Executive secrets : covert action and the presidency /
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| Language: | English |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
c2004.
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Table of Contents:
- The role of covert action in intelligence and foreign policy
- The "romances" of covert action
- Covert action policy and pitfalls
- The military and peacetime covert action
- The discipline of covert action
- Approval and review of covert action programs in the modern era
- Harry S. Truman
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
- Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford
- Jimmy Carter
- Ronald W. Reagan
- George H.W. Bush and William J. Clinton
- Conclusion.