{"product_id":"neither-confirm-nor-deny-9780231193474","title":"Neither Confirm nor Deny","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eM. Todd Bennett explores the logistics, media fallout, and geopolitical significance of one of the most ambitious operations in intelligence history. The Glomar mission, he argues, played a pivotal but underappreciated role in helping the CIA ward off oversight amid a push for transparency and accountability.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBennett explores timely questions about the balance between secrecy and transparency and the role of the press in both...[his]comprehensive research makes this book as engaging as any espionage novel. An essential read. * Library Journal, starred review *\u003cbr\u003eThis is intelligence history as it should be written: packed with new archival findings and thrillingly narrated yet also deeply engaged with the latest scholarship in the wider fields of U.S. history and America in the world. A must-read for academic historians and espionage buffs alike. -- Hugh Wilford, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBennett shows why the story of the Glomar Explorer is not only filled with exciting characters and twists, it’s also a key moment in the history of the U.S. government’s refusal to disclose information to the voters. -- Kathryn Olmsted, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNeither Confirm nor Deny\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary account of one of the most important moments in the history of the CIA, the Glomar Explorer Mission. Likely to become a classic in the field of the history of intelligence, \u003ci\u003eNeither Confirm nor Deny\u003c\/i\u003e vividly underlines the continuing tensions that exist between democratic transparency and the American national security state. -- Thomas A. Schwartz, author of \u003ci\u003eHenry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the murky depths of the 1970s, this riveting book surfaces not only a Soviet sub and its CIA salvagers but also a new reckoning with an era known for investigative transparency. Glomar’s legacy instead was to anchor the media, politicians, and all Americans to a barnacled ship of state secrecy. -- Katherine A. S. Sibley, coeditor of \u003ci\u003ePost-Cold War Revelations and the American Communist Party\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComprehensive research makes this book as engaging as any espionage novel. An essential read. [Starred Review] * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. The Old Lines\u003cbr\u003e2. The Hughes Connection\u003cbr\u003e3. The Rules of the Game\u003cbr\u003e4. Inside Job\u003cbr\u003e5. Fish or Cut Bait?\u003cbr\u003e6. Colby’s Dike\u003cbr\u003e7. Neither Confirm nor Deny\u003cbr\u003e8. Shivering from Overexposure\u003cbr\u003e9. Hold the Line\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400343298391,"sku":"9780231193474","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231193474.jpg?v=1730470443","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/neither-confirm-nor-deny-9780231193474","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}