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  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Biteback Publishing (22 Oct. 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849548870
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849548878
  • Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 3.5 x 16.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 449,750 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Despite frequent official disapproval, CIA staff have written more memoirs than members of any other secret intelligence agency in world history. Christopher Moran's brilliant account of their revelations and tribulations is both readable and revealing." --Christopher Andrew

"Moran interweaves colorful personalities, conflicting politics and inconsistent practices in narratives of what the US government has and has not permitted CIA authors to publish about their secret profession. A fascinating, readable work that explores America's never-ending efforts to balance necessary government secrecy with the public's right to know." --Robert Wallace, co-author of Spycraft and The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception

About the Author

Christopher Moran is an associate professor of US national security at the University of Warwick and was a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, in 2011. His book Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain won the 2014 St Ermin's Hotel Intelligence Book of the Year Award.


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You might think that most spy organisation’s biggest problems with keeping secrets was preventing double agents from selling or giving them to the another party. However the CIA seemed to have almost as much angst and trouble over former staff rushing to print because of ego, propaganda purposes , wishing to right perceived wirings, or a host of other reasons.

The book maps the CIA’s oscillations between attempts to suppress this activity and occasions were it almost encouraged it. Unsurprisingly the main driver towards openness wasn’t the fact the CIA operated within a democracy but instead concern over how the agency would be perceived by the public and policy makers if it kept silent did not respond to public attacks and accusations by others.

One particularly interesting slight diversion form the main topic of the book was the CIA’s irritation at not being able to exploit the entertainment world for propaganda purposes to the same extent as US armed forces were able to. While the military could lend equipment and access to movie and TV makers to show themselves in a good light the CIA had little opportunity to do this, and even if it could do so almost every script they seemed to get showed multiple members the agency staff acting either duplicity or foolishly or both. Moran also points out that the CIA would have loved to have had their own James Bond character and were grateful for the many positive mentions of the agency by Bond creator Ian Fleming which counterbalanced John le Carré’s often more negative comments.
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