The Central Intelligence Agency: An Instrument of Government to 1950
Language: English
Published by Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, University Park, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 1990
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509pp. Offers the most detailed and best documented account of the early years of the CIA currently available. It reveals the political and bureaucratic struggles that accompanied the creation of the modern U.S. intelligence community. Clean.
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- Title
- The Central Intelligence Agency: An Instrument of Government to 1950
- Author
- Darling, Arthur Burr
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, University Park, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket - Wraps
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0271007176
- ISBN 13
- 9780271007175
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Intelligence
This unique history offers the most detailed and best documented account of the early years of the CIA currently available. It reveals the political and bureaucratic struggles that accompanied the creation of the modern U. S. intelligence community. In addition, it proposes a theory of effective intelligence organization, applied both to the movement to create the CIA and to the form it eventually took.
The period covered by this study was crucially important because it was during this time that the main battles over the establishment, responsibilities, and turf of the agency were fought. Many of these disputes framed the forty years, such as the relationship of the CIA to other government agency intelligence operations, the role of covert action, and Congressional oversight of the intelligence community.
The sources upon which Darling drew for this study include the files of the National Security Council, the wartime files of the OSS, and interviews and correspondence with many of the principal players.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Bruce D. Berkowitz has held various positions in the intelligence community and also served on the staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Allan E. Goodman, Associate Dean of the School of Foreign Service and Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University, was employed by the CIA from 1975 to 1980, serving as Presidential Briefing Coordinator for the Director of Central Intelligence in 1979-1980.
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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