This eye-opening account reveals that covert intelligence operations in the U.S. date much farther back than most people realize--back to the Founding Fathers.
Born out of the ashes of World War II, the covert action arm of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was created to counter the challenge posed by the Soviet U
States seldom resort to war to overthrow their adversaries. They are more likely to attempt to covertly change the opposing regime, by assassinating a foreign l
Traces our country's long history of covert and special operations, focusing on the similarities and differences in the practice from the Revolutionary War to t
Based on recently declassified documents, this book provides the first examination of the Truman Administration’s decision to employ covert operations in the