Burn Before Reading Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence

by Stansfield, Turner

• ISBN13: 9780786867820
• ISBN10: 0786867825
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-01
• Publisher: Hachette Books

Summary

In this, groundbreaking book, former CIA director Stansfield Turner offers a riveting, insider's view of the complicated relationship between U.S. presidents and their chiefs of intelligence since the post was first established at the end of World War II. From the beginning of the Cold War era through the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U-2 spy plane flyovers, the Iran hostage crisis, and September 11, 2001, this history tracks the role that intelligence has played in each of these significant events and gives readers the story behind the headlines.

Author Biography

Admiral Stansfield Turner served as director of central intelligence from 1977 to 1981, heading both the Intelligence Community and the CIA. Previously, as an admiral in the U.S. Navy, he served as the commander of the U.S. Second Fleet and president of the Naval War College, and as the commander in chief of NATO's Southern Flank. Admiral Turner is on the faculty of the University of Maryland's Graduate School of Public Policy. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(2)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and ``Wild Bill''	3	(34)
America's First Central Intelligence Apparatus
Harry S Truman, Souers, Vandenberg, Hillenkoetter, and Smith	37	(32)
The Founding of the CIA
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Allen Dulles	69	(20)
The CIA Is Thrust into Action
John F. Kennedy, Dulles, and McCone	89	(14)
Scandal and Confusion on the New Frontier
Lyndon B. Johnson, McCone, Raborn, and Helms	103	(19)
The Value and Price of Loyalty
Richard Nixon, Helms, Schlesinger, and Colby	122	(16)
The CIA Despised
Gerald Ford, Colby, and George H. W. Bush	138	(19)
The CIA Under a Microscope
Jimmy Carter and Turner	157	(32)
The DCI Empowered
Ronald Reagan, Casey, and Webster	189	(19)
The Resurrection of ``Wild Bill''
George H. W. Bush, Webster, and Gates	208	(15)
Confusion and Compromise at the Cold War's End
Bill Clinton, Woolsey, Deutch, and Tenet	223	(20)
The CIA Without the Cold War
George W. Bush, Tenet, 9/11, and Beyond	243	(28)
Quo Vadis?
Appendix A: Agencies That Comprise the Intelligence Community	271	(4)
Appendix B: List of Acronyms	275	(2)
Notes	277	(24)
Index	301