The CIA and Congress : the untold story from Truman to Kennedy / David M. Barrett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrett, David M., 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History.

United States.

United States. Congress.

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 542 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2005]

Summary:

"A truly groundbreaking, eye-opening descent into secret budgeting, espionage, and covert actions."-Louis Fisher, author of Military Tribunals and Presidential Power "Barrett reveals a CIA that made its own rules, wrote its own budget, classified its own secrets, and persuaded the Congress to like it. A rich and fabulous story that sheds new light on just about every significant episode in the first decades of the Cold War and confirms what many have long suspected-secrecy is the great enemy of democracy, and vice versa."-Thomas Powers, author of Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda "A riveting story that helps to untangle one of the Cold War's most tangled webs."-Richard H. Immerman, author of The CIA in Guatemala.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Acronyms

Acknowledgments

Introduction: First Hidden, Then Lost

Part 1. The Truman Era, 1947-1952

No "American Gestapo," But "No More Pearl Harbors"

Initial Oversight: Budgets and Covert Action

"A South American Pearl Harbor

"This Is an Espionage Bill

The Soviet A-Bomb: "We Apparently Don't Have the Remotest Idea

Communists and "Perverts" in the CIA

Korea: "No Better Today Than on December 7, 1941

A New DCI

The "Dirty Business

Portraits

CIA Subcommittees, Intelligence Roles, and Budgets

"We Don't Let Just Anybody Look at Our Files

"There Will Be No Changes

Part 2. The Eisenhower Era, 1953-1960

Meddling?

Getting "Taberized

Guatemala: Sterilizing a "Red Infection

Mr. Mansfield Goes to the Senate

Joseph McCarthy: The CIA's Other Would-Be Overseer

"You, Who Championed Our Cause

Barons Restored

"Dodging Dead Cats

"They Have to Have a Building

The New Mansfield Resolution: Two Surprises

"We Have a History of Underestimation

Hungary and the Suez: "We Had a Very Good Idea, Senator

Sputnik

An Early "Year of Intelligence"?

"I Cannot Always Predict When There Is Going to Be a Riot

Iraq: "Our Intelligence Was Just Plain Lousy

Return to Missile Gap

From the Pforzheimer Era to the Warner Era

Subordinating Intelligence?

In and Out of Hearing Rooms

"Who Are Our Liquidators?"

"I'd Like to Tell Him to His Face What I Think about Him

U-2: "We Have Felt These Operations Were Appropriate

Pouring Oil On Fire

"Their Answer to That Demand": Congressional Paternity?

"My Opinion of the CIA Went Skyrocketing

Part 3. Cuba, the CIA, and Congress: 1960-1961

Castro: "This Fellow Is Bad and Ought to Go

"What Is the Rationale behind That?.

"I Agree That You Had to Replace Dulles

Afterword: Alarms

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7006-2530-5

OCLC:

1132671057