Privileged and Confidential: The Secret History of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board

Above the politics and ideological battles of Washington, D.C., is a committee that meets behind locked doors...
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Author: Kenneth Michael Absher
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Privileged and Confidential: The Secret History of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board by Absher, Kenneth Michael

Privileged and Confidential: The Secret History of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board

$143.45

Privileged and Confidential: The Secret History of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board

$143.45
Author: Kenneth Michael Absher
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Above the politics and ideological battles of Washington, D.C., is a committee that meets behind locked doors and leaves its paper trail in classified files. The President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) is one of the most secretive and potentially influential segments of the U.S. intelligence community. Established in 1956, the PIAB advises the president about intelligence collection, analysis, and estimates, and about the legality of foreign intelligence activities. Privileged and Confid

Author: Kenneth Michael Absher, Michael C. Desch, Roman Popadiuk
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 09/21/2012
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.91lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.41w x 1.51d
ISBN: 9780813136080


Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2013

About the Author

Kenneth Michael Absher, a retired senior CIA operations officer, is a fellow with the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University and the author of Mind-Sets and Missiles: A First Hand Account of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Michael C. Desch, professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of Civilian Control of the Military: The Changing Security Environment.

Roman Popadiuk served as the first U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine in 1992-1993. He is a retired member of the career Senior Foreign Service.




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