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Informationen zum Autor Scott C. Monje is a professional editor and an independent scholar. He holds a PhD in political science from Columbia University and has taught at Rutgers University, New York University, and Purchase College of the State University of New York. Klappentext The Central Intelligence Agency's relative transparency makes it unique among the world's espionage operations. Over the past few decades it has released over 31 million pages of previously classified documents, including, most recently, the so-called Family Jewels, a special collection of records on a series of operations from the 1950s to the 1970s that violated the agency's own legislative charter. Taken together, these papers permit a partial glimpse inside the CIA's clandestine world: how it operates; how it views the outside world; how it gets things right; and, all too often, how it gets them wrong. The documentary selections assembled here, carefully analyzed for content, consistency, and context, guide readers through the CIA's shrouded history and allow readers to sift the evidence for themselves. The principal theme of this new documentary history of the Central Intelligence Agency is the dilemma of maintaining a secret organization in an open society. A democracy rests on accountability, and accountability requires transparency: the people cannot hold their government to account if they do not know what it is doing in their name. At the same time, an intelligence agency lives in a world of shadows. It cannot function if it is not able to keep its sources, its methods, and many of its operations secret. The resulting tension-and the constant temptation to take advantage of the impunity that secrecy allows-has shaped the CIA's history from its beginnings. Zusammenfassung Examines documents from the Central Intelligence Agency's own files revealing the tension between secrecy and transparency. This book guides readers through the CIA's shrouded history and allows them to sift the evidence for themselves. It also contains narrative chapters! introducing the successive periods of CIA history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Introduction Timeline 1. The Charter 2. The Korean War 3. Cuba 4. Political Assassinations and Illicit Drug Tests 5. At Headquarters in the 1960s: A Brief Note 6. Counterintelligence: The Spies among Us 7. The Search for Foreign Instigators: Operation Chaos and the Intelligence Evaluation Committee 8. CIAs Domestic Activities: The Management Advisory Group 9. Assistance to Police and Other Agencies 10. Chile 11. Watergate 12. The Family Jewels 13. The List of Delicate Matters 14. Nicaragua, with a Side Trip to Iran 15. 9/11 16. The Global War on Terrorism 17. Iraq, Terrorism, and Weapons of Mass Destruction 18. The Iran National Intelligence Estimate 19. Concluding Remarks Appendix A: Leaders of the United States Intelligence Community Appendix B: Agencies of the United States Intelligence Community Selected Bibliography ...
