The CIA and the pursuit of security : history, documents and contexts
Record details
- ISBN: 1474428843
- ISBN: 9781474428842
- ISBN: 147442886X
- ISBN: 9781474428866
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 volume)
remote - Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Intelligence for an American Century: Creating the CIA -- The Development of CIA Covert Action -- A 'Gangster Act': The Berlin Tunnel -- The CIA and the USSR: The Challenge of Understanding the Soviet Threat -- Anglo-American Intelligence Liaison and the Outbreak of the Korean War -- The 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 -- The CIA's Counter-Intelligence Conundrum: The Case of 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 (First) Persian Gulf War -- A Mole in Their Midst: The CIA and 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 the CIA at War -- The 'Slam Dunk': The CIA and the Invasion of Iraq -- The Terrorist Hunters Become Political Quarry: The CIA and Rendition, Detention and Interrogation -- Innovation at the CIA: From Sputnik to Silicon Valley and VENONA to Vault 7 -- Entering the Electoral Fray: The CIA and Russian Meddling in the 2016 Election -- Flying Blind? The CIA and the Trump Administration. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 19, 2020). |
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Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. History. |