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Creating the Secret State
Author | : David F. Rudgers |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015042480536 |
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Formerly a staff archivist for the National Archives and a senior intelligence analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency, Rudgers challenges the popular view that the Agency was principally the brainchild of former OSS chief William J. Donovan. Rather, he explains, the centralization of intelligence was part of a larger reorganization of the US government during the transition from World War II to the Cold War. He also documents how it swerved from its original purpose of guarding against sneak attacks to taking part in clandestine activity against the Soviet Union. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Story of a Secret State
Author | : Jan Karski |
Publsiher | : Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2013-02-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781589019836 |
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Jan Karski’s Story of a Secret State stands as one of the most poignant and inspiring memoirs of World War II and the Holocaust. With elements of a spy thriller, documenting his experiences in the Polish Underground, and as one of the first accounts of the systematic slaughter of the Jews by the German Nazis, this volume is a remarkable testimony of one man’s courage and a nation’s struggle for resistance against overwhelming oppression. Karski was a brilliant young diplomat when war broke out in 1939 with Hitler’s invasion of Poland. Taken prisoner by the Soviet Red Army, which had simultaneously invaded from the East, Karski narrowly escaped the subsequent Katyn Forest Massacre. He became a member of the Polish Underground, the most significant resistance movement in occupied Europe, acting as a liaison and courier between the Underground and the Polish government-in-exile. He was twice smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto, and entered the Nazi’s Izbica transit camp disguised as a guard, witnessing first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust. Karski’s courage and testimony, conveyed in a breathtaking manner in Story of a Secret State, offer the narrative of one of the world’s greatest eyewitnesses and an inspiration for all of humanity, emboldening each of us to rise to the challenge of standing up against evil and for human rights. This definitive edition—which includes a foreword by Madeleine Albright, a biographical essay by Yale historian Timothy Snyder, an afterword by Zbigniew Brzezinski, previously unpublished photos, notes, further reading, and a glossary—is an apt legacy for this hero of conscience during the most fraught and fragile moment in modern history.
The Secret State
Author | : John Hughes-Wilson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2017-01-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1681773023 |
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A ground-breaking history of intelligence from its classical origins to the onset of the surveillance state in the digital age that lifts the veil of secrecy from this clandestine world."
The Information Master
Author | : Jacob Soll |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2011-08-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780472034642 |
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A fascinating inquiry into Jean-Baptiste Colbert's collection of knowledge
The Secret State
Author | : Peter Hennessy |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2014-03-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780141979205 |
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This updated edition of The Secret State revises Hennessy's picture of the Soviet threat that was presented to ministers from the last days of the Second World War to the 1960s. He maps the size and shape of the Cold War state built in response to that perceived threat, and traces the arguments successive generations of ministers, the military and civil servants have used to justify the British nuclear capability. He also adds new material exploring the threats presented by the IRA and radical Islamic terrorists post 9/11. In what circumstances would the Prime Minister authorize the use of nuclear force and how would his orders be carried out? What would the Queen be told and when? In this captivating new account, Peter Hennessy provides the best answers we have yet had to these questions.
A Very British Coup
Author | : Chris Mullin |
Publsiher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2011-09-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781847652270 |
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Against the odds, former steel worker Harry Perkins has led the Labour party to a stunning victory. Now he's going to dismantle Britain's nuclear warheads, bring finance under public control and dismantle the media empires. But the establishment isn't going down without a fight. As MI5 conspires with the city and press barons to bring Perkins down, he finds himself caught up in a no-holds-barred battle for survival. Described as 'the political novel of the decade' when it was first published, A Very British Coup is as fresh and relevant now as it ever has been.
The CIA and the Politics of US Intelligence Reform
Author | : Brent Durbin |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2017-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107187405 |
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This book presents a thorough analysis of US intelligence reforms and their effects on national security and civil liberties.
The Foundation of the CIA
Author | : Richard E. Schroeder |
Publsiher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2017-11-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780826273932 |
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This highly accessible book provides new material and a fresh perspective on American National Intelligence practice, focusing on the first fifty years of the twentieth century, when the United States took on the responsibilities of a global superpower during the first years of the Cold War. Late to the art of intelligence, the United States during World War II created a new model of combining intelligence collection and analytic functions into a single organization—the OSS. At the end of the war, President Harry Truman and a small group of advisors developed a new, centralized agency directly subordinate to and responsible to the President, despite entrenched institutional resistance. Instrumental to the creation of the CIA was a group known colloquially as the “Missouri Gang,” which included not only President Truman but equally determined fellow Missourians Clark Clifford, Sidney Souers, and Roscoe Hillenkoetter.