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Book SynopsisThe original edition of
A Season of Inquiry, first published in 1986, offered an insider’s account of the workings of the Church investigation and of the US’s espionage agencies. In this new edition the author, then a special assistant to Senator Church, revisits the circumstances surrounding the investigation and subsequent, shocking report and reminds us its continuing relevance.
Trade Review“Forty years after the Church Committee lifted the veil on the covert operations of the FBI and CIA, the national security issues that the investigation raised remain all too relevant. As both a committee insider and a scholar, Loch Johnson provides a lively, reliable, and insightful account of how that investigation operated, what it uncovered, and what reforms it prompted.” Donald A. Ritchie, author of
The United States Congress: A Very Short Introduction “Loch Johnson is the nation’s leading political scientist, when it comes to the study of US intelligence agencies and issues.
A Season of Inquiry Revisited is great reading for anyone with an interest in congressional and intelligence history, not to mention present-day controversies about intelligence.” David Barrett, author of
The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy.
