FORD, COREY & ALASTAIR MACBAIN

Cloak and Dagger the Secret Story of Oss

New York: Random House, 1946. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Boards show light shelf wear, DJ has heavier shelf wear with large piece missing upper front affecting the first letter of the title, short tears, creasing chipping. Previous owner's name inside front board and on title page. Price-clipped. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Stated 1st printing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 216 pages; The story behind the formation of the Office of Strategic Services during WWII. This Office changed its name to CIA after the war.. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 21219

Catalogue: Militaria::United States::Espionage

Keywords: OSS William Donovan CIA Militaria

GARTHOFF, DOUGLAS F.

Directors of Central Intelligence As Leaders of the U.S. Intelligence Community, 1946

Dulles, VA: Potomac Books Inc, 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1597971170. Book shows shelf wear, bottom fore corners bumped, front flap creased.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 336 pages; "President Harry Truman created the job of director of central intelligence (DCI) in 1946 so that he and other senior administration officials could turn to one person for foreign intelligence briefings. The DCI was the head of the Central Intelligence Group until 1947, when he became the director of the newly created Central Intelligence Agency. This book profiles each DCI and explains how they performed in their community role, that of enhancingcooperation among the many parts of the nation’s intelligence community and reporting foreign intelligence to the president. The book also discusses the evolving expectations that U.S. presidents through George W. Bush placed on their foreign intelligence chiefs.Although head of the CIA, the DCI was never a true national intelligence chief with control over the government’s many arms that collect and analyze foreign intelligence. This limitation conformed to President Truman’s wishes because he was wary of creating a powerful and all-knowing intelligence chief in a democratic society. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Congress and President Bush decided to alter the position of DCI by creating a new director of national intelligence position with more oversight and coordination of the government’s myriad programs. Thus this book ends with Porter Goss in 2005, the last DCI.". Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 18458

Catalogue: Militaria::Espionage

Keywords: 1597971170 CIA DCI Espionage History::USA Militaria

STAFFORD, DAVID

Camp X Canada's School for Secret Agents 1941

Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0886191262. Boards and DJ show light edge wear and scuffing. Gift notation and sticker remnant on front pastedown. Small stamp of previous owner's name bottom page edges. Light lean to book ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Photographs; 9 X 6 X 1 inches; 327 pages; Camp X was the first secret agent training camp ever to be built in North America. Established early in the Second World War by Britain’s Special Operations Executive on the Canadian shore of Lake Ontario, it trained dozens of Americans and Canadians in the arts of secret war including paramilitary skills, close combat, disguise, secret ciphers, propaganda, and undercover operations.Many of the Camp’s graduates became secret agents in enemy-occupied Europe and Asia. Others were sent to South or Central America to counter Nazi espionage and subversion against the allied war effort. Still others worked at the Camp’s HYDRA radio station responsible for transmitting some of the most sensitive intelligence material to pass between secret services across the Atlantic.Based on eyewitness accounts and secret files in London, Washington, and Ottawa, the cast of this real life spy adventure also includes Sir William Stephenson (‘Intrepid’), OSS chief ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan, and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 17629

Catalogue: Militaria::Espionage

Keywords: 0886191262 camp X OSS Espionage Militaria