America's Secret Power: The CIA in a Democratic Society

by Loch K. Johnson

Book Overview

Based on hundreds of interviews with CIA officials, national security experts, and legislators, as well as a thorough culling of the archival record, America's Secret Power offers an illuminating and up-to-date picture of the CIA, stressing the difficult balance between the genuine needs of national security and the protection of individual liberties. Loch Johnson, who has studied the workings of the CIA at first hand as a legislative overseer, presents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195069447
• ISBN13: 9780195069440
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"