Cloak and Dollar
Subtitle: A History of American Secret Intelligence
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: March 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780300074741
Subjects: Espionage & secret services; History of specific subjects; U.S. Government - Intelligence Agencies; Political Science; History - Military / War; History: American; USA; Military - Intelligence/Espionage; Military - United States; History / General; General; Government - National; History; Intelligence service; Secret service; United States
Description: "Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones here offers a history of American secret intelligence from the founding of the nation through the present day. Jeffreys-Jones chronicles the expansion of American secret intelligence from the 1790s, when George Washington set aside a discretionary fund for covert operations, to the beginning of the twenty-first century, when United States intelligence expenditure exceeds Russia's total defense budget."--BOOK JACKET.