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The CIA and American Democracy
About this book
This third edition of Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones's engrossing history of the Central Intelligence Agency includes a new prologue that discusses the history of the CIA since the end of the Cold War, focusing in particular on the intelligence dimensions of the terrorist attacks on 9/11.
Praise for the earlier editions:
"I have read many books on the CIA, but none more searching and still dispassionate. Nor would I have believed that a book of such towering scholarship could still be so lucid and exciting to read."—Daniel Schorr
"This is one of the best short histories of the CIA in print, up-to-date and based on a wide range of sources."—Walter Laqueur
"Judicious and reasonable.... A sophisticated study that should challenge us to take a more serious view about how our democracy formulates its foreign policy."—David P. Calleo, New York Times Book Review
A brief, yet subtle and penetrating, account of the Central Intelligence Agency."—Leonard Bushkoff, Christian Science Monitor
"Subtle and crisply written.... A book remarkable for its clarity and lack of bias."—William W. Powers, Jr., International Herald Tribune, Paris
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Table of contents
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
- PROLOGUE: September 11 and the Post-Cold War CIA
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. THE LESSONS OF AMERICAN HISTORY
- 2. THE BIRTH OF THE CIA
- 3. THE MISTS OF BOGOTA
- 4. SURVIVING MCCARTHY
- 5. THE GOLDEN AGE OF OPERATIONS
- 6. INTELLIGENCE IN THE GOLDEN AGE
- 7. PRESIDENTIAL SHAKE-UP
- 8. PRESIDENTIAL NEGLECT
- 9. HELMS, JOHNSON, AND COSMETIC INTELLIGENCE
- 10. NIXON, KISSINGER, AND THE FRUITS OF MANIPULATION
- 11. DEMOCRACY'S INTELLIGENCE FLAP
- 12. RESTRAINED INTELLIGENCE AND THE HALF-WON PEACE
- 13. IGNORING THE CREDIBLE
- CONCLUSION
- ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX