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Sto caricando le informazioni... The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedydi David M. Barrett
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"Drawing on a wealth of newly declassified documents, research at some two dozen archives, and interviews with former officials, David M.
Barrett provides an unprecedented and often colorful account of relations between American spymasters and Capitol Hill. He chronicles the CIA's dealings with senior legislators who were haunted by memories of our intelligence failure at Pearl Harbor and yet riddled with fears that such an organization might morph into an American Gestapo.
He focuses in particular on the efforts of Congress to monitor, finance, and control the agency's activities from the creation of the national security state in 1947 through the planning for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961."
"The CIA and Congress provides a much-needed historical perspective for current debates in Congress and beyond concerning the agency's recent failures and ultimate fate
In our post-9/11 era, it shows that anxieties over the challenges to democracy posed by our intelligence communities have been with us from the very beginning."--Jacket Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)327.12Social sciences Political Science International Relations Foreign policy and specific topics in international relations Espionage and subversionClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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