Spying Through a Glass Darkly American Espionage Against the Soviet Union, 1945-1946 |
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| Author:
| Alvarez, David
Mark, Eduard |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7006-2197-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2016 |
| Publisher: | University Press of Kansas
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $40.00USD $100.00 |
Book Description:
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In the two years between the end of World War II and the creation of the CIA the Strategic Services Unit (SSU), the understaffed and under-resourced remnant of America's wartime clandestine intelligence service, struggled to provide Washington policy-makers with information about the postwar international system. Despite its limitations, SSU accurately identified the Soviet Union as an emerging threat to the interests and values of the United States and the postwar international system...
More DescriptionIn the two years between the end of World War II and the creation of the CIA the Strategic Services Unit (SSU), the understaffed and under-resourced remnant of America's wartime clandestine intelligence service, struggled to provide Washington policy-makers with information about the postwar international system. Despite its limitations, SSU accurately identified the Soviet Union as an emerging threat to the interests and values of the United States and the postwar international system anticipated by Washington.