{"product_id":"9781399816861-the-cia","title":"The CIA","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn Imperial History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow the CIA became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Gripping history that also informs the present' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eFascinating . Wilford writes engagingly with a telling eye for colourful detail' \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eA spectacular achievement . I loved it' Dominic Sandbrook\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How the CIA became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1947, the United States created the CIA to analyse foreign intelligence, but within a few years the Agency was engaged in other operations - bolstering pro-American governments, overthrowing nationalist leaders, and surveilling domestic dissent - before transforming during the Cold War. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on decades of research, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford shows how the Agency created a new Western empire, as 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Original, and gripping, \u003ci\u003eThe CIA\u003c\/i\u003e tells how America adopted unaccountable power and created a new imperial order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55125712503158,"sku":"9781399816861","price":10.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32010192.jpg?v=1736345216","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781399816861-the-cia","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}