Cloak and dollar : a history of American secret intelligence /

"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 operatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2002]
Subjects:
Intelligence service > United States > History.
Secret service > United States > History.
HISTORY / General.
Intelligence service.
Secret service.
Spionage
Geheimdienst
Inlichtingendiensten.
United States.
USA.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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?

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