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The CIA drone program

The CIA drone program
The CIA drone program
This chapter challenges the common belief that lethal drones and the legal
architecture which underwrites them emerged as a response to the September 11 attacks, instead tracing their origins back to covert CIA activities in the early 1980s. It reveals how legal restraints, technological challenges, and Cold War policies combined to enable a small group of counterterrorism hardliners within the Reagan administration and intelligence community to collaborate with private industry to
create the technology and policies which would eventually come to fruition post-9/11.
Drone, CIA, terrorism, targeted killing, counterterrorism, Reagan era, al-Qaeda, 9/11, Iran-Contra, General Atomics
139-155
De Gruyter
Fuller, Christopher
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Patton Rogers, James
Fuller, Christopher
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Patton Rogers, James

Fuller, Christopher (2024) The CIA drone program. In, Patton Rogers, James (ed.) De Gruyter Handbook of Drone Warfare. (De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences Handbooks, 4) De Gruyter, pp. 139-155. (Submitted)

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Abstract

This chapter challenges the common belief that lethal drones and the legal
architecture which underwrites them emerged as a response to the September 11 attacks, instead tracing their origins back to covert CIA activities in the early 1980s. It reveals how legal restraints, technological challenges, and Cold War policies combined to enable a small group of counterterrorism hardliners within the Reagan administration and intelligence community to collaborate with private industry to
create the technology and policies which would eventually come to fruition post-9/11.

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Submitted date: 5 March 2024
Keywords: Drone, CIA, terrorism, targeted killing, counterterrorism, Reagan era, al-Qaeda, 9/11, Iran-Contra, General Atomics

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Local EPrints ID: 490218
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/490218
PURE UUID: 11c49f3d-b353-4b98-a77d-0f977bd682b5

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Date deposited: 20 May 2024 17:02
Last modified: 20 May 2024 17:02

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Editor: James Patton Rogers

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