Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-527) and index.
Contents:
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.
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