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Dubbed the Year of Intelligence, 1975 was not a good year for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Caught spying on American citizens, the agency was under investigation, indicted in shocking headlines, its future covert operations at risk. Like so many others caught up in public scandal, the CIA turned to public relations. This book tells what happened next.In the mid1970s CIA officials developed a public relations strategy to fend off the agencys critics. In Selling the CIA David Shamus McCarthy describes a PR campaign that proceeded with remarkable continuityand effectivenessthrough the decades and regimes that followed. He deftly chronicles the agencys efforts to project an image of openness and accountability, even as it did its best to put a positive spin on secrecy[m]ore openness with greater secrecy, in the Orwellian words of one director of public affairs. A tale of machinations and manipulation worthy of Hollywood, McCarthys work exposes a culture of secrecy unwittingly sustained by the forces of popular culture; a public relations offensive working on all fronts to perpetuate the CIAs mystique as the heroic guardian of national security.Our failures are known, our successes are not has been the guiding mantra of this initiative. Selling the CIA spotlights how the agencys success in outmaneuvering Congress and avoiding public scrutiny stands as a direct threat to American democracy.
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