSR: The Challenge of Understanding the Soviet Threat
- Anglo-American Intelligence Liaison and the Outbreak of the Korean War
- CIA and the Bomber and Missile Gap
- The CIA and Cuba: The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis
- The CIA in Vietnam
- The CIA and Arms Control
- Counter-Intelligence and Yuri Nosenko
- 1975: The Year of the ‘Intelligence Wars’
- Watching Khomeini
- The CIA and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
- Martial Law in Poland
- Able Archer and the NATO War Scare
- The Soviet Leadership and Kremlinology in the 1980s
- The CIA and the Persian Gulf War of 1991
- Aldrich Ames
- The System was Blinking Red: The Peace Dividend and the Road to 9/11
- Reckoning and Redemption: The 9/11 Commission, the Director of National Intelligence, and CIA at War
- Iraq and WMD
- The Terrorist Hunters Become Political Quarry: The CIA and Rendition, Detention and Interrogation
- Innovation at CIA: From Sputnik to Silicon Valley and VENONA to Vault 7
- Entering the Electoral Fray: CIA and Russian Meddling in the 2016 Election
- Flying Blind? CIA and the Trump Administration
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