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Name: Ike's spies
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose

An account of the transformation of the wartime Office of Strategic Services into the Central Intelligence Agency and the growth of America's intelligence community.

First publish date: 1981

Authors: Stephen E. Ambrose

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