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The US intelligence community as it currently exists has been
deeply influenced by the press. Although considered a vital
overseer of intelligence activity, the press and its validity is
often questioned, even by the current presidential administration.
But dating back to its creation in 1947, the US Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) has benefited from relationships with
members of the US press to garner public support for its
activities, defend itself from its failures, and promote US
interests around the world. Many reporters, editors, and publishers
were willing and even eager to work with the agency, especially at
the height of the Cold War. That relationship began to change by
the 1960s when the press began to challenge the CIA and expose many
of its questionable activities. Respected publications went from
studiously ignoring the CIA's activities to reporting on the Bay of
Pigs, CIA pacification programs in Vietnam, the CIA's war in Laos,
and its efforts to use US student groups and a variety of other
non-government organizations as Cold War tools. This reporting
prompted the first major congressional investigation of the CIA in
December 1974. In The Rising Clamor: The American Press, the
Central Intelligence Agency, and the Cold War, David P. Hadley
explores the relationships that developed between the CIA and the
press, its evolution over time, and its practical impact from the
creation of the CIA to the first major congressional investigations
of its activities in 1975--76 by the Church and Pike committees.
Drawing on a combination of archival research, declassified
documents, and more than 2,000 news articles, Hadley provides a
balanced and considered account of the different actors in the
press and CIA relationships, how their collaboration helped define
public expectations of what role intelligence should play in the US
government, and what an intelligence agency should be able to do.
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