The CIA and the Pursuit of Security: History, Documents and Contexts

by Huw Dylan, David Gioe, Michael S. Goodman

Overview

Since its creation in 1947, the CIA has been at the heart of America’s security apparatus. Written by intelligence scholars and experts, The CIA and the Pursuit of Security offers the reader a lively survey of the CIA past and present. The history of the agency is presented through the prism of its declassified documents, with each being supplemented by insightful contextual analysis. The book chronicles the evolution of the CIA, its remarkable successes, clandestine operations, and its ongoing struggle to maintain American security in an age of proliferating threats.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474428859
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	03/03/2022
Series:	Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare
Pages:	456
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 1.13(d)

About the Author

Dr Huw Dylan is a Lecturer in Intelligence and International Security at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, where he leads the MA programme in Intelligence and International Security. He is also and a visiting Associate Professor at the Norwegian Defence Intelligence School. His book, Defence Intelligence and the Cold War, was published by Oxford UniversityPress in 2014.

Dr. David Gioe is Associate Professor of History at the United States Military Academy at West Point. As an intelligence practitioner, he spent over 15 years working in the U.S. intelligence community, beginning with an appointment in 2001 as a Presidential Management Fellow in the FBI National Security Division. He then served as an analyst in the CIA Counterterrorist Center before earning field certification as a CIA operations officer. He served multiple overseas tours as a case officer. He has published in The National Interest, World Politics Review, and has co-edited a volume on the Cuban Missile Crisis with Christopher Andrew and Len Scott (Routledge, 2014).

Michael S. Goodman is Professor of Intelligence and International Affairs in the Department of War Studies, King's College London and Visiting Professor at the Norwegian Defence Intelligence School. He has published widely in the field of intelligence history, including most recently The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee, Volume I: From the Approach of the Second World War to the Suez Crisis (Routledge, 2015), which was chosen as one of The Spectator’s books of the year. He is series editor for Intelligence and Security for Hurst/Columbia UniversityPress; and for Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare for Edinburgh UniversityPress; and is a member of the editorial boards for five journals. He is currently on secondment to the Cabinet Office where he is the Official Historian of the Joint Intelligence Committee.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Michael Morell

List of documents

Introduction

1. Intelligence for an American Century: Creating the CIA
2. The Berlin Tunnel: A ‘Gangster Act’
3. The development of CIA covert action
4. The CIA and the USSR: The Challenge of Understanding the Soviet Threat
5. Anglo-American Intelligence Liaison and the Outbreak of the Korean War
6. CIA and the Bomber and Missile Gap
7. The CIA and Cuba: The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis
8. The CIA in Vietnam
9. The CIA and Arms Control
10. Counter-Intelligence and Yuri Nosenko
11. 1975: The Year of the ‘Intelligence Wars’
12. Watching Khomeini
13. The CIA and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
14. Martial Law in Poland
15. Able Archer and the NATO War Scare
16. The Soviet Leadership and Kremlinology in the 1980s
17. The CIA and the Persian Gulf War of 1991
18. Aldrich Ames
19. The System was Blinking Red: The Peace Dividend and the Road to 9/11
20. Reckoning and Redemption: The 9/11 Commission, the Director of National Intelligence, and CIA at War
21. Iraq and WMD
22. The Terrorist Hunters Become Political Quarry: The CIA and Rendition, Detention and Interrogation
23. Innovation at CIA: From Sputnik to Silicon Valley and VENONA to Vault 7
24. Entering the Electoral Fray: CIA and Russian Meddling in the 2016 Election
25. Flying Blind? CIA and the Trump Administration

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What People are Saying About This

former US Director of National Intelligence - James Clapper

A masterful chronicle of the rich and colorful history of not only the Central Intelligence Agency, but the Intelligence Community at large. With liberal inclusion of extracts of historically significant documentation, this work reflects attention to on-point, relevant detail, even-handed balance, and nuanced insight. An interesting, informative read for insider practitioners and the general public alike.

former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper

A masterful chronicle of the rich and colorful history of not only the Central Intelligence Agency, but the Intelligence Community at large. With liberal inclusion of extracts of historically significant documentation, this work reflects attention to on-point, relevant detail, even-handed balance, and nuanced insight. An interesting, informative read for insider practitioners and the general public alike.

Editorial Reviews

A masterful chronicle of the rich and colorful history of not only the Central Intelligence Agency, but the Intelligence Community at large. With liberal inclusion of extracts of historically significant documentation, this work reflects attention to on-point, relevant detail, even-handed balance, and nuanced insight. An interesting, informative read for insider practitioners and the general public alike.

James Clapper

An important and authoritative documentary history of the Central Intelligence Agency’s most significant operations and activities since its inception in 1947 … This compilation is a valuable primary reference resource for analysts on intelligence issues.

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