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Central Intelligence Agency, The: A Documentary History
Author(s): Scott C. Monje (Author)
- Publisher: Greenwood
- Publication Date: 30 Jun. 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 472 pages
- ISBN-10: 144083587X
- ISBN-13: 9781440835872
Book Description
The principal theme of this new documentary history of the Central Intelligence Agency is the dilemma of maintaining a secret organization in an open society. A democracy rests on accountability, and accountability requires transparency: the people cannot hold their government to account if they do not know what it is doing in their name. At the same time, an intelligence agency lives in a world of shadows. It cannot function if it is not able to keep its sources, its methods, and many of its operations secret. The resulting tension-and the constant temptation to take advantage of the impunity that secrecy allows-has shaped the CIA's history from its beginnings.
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Recommended as a first-priority purchase for high school, public, and college libraries." --Doug's Student Reference Room
"This work is very valuable in that it will encourage students to look at the text of documents produced by the CIA describing some of its activities and how it viewed domestic and international political developments." --ARBAonline
"[I]t does reproduce some informative documents that may be of interest to scholars." --The Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf, CIA
