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Cloak and dollar: a history of American secret intelligence / Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones.

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JEFFREYS-JONES Rhodri

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TextPublication details: New Haven, CT. USA: Yale Univ Press, 2001Description: 355pISBN:

0300074743 (hbk.):

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Summary: This book traces the evolution of American intelligence services over the past two hundred years. Suggests that these organisations, which at the turn of the century have a combined expenditure greater than Russia's entire defence budget, have persistently overstated or manufactured threats but have failed to pay sufficient attention to other more difficult issues such as terrorism and the drugs trade.

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This book traces the evolution of American intelligence services over the past two hundred years. Suggests that these organisations, which at the turn of the century have a combined expenditure greater than Russia's entire defence budget, have persistently overstated or manufactured threats but have failed to pay sufficient attention to other more difficult issues such as terrorism and the drugs trade.

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