The CIA and American democracy

The lessons of American history

The birth of the CIA

The mists of Bogota: expansion and obfuscation

Surviving McCarthy: a weakness for immunity

The golden age of operations

Intelligence in the golden age: the fight for credibility

Presidential shake-up: Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs

Presidential neglect: LBJ and the CIA to June 1966

Helms, Johnson, and the cosmetic intelligence

Nixon, Kissinger, and the fruits of manipulation

Democracy's intelligence flap: toward a new legitimacy

Restrained intelligence and the half-won peace

Ignoring the credible: the CIA in the 1980s.