Huw Dylan, David Gioe, Michael S Goodman

The CIA and the Pursuit of Security

History, Documents and Contexts

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Produktbeschreibung

An illuminating documentary history of America's most renowned intelligence agency Since its creation in 1947, the CIA has been at the heart of America's security apparatus. It has also been the subject of major national and international controversies, and been subject to accusations of poor performance and failure, most notably over the 9/11 attacks and Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Written by intelligence scholars and experts, this book offers the reader a lively and authoritative 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. Key Features and Benefits - Includes a wealth of declassified documents that will give readers an understanding of how the CIA instigated, understood, or reacted to key historical events, with the authors' commentary providing broader contextual analysis. - Provides a robust and lively discussion of topics ranging from the high-Cold War and Vietnam to the arms race, rendition, and the hunt for Osama bin Laden. - Readers will gain an appreciation of how the business of intelligence and spying, and with it the CIA, has evolved since its inception in 1947. Huw Dylan is Senior Lecturer in Intelligence Studies and International Security in the Department of War Studies, King's College London. He is also Visiting Research Professor at the Norwegian Defence Intelligence School. David Gioe is Assistant Professor of History, United States Military Academy at West Point, and History Fellow, US Army Cyber Institute. He is Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies, King's College London. Michael Goodman is Professor of Intelligence and International Affairs and Head of the Department of War Studies, King's College London. He is also Visiting Research Professor at the Norwegian Defence Intelligence School.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 875g
• ISBN-13: 9781474428859
• ISBN-10: 1474428851
• Artikelnr.: 60017589

Autorenporträt

Dr Huw Dylan is a Lecturer in Intelligence and International Security at the Department of War Studies, King's College London, where he leads the MA programme in Intelligence and International Security. He is also and a visiting Associate Professor at the Norwegian Defence Intelligence School. His book, Defence Intelligence and the Cold War, was published by Oxford University Press in 2014.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Foreword by Michael Morell
List of documents
Introduction
1. Intelligence for an American Century: Creating the CIA
2. The Berlin Tunnel: A 'Gangster Act'
3. The development of CIA covert action
4. The CIA and the USSR: The Challenge of Understanding the Soviet Threat
5. Anglo-American Intelligence Liaison and the Outbreak of the Korean War
6. CIA and the Bomber and Missile Gap
7. The CIA and Cuba: The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis
8. The CIA in Vietnam
9. The CIA and Arms Control
10. Counter-Intelligence and Yuri Nosenko
11. 1975: The Year of the 'Intelligence Wars'
12. Watching Khomeini
13. The CIA and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
14. Martial Law in Poland
15. Able Archer and the NATO War Scare
16. The Soviet Leadership and Kremlinology in the 1980s
17. The CIA and the Persian Gulf War of 1991
18. Aldrich Ames
19. The System was Blinking Red: The Peace Dividend and the Road to 9/11
20. Reckoning and Redemption: The 9/11 Commission, the Director of National Intelligence, and CIA at War
21. Iraq and WMD
22. The Terrorist Hunters Become Political Quarry: The CIA and Rendition, Detention and Interrogation
23. Innovation at CIA: From Sputnik to Silicon Valley and VENONA to Vault 7
24. Entering the Electoral Fray: CIA and Russian Meddling in the 2016 Election
25. Flying Blind? CIA and the Trump Administration
Bibliography.