Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence

by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Book Overview

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, a leading expert on the history of American espionage, here offers a lively and sweeping history of American secret intelligence from the founding of the nation through the present day. Jeffreys-Jones chronicles the extraordinary 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300101597
• ISBN13: 9780300101591
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 357 Pages
• Weight: 4.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"