Ike's spies: Eisenhower and the espionage establishment

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An account of the transformation of the wartime Office of Strategic Services into the Central Intelligence Agency and the growth of America's intelligence community.

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Title Statements

Full title :Ike's spies : Eisenhower and the espionage establishment / Stephen E. Ambrose ; with Richard H. Immerman, research associate.

Summary

An account of the transformation of the wartime Office of Strategic Services into the Central Intelligence Agency and the growth of America's intelligence community.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Anchor Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

Notes

Originally published: Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1981.

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 368 pages ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780307946607, 0307946606
oclc:ocn727702784
LC Classification:JK468.I6
Dewey Decimal:940.54/8673

Churchill introduces Ike to the ULTRA secret -- Preparing the TORCH -- Lighting the TORCH -- Who murdered the admiral? -- Ike and ULTRA in Africa, Sicily, and Italy -- The secret side of OVERLORD -- D-day and the French resistance -- The Battle of Mortain : ULTRA's greatest triumph -- Ike, Strong, Monty, and the bridge too far -- Ike's intelligence failure at the Bulge -- Eisenhower between SHAEF and the presidency -- The birth and early years of the CIA, 1945-53 -- President Eisenhower and the communist menace -- Iran : the preparation -- Iran : the act -- Guatemala -- Hungary, Vietnam, and Indonesia -- The national intelligence estimates -- The U-2 and Ike's defense policy -- Francis Gary Powers and the summit that never was -- Ike and the CIA's assassination plots -- Ike and the Bay of Pigs -- Ike and his spies.

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Eisenhower, Dwight D., (Dwight David) Eisenhower, Dwight David États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement… Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Services… Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Service s… Intelligence service Intelligence service -- United States Politics and government Secret service Services de renseignements -- États-Unis Spionage United States United States -- Politics and governmen… USA World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service