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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.

Written by intelligence scholars and experts, this book chronicles the evolution of the CIA: its remarkable successes, its controversial failures and its clandestine operations. The history of the agency is presented through the prism of its declassified documents, with each being supplemented by insightful contextual analysis.
List of Documents
vii
Foreword xi
Michael Morell
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1(7)
1 Intelligence for an American Century: Creating the CIA
8(34)
2 The Development of CIA Covert Action
42(12)
3 A `Gangster Act': The Berlin Tunnel
54(10)
4 The CIA and the USSR: The Challenge of Understanding the Soviet Threat
64(13)
5 Anglo-American Intelligence Liaison and the Outbreak of the Korean War
77(23)
6 The CIA and the Bomber and Missile Gap
100(12)
7 The CIA and Cuba: The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis
112(15)
8 The CIA in Vietnam
127(29)
9 The CIA and Arms Control
156(15)
10 The CIA's Counter-intelligence Conundrum: The Case of Yuri Nosenko
171(19)
11 1975: The Year of the `Intelligence Wars'
190(7)
12 Watching Khomeini
197(14)
13 The CIA and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
211(15)
14 Martial Law in Poland
226(38)
15 Able Archer and the NATO War Scare
264(44)
16 The Soviet Leadership and Kremlinology in the 1980s
308(33)
17 The CIA and the (First) Persian Gulf War
341(20)
18 A Mole in Their Midst: The CIA and Aldrich Ames
361(34)
19 `The System was Blinking Red': The Peace Dividend and the Road to 9/11
395(12)
20 Reckoning and Redemption: The 9/11 Commission, the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA at War
407(20)
21 The `Slam Dunk': The CIA and the Invasion of Iraq
427(24)
22 The Terrorist Hunters Become Political Quarry: The CIA and Rendition, Detention and Interrogation
451(18)
23 Innovation at the CIA: From Sputnik to Silicon Valley and Venona to Vault 7
469(12)
24 Entering the Electoral Fray: The CIA and Russian Meddling in the 2016 Election
481(12)
25 Flying Blind? The CIA and the Trump Administration
493(10)
Bibliography 503(25)
Index 528
Huw Dylan, Lecturer in Intelligence and International Security, King's College London. David Gioe, Associate Professor of History, United States Military Academy at West Point. Michael S. Goodman, Reader in Intelligence and International Affairs, King's College London.