Secrecy: The American Experience
- ISBN-10
- 0300080794
- ISBN-13
- 9780300080797
- Series
- Secrecy
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 262
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998-01-01
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Author
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Description
Traces the development of secrecy as a government policy over the twentieth century and its adverse effects on Cold War policy making
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