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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Central Intelligence Agency"”.
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Mind the Gap: The Failure of the Central Intelligence Agency to Support U.S. National Interests
Throughout the history of the Central Intelligence Agency, effective covert action and accurate assessments of its adversaries have proved problematic. This has manifested itself in areas such as the soviet threat during the Cold War and towards the rogue nation of Iraq. Covert activities tended to …
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The Central Intelligence Agency and Cuba: How the Trap of Success Led to the Bay of Pigs
… of success. Key areas of discussion are the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and its role in the removal of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq (Iran) and President Jacobo Arbenz (Guatemala), the Dulles faction, the anti-Castro program, and President Kennedy’s relationship with the CIA. Upon …
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U.S. foreign policy and Iraqi Kurdish separatism
… of U.S. Department of State documents, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency documents, U.S. Congressional documents, committee hearings, and staff reports, White House documents, as well as various other sources
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Strategies and responses to intelligence failure : an organizational view
… following September 11th, the United States Intelligence Community has sought to understand the causes of intelligence failure that allowed such an attack to be carried out. The proposed causes of intelligence failure are myriad - from breakdowns in analytic independence, to a failure to …
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Early Leader Effects on the Process of Institutionalization Through Cultural Embedding: The Cases of William J. Donovan, Allen W. Dulles, and J. Edgar Hoover
… detailing the creation and development of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the careers of three significant leaders are used to understand the institutionalizing effects of those leaders, how they created those effects, and what happened to …
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SINO–LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS: 1959–1976
… primary source material from the United States Central Intelligence Agency and State Department to better describe Sino–Latin American relations during the late Maoist era, with a focus on Sino–Chilean and Sino–Argentine developments. This thesis refines the periodization of Maoist-era …
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Soldiers Without Uniforms: CIA Paramilitary Operations in Afghanistan
… of paramilitary operations conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been a long and controversial one. Having first been championed by William Donovan during World War II, the deployment of CIA paramilitary forces has been widely debated for decades. While some scholars have …
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Death at birth: The political, economic and social impact of the decolonization and perpetual, neocolonial control of Congo.
… documented and exacerbated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency. With the added pressure of a poorly-educated elite class of leaders and military and diplomatic intervention surrounding Congo’s independence in the summer of 1960, questions emerge as to the level of success any new, …
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Intelligence and decision making : the Bay of Pigs operation and the Cuban missile crisis.
… in 1961 and 1962 are examined as case studies of intelligence and decision making. At the end of his administration, President Eisenhower decided to sponsor Cuban exiles who would invade the island and establish a new government. Responsibility for directing the project was given to the Central …
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Understanding Ethical Leadership in Intelligence: Themes in Accountability, Self-Development, and Communication Among CIA Leaders
… the concept of ethical leadership within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Based on interviews with ten former senior-level officers from across different departments, the study analyzes how these leaders understand issues of accountability, self-development, and communication. The …
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Did 9/11 Change Everything? Security and Human Rights Trade-offs in International Cooperation
… costs of participation in the post-9/11 Central Intelligence Agency extraordinary rendition, secret detention and interrogation programme? This dissertation focuses on the tension between common and conflicting interests among states and between parties and voters to answer these …
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The Influence of Inequality and Noneconomic Institutions on Cross-National Terrorist Incidents
… Project (UTIP), the United Nations (UN), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) Regression models examine the influence of inequality on counts of terrorist incidents for the decades of 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s net of controls. OLS models also examine the extent to …
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A Mixed Method Study Of A Former Special Operations Community: Identifying Factors That Effect Cross-Cultural Competency
… Forces (SF) members and officers from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were operating in Afghanistan. The SF and CIA members were faced with not only the difficult geographical terrain but were hampered by inadequate time to prepare for the complicated human terrain of the Afghan …
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The impact of knowledge, skills, and attitude on organisational performance among Kuwaiti employees within the private oil and gas sector in Kuwait : the moderating effect of power distance
… Business success does not only depend on the intelligence and hard work of the founder, but the whole workforce - from the lowest to the highest position in an organisation. Interest in and research on human capital and organisational performance has notably increased among managements and …
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Examining the Legality of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques Used in the War on Terror
… thesis analyzes the Department of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency's operation guidance to determine whether the overall United States guidance regarding enhanced interrogation techniques authorizes torture. Finally, this thesis then cites specific cases of detainee abuse to both …
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Nixon's Wars: Secrecy, Watergate, and the CIA
… at the onset of the cold war. There are four central ways in which this institutional secrecy affected the Watergate affair: (1) The emergence of a “national security” ideology in the United States in the immediate postwar years gave rise to hidden foreign policies and secret, often illegal, …
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Nuisance to nemesis: nuclear fallout and intelligence as secrets, problems, and limitations on the arms race, 1940-1964
Fallout sampling and other nuclear intelligence techniques were the most important sources of United States strategic intelligence in the early Cold War. Operated as the Atomic Energy Detection System by a covert Air Force unit known as AFOAT-1, the AEDS detected emissions and analyzed fallout from …