The first study of clandestine operations was initiated 1988 in hopes of learning about the relationship between the President and the intelligence committees of Congress. Stephan F. Knott, an Assistance Professor of Political Science at the Untied States Air Force Academy, picked up this study of clandestine operations. In Knott's recently published book (1996) Secret and Sanctioned, he unveils the reality that not only were clandestine operations in the Cold War recently, been had also been used …showed first 75 words of 1722 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1722 total…tained in more ineffectual way. American Politics have been present to me in a more direct manner through this book. Secret and Sanctioned is definitely a good book to read when you want to know why politicians act the way they act today. This book also showed me how much power the president has. Bibliography Secrets Unrevealed Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Operations And the American Presidency. By Stephan F. Knott. University of Oxford Press, 1996. 258pp.