Description |
357 pages ; 21 cm |
Contents |
The American spy considered as a confidence man -- The Washington style -- Allan Pinkerton's legacy -- Did Wilkie crush the Montreal spy ring? -- U-1 : the agency nobody knew -- Burns, Hoover, and the making of an FBI tradition -- H.O. Yardley : the traitor as hero -- Pearl Harbor in intelligence history -- Hyping the sideshow : Wild Bill Donovan and the OSS -- Allen Dulles and the CIA -- Cuba, Vietnam, and the rhetorical interlude -- Did Senator Church reform intelligence? -- The Casey-Reagan era : from history to victory -- The real American century? |
Summary |
"Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones here offers a history of American secret intelligence from the founding of the nation through the present day. Jeffreys-Jones chronicles the expansion of American secret intelligence from the 1790s, when George Washington set aside a discretionary fund for covert operations, to the beginning of the twenty-first century, when United States intelligence expenditure exceeds Russia's total defense budget."--BOOK JACKET |
Analysis |
Intelligence services |
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United States |
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Central Intelligence Agency |
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History |
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Overseas item |
Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-342) and index |
Subject |
Secret service -- United States.
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Espionage, American.
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Intelligence service -- United States.
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Secret service -- United States -- History.
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Intelligence service -- United States -- History.
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Espionage, American -- History.
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LC no. |
2003105922 |
ISBN |
0300101597 |
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