Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage EstablishmentKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 17 jan. 2012 - 384 sidor This classic Cold War-era history looks at the way President Dwight Eisenhower managed America’s secret operations as general and as commander in chief and is based on privileged access to the president and his private papers—from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose. During his time in office, Eisenhower projected the image of a genial bureaucrat, but behind that public face, he ran the most efficient espionage establishment in the world, overseeing assassination plots, the growth of the CIA, and the overthrow of governments. This book gives a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most ambitious secret operations in American history, including the 1954 overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán’s government of Guatemala; Operation AJAX, which toppled Iran’s Mossadegh; and the U-2 flights over Russia. Some of Ike’s most conspicuous intelligence missteps are also discussed, including the failure to predict the German attack during the Battle of the Bulge and the tragic encouragement of freedom fighters in Hungary, Indonesia, and Cuba. Ike’s Spies is indispensible to anyone interested in the development of America’s Cold War spy operations. |
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Churchill Introduces Ike to the ULTRA Secret | 3 |
Preparing TORCH | 14 |
Lighting the TORCH | 29 |
Who Murdered the Admiral? | 39 |
Ike and ULTRA in Africa Sicily and Italy | 57 |
The Secret Side of OVERLORD | 75 |
DDay and the French Resistance | 95 |
The Battle of MortainULTRAs Greatest Triumph | 110 |
The Preparation | 189 |
The Act | 206 |
Guatemala | 215 |
Hungary Vietnam and Indonesia | 235 |
The National Intelligence Estimates | 252 |
The U2 and Ikes Defense Policy | 265 |
Francis Gary Powers and the Summit That Never Was | 279 |
Ike and the CIAs Assassination Plots | 293 |
Ike Strong Monty and the Bridge Too Far | 125 |
Ikes Intelligence Failure at the Bulge | 136 |
194553 | 153 |
Eisenhower Between SHAEF and the Presidency | 155 |
The Birth and Early Years of the CIA 194553 | 162 |
The Presidency | 179 |
President Eisenhower and the Communist Menace | 181 |
Ike and the Bay of Pigs | 307 |
Ike and His Spies | 317 |
Notes | 323 |
Glossary | 344 |
359 | |
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