Enemies a history of the FBI
Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI's secret intelligence operations, from an author whose work on the Pentagon and the CIA won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. We think of the FBI as America's police force. But secret intelligence is the Bureau's fir...
| Main Author: | Weiner, Tim. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
c2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Spies and sabateurs. Anarchy ; Revolution ; Traitors ; Communists ; "Who is Mr. Hoover?" ; Underworlds ; "They never stopped watching us" ; Red flags
- pt. 2. World War. The business of spying ; The juggler ; Secret intelligence ; "To strangle the United States" ; Law of war ; The machine of detection ; Organizing the world
- pt. 3. Cold war. No Gestapo ; Showdown ; "Red fascism" ; Surprise attack ; Paranoia ; "It looks like World War III is here" ; No sense of decency ; Game without rules ; The long shadow ; "Don't trust anybody" ; Immoral conduct ; "Murder was in style" ; Dangerous man ; Rule by fear ; "You got this phone tapped?" ; "The man I'm depending on" ; Clearly illegal ; The ultimate weapon ; "Pull down the temple"
- pt. 4. War on terror. Conspirators ; "The Bureau cannot survive" ; House of cards ; "A state of continual danger" ; The price of silence ; Mosaic ; The blind sheikh ; Flaws in the armor ; An easy target ; All our weapons ; "If we don't do this, people will die."