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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779048603321

Autore

Talbert Roy

Titolo

Negative intelligence : the army and the American Left, 1917-1941 / / Roy Talbert, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, Miss. : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 1991

©1991

ISBN

1-283-45530-7

9786613455307

1-61703-000-7

Edizione

[Print-on-demand ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 303 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Twentieth-century America series

Disciplina

355.3/432/0973

Soggetti

Intelligence operations - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographcal references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Origins of Military Intelligence; 2. The Structure of Military Intelligence; 3. The Early Intelligence Community; 4. Scope and Methods of Negative Intelligence; 5. The War Resisters; 6. The Industrial Workers of the World; 7. Black Americans; 8. War's End; 9. Military Intelligence Remobilized; 10. The Red Scare; 11. Interlocking Directorates of the 1920's; 12. The Great Depression; 13. Delimiting Military Intelligence; Epilogue; Bibliographical Essay; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

An incredible disclosure of army espionage on U.S. civilians and leftist groups