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"""Should be considered essential reading for anyone interested in gaining an understanding of the political, historical, and theoretical background to the establishment of the CIA.""--Library Journal""Rudgers has written a provocative, well-documented assessment of the founding of the CIA.""--H-Net Reviews ""The book is highly recommended, a model of historical research on intelligence policy as well as on World War II and Cold War domestic and bureaucratic politics.""--History: Reviews of New Books ""[Rudgers] uses the declassified records skillfully and weaves them together with contemporary observations of the same events to craft a coherent narrative that can be used profitably by university undergrads and graduate students studying American intelligence. Creating the Secret State is a readable primer--and the only full-length one--on CIA's origins.""--Studies in Intelligence ""Working extensively in a variety of archives--the CIA, the State, Navy, and War Departments, the Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman papers--Rudgers shows how the CIA emerged from the interplay among a good many elements in the federal bureaucracy, including the Bureau of the Budget.""--Choice ""This book is a gem. It out-trumps Thomas Troy's Donovan and should easily achieve the status of the standard account of CIA origins. Anyone with a serious interest in the history of U.S. intelligence will have to be aware it. I am filled with admiration for Rudgers's research and the forensic skill he displays in putting the pieces of the debate into such clear perspective.""--Wesley Wark, author of The Intelligence Revolution: Espionage and International Relations Since 1900"

Should be considered essential reading for anyone interested in gaining an understanding of the political, historical, and theoretical background to the establishment of the CIA. --Library Journal Rudgers has written a provocative, well-documented assessment of the founding of the CIA. --H-Net Reviews The book is highly recommended, a model of historical research on intelligence policy as well as on World War II and Cold War domestic and bureaucratic politics. --History: Reviews of New Books [Rudgers] uses the declassified records skillfully and weaves them together with contemporary observations of the same events to craft a coherent narrative that can be used profitably by university undergrads and graduate students studying American intelligence. Creating the Secret State is a readable primer--and the only full-length one--on CIA's origins. --Studies in Intelligence Working extensively in a variety of archives--the CIA, the State, Navy, and War Departments, the Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman papers--Rudgers shows how the CIA emerged from the interplay among a good many elements in the federal bureaucracy, including the Bureau of the Budget. --Choice -This book is a gem. It out-trumps Thomas Troy's Donovan and should easily achieve the status of the standard account of CIA origins. Anyone with a serious interest in the history of U.S. intelligence will have to be aware it. I am filled with admiration for Rudgers's research and the forensic skill he displays in putting the pieces of the debate into such clear perspective.---Wesley Wark, author of The Intelligence Revolution: Espionage and International Relations Since 1900 This book is a gem. It out-trumps Thomas Troy's Donovan and should easily achieve the status of the standard account of CIA origins. Anyone with a serious interest in the history of U.S. intelligence will have to be aware it. I am filled with admiration for Rudgers's research and the forensic skill he displays in putting the pieces of the debate into such clear perspective. --Wesley Wark, author of The Intelligence Revolution: Espionage and International Relations Since 1900

This book is a gem. It out-trumps Thomas Troy's Donovan and should easily achieve the status of the standard account of CIA origins. Anyone with a serious interest in the history of U.S. intelligence will have to be aware it. I am filled with admiration for Rudgers's research and the forensic skill he displays in putting the pieces of the debate into such clear perspective. --<b>Wesley Wark</b>, author of <i>The Intelligence Revolution: Espionage and International Relations Since 1900</i>

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