Foreign policy in peacetime and command decision in war have always been driven by intelligence. And yet this hidden subplot has received little attention in our standard histories. Honorable Treachery is the first comprehensive history of American intelligence, espionage, and covert action ever publisher. This book dramatically recounts every important intelligence operation since our nation?s birth and places them in a larger historical context. O?Toole demonstrates that secrecy and duplicity have played a critical role at every major turning point in our national history. On the Military Intelligence History Reading List 2012.

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