The CIA and American democracy /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2003]
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
United States. > Central Intelligence Agency > History.
United States. > Central Intelligence Agency
USA > Central Intelligence Agency
USA / CIA.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
HISTORY > General.
CIA.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: 9/11 and the Post-Cold War CIA
  • Introduction
  • The lessons of American history
  • The birth of the CIA
  • The mists of Bogota: Expansion and obfuscation
  • Surviving McCarthy: A weakness for immunity
  • The golden age of operations
  • Intelligence in the golden age: The fight for credibility
  • Presidential shake-up: Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs
  • Presidential neglect: LBJ and the CIA to June 1966
  • Helms, Johnson, and cosmetic intelligence
  • Nixon, Kissinger, and the fruits of manipulation
  • Democracy's intelligence flap: Toward a new legitimacy
  • Restrained intelligence and the half-won peace
  • Ingnoring the credible: The CIA in the 1980s
  • Conclusion.

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