Honorable Treachery

A History of U.S. Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIA

G.J.A. O'Toole

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9780802123282
• eBook ISBN: 9780802192028
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

A "splendidly written, impeccably researched, and perfectly fascinating" look at clandestine operations from colonial times to the Cuban Missile Crisis ( The Washington Post Book World).
 
We've always depended on intelligence gathering to drive foreign policy in peacetime and command decision in war—but that work has often taken place in the shadows. Honorable Treachery fills in these details in our national history, dramatically recounting every important intelligence operation from our nation's birth into the early 1960s.
 
Among numerous other stories, the book recounts how in 1795, President Washington mounted a covert operation to ransom American hostages in the Middle East; how in 1897, Kaiser Wilhelm II's plans for an invasion of the United States were stopped by the director of the US Office of Naval Intelligence; and how President Woodrow Wilson created a secret agency called the Inquiry to compile intelligence for the peace negotiations at the end of World War I.
 
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist who himself worked for the CIA, Honorable Treachery puts America's use of covert intelligence into a broader historical context, providing a unique insight into the secret workings of our country.
 
"O'Toole offers fascinating information generally unrecorded in traditional diplomatic and military histories." — Library Journal

Table of contents

• Cover
• HONORABLE TREACHERY
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• A Note on Sources
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Introduction
• HONORABLE TREACHERY
• Foreword
• PART ONE: TRIUMPH OF THE AMATEURS: The American Revolution
• Chapter One: Liberty Boys and British Moles
• Chapter Two: The Education of an Intelligence Officer
• Chapter Three: Poor Richard's Game
• Chapter Four: George Washington, Spy Master
• Chapter Five: Endgames
• PART TWO: AMERICANS AT THE GREAT GAME: 1793-1860
• Chapter Six: Intrigue in the New Republic
• Chapter Seven: Espionage and Subversion in the Second British War
• Chapter Eight: The President's Men
• Chapter Nine: Secret Service in the War with Mexico
• Photo Insert
• PART THREE: ADVENT OF THE PROFESSIONALS: The Civil War
• Chapter Ten: Allan Pinkerton and the Civil War
• Chapter Eleven: Civil War Intelligence: Sources and Methods
• Chapter Twelve: European Intrigue in the Civil War
• Chapter Thirteen: Civil War Subversion
• Chapter Fourteen: The Professionals
• PART FOUR: THE BIRTH OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY: 1865-1919
• Chapter Fifteen: Intelligence and the Game of War
• Chapter Sixteen: Espionage in the War with Spain
• Chapter Seventeen: Adversaries-Black Green and Orange
• Chapter Eighteen: America Blindfolded
• Chapter Nineteen: The Enemy Within
• Chapter Twenty: British Intelligence and American Countersubversion
• Chapter Twenty-one: Intelligence Redux
• Chapter Twenty-two: The Secret War in Mexico
• Chapter Twenty-three: Counterspies and Vigilantes
• Chapter Twenty-four: A Gentleman's Profession
• Chapter Twenty-five: The Russian Muddle
• Chapter Twenty-six: The Inquiry-Intelligence for the President
• Photo Insert
• PART FIVE: THE ROAD TO CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE: 1920-1962
• Chapter Twenty-seven: The Red Menace
• Chapter Twenty-eight: Other People's Mail
• Chapter Twenty-nine: The Secret War with the Axis
• Chapter Thirty: Anatomy of Infamy
• Chapter Thirty-one: The Eyes and Ears of the Allies
• Chapter Thirty-two: Cloak-and-Dagger: The OSS
• Chapter Thirty-three: From OSS to Central Intelligence
• Chapter Thirty-four: The CIA Transformed
• Chapter Thirty-five: High Tech and Dirty Tricks
• Chapter Thirty-six: Failure and Vindication
• Postscript: The Eagle and the Sphinx
• Notes
• Bibliography of Cited Works
• Index
• Back Cover