Research Catalog

Title

Ike's spies : Eisenhower and the espionage establishment / by Stephen E. Ambrose, with Richard H. Immerman, research associate.

Author

Ambrose, Stephen E.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Anchor Books, 2012.

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Additional Authors

Immerman, Richard H.

Description

vii, 368 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

An account of the transformation of the wartime Office of Strategic Services into the Central Intelligence Agency and the growth of America's intelligence community.

Subject

• Eisenhower, Dwight David, 1890-1969
• Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1890-1969
• Intelligence service > United States
• World War, 1939-1945 > Secret service
• Services de renseignements > États-Unis
• Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) > Services de renseignements
• Spionage
• United States > Politics and government > 1953-1961
• États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1953-1961
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography (pp. [350]-355) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Churchill introduces Ike to the ULTRA secret -- Preparing the TORCH -- Lighting the TORCH -- Who murdered the admiral? -- Ike and ULTRA in Africa, Sicily, and Italy -- The secret side of OVERLORD -- D-day and the French resistance -- The Battle of Mortain : ULTRA's greatest triumph -- Ike, Strong, Monty, and the bridge too far -- Ike's intelligence failure at the Bulge -- Eisenhower between SHAEF and the presidency -- The birth and early years of the CIA, 1945-53 -- President Eisenhower and the communist menace -- Iran : the preparation -- Iran : the act -- Guatemala -- Hungary, Vietnam, and Indonesia -- The national intelligence estimates -- The U-2 and Ike's defense policy -- Francis Gary Powers and the summit that never was -- Ike and the CIA's assassination plots -- Ike and the Bay of Pigs -- Ike and his spies.

ISBN

• 9780307946607 :
• 0307946606

OCLC

727702784

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library