Cloak and dollar
Subtitle: a history of American secret intelligence
By: Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
Edition: 2nd ed
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: Intelligence service -- United States -- History; Secret service -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-342) and index
Table of contents: value: The American spy considered as a confidence man; value: The Washington style; value: Allan Pinkerton's legacy; value: Did Wilkie crush the Montreal spy ring?; value: U-1 : the agency nobody knew; value: Burns, Hoover, and the making of an FBI tradition; value: H.O. Yardley : the traitor as hero; value: Pearl Harbor in intelligence history; value: Hyping the sideshow : Wild Bill Donovan and the OSS; value: Allen Dulles and the CIA; value: Cuba, Vietnam, and the rhetorical interlude; value: Did Senator Church reform intelligence?; value: The Casey-Reagan era : from history to victory; value: The real American century?