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''Gripping history that also informs the present'' Sunday Times

''Lively and original'' The Spectator

''A spectacular achievement'' Dominic Sandbrook

''Fast-paced, absorbing, insightful'' Simon Hall

''Simply superb'' Kathryn Olmsted

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.

The CIA

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''Gripping history that also informs the present'' Sunday Times''Lively and original'' The Spectator''A spectacular achievement'' Dominic Sandbrook''Fast-paced, absorbing, insightful'' Simon... Read more

    Publisher: John Murray Press
    Publication Date: 01/06/2024
    ISBN13: 9781399816847, 978-1399816847
    ISBN10: 1399816845

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

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    ''Gripping history that also informs the present'' Sunday Times

    ''Lively and original'' The Spectator

    ''A spectacular achievement'' Dominic Sandbrook

    ''Fast-paced, absorbing, insightful'' Simon Hall

    ''Simply superb'' Kathryn Olmsted

    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.

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