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For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence & the American Presidency from Washington to Bush

by Christopher M. Andrew · 1995

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From the co-author of KGB: The Inside Storyand an acknowledged authority on the subject comes "the most important book ever written about American intelligence."—David Kahn, author of The Codebreakersand Hitler's Spies

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epic · 688 pages

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