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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Anne Hessing Cahn. Killing Detente: The Right Attacks the CIA. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1998. Pp. viii, 232. Cloth $35.00, paper $17.95.

The theme of this book is that the right wrecked detente in the mid-1970s by attacking the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), with the result that America embarked on inflated military expenditures to the detriment of social spending. This focus stems from the author's background: Anne Hessing Cahn was Chief of the Social Impact Staff at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ASDA) from 1977 to 1981. 1

Cahn makes no secret of her resentment at the slashing of the ASDA's budget but does her best to present a balanced picture. She acknowledges that it was not just the right's attack on the CIA that caused problems for detente. Unspecified "Soviet actions" had an impact. Other factors were the effects on American opinion of the arrival of Russian dissident novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1975, the mid-1970s hostility of organized labor to any deal with the Soviets, and Ronald Reagan's hawkish 1976 challenge to incumbent President Gerald R. Ford for the Republican Party's presidential nomination. . . .

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