Spymasters is a collection of interviews revealing enlightening perspectives on the covert operations of this powerful, secretive arm of the U.S. government. Here former top-ranking CIA officials shed light on some of the most sensitive issues and practices in American foreign intelligence to date. These men disclose information about:President Harry S. Truman’s demands for a centralized intelligence agency and the stubborn resistance of James F. Byrnes, J. Edgar Hoover, and the military servicesthe tumultuous early stages of the National Security Councilthe failed Bay of Pigs invasionthe confusion surrounding the Kennedy assassination Khrushchev’s ousting Operation MONGOOSEthe Gulf of Tonkin incident The interviews are especially valuable for their portrayal of the relationships between the agency’s directors and the presidents during the most anxious and threatening decades of the Cold War. The CIA’s successes and failures are recounted and carefully evaluated by the men who were there, often times issuing the orders.
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● ISBN 9781461642572 ● 编辑 Ralph Weber ● 出版者 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ● 发布时间 2002 ● 下载 6 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 2794534 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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