American Espionage From Secret Service to CIA edition by Rhodri JeffreysJones Politics Social Sciences eBooks
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“If American espionage continues to be a bastion of democracy, democracy remains the scourge of espionage.”
With the spy’s prevalence in popular fiction, it is argued that through common misuse the term “intelligence” now loosely includes covert and paramilitary operations.
From private detectives to the attaché system, and a host of agencies vying for dominance in between, espionage has long been a part of the very fabric of America.
In time State Department involvement led to a greater emphasis on processing and distributing intelligence in the interests of national security, rather than simply gathering it.
Facing the same questions as a peacetime military establishment, their purpose was ruthlessly scrutinised, the threat of reduction or disbandment ever present.
People respected the need for intelligence, yet given reason would criticise its instruments. It is an argument still alive today.
Focusing on the fifty years preceding the CIA’s founding and laced with anecdotes, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones follows America’s political development of continuous central intelligence.
Praise for Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
‘This book will be welcomed; it fills a crucial gap in our knowledge and understanding in a field that is virtually untouched by serious, documentary scholarship. The author has done a credible job of research and has come up with some persuasive arguments.’ — Richard Kohn, Rutgers University, author of Eagle and Sword
‘A brief, yet subtle and penetrating, account of the Central Intelligence Agency.’ — Leonard Bushkoff, Christian Science Monitor
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Edinburgh, and respected authority on the history of American intelligence. He has written numerous works on the subject, as well as on women and foreign policy, Vietnam and the American Left.
American Espionage From Secret Service to CIA edition by Rhodri JeffreysJones Politics Social Sciences eBooks
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American Espionage From Secret Service to CIA edition by Rhodri JeffreysJones Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones offers some wonderful insights into the history of the evolution of the American intelligence community. He is the author of a number of solid works on the history of the American intelligence community, but for my money this is the best so far. For American readers, the cadence of the author's prose may seem a bit off in places, but I think that owes to the fact that he is not American. He was born in Wales and took his Ph.D. at Cambridge. He is retired now, but remains one of the finest authorities on the history of the American intelligence community, and espionage.
I love history and am particularly interested in espionage. I thought I'd love this book. I found it boring. It was was well-researched. Written well enough, but I just couldn't make the climb.
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