2025/04/17 by Jeff Rogg · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Intelligence, Security, War Strategy
paper · doi:10.1093/oso/9780197678732.001.0001
openalex publication_date 2025/04/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Abstract Do you ever wonder what the United States is doing in the shadows? For example, is the NSA spying on Americans? It wouldn’t be the first time. Does the CIA still assassinate people? Depends on what you mean by “assassinate.” Is the intelligence community really a “deep state” that subverts American democracy? Not exactly, but it has interfered in politics too often in US history. While these and other questions have worried the American people in recent years, their origins reach back even further, to the very beginning of the United States. The Spy and The State presents the complete history of American intelligence from the Revolutionary War to the present. Based on original research and a new interpretation of the role of intelligence in the United States, this lively book addresses the key people, events, and controversies that have shaped American intelligence into what it is today. The timing could not be any more urgent. Intelligence is changing the world as we know it and will transform US national security and the American way of life in the twenty-first century. Ultimately, The Spy and the State will equip its readers with the foundation to understand the past, navigate the present, and prepare for the future of American intelligence.