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BBC R4 Documentary - 'Spies R Us, A History Of The CIA'

Presented by Tom Mangold

Broadcast February 6, 13 & 20, 2003

NB Programmes 1 & 2 only here. Transcript of Programme 3 included.

Coded from tape at 128/44.1



BBC Blurb

These programmes offer new insights on the struggle with the Soviet Union, Vietnam and the

deadly terrorist threat confronting the US and the wider world. Will the CIA survive for another fifty years?



Programme 1 - Soviet Union

Focuses on the Soviet Union: the key danger the CIA confronted for nearly fifty years of its

history. Former top spies and intelligence analysts who advised successive Presidents speak

frankly about how the Agency did in assessing the military strength, political intentions and

economic power of the Soviet Union. They also reveal why some of its judgments were

spectacularly off-beam, resulting in over-estimation of the threat. In particular, the

programme tells the astonishing and hitherto little-known story of how close the world came

to the brink of nuclear confrontation in the early 1980s partly because of the Agency's

inability to understand the extent of Soviet paranoia about US military actions and the

Reagan administration's rhetoric about 'the evil empire'.



Programme 2 - Iran and Vietnam

Looks at two examples of the CIA's remarkably broad impact on global history: Iran and

Vietnam. Oil reserves and a common border with the Soviet Union put Iran high on the CIA's

list of priorities from the start of the Cold War. Washington's fateful involvement with

Tehran started early - joining the British in toppling the government there in the early

1950s. But after that coup the CIA's long support of the Shah fatally boomeranged with his

precipitous fall in 1979 and the resulting US hostage crisis. Since then relations have been

frosty with a country which has been dubbed by President Bush part of the "axis of evil" -

yet remains one of the most strategically important for the US in the campaign against

terrorism. With the help of those involved in plotting the 1953 coup through to those who

thought the Shah would never be overthrown, the programme tells the story of how the Agency

went from being the power behind the Peacock throne to outcast.



The programme also reveals the role the CIA played in America's deeply traumatic - and hugely

costly - Vietnam experience in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Contrary to popular myth, the CIA

was not gung-ho about US involvement in Indo-China. In the face of the prevailing wisdom of

the "domino theory" - which argued that Vietnam's succumbing to communism would trigger the

collapse of all south-east Asia into the Soviet embrace - the programme shows how the

Agency's lack of enthusiasm for military action led to it being cut out of the key decisions

- ultimately leading to a drift towards internal crisis in the 1970s - and how those most

intimately involved reacted to being ignored.



Programme 3 - Present and Future [Transcript only]

The final programme comes into the present and asks how the CIA is tackling the new threat of

al Qaeda and associated terrorist networks. Ex-Agency officials - and those called back to it

in a desperate effort to make up for lost time - candidly admit the extent of the

intelligence failure which led to the horror of the September 11 attacks. The programme

considers the huge problems the CIA faces in both confronting its new challenge and

re-assuring the American public about the dangers. But how did the Agency get it so wrong?

Can the battle still be won? What tools will be required? And will the CIA survive for

another fifty years?

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