Title Contesting France : intelligence and US foreign policy in the early Cold War / Susan McCall Perlman

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2023] ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages) Series Cambridge studies in US foreign relations Cambridge studies in US foreign relations. Contents Introduction -- Liberation -- Civil war -- Restoration -- March to power -- L'Événement -- Conclusion: How intelligence becomes policy Summary "Contesting France reveals the untold role of intelligence in shaping American perceptions of and policy toward France between 1944 and 1947, a critical period of the early Cold War when many feared that French communists were poised to seize power. In doing so, it exposes the prevailing narrative of French unreliability, weakness, and communist intrigue apparent in diplomatic dispatches and intelligence reports sent to the White House as both overblown and deeply contested. Likewise, it shows that local political factions, French intelligence and government officials, colonial officers, and various trans-national actors in imperial outposts and in the metropole sought access to US intelligence officials in a deliberate effort to shape US policy for their own political postwar agendas. Using extensive archival research in the United States and France, Susan McCall Perlman sheds new light on the nexus between intelligence and policymaking in the immediate postwar era"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Susan McCall Perlman is Professor of Intelligence Studies and History at the National Intelligence University in Washington D.C Print version record Subject Intelligence service -- United States -- History -- 20th century Cold War -- Military intelligence -- United States Diplomatic relations Intelligence service SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- France France -- Foreign relations -- United States United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140098 France -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1958. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051249 Subject France United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781009063005 1009063006 9781009053907 1009053906

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