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BL
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848163
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Jones, Milo,1967-
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| Title & Author
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Constructing Cassandra : : reframing intelligence failure at the CIA, 1947-2001 /\ Milo Jones and Philippe Silberzahn.
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| Publication Statement
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Stanford, Calif. :: Stanford University Press,, 2013.
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1 online resource (ix, 375 pages)
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| ISBN
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0804785805
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: 0804787158
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: 9780804785808
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: 9780804787154
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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The work of intelligence -- How the CIA is made -- The Iranian Revolution -- The collapse of the USSR -- The Cuban Missile Crisis -- The terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 -- The CIA and the future of intelligence.
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| Abstract
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The CIA was created in 1947 in large part to prevent another Pearl Harbor. On at least four dramatic occasions, the Agency failed at this task. There has been no shortage of studies to understand how such failures happened. Until now, however, none of the explanations proffered has been fully satisfying, and sometimes competing explanations have been mutually incompatible. In contrast, this book proposes a unified, coherent and rigorous theory of intelligence failure built on culture and identity.
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United States.-- History.
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United States.
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Intelligence service-- United States-- History.
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Intelligence service.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- International.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- International Relations-- General.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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327.1273009/045
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JK468.I6J7 2013eb
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| Added Entry
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Silberzahn, Philippe
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