The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy.(Book review)

From: The Historian | Date: June 22, 2007| Author: Lees, Lorraine M. | Copyright information

The CIA & Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy. By David M. Barrett. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2005. Pp. x, 542. $39.95.)

The ability of scholars to record and analyze the history of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been hampered for decades by the government's refusal to release the necessary archival material. David M. Barrett, in the first history of the interaction between Congress and the CIA during the early Cold War, has w...

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