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Executive secrets : covert action and the presidency / William J. Daugherty ; foreword by Mark Bowden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Daugherty, William J., 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
- United States.
- Intelligence service--United States--History--20th century.
- Intelligence service.
- Presidents--United States--History--20th century.
- Presidents.
- Espionage--United States--History--20th century.
- Espionage.
- United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
- United States--Foreign relations--1989-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- "" A HISTORY BOOK CLUB SELECTION With a Foreword by Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down
- Contents:
- The role of covert action in intelligence and foreign policy
- The "romances" of covert action
- Covert action policy and pitfalls
- The military and peacetime covert action
- The discipline of covert action
- Approval and review of covert action programs in the modern era
- Harry S. Truman
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
- Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford
- Jimmy Carter
- Ronald W. Reagan
- George H.W. Bush and William J. Clinton
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613232977
- 9780813191614
- 0813191610
- 9781283232975
- 1283232979
- 9780813171968
- 0813171962
- OCLC:
- 67553698
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