The CIA and American Democracy
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The CIA and American Democracy

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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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

  1. CONTENTS
  2. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
  3. PROLOGUE: September 11 and the Post-Cold War CIA
  4. INTRODUCTION
  5. 1. THE LESSONS OF AMERICAN HISTORY
  6. 2. THE BIRTH OF THE CIA
  7. 3. THE MISTS OF BOGOTA
  8. 4. SURVIVING MCCARTHY
  9. 5. THE GOLDEN AGE OF OPERATIONS
  10. 6. INTELLIGENCE IN THE GOLDEN AGE
  11. 7. PRESIDENTIAL SHAKE-UP
  12. 8. PRESIDENTIAL NEGLECT
  13. 9. HELMS, JOHNSON, AND COSMETIC INTELLIGENCE
  14. 10. NIXON, KISSINGER, AND THE FRUITS OF MANIPULATION
  15. 11. DEMOCRACY'S INTELLIGENCE FLAP
  16. 12. RESTRAINED INTELLIGENCE AND THE HALF-WON PEACE
  17. 13. IGNORING THE CREDIBLE
  18. CONCLUSION
  19. ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES
  20. NOTES
  21. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  22. INDEX