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020 _a9781541645912
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035 _a(OCoLC)1401906514
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043 _an-us---
092 _a327.1273
_bW677
049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aWilford, Hugh,
_d1965-
_eauthor.
_9120134
245 1 4 _aThe CIA :
_ban imperial history /
_cHugh Wilford.
250 _aFirst edition.
263 _a2406
264 1 _aNew York :
_bBasic Books,
_c2024.
300 _a366 pages ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support its new global status, it created the CIA to analyze foreign intelligence. But within a few years, the Agency was engaged in other operations: bolstering pro-American governments, overthrowing nationalist leaders, and surveilling anti-imperial dissenters at home. The Cold War was an obvious reason for this transformation-but not the only one. In The CIA, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford draws on decades of research to show the Agency as part of a larger picture, the history of Western empire. While young CIA officers imagined themselves as British imperial agents like T. E. Lawrence, successive US presidents used the covert powers of the Agency to hide overseas interventions from postcolonial foreigners and anti-imperial Americans alike. Even the CIA's post-9/11 global hunt for terrorists was haunted by the ghosts of empires past. Comprehensive, original, and gripping, The CIA is the story of the birth of a new imperial order in the shadows. It offers the most complete account yet of how America adopted unaccountable power and secrecy abroad and at home"--
_cProvided by publisher.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bCentral Intelligence Agency
_xHistory.
_983444
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_bNFG
999 _c385749
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