Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Harry S. Truman
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • John F. Kennedy; Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Richard M. Nixon; Gerald R. Ford
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Ronald W. Reagan
  • George H.W. Bush; William J. Clinton
  • Conclusion.