Inside Cia S Private World

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For forty years the Central Intelligence Agency has published an in-house journal, Studies in Intelligence, for CIA eyes only. Now the agency has declassified much of this material. This engrossing book, which presents the most interesting articles from the journal, provides revealing insights into CIA strategies and into events in which the organization was involved. The articles were selected by H. Bradford Westerfield, who teaches courses on intelligence operations but has never been affiliated with CIA. Westerfield's comprehensive introduction sketches the history and structure of CIA, sets the articles in context, and explains his criteria for selecting them. The articles cover a wide range of intelligence activities, including the gathering of intelligence data inside the United States; analysis of data; interaction between analysts and policymakers; the development of economic intelligence targeted at friendly countries as well as at foes; use of double agents (the personal memoir of a CIA officer who pretended to the Russians to be their agent); evaluation of defectors (the Nosenko case); and coercive interrogation techniques and how agents can resist them.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : H. Bradford Westerfield
Publisher : Yale University Press
Release : 1995-01-01
File : 511 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780300060263


The Cia Congress

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Selected bibliography p. 511-519

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Genre : History
Author : David M. Barrett
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Release : 2005
File : 562 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015061191444


In A Glass Darkly

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Genre : Ghost stories
Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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Release : 1886
File : 486 Pages
ISBN-13 : IND:30000007695723


The Constitution And 9 11

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"The Constitution and 9/11 provides a comprehensive, striking, and disturbing analysis of executive misuse of power that is made all the more compelling by placing it in a rich and fascinating historical contest. No better book is available for placing post-9/11 government actions in the matrix of history and explaining how executive power has degraded the Constitution and citizen rights."--William G. Weaver--Back cover.

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Genre : Law
Author : Louis Fisher
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Release : 2008
File : 424 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105131662301


Sylloge Inscriptionvm Atticarvm In Vsvm Scholarvm Academicarvm

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Genre : Inscriptions, Greek
Author : Hans Droysen
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Release : 1878
File : 64 Pages
ISBN-13 : PRNC:32101072320169


American Indians In The Marketplace

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Although it is usually assumed that Native Americans have lost their cultural identity through modernization, some peoples have proved otherwise. Brian Hosmer explores what happened when cultural identity and economic opportunity converged among two Native American communities that used community-based industries to both generate income and sustain their cultures. Comparing a lumber business run by the Menominees of Wisconsin and a salmon cannery established by British Columbian and Alaskan Tsimshian communities known as Metlakatla, Hosmer reveals how each tribe responded to market and political forces over fifty years. Hosmer's innovative ethnohistory recounts how these Indians used the marketplace to maintain their distinctiveness to a far greater extent than those who became wage earners in the white man's world. Hosmer shows that by selectively incorporating elements of American capitalism into their cultural lives, the Menominees and Metlakatlans came to view modernization less as a threat to their tribal life than as a means for maintaining their independence. These tribes embraced the same market accused of hastening the demise of native societies and became comparatively successful in American terms even as they both honored fundamental values and forged new cultural identities. Over time, these peoples came to understand how the market worked, recognized that the broader economy operated according to market principles, and learned how to adjust to it. Hosmer reveals how their strategies of "purposeful modernization" brought relative economic independence and sometimes the respect and cooperation of local and federal governments, how it helped chart a middle course between unchecked individuality and a communal ethos that might stifle economic development, and how economic development and cultural values ultimately affected one another. American Indians in the Marketplace is a story of adaptation that acknowledges the hardship and suffering common to most Indian-white contact while emphasizing the benefits of selective modernization accompanied by a constant re-invention of tradition. It questions the victim thesis of Native American history and shows that native peoples can meet the challenges of surviving in the larger world.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Brian C. Hosmer
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Release : 1999
File : 336 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015048513173


Cornell Studies In Classical Philology

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Genre : Classical philology
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Release : 1898
File : 106 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044015538598


The Frontier Challenge

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Genre : History
Author : George LaVerne Anderson
Publisher : Lawrence : University Press of Kansas
Release : 1971
File : 350 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015010317256


Classical Studies In Honour Of Henry Drisler

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Genre : Classical philology
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Release : 1894
File : 390 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015030396272


Nuclear Weapons Proliferation In The Next Decade

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This special issue examines the factors that are likely to shape nuclear weapons proliferation over the next decade.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Peter Lavoy
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Release : 2007
File : 268 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105124014544