Secret and Sanctioned Covert Operations and the American Presidency

"'Secret and Sanctioned' provides a useful, if less than totally reliable, episodic account of many little-known events in American foreign policy. But its author's premise that he is rebutting a serious attack on the future of covert activities fails to recognize that, even after the implosion of the Soviet Empire, there is no serious opposition to the United States maintaining the capability to do mischief--a capability that great powers have always possessed."Knott, Stephen F. is the author of 'Secret and Sanctioned Covert Operations and the American Presidency', published 1996 under ISBN 9780195100983 and ISBN 0195100980.