{"product_id":"the-cia-hugh-wilford-9781399816861","title":"The CIA","description":"'Gripping history that also informs the present' Sunday Times\n'Fascinating . . . Wilford writes engagingly with a telling eye for colourful detail' The Spectator\n'A spectacular achievement . . . I loved it' Dominic Sandbrook\n How the CIA became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas.\n In 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. \nDrawing 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.\n Original, and gripping, The CIA tells how America adopted unaccountable power and created a new imperial order.","brand":"John Murray Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50274642723104,"sku":"9781399816861","price":12.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781399816861.jpg?v=1768427759","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/the-cia-hugh-wilford-9781399816861","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}