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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781474428866
035 _a(DE-B1597)616289
035 _a(OCoLC)1312726009
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072 7 _aPOL011000
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aDylan, Huw
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe CIA and the Pursuit of Security :
_bHistory, Documents and Contexts /
_cMichael S. Goodman, Huw Dylan, David Gioe.
264 1 _aEdinburgh :
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©2020
300 _a1 online resource (456 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
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490 0 _aIntelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare : ISSW
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tDocuments --
_tForeword --
_tAcknowledgements --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Intelligence for an American Century: Creating the CIA --
_t2. The Development of CIA Covert Action --
_t3. A ‘Gangster Act’: The Berlin Tunnel --
_t4. The CIA and the USSR: The Challenge of Understanding the Soviet Threat --
_t5. Anglo-American Intelligence Liaison and the Outbreak of the Korean War --
_t6. The CIA and the Bomber and Missile Gap --
_t7. The CIA and Cuba: The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis --
_t8. The CIA in Vietnam --
_t9. The CIA and Arms Control --
_t10. The CIA’s Counter-Intelligence Conundrum: The Case of Yuri Nosenko --
_t11. 1975: The Year of the ‘Intelligence Wars’ --
_t12. Watching Khomeini --
_t13. The CIA and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan --
_t14. Martial Law in Poland --
_t15. Able Archer and the NATO War Scare --
_t16. The Soviet Leadership and Kremlinology in the 1980s --
_t17. The CIA and the (First) Persian Gulf War --
_t18. A Mole in Their Midst: The CIA and Aldrich Ames --
_t19. ‘The System was Blinking Red’: The Peace Dividend and the Road to 9/11 --
_t20. Reckoning and Redemption: The 9/11 Commission, the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA at War --
_t21. The ‘Slam Dunk’: The CIA and the Invasion of Iraq --
_t22. The Terrorist Hunters Become Political Quarry: The CIA and Rendition, Detention and Interrogation --
_t23. Innovation at the CIA: From Sputnik to Silicon Valley and Venona to Vault 7 --
_t24. Entering the Electoral Fray: The CIA and Russian Meddling in the 2016 Election --
_t25. Flying Blind? The CIA and the Trump Administration --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aAn illuminating documentary history of America’s most renowned intelligence agencyIncludes 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 analysisProvides a robust discussion of topics ranging from the high-Cold War and Vietnam to the arms race, rendition, and the hunt for Osama bin LadenShows how the business of intelligence and spying, and with it the CIA, has evolved since its inception in 1947Since its creation in 1947, the CIA has been at the heart of America’s security apparatus. Written by intelligence scholars and experts, The CIA and the Pursuit of Security offers the reader a lively 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aEspionage, American
_xHistory.
650 0 _aNational security
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 4 _aPolitics.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
_2bisacsh
700 1 _aGioe, David
_eautore
700 1 _aGoodman, Michael S.
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781474428866?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474428866
856 4 2 _3Cover
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