Ike's spies: Eisenhower and the espionage establishment
by Stephen E. Ambrose, with Richard H. Immerman, research associate
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Edition:
- First edition
- Publication:
- Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, 1981
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- 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.
- Table of Contents:
- 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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- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-355) and index.
- Physical Description:
- x, 368 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Call Numbers:
- JK468.I6 A83
- ISBNs:
- 0385144938
9780385144933
0385144438 [Invalid] - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 80001117
- OCLC Numbers:
- 6863017