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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Very Best Men: The Daring Early Years of the CIA (originale 1995; edizione 2006)di Evan Thomas
Informazioni sull'operaThe Very Best Men: The Daring Early Years of the CIA di Evan Thomas (1995)
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Evan Thomas recreates the personal drama of four figures who risked everything to keep America out of war. They were Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes and Desmond FitzGerald. Within the inner circles of Washington, at the high point of American power in the world, they planned and acted to contain the Soviet threat - by stealth and political action, and to do by cunning and sleight of hand what great armies could not be allowed to do. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)327.1273Social sciences Political Science International Relations Foreign policy and specific topics in international relations Espionage and subversion North America United StatesClassificazione LCVotoMedia: (3.62)
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"...This is about the four people who were recruited into the predecessor of the CIA during WWII and how they were brought back in when the organisation was recreated in 1947 to resurrect their wartime successes. The idea was that the CIA would act as a warning signal, as the dog that barked before the attack, so that there would never be another Pearl Harbor..."
The full interview is available here: http://fivebooks.com/interviews/dr-michael-goodman-on-pioneers-intelligence-gath... (