America's Secret Power by Loch K. Johnson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA.

Further, he provides a thorough review of legislative efforts to curb these abuses, and suggests several important ways to achieve the delicate balance between national security and democratic ideals. Authors: Loch K Johnson Abstract The purpose of national security intelligence is to provide policy officials with an advantage in the making of effective policy, based on the collection and. Loch Johnson, who has studied the workings of the CIA at first hand as a legislative overseer, presents a comprehensive examination of the Agency and its relations with other American institutions, including Congress and the White House, and looks closely at how it pursues its three major missions-intelligence analysis, counterintelligence, and covert action.Īt once fascinating and sobering, Johnson's book reveals how the best intelligence reports can be distorted or ignored how covert actions can spin out of control despite extensive safeguards, as in the Iran-Contra scandal and how the CIA has spied on American citizens in clear violation of its charter. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource.

Johnson and published by Oxford University Press. C1.P13 A further illustration is America’s advocacy in the 1980s of a US intermediate-range nuclear force (INF), a category of nuclear-tipped missiles placed on West German soil to serve as an added deterrent. Keywords: America’s secret foreign policy, propaganda. Based on hundreds of interviews with CIA officials, national security experts, and legislators, as well as a thorough culling of the archival record, America's Secret Power offers an illuminating and up-to-date picture of the CIA, stressing the difficult balance between the genuine needs of national security and the protection of individual liberties. America's Secret Power: The CIA in a Democratic Society is written by Loch K. Johnson, Loch K., The Forms of Covert Action, The Third Option.

America's Secret Power by Loch K. Johnson