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epub | 17.24 MB | English | Isbn: 9781541645905 | Author: Hugh Wilford | Year: 2024
About ebook : The CIA: An Imperial History
In this "superb" (Kathryn Olmsted) new history of American intelligence, a celebrated historian uncovers how the CIA became the foremost defender of America's covert global empire
As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support its new global status, it created the CIA to analyze foreign intelligence. But within a few years, the Agency was engaged in other operations: bolstering pro-American governments, overthrowing nationalist leaders, and surveilling anti-imperial dissenters at home.
The Cold War was an obvious reason for this transformation-but not the only one. In The CIA , celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford draws on decades of research to show the Agency as part of a larger picture, the history of Western empire. While young CIA officers imagined themselves as British imperial agents like T. E. Lawrence, successive US presidents used the covert powers of the Agency to hide overseas interventions from postcolonial foreigners and anti-imperial Americans alike. Even the CIA's post-9/11 global hunt for terrorists was haunted by the ghosts of empires past.
Comprehensive, original, and gripping, The CIA is the story of the birth of a new imperial order in the shadows. It offers the most complete account yet of how America adopted unaccountable power and secrecy abroad and at home.
Category: History, Current Affairs & Politics, United States History, World History, Diplomacy & International Relations, Russian & Soviet History, 20th Century United States History - 1945 to 2000, 20th Century United States History - General & Miscellaneous, Colonialism & Imperialism, Espionage, 1917-1991 (Soviet Union) - History, 20th Century American History - Cold War, 20th Century American History - General & Miscellaneous, Colonialism & Imperialism - General & Miscellaneous, General & Miscellaneous Espionage, Imperialism, International Relations - General & Miscellaneous, Military Intelligence, Soviet History - Political Aspects
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