Chasing Spies: How the FBI Failed in Counter-Intelligence But Promoted
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Based on meticulous research in FBI files, Chasing Spies uncovers the FBIAIs role in the most important espionage cases of the cold war years. The book shows how secrecy immunized FBI operations from critical scrutiny and enabled FBI officials to mask their counterintelligence failures while promoting a politics of McCarthyism. Athan Theoharis calmly explores a major paradox of the Cold War: that J. Edgar Hoover, for all his fulminations against communism and his collaboration with McCarthyism, failed to apprehend and convict Soviet spies busily at work in the United States. Chasing Spies greatly illuminates this notable FBI counterintelligence failure.O-Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Author: Athan Theoharis, author of From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Format: Hardback, 320 pages, 152mm x 219mm, 540 g
Published: 2002, Ivan R Dee, Inc, United States
Genre: Military History
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Based on meticulous research in FBI files, Chasing Spies uncovers the FBIAIs role in the most important espionage cases of the cold war years. The book shows how secrecy immunized FBI operations from critical scrutiny and enabled FBI officials to mask their counterintelligence failures while promoting a politics of McCarthyism. Athan Theoharis calmly explores a major paradox of the Cold War: that J. Edgar Hoover, for all his fulminations against communism and his collaboration with McCarthyism, failed to apprehend and convict Soviet spies busily at work in the United States. Chasing Spies greatly illuminates this notable FBI counterintelligence failure.O-Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Chasing Spies: How the FBI Failed in Counter-Intelligence But Promoted