TY - BOOK ID - 5311012 TI - The CIA and American democracy PY - 1989 SN - 0300050178 0300208502 0300041497 9780300208504 0300099487 9780300099485 0300077378 9780300077377 PB - New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - United States. KW - History. KW - Agjencia Qendrore e Inteligjencës KW - Central Intelligence Agency (U.S.) KW - CIA (Central Intelligence Agency (U.S.)) KW - CIP (United States. Centrālās izlūkošanas pārvalde) KW - Mei-kuo chung yang chʻing pao chü KW - National Security Council (U.S.). KW - Si Aing Ei KW - T︠S︡entralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie SShA KW - T︠S︡RU SShA KW - T︠S︡RU (T︠S︡entralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie SShA) KW - ЦРУ США KW - ЦРУ (Центральное разведывательное управление США) KW - Центральное разведывательное управление США KW - ארצות הברית. KW - 美國. KW - 351.746 <73> KW - Politieke politie. Staatspolitie. Grenspolitie. Vreemdelingenpolitie. Geheimepolitie. Prive politie. Detectives. Lijfwachten. Zedenpolitie. Anti-drugbrigade. prive militie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA KW - United States. Central Intelligence Agency KW - 351.746 <73> Politieke politie. Staatspolitie. Grenspolitie. Vreemdelingenpolitie. Geheimepolitie. Prive politie. Detectives. Lijfwachten. Zedenpolitie. Anti-drugbrigade. prive militie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA KW - National Security Council (U.S.) KW - International relations. Foreign policy KW - United States KW - Secret service KW - Service secret KW - CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage. KW - United States. -- Central Intelligence Agency -- History. KW - Democracy. KW - Self-government KW - Political science KW - Equality KW - Representative government and representation KW - Republics KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5311012 AB - This third edition of Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones's engrossing history of the Central Intelligence Agency includes a new prologue that discusses the history of the CIA since the end of the Cold War, focusing in particular on the intelligence dimensions of the terrorist attacks on 9/11.Praise for the earlier editions:"I have read many books on the CIA, but none more searching and still dispassionate. Nor would I have believed that a book of such towering scholarship could still be so lucid and exciting to read."-Daniel Schorr"This is one of the best short histories of the CIA in print, up-to-date and based on a wide range of sources."-Walter Laqueur"Judicious and reasonable. . . . A sophisticated study that should challenge us to take a more serious view about how our democracy formulates its foreign policy."-David P. Calleo, New York Times Book ReviewA brief, yet subtle and penetrating, account of the Central Intelligence Agency."-Leonard Bushkoff, Christian Science Monitor"Subtle and crisply written. . . . A book remarkable for its clarity and lack of bias."-William W. Powers, Jr., International Herald Tribune, Paris ER -