New book Ike’s Spies by Stephen E. Ambrose

During his TIME IN OFFICE, Eisenhower projected the image of a aucrat, but behind that public face, he ran the most efficient espionage establishment in the world, overseeing assassination plots, the growth of the CIA. and the overthrow of governments. This book gives a Dehand the-scenes look at some of the most ambitious secret operations in American history, including the 1954 overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz Guzman's government of Guatemala: Operation AJAX, which toppled Iran's Mossadegh, and the U-2 lights over Russia. Some of Ike's most conspicuous intelligence missteps are also discussed, including the Failure to predict the German attack during the Battle of the Bulge and the tragic encouragement of freedom fighters in Hungary, Indonesia, and Cuba. Ike's Spies is indispensible to anyone interested in the development of America's Cold War spy operations.