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Author Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri.

Title Cloak and dollar : a history of american secret intelligence / Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
Edition Second edition
Published New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2003

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 W'PONDS  327.1273 Jef/Cad 2003  AVAILABLE
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
United States
Central Intelligence Agency
History
Overseas item
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-342) and index
Subject Secret service -- United States.
Espionage, American.
Intelligence service -- United States.
Secret service -- United States -- History.
Intelligence service -- United States -- History.
Espionage, American -- History.
LC no. 2003105922
ISBN 0300101597