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Hidden Cost of Freedom : The Untold Story of the Cia's Secret Funding System, 1941-1962

Hidden Cost of Freedom : The Untold Story of the Cia's Secret Funding System, 1941-1962

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18 Nov, 2024

By Brad L Fisher (author)

How is it possible for an agency of the United States government to be exempt from providing what the US Constitution's Appropriations Clause describes as ...

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ISBN-10:

0700637958

ISBN-13:

9780700637959

Publisher

University Press of Kansas

Language

English

Description

How is it possible for an agency of the United States government to be exempt from providing what the US Constitution's Appropriations Clause describes as "a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money"?

In The Hidden Cost of Freedom, author Brad Fisher presents a comprehensive narrative of the origin and early development of the CIA's clandestine financial system, beginning with the establishment of the Office of Strategic Services' Special Funds Branch during World War II. Fisher documents the controversial legislative history of the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 from the standpoint of the CIA, the General Accounting Office, and congressional insiders, and describes the act's role in the transformation of the CIA's financial administration into a global enterprise for financing its foreign intelligence activities. Finally, he brings to light the story of his grandfather, Edwin Lyle Fisher, who had a major role in the postwar establishment of the CIA's funding system as the GAO's legal liaison to the CIA.

While the existence of the CIA's clandestine funding is no secret, Fisher's book is the first to trace its development and to show how the CIA's covert financial system was allowed to develop in a democracy devoted to checks and balances.

Product Details

ISBN-10

:0700637958

ISBN-13

:9780700637959

Publisher

:University Press of Kansas

Publication date

: 18 Nov, 2024

Category

: Political Science

Sub-Category

: Intelligence & Espionage

Format

:Hardcover

Language

:English

Reading Level

: All

Weight

:709 g

Editorial Reviews

List of Acronyms

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Part One: Black Budgets and Public Accountability

1. The Problem of Funding a National Intelligence Service

2. The General Accounting Office

Part Two: Secret Intelligence Funding in Wartime

3. The Office of Strategic Services

4. The OSS Special Funds Branch

5. the Central Intelligence Group

Part Three: Secret Intelligence Funding in Peacetime

6. Public Oversight of the Atomic Bomb

7. Original Sin

8. The Protagonist, the Enabler, and the Antagonist

9. Legalizing the Working Fund

10. The Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949

Part Four: The CIA, the GAO, the Cold War, and the CIA Act of 1949

11. The Military-Intelligence-Industrial Complex

12. The GAO and the Cold War

13. 1950

14. Clandestine Financial Administration

15. CIA-GAO Liaison under the CIA Act of 1949

16. The Annual Budget Ritual

17. Secret Programs under the CIA Act of 1949

18. The Dulles Letter

19. The end of Public Accountability

20. Hidden Costs

Epilogue

Notes

Index

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