Cloak and dollar : a history of American secret intelligence / Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intelligence service--United States.

Intelligence service.

Espionage, American.

History.

Secret service.

United States.

Intelligence service--United States--History.

Secret service--United States.

Secret service--United States--History.

Espionage, American--History.

Physical Description:

xix, 357 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, [2003]

Summary:

This lively book traces the history of American secret intelligence from the founding of the nation through the present day. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones argues that while the intelligence community has had some successes, it has also played a confidence trick on the American people, inventing threats instead of analyzing them and demanding too many dollars for its services. The Preface to this new edition shows how intelligence boosters have taken advantage of 9/11.

Contents:

Look Back in Terror: A Preface to the Second Edition xi

1. The American Spy Considered as a Confidence Man 1

2. The Washington Style 11

3. Allan Pinkerton's Legacy 24

4. Did Wilkie Crush the Montreal Spy Ring? 44

5. U-1: The Agency Nobody Knew 60

6. Burns, Hoover, and the Making of an FBI Tradition 81

7. H. O. Yardley: The Traitor as Hero 99

8. Pearl Harbor in Intelligence History 115

9. Hyping the Sideshow: Wild Bill Donovan and the OSS 131

10. Allen Dulles and the CIA 154

11. Cuba, Vietnam, and the Rhetorical Interlude 179

12. Did Senator Church Reform Intelligence? 205

13. The Casey-Reagan Era: From History to Victory 232

14. The Real American Century? 255.

Notes:

Originally published: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0300101597

OCLC:

52783354