The CIA and the Soviet Bloc: Political Warfare, the Origins of the CIA and Countering Communism in Europe
- Submitting institution
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Canterbury Christ Church University
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- U28.026
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- I.B Tauris
- ISBN
- 9781780763934
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book, over 360 pages, features extensive new archival material about the relationship between the CIA, the US government and the Soviet Union, shedding new light on intelligence and the Cold War. The accepted view is that the US believed in a post-World War II ordering of Europe which placed the East outside an American ‘sphere of influence’. However, the book shows the US did aspire to destabilise Soviet bloc regimes and to overthrow them. Therefore, the Agency was not as effective in Eastern Europe as it was in its other operations around the world.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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