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The foundation of the CIA
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ISBN: 9780826221377 0826221378 9780826273932 0826273939 Year: 2017 Publisher: Columbia

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"This highly accessible book provides new material and a fresh perspective on American National Intelligence practice, focusing on the first fifty years of the twentieth century, when the United States took on the responsibilities of a global superpower during the first years of the Cold War. Late to the art of intelligence, the United States during World War II created a new model of combining intelligence collection and analytic functions into a single organization--the OSS. At the end of the war, President Harry Truman and a small group of advisors developed a new, centralized agency directly subordinate to and responsible to the President, despite entrenched institutional resistance. Instrumental to the creation of the CIA was a group known colloquially as the "Missouri Gang," which included not only President Truman but equally determined fellow Missourians Clark Clifford, Sidney Souers, and Roscoe Hillenkoetter." -- Book Jacket.


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Controlled human Inhalation-exposure studies at EPA
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ISBN: 0309452503 030945252X Year: 2017 Publisher: Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press,

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"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a mission and regulatory responsibility to protect human health and the environment. EPA's pursuit of that goal includes a variety of research activities involving human subjects, such as epidemiologic studies and surveys. Those research activities also involve studies of individuals who volunteer to be exposed to air pollutants intentionally in controlled laboratory settings so that measurements can be made of transient and reversible biomarker or physiologic responses to those exposures that can indicate pathways of toxicity and mechanisms of air-pollution responses. The results of those controlled human inhalation exposure (CHIE) studies, also referred to as human clinical studies or human challenge studies, are used to inform policy decisions and help establish or revise standards to protect public health and improve air quality. Controlled Human Inhalation-Exposure Studies at EPA addresses scientific issues and provides guidance on the conduct of CHIE studies. This report assesses the utility of CHIE studies to inform and reduce uncertainties in setting air-pollution standards to protect public health and assess whether continuation of such studies is warranted. It also evaluates the potential health risks to test subjects who participated in recent studies of air pollutants at EPA's clinical research facility"--


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The CIA and the politics of US Intelligence Reform
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ISBN: 1316952541 1316953432 1316954323 1316957888 1316941310 1316955214 1107187400 1316638065 1316947203 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Examining the political foundations of American intelligence policy, this book develops a new theory of intelligence adaptation to explain the success or failure of major reform efforts since World War II. Durbin draws on careful case histories of the early Cold War, the Nixon and Ford administrations, the first decade after the Cold War, and the post-9/11 period, looking closely at the interactions among Congress, executive branch leaders, and intelligence officials. These cases demonstrate the significance of two factors in the success or failure of reform efforts: the level of foreign policy consensus in the system, and the ability of reformers to overcome the information advantages held by intelligence agencies. As these factors ebb and flow, windows of opportunity for reform open and close, and different actors and interests come to influence reform outcomes. Durbin concludes that the politics of US intelligence frequently inhibit effective adaptation, undermining America's security and the civil liberties of its citizens.


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National defense budgeting and financial management : policy and practice
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ISBN: 1681238721 9781681238722 9781681238708 1681238705 9781681238715 Year: 2017 Publisher: Charlotte, North Carolina : Information Age Publishing Inc.,


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Candidates and voters : ideology, valence, and representation in US elections
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ISBN: 1108247067 110824534X 1108225020 1316510212 1316649601 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Candidates and Voters extends our understanding of voting, elections, and representation by elaborating a simple theory of voting choice based on voters' interest in policy and in the suitability of candidates to hold elective office ('leadership valence'). Voters' choices must be understood in the context of the choices between opposing candidates they are offered on these two dimensions. Drawing on extensive analysis of US House races, Stone shows that although voters lack the information that many analysts assume they need to function in a democracy, they are most often able to choose the better candidate on the policy and valence dimensions. In addition, candidates, when they decide whether and how to run, anticipate the interests that drive voters. The book shows that elections tend to produce outcomes on policy and leadership valence consistent with voters' interests, and challenges skeptical views of how well the electoral process works.


