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Cloak and dollar : a history of American secret intelligence /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, [2003]
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Intelligence service > United States.
Secret service > United States.
Secret service > United States > History.
Intelligence service > United States > History.
Espionage, American.
Espionage, American > History.
Table of 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?