Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-253) and index.
Contents
Introduction : the stirrings of a new revisionism? / Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones -- The secret operations of Spanish consular officials within Canada during the Spanish-American war / Graeme S. Mount -- Tyler Kent : isolationist or spy? / Andrew Lownie -- Democracy goes to war : politics, intelligence and decision making in the United States in 1942 / David Walker -- The OSS and the Burma road 1942-45 / Richard B. Laidlaw -- The Missouri Gang and the CIA / Danny D. Jansen and Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones -- British McCarthyism / Karen Potter -- The birth of the Defense Intelligence Agency / Patrick Mescall -- The Bold Easterners revisited : the myth of the CIA elite / Robert E. Spears, Jr. -- Sense and sensationalism in American spy fiction / Katy Fletcher.