Contesting France: Intelligence and US Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War PDF
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Contesting France 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 Frenchcommunistswerepoisedtoseizepower.Indoingso,itexposes the prevailing narrative of French unreliability, weakness, and com- munist intrigue apparent in diplomatic dispatches and intelligence reports sent to the White House as both overblown and deeply contested.Likewise,itshowsthatlocalpoliticalfactions,Frenchintelli- gence 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 policyfortheirownpoliticalpostwaragendas.Usingextensivearchival researchintheUnitedStatesandFrance,SusanMcCallPerlmansheds new light on the nexus between intelligence and policymaking in the immediatepostwarera. Susan McCall Perlman is Professor of History and Intelligence Studies attheNationalIntelligenceUniversity.ShehaspublishedwidelyonUS foreignrelationsandintelligenceandisthe2020recipientoftheRobert BelandExcellenceinTeachingAward. Published online by Cambridge University Press CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN US FOREIGN RELATIONS Editedby PaulThomasChamberlin,ColumbiaUniversity Lien-HangT.Nguyen,ColumbiaUniversity This series showcases cutting-edge scholarship in US foreign relations that employs dynamic new methodological approaches and archives from the colonial era to the present. The series will be guided by the ethos of transnationalism, focusing on the historyofAmericanforeignrelationsinaglobalcontextratherthanprivilegingtheUS asthedominantactorontheworldstage. 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WesharetheUniversity’smissiontocontributetosocietythroughthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781316511817 :10.1017/9781009053907 ©SusanMcCallPerlman2023 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisions ofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytake placewithoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress&Assessment. Firstpublished2023 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. 978-1-316-51181-7Hardback CambridgeUniversityPress&Assessmenthasnoresponsibilityforthepersistence oraccuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhis publicationanddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwill remain,accurateorappropriate. Published online by Cambridge University Press For my family Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press Contents Acknowledgments pageix List of Abbreviations in Text xi List of Abbreviations in Notes xiii Introduction 1 1 Liberation 17 2 Civil War 49 3 Restoration 80 4 March to Power 110 5 L’Événement 147 Conclusion: How IntelligenceBecomes Policy 192 Notes 205 Bibliography 249 Index 263 vii Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press Acknowledgments The writing of history is a solitary task but one that requires a commu- nity. I would like to thank the many who have undertaken this journey with meandwho havebeen critical to its successful completion. I have the deepest gratitude for the librarians and archivists who enabled my research. In Washington, DC, they include the marvelous library staff of Bender Library at American University and the excellent archival staffs at the Library of Congress and the National Archives in CollegePark.OutsideWashington,DC,thearchivistsattheUniversityof LouisianaatLafayetteandClemsonUniversitywereespeciallyaccommo- datingofmyquestforinsightintothelivesofJeffersonCafferyandJames Byrnes. Likewise, the archivists of the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri,wereattentiveandvaluablecollaborators.InFrance,I’dliketo express my sincerest thanks to the superb archival staffs at the National Archives at Pierrefitte and the Foreign Ministry Archives at La Courneuve; they could not have been more welcoming or helpful. Thank you, too, to Cambridge University Press and series editors Paul Chamberlain and Lien-Hang Nguyen for agreeing to publish this book, and to editor Cecelia Cancellaro for her kind, patient, and expert shep- herding of this project to completion. This study has benefited from the generous support of numerous American University research grants, awards, and fellowships; I am also grateful to the Truman Library and to the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for financing research, travel, and seminars. Iamlikewiseobligedtothejournals–ColdWarHistoryandIntelligence and National Security – that published some of my work related to this book. ix Published online by Cambridge University Press
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