{"product_id":"the-cia-and-congress-the-untold-story-from-truman-to-kennedy-9780700625253","title":"The CIA and Congress  The Untold Story from","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom its inception more than half a century ago and for decades afterward, the Central Intelligence Agency was deeply shrouded in secrecy, with little or no real oversight by Congress–or so many Americans believe. David M. Barrett reveals, however, that during the agency's first fifteen years, Congress often monitored the CIA's actions and plans, sometimes aggressively.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA truly groundbreaking, eye-opening descent into secret budgeting, espionage, and covert actions.\"\" - Louis Fisher, author of \u003ci\u003eMilitary Tribunals and Presidential Power\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Barrett reveals a CIA that made its own rules, wrote its own budget, classified its own secrets, and persuaded the Congress to like it. A rich and fabulous story that sheds new light on just about every significant episode in the first decades of the Cold War and confirms what many have long suspected—secrecy is the great enemy of democracy, and vice versa.\"\" - Thomas Powers, author of \u003ci\u003eIntelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"A riveting story that helps to untangle one of the Cold War’s most tangled webs.\"\" - Richard H. Immerman, author of \u003ci\u003eThe CIA in Guatemala\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Acronyms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: First Hidden, Then Lost\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 1. The Truman Era, 1947-1952\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo \"\"American Gestapo, \"\" But \"\"No More Pearl Harbors\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInitial Oversight: Budgets and Covert Action\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\"A South American Pearl Harbor\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Soviet A-Bomb: \"\"We Apparently Don't Have the Remotest Idea\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCommunists and \"\"Perverts\"\" in the CIA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKorea: \"\"No Better Today Than on December 7, 1941\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA New DCI\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe \"\"Dirty Business\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePortraits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCIA Subcommittees, Intelligence Roles, and Budgets\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\"We Don't Let Just Anybody Look at Our Files\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\"There Will Be No Changes\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 2. The Eisenhower Era, 1953-1960\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMeddling?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGetting \"\"Taberized\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGuatemala: \"\"Sterilizing the Red Infection\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMr. Mansfield Goes to the Senate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoseph McCarthy: The CIA's Other Would-Be Overseer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\"You, Who Championed Our Cause\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBarons Restored\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\"Dodging Dead Cats\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\"They Have to Have a Building\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe New Mansfield Resolution: Two Surprises\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\"We Have a History of Underestimation\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHungary and the Suez: \"\"We Had a Very Good Idea, Senator\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSputnik\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn Early \"\"Year of Intelligence\"\"?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\"I Cannot Always Predict When There Is Going to Be a Riot\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIraq: \"\"Our Intelligence Was Just Plain Lousy\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReturn to the Missile Gap\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom the Pforzheimer Era to the Warner Era\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSubordinating Intelligence?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn and Out of Hearing Rooms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\"Who Are Our Liquidators?\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\"I'd Like to Tell Him to His Face What I Think about Him\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eU-2: \"\"We Have Felt These Operations Were Appropriate\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePouring Oil on Fire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\"Their Answer to That Demand\"\": Congressional Paternity?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\"My Opinion of the CIA Went Skyrocketing\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 3. Cuba, the CIA, and Congress: 1960-1961\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCastro: \"\"This Fellow Is Bad and Ought to Go\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\"What is the Rationale behind That?\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\"I Agree That You Had to Replace Dulles\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword: Alarms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelected Bibilography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577423958359,"sku":"9780700625253","price":30.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780700625253.jpg?v=1746095277","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-cia-and-congress-the-untold-story-from-truman-to-kennedy-9780700625253","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}