Author : Stephen F. Knott
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,59 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0195100980
This eye-opening account reveals that covert intelligence operations in the U.S. date much farther back than most people realize--back to the Founding Fathers. Detailing clandestine, unscrupulous operations that took place under such presidents as Washington, Jefferson, Polk, and Lincoln, Knott reveals that presidents have rarely consulted Congress before engaging in such operations.