The role of the CIA is crucial for America's security and for the prospects of world peace. Democracy depends on secret intelligence for its survival, yet the relationship between the two has always been controversial and, at times, mutually harmful. In this history of the CIA based on verifiable documents and on scholarly sources, Jeffreys-Jones examines the agency as an institution operating within a political context. Providing an account of the CIA's shifting relationship with the American public, Congress, and presidents, Jeffreys-Jones's assessment of the CIA and the factors that increase or diminish its efficacy provides a look at an issue of importance to all.
- ISBN10 0300208502
- ISBN13 9780300208504
- Publish Date 8 February 2003 (first published 10 September 1989)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 348
- Language English