Honorable Treachery
by G. J. A. O’Toole
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- ISBN 10
- 087113506X
- ISBN 13
- 9780871135063
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We've always depended on intelligence gathering to drive foreign policy in peacetime and command decision in war—but that work has often taken place in the shadows. Honorable Treachery fills in these details in our national history, dramatically recounting every important intelligence operation from our nation's birth into the early 1960's.
Among numerous other stories, the book recounts how in 1795, President Washington mounted a covert operation to ransom American hostages in the Middle East; how in 1897, Kaiser Wilhelm II's plans for an invasion of the United States were stopped by the director of the US Office of Naval Intelligence; and how President Woodrow Wilson created a secret agency called the Inquiry to compile intelligence for the peace negotiations at the end of World War I. From a Pulitzer Prize finalist who himself worked for the CIA, Honorable Treachery puts America's use of covert intelligence into a broader historical context, providing a unique insight into the secret workings of our country.
"O'Toole offers fascinating information generally unrecorded in traditional diplomatic and military histories." —Library Journal
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- Eve's Reads (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7231.10.2523
- Title
- Honorable Treachery
- Author
- G. J. A. O’Toole
- Illustrator
- Foreign Policy, CIA, Intelligence
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback,
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Ed, 1st Prtg
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 087113506X
- ISBN 13
- 9780871135063
- Publisher
- The Atlantic Monthly Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1991
- Pages
- 591
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