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Gerry Studds : America's First Openly Gay Congressman
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ISBN: 1613765169 1625342845 9781613765166 9781625342850 9781625342843 1625342853 Year: 2017 Publisher: Boston : Baltimore, Md. : University of Massachusetts Press, Project MUSE,


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The CIA as organized crime
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ISBN: 0997287020 9780997287028 9780997287011 0997287012 Year: 2017 Publisher: Atlanta, GA


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Campaigning Culture and the Global Cold War : The Journals of the Congress for Cultural Freedom
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ISBN: 1137598670 1137598662 9781137598660 Year: 2017 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book explores the lasting legacy of the controversial project by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, funded by the CIA, to promote Western culture and liberal values in the battle of ideas with global Communism during the Cold War. One of the most important elements of this campaign was a series of journals published around the world: Encounter, Preuves, Quest, Mundo Nuevo, and many others, involving many of the most famous intellectuals to promote a global intellectual community. Some of them, such as Minerva and China Quarterly, are still going to this day. This study examines when and why these journals were founded, who ran them, and how we should understand their cultural message in relation to the secret patron that paid the bills.

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History. --- Communication. --- Historiography. --- Russia --- Europe, Eastern --- America --- World history. --- Civilization --- Cultural History. --- Media and Communication. --- World History, Global and Transnational History. --- History of the Americas. --- Russian, Soviet, and East European History. --- Historiography and Method. --- Historia --- Comunicación --- Historiografía --- Historia Universal --- Civilización --- Medios de comunicación --- Globalización --- Rusia --- Europa Oriental --- América --- Relaciones --- Anti-communist movements. --- Cold War --- World politics --- Anti-communist resistance --- Underground, Anti-communist --- Communism --- Propaganda. --- United States. --- Congress for Cultural Freedom. --- CCF --- Congrès pour la liberté de la culture --- Congreso por la Libertad de la Cultura --- Congresso pela Liberdade da Cultura --- Congresso per la libertà della cultura --- Kongres Wolności Kultury --- Kongress für die Freiheit der Kultur --- Kongress für Freiheit der Kultur --- Kongress für Kulturelle Freiheit --- Munaẓẓamah al-ʻĀlamīyah li-Ḥurrīyat al-Thaqāfah --- Segye Munhwa Chayu Hoeŭi --- منظمة العالمية لحرية الثقافة --- International Association for Cultural Freedom --- Agjencia Qendrore e Inteligjencës --- Central Intelligence Agency (U.S.) --- CIA (Central Intelligence Agency (U.S.)) --- CIP (United States. Centrālās izlūkošanas pārvalde) --- Mei-kuo chung yang chʻing pao chü --- National Security Council (U.S.). --- Si Aing Ei --- T︠S︡entralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie SShA --- T︠S︡RU SShA --- T︠S︡RU (T︠S︡entralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie SShA) --- ЦРУ США --- ЦРУ (Центральное разведывательное управление США) --- Центральное разведывательное управление США --- ארצות הברית. --- 美國. --- National Security Council (U.S.) --- Civilization-History. --- America-History. --- Russia-History. --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Universal history --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Criticism --- Historiography --- Civilization—History. --- America—History. --- Russia—History. --- Europe, Eastern—History. --- CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) --- Mei-kuo chung yang chʻing pao ch --- T͡Sentralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie SShA --- T͡SRU SShA --- T͡SRU (T͡Sentralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie SShA)


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Piercing the horizon
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ISBN: 1612495117 1612495125 9781612495118 1557537917 9781557537911 9781612495125 Year: 2017 Publisher: West Lafayette, Indiana


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James Baldwin : the FBI file
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ISBN: 9781628727371 1628727373 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York Arcade Publishing

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Decades before Black Lives Matter returned James Baldwin to prominence, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI considered the Harlem-born author the most powerful broker between black art and black power. Baldwin's 1,884-page FBI file, covering the period from 1958 to 1974, was the largest compiled on any African American artist of the Civil Rights era. This collection of once-secret documents, never before published in book form, captures the FBI's anxious tracking of Baldwin's writings, phone conversations, and sexual habits -- and Baldwin's defiant efforts to spy back at Hoover and his G-men. James Baldwin: The FBI File reproduces over one hundred original FBI records, selected by the noted literary historian whose award-winning book, F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature, brought renewed attention to bureau surveillance. William J. Maxwell also provides an introduction exploring Baldwin's enduring relevance in the time of Black Lives Matter along with running commentaries that orient the reader and offer historical context, making this book a revealing look at a crucial slice of the American past and present.

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