Spying on Americans : political surveillance from Hoover to the Huston plan

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Label

Spying on Americans : political surveillance from Hoover to the Huston plan

Title remainder

political surveillance from Hoover to the Huston plan

Statement of responsibility

Athan Theoharis

Creator

• Theoharis, Athan G

Subject

• Amerikanen
• Burgers
• Civil rights -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Detention of persons -- Political aspects -- United States
• Domestic intelligence -- United States -- History
• Intelligence service -- United States -- History
• Abuse of administrative power -- United States -- History
• Seguridad interna -- EE.UU. -- Historia
• Spionage
• Undercover operations -- Political aspects -- United States
• United States, Federal Bureau of Investigation -- History
• Wiretapping -- United States -- History
• Internal security -- United States -- History

Language

eng

Summary

This book is a comprehensive history of the abuses of the American domestic intelligence system from 1936 until May 1978. Drawing from the mountain of bureaucratic memos that Congressional committees and the Freedom of Information Act have pried loose, the author traces the step-by-step expansion of the authority of the FBI and other agencies to investigate the loyalty of American citizens exercising their civil liberties. In the process, he also shows the daily Washington struggle of top-level bureaucrats for power and programs. -- from Publisher description

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

327.12/0973

Index

index present

LC call number

JK468.I6

LC item number

T45

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography