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American secret history from Hitler to al-Qaeda

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An edition of Intelligence wars (2002)

Intelligence wars

American secret history from Hitler to al-Qaeda

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These essays about U.S. intelligence services, from Thomas Powers -- acknowledged secret intelligence authority and Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist -- trace a history of brilliant successes, ghastly failures, and gripping uncertainties. They range from the exploits of Wild Bill Donovan during World War II, to the CIA's elaborate cold war struggles with the KGB, to debates about the role of secret intelligence in the post-Cold War world. Here too are analyses of the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the Kennedy assassination, William Casey's years as CIA director under Ronald Reagan, the Aldrich Ames scandal, and such urgent contemporary issues as whether the CIA is up to the challenge of defending America against terrorism.

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New York Review Books
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English
Pages
450

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Intelligence service, United States, United States. Central Intelligence Agency, Espionage, History, New York Times reviewed, United states, central intelligence agency, Intelligence service, united states

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Table of Contents

The underground entrepreneur
The conspiracy that failed
Founding father
Phantom spies at Los Alamos
The plot thickens
The riddle inside the enigma
The bloodless war
Saving the Shah
And after we've struck Cuba?
The heart of the story
The mind of the assassin
The interesting one
Marilyn was the least of it
Soviet intentions and capabilities
The ears of America
Notes from underground
Doing the right thing
Last of the cowboys
The bottom line
No laughing matter
Who won the Cold War?
The black arts
The trouble with the CIA
America's new intelligence war.

Edition Notes

Chiefly articles originally published in the New York review of books.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York

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Library of Congress
JK468.I6 P678 2002, JK468.I6P678 2002

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xxiii, 450 p. ;
Number of pages
450

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OCLC/WorldCat
50184833
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320666
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2683123

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