About the Author

KATHRYN S. OLMSTED is assistant professor of history at the University of California, Davis. She is author of Challenging the Secret Government: The Post-Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI.

Reviews

Kathryn Olmsted has provided a useful summary of the Frank Church and Otis Pike investigations."Nation"

Olmsted successfully confronts and refutes the heroic myths surrounding post-Watergate journalism."Nation"

Perceptive and gracefully written history."Journal of American History"

This important book is timely as the future of the CIA is debated in both the scholarly and government communities."Choice"

This is a fascinating study."Publishers Weekly"