- EAN13
- 9781399816878
- Éditeur
- Basic Books
- Date de publication
- 06/06/2024
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- anglais
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'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. In The CIA, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford draws on
decades of research to show the Agency as part of a larger picture, the
history of Western empire. While young CIA officers imagined themselves as
British imperial agents like T. E. Lawrence, 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.
Comprehensive, original, and gripping, The CIA is the story of the birth of a
new imperial order in the shadows. It offers the most complete account yet of
how America adopted unaccountable power and secrecy both at home and abroad.
'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. In The CIA, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford draws on
decades of research to show the Agency as part of a larger picture, the
history of Western empire. While young CIA officers imagined themselves as
British imperial agents like T. E. Lawrence, 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.
Comprehensive, original, and gripping, The CIA is the story of the birth of a
new imperial order in the shadows. It offers the most complete account yet of
how America adopted unaccountable power and secrecy both at home and abroad.
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