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" Ike's spies : "
Stephen E. Ambrose ; with Richard H. Immerman, research associate.
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BL
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726039
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b545762
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Stephen E. Ambrose ; with Richard H. Immerman, research associate.
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Ike's spies : : Eisenhower and the espionage establishment\ Stephen E. Ambrose ; with Richard H. Immerman, research associate.
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New York: Anchor Books, 2012
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viii, 368 pages ; 21 cm
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0307946606
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: 9780307946607
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Originally published: Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1981.
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| Contents
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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.
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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.
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Eisenhower, Dwight D. -- (Dwight David), -- 1890-1969
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Eisenhower, Dwight D. -- (Dwight David), -- 1890-1969.
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Eisenhower, Dwight David, -- (1890-1969)
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JK468.I6S747 2012
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Richard H Immerman
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Stephen E Ambrose
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