"Should be considered essential reading for anyone interested in
gaining an understanding of the political, historical, and
theoretical background to the establishment of the CIA."--Library
Journal"Rudgers has written a provocative, well-documented
assessment of the founding of the CIA."--H-Net Reviews"The book is
highly recommended, a model of historical research on intelligence
policy as well as on World War II and Cold War domestic and
bureaucratic politics."--History: Reviews of New Books"[Rudgers]
uses the declassified records skillfully and weaves them together
with contemporary observations of the same events to craft a
coherent narrative that can be used profitably by university
undergrads and graduate students studying American intelligence.
Creating the Secret State is a readable primer--and the only
full-length one--on CIA's origins."--Studies in
Intelligence"Working extensively in a variety of archives--the CIA,
the State, Navy, and War Departments, the Franklin Roosevelt and
Harry Truman papers--Rudgers shows how the CIA emerged from the
interplay among a good many elements in the federal bureaucracy,
including the Bureau of the Budget."--Choice
"This book is a gem. It out-trumps Thomas Troy's Donovan and should
easily achieve the status of the standard account of CIA origins.
Anyone with a serious interest in the history of U.S. intelligence
will have to be aware it. I am filled with admiration for Rudgers's
research and the forensic skill he displays in putting the pieces
of the debate into such clear perspective."--Wesley Wark, author of
The Intelligence Revolution: Espionage and International Relations
Since 1900
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