Central Intelligence Agency An Instrument of Government, To 1950

Name: Central Intelligence Agency An Instrument of Government, To 1950
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ISBN: 9780271007151

ISBN-10: 027100715X

ISBN-13: 9780271007151

Edition: 1990

Authors: Arthur B. Darling, Bruce D. Berkowitz, Allan E. Goodman

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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…

Book details

List price: $117.95
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 1/8/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 544
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English

Arthur B. Darling taught American history at Yale University and Phillips Academy. From 1952 to 1954 he served as historian for the CIA.



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Preface



Origins in War



Plans in Peacetime



The Central Intelligence Group Beginnings Under Souers



The Central Intelligence Group



Action by Congress 1947-1949



Hillenkoetter's Administration: Intelligence



Hillenkoetter's Administration: Covert Operations



Investigation, 1948-1949



Change, 1949-1950



Decisions, 1950



Chronology



Memoranda on the Historical Review Program


Index