Burn before reading : presidents, CIA directors, and secret intelligence / Stansfield Turner.

A CIA director offers a glimpse into the complicated relationship between the United States presidents and their CIA chiefs. The way the U.S. government gathers intelligence information has become front-page news. In this book, former CIA director Turner highlights pivotal moments between presidents...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Turner, Stansfield, 1923-2018
Language:English
Published: New York : Hyperion, [2005], ©2005.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Intelligence service > United States > History.
United States. > Central Intelligence Agency > History.
United States > Foreign relations > 20th century.
Physical Description:xi, 308 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt and "Wild Bill" : America's first central intelligence apparatus
  • Harry S Truman, Souers, Vandenberg, Hillenkoetter, and Smith : the founding of the CIA
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower and Allen Dulles : the CIA is thrust into action
  • John F. Kennedy, Dulles, and McCone : scandal and confusion on the New Frontier
  • Lyndon B. Johnson, McCone, Raborn, and Helms : the value and price of loyalty
  • Richard Nixon, Helms, Schlesinger, and Colby : the CIA despised
  • Gerald Ford, Colby, and George H. W. Bush : the CIA under a microscope
  • Jimmy Carter and Turner : the DCI empowered
  • Ronald Reagan, Casey, and Webster : the resurrection of "Wild Bill"
  • George H. W. Bush, Webster, and Gates : confusion and compromise at the Cold War's end
  • Bill Clinton, Woolsey, Deutch, and Tenet : the CIA without the Cold War
  • George W. Bush, Tenet, 9/11, and beyond : quo vadis?