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Format: 1 online resource (xiii, 542 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 1-4744-8504-9 , 1-4744-2886-X

Series Statement: Intelligence, surveillance and secret warfare

Content: Written by intelligence scholars and experts, this book chronicles the evolution of the CIA: its remarkable successes, its controversial failures and its clandestine operations. The history of the agency is presented through the prism of its declassified documents, with each being supplemented by insightful contextual analysis.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Oct 2020). , Intelligence for an American Century: Creating the CIA -- , Development of CIA Covert Action -- , ‘Gangster Act’: The Berlin Tunnel -- , CIA and the USSR: The Challenge of Understanding the Soviet Threat -- , Anglo-American Intelligence Liaison and the Outbreak of the Korean War -- , CIA and the Bomber and Missile Gap -- , CIA and Cuba: The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis -- , CIA in Vietnam -- , CIA and Arms Control -- , CIA’s Counter-Intelligence Conundrum: The Case of Yuri Nosenko -- , 1975: The Year of the ‘Intelligence Wars’ -- , Watching Khomeini -- , CIA and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan -- , Martial Law in Poland -- , Able Archer and the NATO War Scare -- , Soviet Leadership and Kremlinology in the 1980s -- , CIA and the (First) Persian Gulf War -- , Mole in Their Midst: The CIA and Aldrich Ames -- , System was Blinking Red’: The Peace Dividend and the Road to 9/11 -- , Reckoning and Redemption: The 9/11 Commission, the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA at War -- , ‘Slam Dunk’: The CIA and the Invasion of Iraq -- , Terrorist Hunters Become Political Quarry: The CIA and Rendition, Detention and Interrogation -- , Innovation at the CIA: From Sputnik to Silicon Valley and Venona to Vault 7 -- , Entering the Electoral Fray: The CIA and Russian Meddling in the 2016 Election -- , Flying Blind? The CIA and the Trump Administration.

Additional Edition: Print version: Dylan, Huw. CIA and the pursuit of security. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020 ISBN 9781474428842

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781474428866

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