Selected bibliography p. 511-519
"Drawing on a wealth of newly declassified documents, research at some two dozen archives, and interviews with former officials, David M. Barrett provides an unprecedented and often colorful account of relations between American spymasters and Capitol Hill. He chronicles the CI…
The untold story of America's greatest financial debacle. Corruption, greed and abuse of power in the nation's highest office.
Argues that the Mafia, the CIA, President Bush, and other politicians, both Democrats and Republicans were involved in the savings and loan scandal.
During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world. John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen Dulles, was director of th…
A history of the CIA's spy wars with the KGB ranges from 1985, through the Afghan war, to the breakup of the Soviet Union, detailing the activities of intelligence operatives on both sides of the conflict.
This thesis examined the common idea that the CIA is a regime change advocate by testing the merits of two competing political science theories, one focused on internal (endogenous) influences within CIA and one focused on external (exogenous) pressures on CIA emanating from the…
This thesis will present a diplomatic and political history of the United States’ engagement with the Argentinean junta between the Coup of 1976 and 1981. It demonstrates how Operation Condor revealed strife and competition between U.S. agencies such as the Central Intelligence …
This thesis examines composer Nicolas Nabokov’s political involvement in the world of music in the 1940s and 1950s. In particular it concerns his attempt to use contemporary art music as a means of countering the influence of the Soviet Union, via the festivals he organised for …
After World War II, the emerging United States intelligence establishment fought the Soviet threat through evolving means in the new Cold War world. Although American Central Intelligence started as a glorified 'paperboy,' it quickly became a powerful agency capable of influenci…