Title: Cloak and dollar
First published: 2002
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.
Subjects: Intelligence service, Secret service, History, Intelligence service, united states, Secret service, united states, American Espionage
Places: United States