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Spymasters
Ten CIA Officers in Their Own Words
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2002
Summary
<I>Spymasters</I> is a collection of interviews revealing enlightening perspectives on the covert operations of this powerful, secretive arm of the U.S. government. Here former top-ranking CIA officials shed light on some of the most sensitive issues and practices in American foreign intelligence to date. These men disclose information about: <P> President Harry S. Truman's demands for a centralized intelligence agency and the stubborn resistance of James F. Byrnes, J. Edgar Hoover, and the military services the tumultuous early stages of the National Security Council the failed Bay of Pigs invasion the confusion surrounding the Kennedy assassination Khrushchev's ousting Operation MONGOOSE the Gulf of Tonkin incident </P> The interviews are especially valuable for their portrayal of the relationships between the agency's directors and the presidents during the most anxious and threatening decades of the Cold War. The CIA's successes and failures are recounted and carefully evaluated by the men who were there, often times issuing the orders.
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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2002
ISBN-Print
978-0-8420-2714-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-4257-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
356
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Abbreviations and Acronyms No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access
1 Sidney W. Souers No access Pages 1 - 8
2 Allen W. Dulles No access Pages 9 - 42
3 Richard M. Bissell No access Pages 43 - 112
4 Samuel Halpern No access Pages 113 - 130
5 Lyman B. Kirkpatrick, Jr. No access Pages 131 - 154
