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covert action and the presidency

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An edition of Executive Secrets (2004)

Executive secrets

covert action and the presidency

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"In Executive Secrets, Covert Action and the Presidency, William J. Daugherty, a seventeen-year veteran operations officer with the C.I.A., explains the nature of the intelligence discipline of covert action and presidential decision making processes since World War II. By examining the agency's history in this way, he establishes and clarifies the role of covert action as a necessary tool of presidential statecraft." "Citing congressional investigations, recently declassified documents, and his own experiences in covert action policy and oversight, Daugherty demonstrates that the C.I.A.'s covert programs were initiated by the president. In addition to explaining how covert programs transform presidential foreign policy into reality, he details how each president conducted the approval, oversight, and review processes for covert action and examines specific instances in which U.S. presidents have expressly directed C.I.A. covert action programs to suit their broader policy objectives." "Daugherty's first tour with the C.I.A. was in Iran, where he was one of fifty-two Americans held hostage for 444 days during the Carter administration. Combining inside perspectives with objectivity in judging the true nature and scope of C.I.A. covert actions during the last half century, Daugherty reveals an agency whose essential functions are necessary in a complex and dangerous modern world."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
298

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Executive Secrets: Covert Action And the Presidency
May 2006, University Press of Kentucky
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2004, University Press of Kentucky
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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-275) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
327.1273
Library of Congress
JK468.I6 D38 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiii, 298 p. ;
Number of pages
298

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3290745M
Internet Archive
executivesecrets00daug_0
ISBN 10
0813123348
LCCN
2004006073
OCLC/WorldCat
54778478
Library Thing
2240561
Goodreads
564407

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