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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b12445985.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-342) and index.".
- catalog description "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?".
- catalog extent "x, 357 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0300074743 (C : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "327.1273 21".
- catalog subject "Intelligence service United States History.".
- catalog subject "JK468.I6 J4543 2002".
- catalog subject "Secret service United States History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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?".
- catalog title "Cloak and dollar : a history of American secret intelligence / Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".