The CIA An imperial history
Book - 2024
"As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support its new global status, it created the CIA to analyze foreign intelligence. But within a few years, the Agency was engaged in other operations: bolstering pro-American governments, overthrowing nationalist leaders, and surveilling anti-imperial dissenters at home. The Cold War was an obvious reason for this transformation-but not the only one. In The CIA, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford draws on decades of research to show the Agency as part of a larger picture, the history of Western empire. While young CIA officers imagined themselves as British imperial agents like T. E. Lawrence, successive US presidents used ...the covert powers of the Agency to hide overseas interventions from postcolonial foreigners and anti-imperial Americans alike. Even the CIA's post-9/11 global hunt for terrorists was haunted by the ghosts of empires past. Comprehensive, original, and gripping, The CIA is the story of the birth of a new imperial order in the shadows. It offers the most complete account yet of how America adopted unaccountable power and secrecy abroad and at home"--
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2nd Floor New Shelf | 327.1273/Wilford | (NEW SHELF) | Due Sep 30, 2024 |
- Subjects
- Genres
- History
- Published
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New York :
Basic Books
2024.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- xii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781541645912
- Abbreviations
- List of Central Intelligence Agency Directors
- Introduction
- Prologue: Imperial Precursors
- Part 1. Overseas
- 1. Intelligence
- 2. Regime Change
- 3. Regime Maintenance
- Part 2. At Home
- 4. Counterintelligence
- 5. Publicity
- 6. Unintended Consequences
- Epilogue: The Global War on Terror
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
Review by Kirkus Book Review