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Author	Daugherty, William J., 1947-
Title	Executive secrets : covert action and the presidency / William J. Daugherty ; foreword by Mark Bowden.
OCLC	54778478
ISBN	0813123348 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	9780813123349 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Publisher	Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2004]
	�2004
Description	xxiii, 298 pages ; 24 cm
LC Subject heading/s	United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Other Subject heading/s	�tats-Unis. Central Intelligence Agency.
	USA / CIA.
	USA / Pr�sident.
LC Subject heading/s	Intelligence service -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Presidents -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Espionage -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Other Subject heading/s	Service des renseignements -- �tats-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e si�cle.
	Au�enpolitik.
	Pr�sidents -- �tats-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e si�cle.
LC Subject heading/s	United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
Other Subject heading/s	Espionnage -- �tats-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e si�cle.
LC Subject heading/s	United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
Other Subject heading/s	�tats-Unis -- Relations ext�rieures -- 1945-1989.
	�tats-Unis -- Relations ext�rieures -- 1989-
LC Subject heading/s	Burris Collection.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-275) and index.
Contents	The role of covert action in intelligence and foreign policy -- The "romances" of covert action -- Covert action policy and pitfalls -- The military and peacetime covert action -- The discipline of covert action -- Approval and review of covert action programs in the modern era -- Harry S. Truman -- Dwight D. Eisenhower -- John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson -- Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford -- Jimmy Carter -- Ronald W. Reagan -- George H.W. Bush and William J. Clinton -- Conclusion.
Review	"In Executive Secrets, Covert Action and the Presidency, William J. Daugherty, a seventeen-year veteran operations officer with the C.I.A., explains the nature of the intelligence discipline of covert action and presidential decision making processes since World War II. By examining the agency's history in this way, he establishes and clarifies the role of covert action as a necessary tool of presidential statecraft.".
Summary	"Citing congressional investigations, recently declassified documents, and his own experiences in covert action policy and oversight, Daugherty demonstrates that the C.I.A.'s covert programs were initiated by the president.
	In addition to explaining how covert programs transform presidential foreign policy into reality, he details how each president conducted the approval, oversight, and review processes for covert action and examines specific instances in which U.S. presidents have expressly directed C.I.A. covert action programs to suit their broader policy objectives.".
	"Daugherty's first tour with the C.I.A. was in Iran, where he was one of fifty-two Americans held hostage for 444 days during the Carter administration. Combining inside perspectives with objectivity in judging the true nature and scope of C.I.A. covert actions during the last half century, Daugherty reveals an agency whose essential functions are necessary in a complex and dangerous modern world."--BOOK JACKET.

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