Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Nomination of L. Britt Snider to be Inspector General, Central Intelligence Agency
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Nomination of John L. Helgerson to be Inspector General, Central Intelligence Agency
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Special Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence, United States Senate
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence
Publisher:
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Category : Intelligence service
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Intelligence service
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Senate Reports
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Web sites
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Web sites
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Nomination of Frederick P. Hitz
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Ghosts of Langley
Author: John Prados
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620970899
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
"The Ghosts of Langley offers a detail-rich, often relentless litany of CIA scandals and mini-scandals. . . [and a] prayer that the CIA learn from and publicly admit its mistakes, rather than perpetuate them in an atmosphere of denial and impunity." —The Washington Post From the writer Kai Bird calls a "wonderfully accessible historian," the first major history of the CIA in a decade, published to tie in with the seventieth anniversary of the agency's founding During his first visit to Langley, the CIA's Virginia headquarters, President Donald Trump told those gathered, "I am so behind you . . . there's nobody I respect more, " hinting that he was going to put more CIA operations officers into the field so the CIA could smite its enemies ever more forcefully. But while Trump was making these promises, behind the scenes the CIA was still reeling from blowback from the very tactics that Trump touted—including secret overseas prisons and torture—that it had resorted to a decade earlier during President George W. Bush's war on terror. Under the latest regime it seemed that the CIA was doomed to repeat its past failures rather than put its house in order. The Ghosts of Langley is a provocative and panoramic new history of the Central Intelligence Agency that relates the agency's current predicament to its founding and earlier years, telling the story of the agency through the eyes of key figures in CIA history, including some of its most troubling covert actions around the world. It reveals how the agency, over seven decades, has resisted government accountability, going rogue in a series of highly questionable ventures that reach their apotheosis with the secret overseas prisons and torture programs of the war on terror. Drawing on mountains of newly declassified documents, the celebrated historian of national intelligence John Prados throws fresh light on classic agency operations from Poland to Hungary, from Indonesia to Iran-Contra, and from the Bay of Pigs to Guantánamo Bay. The halls of Langley, Prados persuasively argues, echo with the footsteps of past spymasters, to the extent that it resembles a haunted house. Indeed, every day that the militarization of the CIA increases, the agency drifts further away from classic arts of espionage and intelligence analysis—and its original mission, while pushing dangerously beyond accountability. The Ghosts of Langley will be essential reading for anyone who cares about the next phase of American history—and the CIA's evolution—as its past informs its future and a president of impulsive character prods the agency toward new scandals and failures.
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620970899
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
"The Ghosts of Langley offers a detail-rich, often relentless litany of CIA scandals and mini-scandals. . . [and a] prayer that the CIA learn from and publicly admit its mistakes, rather than perpetuate them in an atmosphere of denial and impunity." —The Washington Post From the writer Kai Bird calls a "wonderfully accessible historian," the first major history of the CIA in a decade, published to tie in with the seventieth anniversary of the agency's founding During his first visit to Langley, the CIA's Virginia headquarters, President Donald Trump told those gathered, "I am so behind you . . . there's nobody I respect more, " hinting that he was going to put more CIA operations officers into the field so the CIA could smite its enemies ever more forcefully. But while Trump was making these promises, behind the scenes the CIA was still reeling from blowback from the very tactics that Trump touted—including secret overseas prisons and torture—that it had resorted to a decade earlier during President George W. Bush's war on terror. Under the latest regime it seemed that the CIA was doomed to repeat its past failures rather than put its house in order. The Ghosts of Langley is a provocative and panoramic new history of the Central Intelligence Agency that relates the agency's current predicament to its founding and earlier years, telling the story of the agency through the eyes of key figures in CIA history, including some of its most troubling covert actions around the world. It reveals how the agency, over seven decades, has resisted government accountability, going rogue in a series of highly questionable ventures that reach their apotheosis with the secret overseas prisons and torture programs of the war on terror. Drawing on mountains of newly declassified documents, the celebrated historian of national intelligence John Prados throws fresh light on classic agency operations from Poland to Hungary, from Indonesia to Iran-Contra, and from the Bay of Pigs to Guantánamo Bay. The halls of Langley, Prados persuasively argues, echo with the footsteps of past spymasters, to the extent that it resembles a haunted house. Indeed, every day that the militarization of the CIA increases, the agency drifts further away from classic arts of espionage and intelligence analysis—and its original mission, while pushing dangerously beyond accountability. The Ghosts of Langley will be essential reading for anyone who cares about the next phase of American history—and the CIA's evolution—as its past informs its future and a president of impulsive character prods the agency toward new scandals and failures.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Author: United States. President
Publisher:
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.
Publisher:
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton
Author: United States. President (1993-2001 : Clinton)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
Book Description
Safe for Democracy
Author: John Prados
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
ISBN: 1615780114
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
From its founding in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency has been discovered in the midst of some of the most crucial-and most embarrassing-episodes in United States relations with the world. Safe for Democracy for the first time places the story of the CIA's covert operations squarely in the context of America's global quest for democratic values and institutions. National security historian John Prados offers a comprehensive history of the CIA's secret wars that is as close to a definitive account as is possible today.
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
ISBN: 1615780114
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
From its founding in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency has been discovered in the midst of some of the most crucial-and most embarrassing-episodes in United States relations with the world. Safe for Democracy for the first time places the story of the CIA's covert operations squarely in the context of America's global quest for democratic values and institutions. National security historian John Prados offers a comprehensive history of the CIA's secret wars that is as close to a definitive account as is possible today.