The CIA and the Pursuit of Security : : History, Documents and Contexts / / Michael S. Goodman, Huw Dylan, David Gioe.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Dylan, Huw,; Gioe, David,; Goodman, Michael S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare : ISSW
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (456 p.)

An 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Documents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Intelligence for an American Century: Creating the CIA -- 2. The Development of CIA Covert Action -- 3. A ‘Gangster Act’: The Berlin Tunnel -- 4. The CIA and the USSR: The Challenge of Understanding the Soviet Threat -- 5. Anglo-American Intelligence Liaison and the Outbreak of the Korean War -- 6. The CIA and the Bomber and Missile Gap -- 7. The CIA and Cuba: The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis -- 8. The CIA in Vietnam -- 9. The CIA and Arms Control -- 10. The CIA’s Counter-Intelligence Conundrum: The Case of Yuri Nosenko -- 11. 1975: The Year of the ‘Intelligence Wars’ -- 12. Watching Khomeini -- 13. The CIA and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan -- 14. Martial Law in Poland -- 15. Able Archer and the NATO War Scare -- 16. The Soviet Leadership and Kremlinology in the 1980s -- 17. The CIA and the (First) Persian Gulf War -- 18. A Mole in Their Midst: The CIA and Aldrich Ames -- 19. ‘The System was Blinking Red’: The Peace Dividend and the Road to 9/11 -- 20. Reckoning and Redemption: The 9/11 Commission, the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA at War -- 21. The ‘Slam Dunk’: The CIA and the Invasion of Iraq -- 22. The Terrorist Hunters Become Political Quarry: The CIA and Rendition, Detention and Interrogation -- 23. Innovation at the CIA: From Sputnik to Silicon Valley and Venona to Vault 7 -- 24. Entering the Electoral Fray: The CIA and Russian Meddling in the 2016 Election -- 25. Flying Blind? The CIA and the Trump Administration -- Bibliography -- Index