Publication

2015 - University Press of Kansas, Kansas

Language

English

Word Count

86,250 words, Guess

Page Count

345 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100700621474
  • ISBN-139780700621477
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015026513
  • OCLC Control Number919041819
  • Better World Books9780700621477
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Classifications

  • DDC327.1273
  • LCCJK468.I6 J64 2015
  • LCCJK468.I6J64 2015

Description

"An updated re-issue of Loch Johnson's classic "insider" study of the US Senate's so-called Church Committee investigations (ca. 1975-1976) into the activities and abuses of our intelligence agencies (especially CIA and FBI). Named after Frank Church, its charismatic Democratic chair, the committee confirmed numerous cases in which agencies greatly overstepped the limits of their assigned powers and initiated reforms to curb future violations. Johnson, one of the deans of American intelligence and national security studies, served on the committee as a special assistant to Church himself"--

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