{"product_id":"9781399816861","title":"The CIA : An Imperial History by Hugh Wilford","description":"Gripping history that also informs the present' Sunday Times'Fascinating . . . Wilford writes engagingly with a telling eye for colourful detail' The Spectator'A spectacular achievement . . . I loved it' Dominic Sandbrook  How the CIA became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas.    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. Drawing 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.    Original, and gripping, The CIA tells how America adopted unaccountable power and created a new imperial order.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55205890490741,"sku":"9781399816861","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781399816861_50088218-8370-4760-80bb-6f516ffe72ba.jpg?v=1748095562","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781399816861","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}