This publication is presented to you through Paradigm Publishing Services

Edinburgh University Press

Visit our Partner Page See all our books
Home Edinburgh University Press The CIA and the Pursuit of Security
book: The CIA and the Pursuit of Security
Book
Licensed
Unlicensed Requires Authentication

The CIA and the Pursuit of Security

History, Documents and Contexts
  • Huw Dylan , David Gioe and Michael S. Goodman
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2020

About this book

Since its creation in 1947, the CIA has been at the heart of America’s security apparatus. Written by intelligence scholars and experts, The CIA and the Pursuit of Security offers the reader a lively survey of the CIA past and present. The history of the agency is presented through the prism of its declassified documents, with each being supplemented by insightful contextual analysis. The book chronicles the evolution of the CIA, its remarkable successes, clandestine operations, and its ongoing struggle to maintain American security in an age of proliferating threats.

Topics

  • Publicly Available

    Frontmatter

    i
    Download PDF
  • Publicly Available

    Contents

    v
    Download PDF
  • Publicly Available

    Documents

    vii
    Download PDF
  • Publicly Available

    Foreword

    xi
    Download PDF
  • Publicly Available

    Acknowledgements

    xiii
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    Introduction

    1
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    1. Intelligence for an American Century: Creating the CIA

    8
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    2. The Development of CIA Covert Action

    42
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    3. A ‘Gangster Act’: The Berlin Tunnel

    54
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    4. The CIA and the USSR: The Challenge of Understanding the Soviet Threat

    64
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    5. Anglo-American Intelligence Liaison and the Outbreak of the Korean War

    77
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    6. The CIA and the Bomber and Missile Gap

    100
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    7. The CIA and Cuba: The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis

    112
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    8. The CIA in Vietnam

    127
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    9. The CIA and Arms Control

    156
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    10. The CIA’s Counter-Intelligence Conundrum: The Case of Yuri Nosenko

    171
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    11. 1975: The Year of the ‘Intelligence Wars’

    190
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    12. Watching Khomeini

    197
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    13. The CIA and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

    211
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    14. Martial Law in Poland

    226
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    15. Able Archer and the NATO War Scare

    264
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    16. The Soviet Leadership and Kremlinology in the 1980s

    308
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    17. The CIA and the (First) Persian Gulf War

    341
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    18. A Mole in Their Midst: The CIA and Aldrich Ames

    361
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    19. ‘The System was Blinking Red’: The Peace Dividend and the Road to 9/11

    395
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    20. Reckoning and Redemption: The 9/11 Commission, the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA at War

    407
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    21. The ‘Slam Dunk’: The CIA and the Invasion of Iraq

    427
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    22. The Terrorist Hunters Become Political Quarry: The CIA and Rendition, Detention and Interrogation

    451
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    23. Innovation at the CIA: From Sputnik to Silicon Valley and Venona to Vault 7

    469
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    24. Entering the Electoral Fray: The CIA and Russian Meddling in the 2016 Election

    481
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    25. Flying Blind? The CIA and the Trump Administration

    493
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    Bibliography

    503
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    Index

    528
    Download PDF

Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
April 5, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9781474428866
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
456
View content
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474428866
eBook ISBN: 9781474428866
Keywords for this book
Politics
Audience(s) for this book
For universities and colleges of further and higher education
Sign up now to receive a 20% welcome discount
Institutional Access
How does access work?
Winner of the OpenAthens UX Award 2026
Winner of the OpenAthens UX Award 2026
Have an idea on how to improve our website?
Please write us.
© 2026 De Gruyter Brill
Downloaded on 12.3.2026 from https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781474428866/html
Scroll to top button