The CIA & Congress
Subtitle: the untold story from Truman to Kennedy
By: David M. Barrett.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 542
Subjects: United States. -- Central Intelligence Agency -- History; United States. -- Congress; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989
Other titles: CIA and Congress.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [511]-519) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The Truman era, 1947-1952. No "American Gestapo," but "No more Pearl Harbors"; title: Initial oversight: budgets and covert action; title: "A South American Pearl Harbor"; title: "This Is an Espionage Bill"; title: The Soviet A-bomb: "We apparently don't have the remotest idea"; title: Communists and "perverts" in the CIA; title: Korea: "No better today than on December 7, 1941"; title: A new DCI; title: The "dirty business"; title: Portraits; title: CIA subcommittees, intelligence roles, and budgets; title: "We don't let just anybody look at our files"; title: "There will be no changes"; title: pt. 2. The Eisenhower era, 1953-1960. Meddling?; title: Getting "Taberized"; title: Guatemala: sterilizing a "red infection"; title: Mr. Mansfield goes to the Senate; title: Joseph McCarthy: the CIA's other would-be overseer; title: "You, who championed our cause"; title: Barons restored; title: "Dodging dead cats"; title: "They have to have a building"; title: The new Mansfield resolution: two surprises; title: "We have a history of underestimation"; title: Hungary and the Suez: "We had a very good idea, Senator"; title: Sputnik; title: An early "year of intelligence"?; title: "I cannot always predict when there is going to be a riot"; title: Iraq: "Our intelligence was just plain lousy"; title: Return to Missile Gap; title: From the Pforzheimer era to the Warner era; title: Subordinating intelligence?; title: In and out of hearing rooms; title: "Who are our liquidators?"; title: "I'd like to tell him to his face what I think about him"; title: U-2: "We have felt these operations were appropriate"; title: Pouring oil on fire; title: "Their answer to that demand": Congressional paternity?; title: "My opinion of the CIA went skyrocketing"; title: pt. 3. Cuba, the CIA, and Congress: 1960-1961. Castro: "This fellow is bad and ought to go"; title: "What is the rationale behind that?"; title: "I agree that you had to replace Dulles"; title: Afterword: alarms.