| Description |
1 online resource (x, 357 pages) |
| 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."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-342) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Intelligence service -- United States -- History
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Secret service -- United States -- History
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HISTORY / General.
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Intelligence service
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Secret service
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Spionage
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Geheimdienst
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Inlichtingendiensten.
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United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780300148428 |
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0300148429 |
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