{"product_id":"the-cia-9781399816861","title":"The CIA","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Gripping history that also informs the present'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e''\u003c\/i\u003eFascinating . . . Wilford writes engagingly with a telling eye for colourful detail'' \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e''\u003c\/i\u003eA spectacular achievement . . . I loved it'' Dominic Sandbrook\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How the CIA became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1947, the United States 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 domestic dissent - before transforming during the Cold War. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on decades of research, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford shows how the Agency created a new Western empire, as 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Original, and gripping, \u003ci\u003eThe CIA\u003c\/i\u003e tells how America adopted unaccountable power and created a new imperial order.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Murray Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039398461783,"sku":"9781399816861","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781399816861.jpg?v=1750943574","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-cia-9781399816861","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}