Company Confessions:revealing CIA secrets英文原版 企業懺悔錄：揭露CIA的祕密

基本信息

By (author) Christopher Moran

Format Hardback | 352 pages

Dimensions 156 x 234 x 38mm | 625g

Publication date 05 Oct 2015

Publisher Biteback Publishing

Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom

Language English

Illustrations note 8pp plates

ISBN10 1849548870

ISBN13 9781849548878

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

內容簡介

自1947年成立以來，CIA一直對那些想要講述其故事的人感到焦慮。事實上，它作為情報機構的有效性在很大程度上取決於它保護敏感信息的能力。正如美國中央情報局(CIA)經常引用的一句諺語所概括的那樣:“我們成功的祕密就是我們成功的祕密。”可以理解的是，信息來源和方法的披露，以及那些有可能危及生命、危及公司運營成功的信息，一直被視為無論如何都要避免的事情。那麼，當這一寶貴的規則越來越被忽視，前CIA官員的回憶錄經常登上暢銷書排行榜，並被改編成好萊塢電影時，CIA如何才能適應這種情況呢?獲獎作家克里斯托弗·莫蘭(Christopher Moran)通過採訪、私人通信和解密文件，研究了CIA如何在基於安全理由的正當審查和為了名譽而進行的瑣碎、專橫的編校之間踩上(也有人可能會説，是越界)這條細線。

詳細描述了CIA在面對開放民主的美國的要求時，如何應對保密的概念。

Ever since it was created in 1947, the CIA has been anxious about people wanting to tell its stories. Indeed, its effectiveness as an intelligence service hinges to a large degree on its ability to protect sensitive information. As an oft-quoted CIA proverb neatly sums up: 'The secret of our success is the secret of our success.'The disclosure of sources and methods, information that has the potential to endanger lives and put the success of its operations at risk has always been regarded, understandably, as something to be avoided at all costs.How, then, is the CIA to acclimatise when this cherished rule is increasingly bypassed, with the memoirs of ex-CIA officers regularly reaching bestseller lists and being adapted for Hollywood?Using interviews, private correspondence and declassified files, award-winning author Christopher Moran examines how the CIA treads (and, some might say, oversteps) the fine line between justifiable censorship on the grounds of security, and petty, overbearing redaction for the sake of reputation.

From stealing draft manu*s to authorising its own programme of 'memoirs', Company Confessions details how the CIA grapples with the notion of secrecy when faced with the demands of an open and democratic America.

作者簡介

Christopher Moran is an associate professor of US national security at the University of Warwick and was a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, in 2011. His book Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain won the 2014 St Ermin's Hotel Intelligence Book of the Year Award.