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Hidden cost of freedom : the untold early history of the CIA's clandestine funding system, 1941-1962 / Brad L. Fisher.

Fisher, Brad L., author.
2024
JK468.I6
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Title
Hidden cost of freedom : the untold early history of the CIA's clandestine funding system, 1941-1962 / Brad L. Fisher.
Author
Fisher, Brad L., author.
ISBN
9780700637966 (ebook)
0700637966
9780700637959 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
Published
Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2024]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
JK468.I6
Dewey Decimal Classification
353.1/7244097309045
Summary
"The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an agency of the US government whose funding is kept secret. How is it possible for a government agency to be exempt from providing "a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures"? In Hidden Cost of Freedom, Brad Fisher chronicles the origins and administrative inner workings of the CIA's clandestine financial system"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Part one: Black budgets and public accountability
The problem of funding a national intelligence service
The General Accounting Office
Part two: Secret intelligence funding in wartime
The office of strategic services
The OSS Special Funds Branch
The Central Intelligence Group
Part Three: Secret intelligence funding in peacetime
Public oversight of the atomic bomb
Original sin
The protagonist, the enabler, and the antagonist
Legalizing the working fund
The Central Intelligence Agency act of 1949
Part four: The CIA, the GAO, the cold war, and the CIA act of 1949
The Military-Intelligence-Industrial Complex
The GAO and the cold war
Clandestine financial administration
CIA-GAO liaison under the CIA Act of 1949
The annual budget ritual
Secret programs under the CIA Act of 1949
The letter
The end of public accountability
Hidden Costs.

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