Current Intelligence - How the CIA's Top-Secret Presidential Briefing Shaped History (Hardcover)

A GRIPPING NEW HISTORY OF US PRESIDENTS AND CIA SECRETS Every day, the President of the United States receives a bespoke, top-secret briefing document from the Central Intelligence Agency.Truman started them, Kennedy came to rely on them and Trump hardly read them. Current Intelligence charts almost a century of history and politics, revealing for the first time the day-to-day intelligence that lands on the Oval Office desk in the form of the President's Daily Brief. Using recently declassified documents, it uncovers what successive American presidents knew and when, and what they did in response. The nuclear arms race, the Vietnam War and 9/11 might never have happened if presidents had read their Daily Briefs differently. By focusing on key moments, from the Cuban Missile Crisis and covert operations around the world, right up to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, Current Intelligence reveals how intelligence has profoundly shaped our past and present.

General

Imprint:	The History Press Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	David, Charlwood,
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-7509-9880-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Espionage & secret services Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Embargos & sanctions Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
LSN:	0-7509-9880-6
Barcode:	9780750998802

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