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020 | _a9781350159013 | ||
082 | _a327.1273 LON-S | ||
100 | _aLong, Stephen | ||
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_aThe cia and the soviet bloc : _bpolitical warfare, the origins of the cia and countering communism in Europe / _cStephen Long |
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_aLondon _bBloomsbury academic _c2014 |
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300 | _a362 p. | ||
365 |
_aGBP _b28.99. |
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500 | _aThe Central Intelligence Agency was established by Harry S. Truman after World War II and it soon provided covert political and paramilitary support to further US foreign policy. Strengthened by President Eisenhower, by the early 1950s, under the command of Allen Dulles, the CIA was actively overthrowing governments-notably Prime Minister Mossadegh in Iran in 1953 and President Arbenz Guzman in Guatemala in 1954. The Agency was less effective in Eastern Europe, however, where the Soviet Union had established control- despite opportunities for US intereference such as the East German riots in 1953 and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Here, Stephen Long challenges the accepted view that the US believed in a post- World War II ordering of Europe which placed the East outside an American 'sphere of influence'. He argues instead that 'disorder prevailed over design' in the planning and organization of intelligence operations during the early stages of the Cold War, and that the period represents a missed opportunity for the US during the Cold War. Featuring new archival material and a new approach which seeks to unpick the relationship between the CIA, the US government and the Soviet Union, The CIA and the Soviet Bloc sheds new light on espionage, the Cold War, US diplomatic history and the history of twentieth-century Europe. | ||
650 | _aEastern Europe | ||
650 | _aPolitics and government | ||
650 | _aUnited States. Central Intelligence Agency | ||
650 | _aEspionage, American | ||
650 | _aUnited States | ||
650 | _aDiplomatic relations | ||
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