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A truly groundbreaking, eye-opening descent into secret budgeting, espionage, and covert actions. - Louis Fisher, author of Military Tribunals and Presidential Power Barrett reveals a CIA that made its own rules, wrote its own budget, classified its own secrets, and persuaded the Congress to like it. A rich and fabulous story that sheds new light on just about every significant episode in the first decades of the Cold War and confirms what many have long suspected-secrecy is the great enemy of democracy, and vice versa. - Thomas Powers, author of Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda A riveting story that helps to untangle one of the Cold War's most tangled webs. - Richard H. Immerman, author of The CIA in Guatemala

A truly groundbreaking, eye-opening descent into secret budgeting, espionage, and covert actions. --Louis Fisher, author of Military Tribunals and Presidential Power Barrett reveals a CIA that made its own rules, wrote its own budget, classified its own secrets, and persuaded the Congress to like it. A rich and fabulous story that sheds new light on just about every significant episode in the first decades of the Cold War and confirms what many have long suspected--secrecy is the great enemy of democracy, and vice versa. --Thomas Powers, author of Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda A riveting story that helps to untangle one of the Cold War's most tangled webs. --Richard H. Immerman, author of The CIA in Guatemala

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David M. Barrett is professor of political science at Villanova University and author of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Vietnam Papers and Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His Vietnam Advisers.

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