Enemies : a history of the FBI
Tim Weiner (Author)
Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI's secret intelligence operations, from an author whose work on the Pentagon and the CIA won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. We think of the FBI as America's police force. But secret intelligence is the Bureau's first and foremost mission. Enemies is the story of how presidents have used the FBI to conduct political warfare, and how the Bureau became the most powerful intelligence service the United States possesses. Here is the hidden history of America's hundred-year war on terror. The FBI has fought against terrorists, spies, anyone it deemed subversive--and sometimes American presidents. The FBI's secret intelligence and surveillance techniques have created a tug-of-war between national security and civil liberties. It is a tension that strains the very fabric of a free republic. --Publisher description
History
xvii, 537 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9781400067480, 9781620904619, 1400067480, 1620904616
703621240
Pt. 1, Spies and saboteurs :
Anarchy
Revolution
Traitors
Communists
"Who is Mr. Hoover?"
Underworlds
"They never stopped watching us"
Red flags ;
Pt. 2, World War :
The business of spying
The juggler
Secret intelligence
"To strangle the United States"
Law of war
The machine of detection
Organizing the world ;
Pt. 3, Cold war :
No Gestapo
Showdown
"Red fascism"
Surprise attack
Paranoia
"It looks like World War III is here"
No sense of decency
Game without rules
The long shadow
"Don't trust anybody"
Immoral conduct
"Murder was in style"
Dangerous man
Rule by fear
"You got this phone tapped?"
"The man I'm depending on"
Clearly illegal
The ultimate weapon
"Pull down the temple" ;
Pt. 4, War on terror :
Conspirators
"The Bureau cannot survive"
House of cards
"A state of continual danger"
The price of silence
Mosaic
The blind sheikh
Flaws in the armor
An easy target
All our weapons
"If we don't do this, people will die."