The Invisible Government Book

This is the 1964 Random House hardback (1st) edition of David Wise's and Thomas B. Ross's 'The Invisible Government' - a 375 page indepth exposé of America's intelligence and espionage apparatus. CONDITION: The dustjacket has some wear to the edges - rubbing, rips and tears (small ones). On the back of the dustjacket, there is some age-spotting (little brown spots that appear as the book ages and due to tannins in the paper). The dustjacket is a touch dusty-dirty but is not price-clipped. Internally the book is clean, neat and tidy with some age-spotting to the page edges. Overall a nice copy. About this book: This startling and disturbing book is the first full, authentic account of america's intelligence and espionage apparatus - an invisible government with the CIA at its center, that conducts the clandestine policies of the United States in the Cold War. The invisible government is made up of many agencies and people, including the intelligence branches of the State and Defense Departments of the Army, Navy and Air Force; specialists in codes, propaganda and espionage; and even seemingly private companies and institutions, academic groups, radio stations, a steamship line and a publishing house. But largest and most important of all is the Central Intelligence Agency. Aside from the tremendous power these agencies wield, they spend literally billions of dollars yearly. Moreover, as the authors show, this money is concealed in the Federal Budget and is approved by Congress without debate and without any real knowledge of how it will be spent. This challenging book not only presents a history of the invisible government and its present-day power structure, but it reveals, in detail and often for the first time, how it has engaged in "special operations" overseas. Four important chapters concentrate on the Bay of Pigs: disclosing the CIA's intricate but doomed plan for the operation and how the cover story failed, etcRead More