Historian and former intelligence officer G.J.A. O'Toole dramatically recounts every important intelligence operation since the birth of the nation and places them in a larger historical context. An insightful examination which demonstrates how secrecy and duplicity have played a prime role at every major turning point in American history. Photographs.
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From Publishers Weekly
This hefty, balanced history of American secret operations and spying demonstrates that these activities are part of a tradition that dates back to George Washington. Photos.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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O'Toole, a former intelligence officer, presents a comprehensive history of American intelligence activities from colonial times to the present. While Americans profess to believe, with Secretary of State Henry Stimson, that "gentlemen do not read other people's mail," they in fact have proven quite skilled in all manner of espionage and covert action. George Washington himself was the most gifted intelligence officer of the Revolution; he recruited, trained, dispatched, and handsomely rewarded spies. In 1917 another Virginian, President Woodrow Wilson, created a little-known secret agency, the Inquiry, directed by journalist Walter Lippmann, to compile intelligence for the peace negotiations that ended World War I. O'Toole offers fascinating information generally unrecorded in traditional diplomatic and military histories. Recommended for academic and large public libraries. O'Toole is also the author of The Encyclopedia of American Intelligence and Espionage: From the Revolutionary War to the Present, LJ 1/89.
- Thomas H. Appleton Jr., Kentucky Historical Soc . , Frankfort
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Thomas H. Appleton Jr., Kentucky Historical Soc . , Frankfort
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Not a spy book, but a book about spies.,
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This review is from: Honorable Treachery: A History of U. S. Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIA (Paperback)
If you buy this book expecting spy stories,you're going to be disappointed. But it will be very interesting to those who follow the spy genre. It begins with stories about American Revolution spying and ends in the early 60's with CIA tales. There are many names dropped, and this may be the main value to some. It's interesting to read who has done intelligence work -- a Who's Who of the Who's Who. The book metemorphoses from a rather dry historical treatise at the beginning through other phases to a CIA-centered story at the end, no doubt because Mr. O'Toole was himself in the CIA. Lots of things here that you won't find collected elsewhere; well researched and well documented.
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