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This is the first comprehensive history of American intelligence, espionage, and covert action. It dramatically recounts every important intelligence operation since the American Revolution and places them in a larger historical context. The author demonstrates that secrecy and duplicity have played a critical role at every major turning point in our national history.
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In this riveting narrative, renowned historian Neill Lochery offers a revelatory portrait of World War II's back stage as he tells the story of how Portugal, a relatively poor European country trying frantically to remain neutral amidst extraordinary pressures, survived the war not only physically intact but significantly wealthier. The country's emergence as a prosperous European Union nation would be financed in part, it turns out, by a cache of...
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A shocking exposé of the sordid world of corporate espionage and its historic cast, including Allan Pinkerton, the nation's first "private eye, " tycoons and playboys, presidents and FBI operatives, CEOs and accountants, Cold War veterans and military personnel, and Howard Hughes' private CIA.
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