The CIA and the pursuit of security : history, documents and contexts /

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 in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Dylan, Huw (Autor), Gioe, David, 1977- (Autor), Goodman, Michael S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
Colección:Intelligence, surveillance and secret warfare.
Temas:
United States. > Central Intelligence Agency > History.
United States. > Central Intelligence Agency
Espionage, American > History.
National security > United States > History.
Espionnage américain > Histoire.
Espionage, American
National security
United States
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intelligence for an American Century: Creating the CIA
  • The Development of CIA Covert Action
  • A 'Gangster Act': The Berlin Tunnel
  • The CIA and the USSR: The Challenge of Understanding the Soviet Threat
  • Anglo-American Intelligence Liaison and the Outbreak of the Korean War
  • The 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
  • The CIA's Counter-Intelligence Conundrum: The Case of 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 (First) Persian Gulf War
  • A Mole in Their Midst: The CIA and 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 the CIA at War
  • The 'Slam Dunk': The CIA and the Invasion of Iraq
  • The Terrorist Hunters Become Political Quarry: The CIA and Rendition, Detention and Interrogation
  • Innovation at the CIA: From Sputnik to Silicon Valley and VENONA to Vault 7
  • Entering the Electoral Fray: The CIA and Russian Meddling in the 2016 Election
  • Flying Blind? The CIA and the Trump Administration.

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