
The Agency: A History of the CIA
George Kennan and the Rise of Covert Ops
Educational · Mar 1, 2019 · 29 min The Great Courses Signature Collection
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S1, E2: Professor Wilford reveals how the CIA transformed from an intelligence agency to housing the United States’ premier covert-action unit in the space of just two years. Central to this conversion is George F. Kennan, who declared “political warfare” against the Soviet Union through his policies of both containment and “rollback.”
Educational · Mar 1, 2019 · 29 min