num_pages: 256
description: Roy Godson traces the history of U.S. covert action and counterintelligence, focusing on its successes and failures.As the United States struggles to deal with new challenges to its security - regional, ethnic, and religious conflicts; weapons proliferation; terrorism; and organized crime - this groundbreaking study explains the circumstances under which covert capabilities can be used most effectively.
language: English
title: Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards: U.S. Covert Action and Counterintelligence
titlecomplete: Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards: U.S. Covert Action and Counterintelligence (Brassey's Intelligence & National Security Library.)
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 45
publisher: University of Nebraska Press