The CIA
€19.50
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781399816861 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hugh Wilford |
| Publisher | John Murray Press |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.266 |
| Publishing Date | 05/06/2025 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €18.40 |
| Tax | €1.10 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €19.50 |
| Availability | 7 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
''Gripping history that also informs the present'' Sunday Times
''Fascinating . . . Wilford writes engagingly with a telling eye for colourful detail'' The Spectator
''A spectacular achievement . . . I loved it'' Dominic Sandbrook
How the CIA became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas.
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.
Drawing 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.
Original, and gripping, The CIA tells how America adopted unaccountable power and created a new imperial order.