America's Secret Power by Loch K. Johnson

Further, he provides a thorough review of legislative efforts to curb these abuses, and suggests several important ways to achieve the delicate balance between national security and democratic ideals. Loch Johnson, who has studied the workings of the CIA at first hand as a legislative overseer, presents a comprehensive examination of the Agency and its relations with other American institutions, including Congress and the White House,Īnd looks closely at how it pursues its three major missions-intelligence analysis, counterintelligence, and covert action.Īt once fascinating and sobering, Johnson's book reveals how the best intelligence reports can be distorted or ignored how covert actions can spin out of control despite extensive safeguards, as in the Iran-Contra scandal and how the CIA has spied on American citizens in clear violation of itsĬharter. National security and the protection of individual liberties. Americas Secret Power The CIA in a Democratic Society by Loch K. Its no secret that our culture is obsessed with reality tv shows. Johnson, March 14, 1991, Oxford University Press, USA edition, in English. Americas Secret Power is Loch Johnsons 1989 study of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the premier U.S. /rebates/2fAmericas-Secret-Power-The-CIA-in-a-Democratic-Society-Loch-K-Johnson2fbook2f284552&. 2018) National Security Intelligence: Secret Operations in the Defense of the.

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 Eve (American TV series) Eve is an American sitcom created by Meg DeLoatch that. Johnson is Regents Professor Emeritus of Public and International. 5: Safeguards against the Abuse of Secret Power The evolution of safeguards against intelligence abuse in the United States A shock theory of intelligence.

America's Secret Power by Loch K. Johnson