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The Hidden Cost of Freedom: The Untold Story of the Cia's Secret Funding System, 1941-1962

The Hidden Cost of Freedom: The Untold Story of the Cia's Secret Funding System, 1941-1962

Fisher, Brad L.

Hardcover

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0700637958
ISBN13: 9780700637959
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: Nov 18 2024
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

How is it possible for an agency of the United States government to be exempt from providing what the US Constitution's Appropriations Clause describes as a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money?

In The Hidden Cost of Freedom, author Brad Fisher presents a comprehensive narrative of the origin and early development of the CIA's clandestine financial system, beginning with the establishment of the Office of Strategic Services' Special Funds Branch during World War II. Fisher documents the controversial legislative history of the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 from the standpoint of the CIA, the General Accounting Office, and congressional insiders, and describes the act's role in the transformation of the CIA's financial administration into a global enterprise for financing its foreign intelligence activities. Finally, he brings to light the story of his grandfather, Edwin Lyle Fisher, who had a major role in the postwar establishment of the CIA's funding system as the GAO's legal liaison to the CIA.

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