The CIA was created in 1947 and it remains the most well-known American intelligence agency although there are now eighteen such agencies in the United States, which make up a large apparatus called the Intelligence Community (IC). Since 9/11, the role played by the IC in the defense of America’s national security has been seriously reinforced and, as a result, it has become the object of numerous movies and television series. The purpose of this class will be twofold: on the one hand, we will study the historical development of intelligence in the United States since the passage of the National Security Act in 1947 by the American Congress; and, on the offer hand, relying on the analysis of several movies devoted to the operations of the IC, we will endeavor to measure the gap between reality and fiction when dealing with intelligence.
- استاد: Gildas Le Voguer