A question of standing : the history of the CIA / Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri, author.

Series:

Oxford Academic

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intelligence service.

National security.

International relations.

Spies.

Intelligence service--United States--History.

United States Central Intelligence Agency.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations (colour)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

This book presents an overview of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA's) origins, successes, and failures, and looks at key events, such as the Bay of Pigs episode. It highlights the CIA's effectiveness, which depended on its standing in the White House, Congress, and public opinion. It also explains how the CIA's success depended on the ability of a president to understand intelligence briefings and his willingness to heed them, which is a function of personality and political priorities. The book looks at the significance of the CIA's standing abroad and affirms that its covert actions were the greatest single cause of anti-Americanism in the post-World War II era.

Contents:

Preface

1. The Road to U-1

2. The OSS Model

3. The Founding of the CIA, 1947

4. Covert Action in the 1950s

5. Intelligence in the 1950s

6. Bay of Pigs, 1961

7. Vietnam: The Roles of the CIA

8. From Reformation to Counter-Reformation in the 1970s

9. The Collapse of Soviet Communism in the 1980s

10. Iran and Iran-Contra

11. Existential Issues, 1990-7

12. Fateful Terror and 9/11

13. The Great Diminishing Reform Act of 2004

14. Estimating Anew and a Military Turn

15. Battling al-Qaeda with Assassination and Torture

16. Obama's CIA and the Death of bin Laden

17. Fake News Comes Home

18. Back to Work

19. Conclusion

Appendix: CIA Directors 1947-2022

Abbreviations Used in the Notes

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on Publisher website; title from home page (viewed on May 18, 2022)

ISBN:

0-19-266392-5

0-19-266391-7

0-19-195480-2

OCLC:

1344112635

Publisher Number:

10.1093/oso/9780192847966.001.0001 DOI