02919cam a2200433 i 4500 23358748 BJBSDDR 20250701133001.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 231023s2024 nyua rb 001 0 eng 2023046046 9781541645912 (hardcover) 154164591X (hardcover) 9781541645905 (ebook) DLC eng rda DLC DLC eng pcc n-us--- JK 468 W677c 2024 327.1273 Wilford, Hugh, 1965- 42708 The CIA : an imperial history / Hugh Wilford. First edition. New York : Basic Books, 2024. xii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Abbreviations List of Central Intelligence Agency Directors Introduction Prologue: Imperial Precursors 🗺️ Part 1: Overseas Intelligence Regime Change Regime Maintenance 🏠 Part 2: At Home Counterintelligence Publicity Unintended Consequences Epilogue: The Global War on Terror Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index "As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support its new global status, it created the CIA to analyze foreign intelligence. But within a few years, the Agency was engaged in other operations: bolstering pro-American governments, overthrowing nationalist leaders, and surveilling anti-imperial dissenters at home. The Cold War was an obvious reason for this transformation-but not the only one. In The CIA, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford draws on decades of research to show the Agency as part of a larger picture, the history of Western empire. While young CIA officers imagined themselves as British imperial agents like T. E. Lawrence, successive US presidents used the covert powers of the Agency to hide overseas interventions from postcolonial foreigners and anti-imperial Americans alike. Even the CIA's post-9/11 global hunt for terrorists was haunted by the ghosts of empires past. Comprehensive, original, and gripping, The CIA is the story of the birth of a new imperial order in the shadows. It offers the most complete account yet of how America adopted unaccountable power and secrecy abroad and at home"-- Provided by publisher. United States. Central Intelligence Agency History. Estados Unidos. Agencia Central de Inteligencia 515 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK LLH 123866 123866 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2025-06-13 0 JK 468 W677c 2024 00000193342 2025-06-13 00:00:00 1 2025-06-13 BK