As World War II ended, the United States emerged as a global superpower, creating the CIA in 1947 to analyze foreign intelligence. Soon, the Agency expanded its role to bolstering pro-American governments, overthrowing nationalist leaders, and surveilling anti-imperial dissenters.

In The CIA, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford explores the Agency's evolution, framing it within the broader history of Western empire. Drawing on decades of research, Wilford reveals how successive US presidents used the CIA's covert powers to hide overseas interventions and maintain control. Comprehensive and gripping, this book offers the most complete account yet of how America adopted unaccountable power and secrecy at home and abroad.

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Author:  Hugh Wilford

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