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The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence

by Victor Marchetti, John D. Marks. 400 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Victor Marchetti, John D. Marks

Publisher:

   Dell

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1974
Subjects:   United States--Central Intelligence Agency
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books on: (United States Central Intelligence Agency)  - 37883 results

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1.
The Central Intelligence Agency: An Instrument of Government, to 1950
Book by Arthur B. Darling; Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990
Subjects: United States--Central Intelligence Agency--History
...paper 1. United States. Central Intelligence Agency--History...origins of the Central Intelligence Agency. Creating...Congress. The United States had no tradition...Archives THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY An Instrument...that the United States should have...
2.
Donovan and the CIA: A History of the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency
Book by Thomas F. Troy; University Publications of America, 1996
Subjects: Donovan, William J--(William Joseph)--1883-1959, United States--Central Intelligence Agency--History
...General of the United States SOE...Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency THE...HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES STRATEGIC...Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency THOMAS...Index. 1. United States. Central Intelligence Agency History...
3.
Capturing the Revolution: The United States, Central America, and Nicaragua, 1961-1972
Book by Michael D. Gambone; Praeger, 2001
Subjects: Alliance For Progress, Central America--Politics And Government--1951-1979, Latin America--Foreign Relations--United States, Latin America--Politics And Government--1948-, Nicaragua--Politics And Government--1937-1979, Revolutions--Latin America--History--20th Century, United States--Foreign Relations--Latin America
...Printed in the United States of America...Revolution in Central America...AID Agency for International...Central Intelligence Agency...interventions by the Central Intelligence Agency in potential...allow the United States to prevail...
4.
Close Neighbors, Distant Friends: United States-Central American Relations
Book by John E. Findling; Greenwood Press, 1987
Subjects: Central America--Relations--United States, United States--Relations--Central America
...7. The United States and Contemporary Central America 147...Abbreviations AID Agency for International Development...Community CIA Central Intelligence Agency CONDECA Central...
5.
The Difficult Triangle: Mexico, Central America, and the United States
Book by H. Rodrigo Jauberth, Gilberto Castaneda, Jesus Hernandez, Pedro Vuskovic; Westview Press, 1992
Subjects: Central America--Foreign Relations--Mexico, Central America--Foreign Relations--United States, Mexico--Foreign Relations--Central America, Mexico--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Central America, United States--Foreign Relations--Mexico
...disastrous history as the next-door neighbor of the United States. From then on, an increasingly well-defined pattern...half of the twentieth century, enforced by the Central Intelligence Agency CIA . 29 Since the nineteenth century...
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journal articles on: (United States Central Intelligence Agency)  - 2791 results

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1.
Securing Central America against Communism: the United States and the Modernization of Surveillance in Cold War
Journal article by Robert H. Holden; Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Vol. 41, 1999
Subjects: Central America, Cold War, Communism, Guatemala, Intelligence gathering, Military aid, Surveillance, United States
...in which intelligence rescues a...implement it. In Central America...security states" have been...course, the United States ostensibly...the U.S. Agency for International...encourage the Central American...to share intelligence with one...with the United States, an effort...in other Central American...increase this agencys appreciation...the various intelligence and security...support, the United States identified...
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I Go to Work for the "largest PR Agency" in the World, and Find Myself Beginning a 12-year War with the CIA
Journal article by Wes Pedersen; Public Relations Quarterly, Vol. 52, 2008
Subjects: Central Intelligence Agency--CIA, Communism, Government agencies, Public relations, United States
...services, the Associated Press, United Press and International News...communism and the communist states came basically from the still...failures in and by the nations intelligence community. Ill tell that story...of Congress, the information agency could neither boast of its...
3.
We Have Not Correctly Framed the Debate on Intelligence Reform
Journal article by Saxby Chambliss; Parameters, Vol. 35, 2005
Subjects: Intelligence service--Evaluation, Military intelligence--Forecasts and trends, United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Evaluation
...when the 1947 National Security Act created the Central Intelligence Agency and dual-hatted the Director as the chief intelligence officer of the United States as well as running the CIA. Another positive aspect...
4.
I Set Up My Own 'crisis Monitoring' Operation and Gain a Vital 'deep Throat' Source in the Process
Journal article by Wes Pedersen; Public Relations Quarterly, Vol. 52, 2008
Subjects: Central Intelligence Agency--CIA, Cold War, Government agencies, Public relations, United States
...unmarked buses the intelligence agency was using to transport...I had been with that states senior U.S. senator...Because one of the United States announced goals in this...Arnot, then director of States International Press...
5.
The United States and Latin America's Armed Forces: a Troubled Relationship
Journal article by Richard L. Millett; Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Vol. 39, 1997
Subjects: Armed forces, Foreign policy, Human rights, International relations-US, Latin America, United States
...criticism (in both Latin America and the United States) of the effects of those involvements...military establishments in the field of intelligence, including their ties with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other US agencies, has generated...
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1.
Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? the Sensational Revelations of Recent Years about the Central Intelligence Agency Almost Obscure a Larger Point
Magazine article by Edward G. Shirley; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 281, February 1998
Subjects: Espionage--United States, United States. Central Intelligence Agency
...At the Agencys espionage-training...military-intelligence officers...services to the United States. Handling...director of central intelligence, in 1977...inside the Agency between covert...mediocre intelligence and egregiously...harms the United States abroad. If the Agency were truly...
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How to Make a Spy: For 60 Years, the United States Has Struggled and Failed to Create a First-Rate Secret Intelligence Service. Few Agents Can Haggle in a Foreign Bazaar or Even Hope to Understand Rapid-Fire Arabic. It May Be Hard to Find the Proper Skills among the Present Generation of Young Americans. but It Would Not Be Impossible to Create Them
Magazine article by Tim Weiner; Foreign Policy, September 2007
Subjects: Intelligence service--Recruiting, Secret service--Recruiting, Spies--Training, United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Finance, United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Powers and duties
...director of central intelligence for seven...CIA. The agency is working...strategy for the United States--not for...look at the agencys blunders...and why the United Statess counterterrorism...Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms...
3.
Can the CIA and FBI Meet the Threat? If the United States Is to Win the War on Terrorism, It Must Prevail in the Intelligence "Trenches" Where the FBI and CIA Operate
Magazine article by Gary Schmitt; World and I, Vol. 17, October 2002
Subjects: American espionage, Espionage, American, Security systems industry, Terrorism--Prevention, United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Powers and duties, United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation--Powers and duties, United States--Safety and security measures, War on Terrorism, 2001-
...hothouses for the cells that struck the United States. Again, the reason is simple...operations is to hope local security and intelligence services do the dirty work for...difficult. As they should be, the agencys activities are closely held secrets...
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Earnest Will Open Door to Espionage; E. Peter Earnest Hopes the Soon-to-Be-Open International Spy Museum Will Educate Others about the Importance of Intelligence-Gathering to the Security of the United States
Magazine article by Stephen Goode; Insight on the News, Vol. 18, June 24, 2002
Subjects: Earnest, E. Peter--Interviews, International Spy Museum--Exhibitions, Museums--Exhibitions, United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Officials and employees, Washington, D.C.--Galleries and museums
...importance of intelligence-gathering...security of the United States by...with the agencys clandestine...the CIAs Intelligence Medal of...Security Agency (NSA), for...communism as an intelligence failure...think the agency now has released...
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The Libyan Connection: The United State's Restoration of Relations with the Regime of Colonel Muammar Gadaffi Was a Coup for the CIA
Magazine article by Ed Blanche; The Middle East, July 2006
Subjects: Gadaffi, Muammar--International relations, Intelligence service--Forecasts and trends, Libya--International relations, Terrorism--Control, United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Foreign policy, United States--International relations
...Connection: The United States Restoration...between senior Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers...Libyas foreign intelligence service...Security Agency of an intercepted...a team of agency officials...of his top intelligence officials...
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newspaper articles on: (United States Central Intelligence Agency)  - 720 results

