Spymasters : Ten CIA Officers in Their Own Words

Ralph Weber

ISBN 10: 0842027157 / ISBN 13: 9780842027151

Editore: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Spymasters is a collection of interviews revealing enlightening perspectives on the covert operations of this powerful, secretive arm of the U.S. government. Here former top-ranking CIA officials shed light on some of the most sensitive issues and practices in American foreign intelligence to date. These men disclose information about:President Harry S. Truman's demands for a centralized intelligence agency and the stubborn resistance of James F. Byrnes, J. Edgar Hoover, and the military servicesthe tumultuous early stages of the National Security Councilthe failed Bay of Pigs invasionthe confusion surrounding the Kennedy assassinationKhrushchev's oustingOperation MONGOOSEthe Gulf of Tonkin incident The interviews are especially valuable for their portrayal of the relationships between the agency's directors and the presidents during the most anxious and threatening decades of the Cold War. The CIA's successes and failures are recounted and carefully evaluated by the men who were there, often times issuing the orders. Codice articolo 9780842027151

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Spymasters is a collection of interviews revealing enlightening perspectives on the covert operations of this powerful, secretive arm of the U.S. government. Here former topranking CIA officials shed light on some of the most sensitive issues and practices in American foreign intelligence to date. These men disclose information about: President Harry S. Truman's demands for a centralized intelligence agency and the stubborn resistance of James F. Byrnes, J. Edgar Hoover, and the military services the tumultuous early stages of the National Security Council the failed Bay of Pigs invasion the confusion surrounding the Kennedy assassination Khrushchev's ousting Operation MONGOOSE the Gulf of Tonkin incident The interviews are especially valuable for their portrayal of the relationships between the agency's directors and the presidents during the most anxious and threatening decades of the Cold War. The CIA's successes and failures are recounted and carefully evaluated by the men who were there, often times issuing the orders.

Informazioni sull'autore: Ralph E. Weber is professor of history at Marquette University and a former scholar in residence at the Central Intelligence Agency as well as the National Security Agency.

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Titolo: Spymasters : Ten CIA Officers in Their Own ...
Casa editrice: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Data di pubblicazione: 2002
Legatura: Taschenbuch
Condizione: Neu