The Central Intelligence Agency: An Instrument of Government, to 1950

by Arthur Burr Darling

This unique history offers the most detailed and best documented account of the early years of the CIA currently available. It reveals the political and bureaucratic struggles that accompanied the creation of the modern U. S. intelligence community. In addition, it proposes a theory of effective intelligence organization, applied both to the movement to create the CIA and to the form it eventually took. The period covered by this study was crucially...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271007176
• ISBN13: 9780271007175
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"