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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCarthy, David Shamus (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > Central Intelligence Agency.
United States. > Central Intelligence Agency > History.
Public relations.
Intelligence service.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Intelligence.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Relations publiques > États-Unis > Histoire.
Public relations > United States > History.
Intelligence service > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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 relations strategy. McCarthy's is the first systematic history of CIA public relations between 1974 and 2014, demonstrating that the culture of secrecy at the CIA and its PR campaigns are fundamentally intertwined"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (232 pages).
ISBN:9780700626434

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