Product Description: Can there be a transparency about covert national security policies? National security poses a dilemma to our democratic desire for political transparency. If the government gives away information about its covert operations then it will jeopardize national security...read more

Product Description: This work examines the history and ramifications of the employment of former Nazi intelligence officers by the American intelligence community during that critical period of the Cold War, from the fall of Berlin through the end of the Eisenhower administration...read more

Product Description: This work is a study of presidential use of covert action as a foreign policy tool during six presidential administrations from Kennedy through Reagan. It offers the reader brief accounts of covert operations undertaken by the American intelligence community during the critical period from 1961 to 1989; these accounts examine the evolving nature of the relationship between the American presidency and the burgeoning intelligence community during the middle to late Cold War era...read more

Product Description: Throughout its history, the United States has used espionage and other covert operations to pursue its foreign policy and national security objectives. Dr. Carter sheds invaluable light on both covert operations as little-understook, yet profoundly important, instruments of American foreign policy, and on the presidents who initiated them The work is especially timely as we approach the anniversary of al Qaeda's destruction of the World Trade Center and its assault on the Pentagon...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume employs a series of historical case studies of early American covert actions to support an analysis of the evolution of this instrument of presidential foreign policy over the first 120 years of American under the Constitution. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)