A Question of Standing: The History of the CIA 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 0192663925
• ISBN-13: 9780192847966
• Author: Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

A Question of Standing deals with recognizable events that have shaped the history of the first 75 years of the CIA. Unsparing in its accounts of dirty tricks and their consequences, it values the agency’s intelligence and analysis work to offer balanced judgements that avoid both celebration and condemnation of the CIA. The mission of the CIA, derived from U-1 in World War I more than from World War II’s OSS, has always been intelligence. Seventy-five years ago, in the year of its creation, the National Security Act gave the agency, uniquely in world history up to that point, a democratic mandate to pursue that mission of intelligence. It gave the CIA a special standing in the conduct of US foreign relations. That standing diminished when successive American presidents ordered the CIA to exceed its original mission. When they tasked the agency secretly to overthrow democratic governments, the United States lost its international standing, and its command of a majority in the United Nations General Assembly. Such dubious operations, even the government’s embrace of assassination and torture, did not diminish the standing of the CIA in US public opinion.

Table contents:

1. The Road to U-1
2. The OSS Model
3. The Founding of the CIA, 1947
4. Covert Action in the 1950s
5. Intelligence in the 1950s
6. Bay of Pigs, 1961
7. Vietnam_ The Roles of the CIA
8. From Reformation to Counter-Reformation in the 1970s
9. The Collapse of Soviet Communism in the 1980s
10. Iran and Iran–Contra
11. Existential Issues, 1990–7
12. Fateful Terror and 9/11
13. The Great Diminishing Reform Act of 2004
14. Estimating Anew and a Military Turn
15. Battling al-Qaeda with Assassination and Torture
16. Obama’s CIA and the Death of bin Laden
17. Fake News Comes Home
18. Back to Work
19. Conclusion

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