Intelligence wars : American secret history from Hitler to al-Qaeda

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Intelligence wars : American secret history from Hitler to al-Qaeda

Title remainder

American secret history from Hitler to al-Qaeda

Statement of responsibility

Thomas Powers

Creator

• Powers, Thomas, 1940 December 12-

Subject

• Espionage -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Intelligence service -- History -- 20th century
• Intelligence service -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• United States, Central Intelligence Agency

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

IT-FiEUI

Dewey number

327.1273009045

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography