The CIA and American Democracy

Brooks Mather Kelley

• Editorial: Yale University Press
• Año: 1992
• ISBN:
  9780300208504
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Politics & International Relations
• Categoría: Intelligence & Espionage

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

Índice

• 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