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Selling the CIA Public Relations and the Culture of Secrecy
Title
Selling the CIA [electronic resource] : Public Relations and the Culture of Secrecy / David Shamus McCarthy.
ISBN
0700626433
9780700626434
9780700626427 (hardback)
Published
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, 2018. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 215 pages )
Local Notes
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Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 15, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-200) and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note:
Preface: The "Family Jewels"
Introduction: "A Fundamental Public Relations Problem"
1. "Telling the Intelligence Story": William Colby, ARIO, and the CIA Counteroffensive, 1973-1976
2. Admiral Stansfield Turner, Herbert Hetu, and the Legend of CIA Openness, 1977-1981
3. The Culture of Secrecy Unleashed, 1981-1987
4. The Rise and Fall of the New Era of Openness at the CIA, 1988-2001
5. "We Either Get Out and Sell, or We Get Hammered": The Spinning of Torture, 2002-2017
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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