Company Confessions: Secrets, Memoirs, and the CIA - Rilegato

Moran, Christopher

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ISBN 10: 1250047137 ISBN 13: 9781250047137

Casa editrice: Thomas Dunne Books, 2016

Riassunto

For fans of Argo and Fair Game, "a lively, absorbing investigation." —Library Journal

Spies are supposed to keep quiet, never betraying their agents or discussing their operations. Somehow, this doesn’t apply to the CIA, whose former officers have written memoirs commanding huge advances and attracting enormous publicity. As an intelligence service dependent on its ability to protect sensitive information, however, it’s no surprise that the CIA has fought back.

In Company Confessions, award-winning author Christopher Moran digs deep into this tumultuous relationship between the CIA and former agents who try to go public about their careers. He delves into the motivations of spies like CIA officer Valerie Plame, whose identity was leaked by the Bush White House and who reportedly received $2.5 million for her book Fair Game, and exposes the politics and practices of the CIA and its Publications Review Board, including breaking into publishing houses and secretly authorizing pro-agency “memoirs.”

Drawing on interviews; the private correspondence of such legendary spies as Allen Dulles, William Colby, and Richard Helms; and declassified CIA files, Company Confessions examines why America’s spies are so willing to share their stories, the damage inflicted when they leak the nation’s secrets, and the fine line between censorship on the grounds of security and censorship for the sake of reputation.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Christopher Moran is an associate professor of U.S. national security at the University of Warwick in England. He is the award-winning author of Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain and has held fellowships at the British Academy, the Library of Congress, and Oxford University.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Thomas Dunne Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1250047137
• ISBN 13: 9781250047137
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 346