"During the period of decolonisation in Africa, the CIA subsidised a number of African authors, editors and publishers as part of its anti-communist covert propaganda strategy. Managed by two front organisations, the Congress of Cultural Freedom and the Farfield Foundation, its …
"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…
"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…
An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful and secretive colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers. America's greatest untold story: the United St…
"An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful and secretive colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers. America's greatest untold story: the United S…
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.
James Lockhart blends Chilean, inter-American and transatlantic national, regional and world-historical trends into a century-long Cold War narrative. He argues that Chileans made their own history as highly engaged internationalists while reassessing American and other foreign-…
During the Second World War hundreds of Hollywood filmmakers under the command of the legendary director John Ford enlisted in the OSS to produce training, reconnaissance and propaganda films. This wartime bond continued into the post-war period, when a number of studios produce…
A comprehensive, archivally researched history of the CIA and Hollywood cinema. During the Second World War hundreds of Hollywood filmmakers under the command of the legendary director John Ford enlisted in the OSS to produce training, reconnaissance and propaganda films. This w…
Provides key documents used to analyze and explain the intentions and capability of the Soviet Union to US policymakers.
Provides key documents used to analyze and explain the intentions and capability of the Soviet Union to US policymakers.
The true story of the first agent that the CIA ever recruited within the Soviet Intelligence Service.
Discusses the CIA's secret search for Soviet spies in its own ranks.
"An updated re-issue of Loch Johnson's classic "insider" study of the US Senate's so-called Church Committee investigations (ca. 1975-1976) into the activities and abuses of our intelligence agencies (especially CIA and FBI). Named after Frank Church, its charismatic Democratic …
