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Since 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.
Contents
Foreword by Michael Morell
List of documents
Introduction
Intelligence for an American Century: Creating the CIA
The Berlin Tunnel: A 'Gangster Act'
The development of CIA covert action
The 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
The CIA and Cuba: The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis
The CIA in Vietnam
The CIA and Arms Control
Counter-Intelligence and Yuri Nosenko
1975: The Year of the 'Intelligence Wars'
Watching Khomeini
The CIA and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Martial Law in Poland
Able Archer and the NATO War Scare
The Soviet Leadership and Kremlinology in the 1980s
The CIA and the Persian Gulf War of 1991
Aldrich Ames
The 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 CIA at War
Iraq and WMD
The Terrorist Hunters Become Political Quarry: The CIA and Rendition, Detention and Interrogation
Innovation at CIA: From Sputnik to Silicon Valley and VENONA to Vault 7
Entering the Electoral Fray: CIA and Russian Meddling in the 2016 Election
Flying Blind? CIA and the Trump Administration
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