Selling the CIA
Subtitle: Public Relations and the Culture of Secrecy
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: Jun 14, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780700626427
Description: "In Selling the CIA, David McCarthy contends that events that unfolded during the 1970s badly damaged the CIA's mystique, which had been assiduously cultivated since the Agency's inception in 1947. In response to the unprecedented crisis, CIA officials developed a far-reaching public relations strategy. McCarthy's is the first systematic history of CIA public relations between 1974 and 2014, demonstrating that the culture of secrecy at the CIA and its PR campaigns are fundamentally intertwined"--
Notes: Source title: Selling the CIA: Public Relations and the Culture of Secrecy