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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri, author.     Subjects     United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History.     Intelligence service -- United States -- History.     Espionage, American -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri, author.       by title:      A question of standi...         MARC Display

A question of standing : the history of the CIA / Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. by Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri, author. New York : Oxford University Press, 2022. Subjects United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History.   Intelligence service -- United States -- History.   Espionage, American -- History. ISBN:  9780192847966 (hardcover) : 0192847961 (hardcover) Description:  xii, 300 pages ; 23 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "The mission of the CIA, derived from U-1 in World War I more than from World War II's OSS, has always been intelligence. Seventy-five years ago, in the year of its creation, the National Security Act gave the agency, uniquely in world history up to that point, a democratic mandate to pursue that mission of intelligence. It gave the CIA a special standing in the conduct of US foreign relations. That standing diminished when successive American presidents ordered the CIA to exceed its original mission. When they tasked the agency secretly to overthrow democratic governments, the United States lost its international standing, and its command of a majority in the United Nations General Assembly. Such dubious operations, even the government's embrace of assassination and torture, did not diminish the standing of the CIA in US public opinion. However, domestic interventions did. CIA spying on domestic protesters led to tighter congressional oversight from the 1970s on. The chapters in A Question of Standing offer a balanced narrative and perspective on recognizable episodes in the CIA's history. They include the Bay of Pigs invasion, the War on Terror, 9/11, the weapons of mass destruction deception, the Iran estimate of 2007, the assassination of Osama bin Laden, and Fake News. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 diminished the CIA and is construed as having been the right solution undertaken for the wrong reasons, reasons that grew out of political opportunism. The book also defends the CIA's exposure of foreign meddling in US elections"--Amazon.com.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 327.1273 Je Checked In Add Copy to MyList North Kohala Public Library Adult Nonfiction 327.1273 Je Checked In Add Copy to MyList Thelma Parker Memorial P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 327.1273 Je Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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