{"product_id":"the-cia","title":"The CIA","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781399816861\u003cbr\u003eFormat: B-format paperback\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: John Murray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Gripping history that also informs the present' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Fascinating . . . Wilford writes engagingly with a telling eye for colourful detail' \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A spectacular achievement . . . I loved it' Dominic Sandbrook\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e How the CIA became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Original, and gripping, \u003ci\u003eThe CIA\u003c\/i\u003e tells how America adopted unaccountable power and created a new imperial order.","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41619257196677,"sku":"PR395501","price":37.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/the-cia","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}