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Selling the CIA : Public Relations and the Culture of Secrecy /

"In Selling the CIA, David McCarthy contends that events that unfolded during the 1970s badly damaged the CIA's mystique, which had been assiduously cultivated since the Agency's inception in 1947. In response to the unprecedented crisis, CIA officials developed a far-reaching public...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: McCarthy, David Shamus (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: The "family jewels"
  • Introduction: "A fundamental public relations problem"
  • "Telling the intelligence story": William Colby, ARIO, and the CIA counteroffensive, 1973-1976
  • Admiral Stansfield Turner, Herbert Hetu, and the legend of CIA openness, 1977-1980
  • The culture of secrecy unleashed, 1981-1987
  • The rise and fall of the new era of openness at the CIA, 1988-2001
  • "We either get out and sell, or we get hammered": the spinning of torture, 2002-2017.