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1.
Fractured Flow of Intelligence?
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 22, 2005
Subjects: Groupware--Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Laws, regulations and rules, Work groups--Computer programs, Work groups--Laws, regulations and rules
...TTIC) under the Central Intelligence Agency. Said to be a fusion...was indicted by the United States in 1985 for the hijacking...to arrive in the United States to attend flight...with the spike in intelligence on threats at the...
2.
Congress Begins Intelligence-Failure Probe
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 5, 2002
Subjects: United States. Central Intelligence Agency, United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
...National Security Agency at Fort Meade...distraction to U.S. intelligence efforts fighting...counterterrorism in the United States, and the CIA...already in the United States as part of...showed that the agency informed the...investigating are: *Intelligence-sharing shortfalls...
3.
Intelligence Failure Blamed for Errant Embassy Bombing: Some Warn CIA Is Underfunded
Newspaper article by Joyce Howard Price; The Washington Times, May 10, 1999
Subjects: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
...Two Republican lawmakers with oversight of the spy agency said intelligence agents are being challenged beyond their capabilities...further strained already tense relations between the United States and China. President Clinton sent a message of...
4.
Clinton Taps Tenet for CIA: Nominee Leaked Agency Secrets to Paper, CBS Says
Newspaper article by Warren P. Strobel, Bill Gertz; The Washington Times, March 20, 1997
Subjects: Lake, Anthony, Tenet, George J., United States. Central Intelligence Agency
...acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has garnered plaudits...on his vision for the Central Intelligence Agency, and evaluating his ability...1993-1995; deputy director, Central Intelligence Agency, 1995-present
5.
CIA Racked by Rapid Turnover at Top: Low Morale, Scandals Beset Agency, Yet It Gains against Drugs, Terror
Newspaper article by Bill Gertz; The Washington Times, March 23, 1997
Subjects: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
...Gertz After five directors in six years, the Central Intelligence Agency faces a monumental leadership crisis as it struggles...Congress," he said. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, a former United Nations ambassador and former member of the Presidents...
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encyclopedia articles on: (United States Central Intelligence Agency)  - 18 results

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1.
Central Intelligence Agency
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...given (1949) special powers under the Central Intelligence Act: The CIA director may spend agency funds without accounting for them; the...agencies. To safeguard civil liberties in the United States, the CIA is denied domestic police powers...
2.
Homeland Security, United States Department Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...vulnerability of the United States to terrorism, and...Emergency Management Agency and the Strategic...division analyzes intelligence and information involving...Investigation , Central Intelligence Agency , and National Security...
3.
United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...same month the Central American Free...finalized by the United States, Guatemala...investigation of U.S. intelligence prior to the...Management Agency in particular...National Security Agency was revealed...originating in the United States without obtaining...
4.
National Security Council
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the defense policies of the United States and also exercising direction over the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Created in 1947 by...defense. The director of national intelligence (formerly, the director of...
5.
Bush, George Herbert Walker
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...director of the Central Intelligence Agency (1976 77). Presidency...To many in the United States these events were...nuclear arms. In Central America the United States achieved long-standing...stand trial in the United States for drug trafficking...
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