TY  - GEN
T1  - Secrecy : the American experience
A1  - Moynihan, Daniel P. (Daniel Patrick), 1927-2003
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 1998
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm47010346
AB  - Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, chairman of the bipartisan Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, here presents an eloquent and fascinating account of the development of secrecy as a mode of regulation in American government since World War I - how it was born, how world events shaped it, how it has adversely affected momentous political decisions and events, and how it has eluded efforts to curtail or end it. Senator Moynihan begins with the intriguing story of the Venona project, the Soviet spy cables intercepted during World War II and decrypted by the U.S. Army - but never passed on to President Truman. The divisive Hiss perjury trial and the McCarthy era of suspicion might have had a far different impact on American society, says Moynihan, if government agencies had not kept secrets from one another as a means of shoring up their power. He discusses the Bay of Pigs, Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair, and, finally, the failure to forecast the collapse of the Soviet Union, suggesting the many of the tragedies resulting from these events could have been averted had the issues been clarified in an open exchange of ideas.
OP  - 262
CN  - JK468.S4 M68 1998eb
SN  - 0585349967
SN  - 9780585349961
SN  - 0300077564
SN  - 0300080794
SN  - 9780300077568
SN  - 9780300080797
KW  - Official secrets : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Executive privilege (Government information) : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Security classification (Government documents) : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Secrets d'État : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Privilège de l'exécutif (Information sur l'État) : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Classification de sécurité (Documents gouvernementaux) : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Affairs & Administration.
KW  - Executive privilege (Government information)
KW  - Official secrets
KW  - Security classification (Government documents)
KW  - United States
KW  - Geheimdokument
KW  - Spionageabwehr
KW  - Staatsgeheimnis
KW  - USA
KW  - Geheimhouding.
KW  - Overheidsdocumenten.
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - History
ER  -