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Analyzes Sept. 1996 investigation by the Central Intelligence Agency's Inspector General into alleged connections between the CIA and Nicaraguan "Contras" in cocaine trafficking in the US. Allegations based on series of articles entitled "Dark alliance", published in the "San Jose Mercury News" in Aug. 1996, indexed in PAIS International 1998.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- THE EDITORS -- THE CONTRIBUTORS -- FIGURES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Introduction INTELLIGENCE STUDIES NOW AND THEN -- PART I AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE HISTORIOGRAPHY -- Chapter 1 CIA HISTORY AS A COLD WAR BATTLEGROUND: THE FORGOTTEN FIRST WAVE OF AGENCY NARRATIVES -- Chapter 2 THE CULTURE OF FUNDING CULTURE: THE CIA AND THE CONGRESS FOR CULTURAL FREEDOM -- Chapter 3 'REAL SUBSTANCE, NOT JUST SYMBOLISM'? THE CIA AND THE REPRESENTATION OF COVERT OPERATIONS IN THE FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES SERIES -- Chapter 4 BONUM EX MALO: THE VALUE OF LEGACY OF ASHES IN TEACHING CIA HISTORY -- Chapter 5 NARRATING COVERT ACTION: THE CIA, HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE COLD WAR -- Chapter 6 FBI HISTORIOGRAPHY: FROM LEADER TO ORGANISATION -- Chapter 7 RECONCEIVING REALISM: INTELLIGENCE HISTORIANS AND THE FACT/FICTION DICHOTOMY -- Chapter 8 THE REALITY IS STRANGER THAN FICTION: ANGLO-AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION FROM WORLD WAR II THROUGH THE COLD WAR -- PART II BRITISH INTELLIGENCE HISTORIOGRAPHY -- Chapter 9 A PLAIN TALE OF PUNDITS, PLAYERS AND PROFESSIONALS: THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE GREAT GAME -- Chapter 10 NO CLOAKS, NO DAGGERS: THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE -- Chapter 11 THE STUDY OF INTERROGATION: A FOCUS ON TORTURE, BUT WHAT ABOUT INTELLIGENCE? -- Chapter 12 WHITEHALL, INTELLIGENCE AND OFFICIAL HISTORY: EDITING SOE IN FRANCE -- Chapter 13 A TALE OF TORTURE? ALEXANDER SCOTLAND, THE LONDON CAGE AND POST-WAR BRITISH SECRECY -- Chapter 14 1968 - 'A YEAR TO REMEMBER' FOR THE STUDY OF BRITISH INTELLIGENCE? -- Chapter 15 THEIR TRADE IS TREACHERY: A RETROSPECTIVE -- Chapter 16 INTELLIGENCE AND 'OFFICIAL HISTORY' -- INDEX