David Charlwood

Current Intelligence

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A GRIPPING NEW HISTORY OF US PRESIDENTS AND CIA SECRETS
Every day, the President of the United States receives a bespoke, top-secret briefing document from the Central Intelligence Agency.Truman started them, Kennedy came to rely on them and Trump hardly read them.
Current Intelligence charts almost a century of history and politics, revealing for the first time the day-to-day intelligence that lands on the Oval Office desk in the form of the President's Daily Brief. Using recently declassified documents, it uncovers what successive American presidents knew and when, and what they did in response. The nuclear arms race, the Vietnam War and 9/11 might never have happened if presidents had read their Daily Briefs differently.
By focusing on key moments, from the Cuban Missile Crisis and covert operations around the world, right up to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, Current Intelligence reveals how intelligence has profoundly shaped our past and present.
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354 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2022
Publication year
2022
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    A close watch was now being kept not only on the missile sites but on every ship headed towards the Cuban quarantine zone. The ‘zone’ was in fact a 500-mile circle around Cuba drawn on a map, which was a vast area of sea to try and monitor.
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