{"product_id":"cia-the","title":"CIA, The","description":"''Gripping history that also informs the present'' Sunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Fascinating . . . Wilford writes engagingly with a telling eye for colourful detail'' The Spectator\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A spectacular achievement . . . I loved it'' Dominic Sandbrook\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e How the CIA became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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":51456159547739,"sku":"9781399816861","price":21.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/cia-the","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}