The CIA and American democracy

by Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri

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Title Statements

Full title :The CIA and American democracy / Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2003
Edition:Third edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Yale University Press
Place of Publication:New Haven
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2003

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxii, 338 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780300208504, 0300208502
oclc:ocn883632185
LC Classification:JK468.I6
Dewey Decimal:327.1273/009

Prologue: 9/11 and the Post-Cold War CIA -- Introduction -- The lessons of American history -- The birth of the CIA -- The mists of Bogota: Expansion and obfuscation -- Surviving McCarthy: A weakness for immunity -- The golden age of operations -- Intelligence in the golden age: The fight for credibility -- Presidential shake-up: Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs -- Presidential neglect: LBJ and the CIA to June 1966 -- Helms, Johnson, and cosmetic intelligence -- Nixon, Kissinger, and the fruits of manipulation -- Democracy's intelligence flap: Toward a new legitimacy -- Restrained intelligence and the half-won peace -- Ingnoring the credible: The CIA in the 1980s -- Conclusion.

Subjects

CIA History HISTORY ; General POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Rela… United States., Central Intelligence Ag… USA / CIA USA, Central Intelligence Agency