Current Intelligence: The CIA’s Top-secret Presidential Briefings
1 October, 12.00pm
£10.00
1 October 2023, 12.00pm
Current Intelligence: The CIA’s Top-secret Presidential Briefings
Discover how briefings given daily by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to the US President reveal crucial and iconic histories of the American security services.
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About the event
The CIA’s Daily Presidential Briefs have covered some of the most important historical events in American and world history. Since the days of President Truman, the briefings have played a vital role in decision-making.
David Charlwood looks at famous events through a new lens, as he explores newly declassified CIA briefings and shows what successive presidents knew when making high-stakes decisions. David also reveals how the nuclear arms race, the Vietnam War and 9/11 might never have happened if presidents had read these briefs differently.
About the speaker
Author and journalist David Charlwood has written for BBC History Magazine and been a contributing historian for the BBC and Channel 4 television. He has published four history books, including the acclaimed 1920: A Year of Global Turmoil.
David Charlwood
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