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Spies and their masters intelligence-policy relations in democratic countries

"This book delves into the secret histories of the CIA, the FBI and British and Italian intelligence to study how policymakers can control intelligence agencies and when these agencies will try to remove their own government. For every government they serve, intelligence agencies are both a thr...

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Main Author: Faini, Matteo (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Routledge 2021
Subjects:
Intelligence service > Government policy
Intelligence service > Political aspects
Democracy
Intelligence service > United States
Intelligence service > Great Britain
Intelligence service > Italy
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : democracies, intelligence agencies and the neglected problem of subversion
  • The paradox of subversion : a theory of intelligence-policy relations in democratic countries
  • British intelligence and subversion in the 1920s
  • The Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1908-1948 : from a law enforcement bureau to a political intelligence agency
  • The establishment and evolution of the Central Intelligence Agency
  • Italian military intelligence, 1943-1964
  • Conclusion

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