The CIA and the Pursuit of Security (Paperback)

Since its creation in 1947, the CIA has been at the heart of America’s security apparatus. Written by intelligence scholars and experts, The CIA and the Pursuit of Security offers the reader a lively survey of the CIA past and present. The history of the agency is presented through the prism of its declassified documents, with each being supplemented by insightful contextual analysis. The book chronicles the evolution of the CIA, its remarkable successes, clandestine operations, and its ongoing struggle to maintain American security in an age of proliferating threats.

Dr Huw Dylan is a Lecturer in Intelligence and International Security at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, where he leads the MA programme in Intelligence and International Security. He is also and a visiting Associate Professor at the Norwegian Defence Intelligence School. His book, Defence Intelligence and the Cold War, was published by Oxford University Press in 2014.

Dr. David Gioe is Associate Professor of History at the United States Military Academy at West Point. As an intelligence practitioner, he spent over 15 years working in the U.S. intelligence community, beginning with an appointment in 2001 as a Presidential Management Fellow in the FBI National Security Division. He then served as an analyst in the CIA Counterterrorist Center before earning field certification as a CIA operations officer. He served multiple overseas tours as a case officer. He has published in The National Interest, World Politics Review, and has co-edited a volume on the Cuban Missile Crisis with Christopher Andrew and Len Scott (Routledge, 2014).

Michael S. Goodman is Professor of Intelligence and International Affairs in the Department of War Studies, King's College London and Visiting Professor at the Norwegian Defence Intelligence School. He has published widely in the field of intelligence history, including most recently The Official History of the Joint Intelligence Committee, Volume I: From the Approach of the Second World War to the Suez Crisis (Routledge, 2015), which was chosen as one of The Spectator’s books of the year. He is series editor for Intelligence and Security for Hurst/Columbia University Press; and for Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare for Edinburgh University Press; and is a member of the editorial boards for five journals. He is currently on secondment to the Cabinet Office where he is the Official Historian of the Joint Intelligence Committee.