ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the growing crisis which faced the Cold War state-private network in the 1960s and early 1970s, including unprecedented scrutiny of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operations, the challenge to Cold War liberalism from the New Left and the turn towards détente at an international level. The consequences were felt on both sides of the state-private divide, with many CIA officers facing retirement as a result of agency reforms, and labour anti-communists increasingly out of step with the dominant trend in the Democratic party.
