Current intelligence : how the CIA's top-secret presidential briefing shaped history
Charlwood, David2022
Books, Manuscripts
Find it!
Every day, the President of the United States receives a bespoke, top-secret briefing document from the Central Intelligence Agency. Truman started them, Kennedy came to rely on them and Trump hardly read them. Current Intelligence charts almost a century of history and politics, revealing for the first time the day-to-day intelligence that landed on the Oval Office desk in the form of the President's daily brief. Using recently declassified documents, David Charlwood uncovers what successive American presidents knew and when, and what they did in response. The Cold War nuclear arms race, the Vietnam War and 9/11 might never have happened if presidents had read their daily briefs differently.
Main title:
Author:
Charlwood, David, author
Imprint:
Cheltenham : The History Press, 2022.
Collation:
288 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780750998802 (hbk)
Dewey class:
327.1273327.127
LC class:
JK468.I6
Local class:
327.127
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3217692