Bombs, bugs, drugs, and thugs : intelligence and America's quest for security / / Loch K. Johnson
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| Autore: |
Johnson Loch K. <1942->
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| Titolo: |
Bombs, bugs, drugs, and thugs : intelligence and America's quest for security / / Loch K. Johnson
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : New York University Press, c2000 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xxi, 298 p. ) : ill. ; |
| Disciplina: | 327.1273 |
| Soggetto topico: | Intelligence service - United States |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-286) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Part I: An intelligence agenda for a new world -- A planet bristling with bombs and missiles -- Stocks and (James) Bonds: spies in the global marketplace -- The greening of intelligence -- Spies versis germs: a worldwide resurgence of bugs -- Part II: Strategic intelligence: fissures in the first line of defense -- The DCI and the eight-hundred-pound gorilla -- Spending for spies -- Sharing the intelligence burden -- Part III: Smart intelligence--and accountable -- More intelligent intelligence -- Balancing liberty and security -- Appendix: America's intelligence leadership, 1941-2000. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "Ranging widely over such controversial topics as the intelligence role of the United Nations and whether assassination should be a part of America's foreign policy, Loch Johnson here maps out a critical and prescriptive vision of the future of American intelligence."--Jacket. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Bombs, Bugs, Drugs, and Thugs |
| ISBN: | 9780585480411 |
| 0585480419 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910845068203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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