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Safe for Democracy - The Secret Wars of the CIA (Paperback)
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Safe for Democracy - The Secret Wars of the CIA (Paperback)
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From its founding in the aftermath of World War II, the Central
Intelligence Agency has been discovered in the midst of some of the
most crucial and most embarrassing -episodes in United States
relations with the world. Richard Nixon's 1969 presidential order
that declared CIA covert operations necessary to the attainment of
American foreign policy goals was an acknowledgment that secret
warfare tools had a much wider application than just the cold war
conflict with the Soviet Union. The question of what, exactly,
these operations have contributed to U.S. policy has long been
neglected in the rush to accuse the CIA of being a "rogue elephant"
or merely listing its nefarious deeds. Safe for Democracy for the
first time places the story of the CIA's covert operations squarely
in the context of America's global quest for democratic values and
institutions. National security historian John Prados offers a
comprehensive history of the CIA's secret wars that is as close to
a definitive account as is possible today. He draws on three
decades of research to illuminate the men and women of the
intelligence establishment, their resources and techniques, their
triumphs and failures. In a dramatic and revealing narrative, Safe
for Democracy not only relates the inside stories of covert
operations but examines in meticulous detail the efforts of
presidents and Congress to control the CIA and the specific choices
made in the agency's secret wars. Along the way Mr. Prados offers
eye-opening accounts of the covert actions themselves, from
radically revised interpretations of classic operations like Iran,
Guatemala, Chile, and the Bay of Pigs; to lesser-known projects
like Tibet and Angola; to virtually unknown tales of the CIA in
Guyana and Ghana. He supplies full accounts of Reagan-era
operations in Nicaragua and Afghanistan, and brings the story up to
date with accounts of more recent activities in Somalia, Bosnia,
and Iraq, all the while keeping American foreign policy goals in
view. Safe for Democracy
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