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HIDDEN COST OF FREEDOM : the untold story of the cia's secret funding system, 1941-1962.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: FISHER, BRAD L.
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : UNIV PRESS OF KANSAS, 2024.
Subjects:
United States. > Central Intelligence Agency > History.
Intelligence service > Finance > Law and legislation > United States.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part one: Black budgets and public accountability
  • The problem of funding a national intelligence service
  • The General AccountingOffice
  • Part two: Secret intelligence funding in wartime
  • The office of strategic services
  • The OSS Special Funds Branch
  • The Central Intelligence Group
  • Part Three: Secret intelligence fundingin peacetime
  • Public oversight of the atomic bomb
  • Original sin
  • The protagonist, the enabler, and the antagonist
  • Legalizing the working fund
  • The Central Intelligence Agency act of 1949
  • Part four: The CIA, the GAO, the cold war, and the CIA act of 1949
  • The Military-Intelligence-Industrial Complex
  • The GAO and the coldwar
  • Clandestine financial administration
  • CIA-GAO liaison under the CIA Act of 1949
  • The annual budget ritual
  • Secret programsunder the CIA Act of 1949
  • The letter
  • The end of public accountability
  • Hidden Costs.