American Spies

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My first book,

Spying in America,

secured an extensive stretch of US history, about

180 years from the country’s introduction to the world to the beginning of the Cold War. This second

the book follows the first and spreads a far briefer time, around sixty years from

the Cold War to the current day, yet spying by Americans heightened signifi-

cantly after World War II. When the United States turned into a superpower

after the war, the country turned into a prime surveillance target not just for its

Soviet foe vulnerable War yet additionally for a large group of different countries.

Thinking about this expanded surveillance movement, this volume can fill in as

minimal in excess of a prologue to the historical backdrop of spying against America

during and after the Cold War. A conversation of all the government agent cases before

sixty years would be well past the extent of this expansive audit. As in

Spying

in America

, my choices depended on the significance of the specific

case or its pertinence to different issues related to reconnaissance in American

history. Generally significant, I will likely support laypeople, understudies, and

general perusers inspired by knowledge to dive all the more profoundly into the

dangers to national security from secret activities.

I express my gratitude to the individuals who urged me to finish and bar

lish the two volumes and helped me in doing as such, particularly Doug Hubbard,

Imprint Lowenthal, David Major, Keith Melton, and Jim Olson.