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Executive Secrets: Covert Action and the Presidency / Daugherty, William J.
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Executive Secrets: Covert Action and the Presidency
Daugherty, William J.
 
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  Book ID : 26824
  ISBN-10 : 81-7049-226-2 / 8170492262
 
  Place of Publication : Delhi
  Year of Publication : 2005
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  Language : English
  xxvii, 298p., Notes, Bib., Index, 23 cm.
   
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CONTENTS:-
Foreword;
Preface;
Acknowledgements;
Introduction;
1. The Role of Covert Action in Intelligence and Foreign Policy;
2. The "Romances" of Covert Action;
3. Covert Action Policy and Pitfalls;
4. The Military and Peacetime Covert Action;
5. The Discipline of Covert Action;
6. Approval and Review of Covert Action Programs in the Modern Era;
7. Harry S Truman;
8. Dwight D. Eisenhower;
9. John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson;
10. Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford;
11. Jimmy Carter;
12. Ronald W. Reagan;
13. George H.W. Bush and William J. Clinton;
14. Conclusion;
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Since its inception in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency has been vital to maintaining national security. Yet the covert action programs managed by the intelligence agency at the behest of American presidents have often been misunderstood and the agency itself deemed suspect in its operations and priorities. In Executive Secrets: Covert Action and the Presidency, William J. Dougherty, 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 process 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. Daugherty refutes the widespread notion that the C.I.A. often behaves, in the words of the late Idaho senator Frank Church, like a "rough elephant" rampaging out of control, initiating risky covert action programs without the knowledge, much less the sanction, of either Congress or the White House. Daugherty illustrates how these and other misperceptions about covert action is a legitimate foreign policy option and examines the congressional and legal oversight of these actions. Citing congressional investigations, recently declassified documents, and his own experience in covert action policy and oversight, Daugherty demonstrates that the C.I.A.'s covert 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. A former Marine Corps aviator with a combat tour in Vietnam, Daugherty's first tour with the C.I.A. was in Iran, where he was one of fifty-two Americans held hostages for 444 days during the Carter administration. Combining unique inside perspective with sober 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 often dangerous modern world.
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