{"product_id":"the-cia-an-imperial-history-hugh-wilford","title":"The CIA: An Imperial History, Hugh Wilford","description":"\u003cp\u003e''Gripping history that also informs the present'' Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e''Fascinating . . . Wilford writes engagingly with a telling eye for colourful detail'' The Spectator\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e''A spectacular achievement . . . I loved it'' Dominic Sandbrook\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow the CIA became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1947, the United States created the CIA to analyse foreign intelligence, but within a few years the Agency was engaged in other operations - bolstering pro-American governments, overthrowing nationalist leaders, and surveilling domestic dissent - before transforming during the Cold War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on decades of research, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford shows how the Agency created a new Western empire, as successive US presidents used the covert powers of the Agency to hide overseas interventions from postcolonial foreigners and anti-imperial Americans alike. Even the CIA''s post-9\/11 global hunt for terrorists was haunted by the ghosts of empires past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal, and gripping, The CIA tells how America adopted unaccountable power and created a new imperial order.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60524399100238,"sku":"9781399816861","price":6.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0842\/6546\/8238\/files\/9781399816861.jpg?v=1787657989","url":"https:\/\/littlelanebookshop.com\/products\/the-cia-an-imperial-history-hugh-wilford","provider":"Little Lane Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}