Book Description
Covers CIA terms, operations, and people including the Bay of Pigs, Operation IVY BELLS, mind-control drug testing, and Robert Philip Hanssen.
Author : W. Thomas Smith
Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816046669
Covers CIA terms, operations, and people including the Bay of Pigs, Operation IVY BELLS, mind-control drug testing, and Robert Philip Hanssen.
Author : Rodney Carlisle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1701 pages
File Size : 40,74 MB
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317471768
From references to secret agents in The Art of War in 400 B.C.E. to the Bush administration's ongoing War on Terrorism, espionage has always been an essential part of state security policies. This illustrated encyclopedia traces the fascinating stories of spies, intelligence, and counterintelligence throughout history, both internationally and in the United States. Written specifically for students and general readers by scholars, former intelligence officers, and other experts, Encyclopedia of Intelligence and Counterintelligence provides a unique background perspective for viewing history and current events. In easy-to-understand, non-technical language, it explains how espionage works as a function of national policy; traces the roots of national security; profiles key intelligence leaders, agents, and double-agents; discusses intelligence concepts and techniques; and profiles the security organizations and intelligence history and policies of nations around the world. As a special feature, the set also includes forewords by former CIA Director Robert M. Gates and former KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin that help clarify the evolution of intelligence and counterintelligence and their crucial roles in world affairs today.
Author : W. Thomas Smith
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Federal government--United States--History
ISBN : 143813018X
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is one of the most fascinating yet least understood intelligence gathering organizations in the world
Author : ANTONELLA COLONNA VILASI
Publisher : Author House
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1496975537
The book is about the history of the Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) from the foundation in 1947 to the ultimate events. U.S. President Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 establishing the CIA. The National Security Act charged the CIA with coordinating the nation's intelligence activities and correlating, evaluating and disseminating intelligence affecting national security.
Author : Jan Goldman Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 963 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1610690923
The Central Intelligence Agency is essential in the fight to keep America safe from foreign attacks. This two-volume work traces through facts and documents the history of the CIA, from the people involved to the operations conducted for national security. This two-volume reference work offers both students and general-interest readers a definitive resource that examines the impact the CIA has had on world events throughout the Cold War and beyond. From its intervention in Guatemala in 1954, through the Bay of Pigs, the Vietnam War, the Iran-Contra Affair, and its key role in Afghanistan following the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, this objective, apolitical work covers all of this controversial intelligence agency's most notable successes and failures. The content focuses on describing how a U.S. government organization that is unlike any other conducts covert warfare, surreptitiously collects information, and conducts espionage. The work allows for easy reference of former CIA operations and spies, looking at the positive and negative aspects of each operation and the "why" and "how" of its execution. The second volume provides documentation that supports and amplifies more than 200 cross-referenced entries. Readers will be able to understand the reasons behind the CIA's various actions, perceive how the agency's role has evolved across its 75-year history, and intelligently consider the viability and future of the CIA.
Author : Arthur B. Darling
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 36,60 MB
Release : 2007-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0271044160
This unique history offers the most detailed and best documented account of the early years of the CIA currently available. It reveals the political and bureaucratic struggles that accompanied the creation of the modern U. S. intelligence community. In addition, it proposes a theory of effective intelligence organization, applied both to the movement to create the CIA and to the form it eventually took. The period covered by this study was crucially important because it was during this time that the main battles over the establishment, responsibilities, and turf of the agency were fought. Many of these disputes framed the forty years, such as the relationship of the CIA to other government agency intelligence operations, the role of covert action, and Congressional oversight of the intelligence community. The sources upon which Darling drew for this study include the files of the National Security Council, the wartime files of the OSS, and interviews and correspondence with many of the principal players.
Author : Glenn P. Hastedt
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,44 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1851098070
From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror, spies and spying have been a central component of the nation's efforts to confront its enemies and protect its citizens. Recent controversies, from revelations of rogue agents in the 1990s to incomplete pre- and post-9/11 intelligence, only emphasize how important it is to understand the role of espionage in our national defense.
Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Intelligence service
ISBN :
Author : William M. Leary
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 1984-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0817302190
This volume pulls together a core collection of documents pertaining to the CIA. Leary's introduction provides an overview and chronology of the US intelligence operations from the American Revolution through to World War II, and places the documents in proper perspective.
Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 39,35 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781574886412
By intelligence officials for intelligent people