The CIA and the Pursuit of Security: History, Documents and Contexts

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An illuminating documentary history of America's most renowned intelligence agency. Includes 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 analysis. Provides a robust discussion of topics ranging from the high-Cold War and Vietnam to the arms race, rendition, and the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Shows how the business of intelligence and spying, and with it the CIA, has evolved since its inception in 1947. 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 List of Documents Foreword • Michael Morell 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-AmericanIntelligence 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 YuriNosenko 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