THE CIA-AN IMPERIAL WORLD
Εκδότης Basic Books , ISBN 9781399816854
A celebrated British historian of US intelligence explores how the CIA was born
in anti-imperialist idealism but swiftly became an instrument of a new covert
empire both in America and overseas.
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 analyse 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 in the US.
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 both at home and abroad.
Περίληψη
A celebrated British historian of US intelligence explores how the CIA was born
in anti-imperialist idealism but swiftly became an instrument of a new covert
empire both in America and overseas.
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 analyse 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 in the US.
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 both at home and abroad.
Πληροφορίες προϊόντος
- Συγγραφέας Wilford, Hugh
- Eκδότης Basic Books
- ISBN 9781399816854
- Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100085619
- Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2024
- Σελίδες 384
- Διαστάσεις
- Βάρος 400 gr