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"""Brad Fisher's deeply researched and cogently written study of the origins and development of the CIA's clandestine financial system fills an important gap in the field of intelligence literature. As in politics, money is the key factor in intelligence operations, and Fisher ably describes how the founders of the US intelligence establishment devised workable funding mechanisms for their worldwide operations in a complex and often hostile global environment. This book should be a part of any intelligence library.""--David F. Rudgers, author of Creating the Secret State: The Origins of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1943-1947 ""Brad Fisher's Hidden Cost of Freedom uniquely lays out, as best as it can be done, the funding mechanisms that enabled the CIA to carry out its highly secret activities. Fisher's thorough research convinced me that he knows more about this topic than anyone, anywhere. Those who really want to understand the CIA of the early-to-middle-Cold War era will want to read this book.""--David Barrett, author of The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy"

"""Brad Fisher’s deeply researched and cogently written study of the origins and development of the CIA’s clandestine financial system fills an important gap in the field of intelligence literature. As in politics, money is the key factor in intelligence operations, and Fisher ably describes how the founders of the US intelligence establishment devised workable funding mechanisms for their worldwide operations in a complex and often hostile global environment. This book should be a part of any intelligence library.""""—David F. Rudgers, author of Creating the Secret State: The Origins of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1943–1947""""Brad Fisher’s Hidden Cost of Freedom uniquely lays out, as best as it can be done, the funding mechanisms that enabled the CIA to carry out its highly secret activities. Fisher’s thorough research convinced me that he knows more about this topic than anyone, anywhere. Those who really want to understand the CIA of the early-to-middle-Cold War era will want to read this book.""""—David Barrett, author of The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy"

"""Brad Fisher's deeply researched and cogently written study of the origins and development of the CIA's clandestine financial system fills an important gap in the field of intelligence literature. As in politics, money is the key factor in intelligence operations, and Fisher ably describes how the founders of the US intelligence establishment devised workable funding mechanisms for their worldwide operations in a complex and often hostile global environment. This book should be a part of any intelligence library.""--David F. Rudgers, author of Creating the Secret State: The Origins of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1943-1947"

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Brad L. Fisher is a senior research scientist at Science Systems Applications, Inc.

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