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A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland

Author : Seth G. Jones
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393247015
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland written by Seth G. Jones and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic, untold story of one of the CIA’s most successful Cold War intelligence operations. December, 1981—the CIA receives word that the Polish government has cut telephone communications with the West and closed the Polish border. The agency’s leaders quickly inform President Ronald Reagan, who is enjoying a serene weekend at Camp David. Within hours, Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski has appeared on Polish national television to announce the establishment of martial law. A new era in Cold War politics has begun: Washington and Moscow are on a collision course. In this gripping narrative history, Seth G. Jones reveals the little-known story of the CIA’s subsequent operations in Poland, which produced a landmark victory for democracy during the Cold War. While the Soviet-backed Polish government worked to crush a budding liberal opposition movement, the CIA began a sophisticated intelligence campaign, code-named QRHELPFUL, that supported dissident groups. The most powerful of these groups was Solidarity, a trade union that swelled to a membership of ten million and became one of the first legitimate anti-Communist opposition movements in Eastern Europe. With President Reagan’s support, the CIA provided money that helped Solidarity print newspapers, broadcast radio programs, and conduct a wide-ranging information warfare campaign against the Soviet-backed government. QRHELPFUL proved vital in establishing a free and democratic Poland. Long overlooked by CIA historians and Reagan biographers, the story of QRHELPFUL features an extraordinary cast of characters—including spymaster Bill Casey, CIA officer Richard Malzahn, Polish-speaking CIA case officer Celia Larkin, Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, and Pope John Paul II. Based on in-depth interviews and recently declassified evidence, A Covert Action celebrates a decisive victory over tyranny for U.S. intelligence behind the Iron Curtain, one that prefigured the Soviet collapse.

Regulating Covert Action

Author : William Michael Reisman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300050592
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Regulating Covert Action written by William Michael Reisman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covert activity has always been a significant element of international politics. This book attempts to assess the lawfulness of covert action under US and international law and faces the implications for democratic states that covert operations pose.

Covert Action in the Cold War

Author : James Callanan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350170836
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Covert Action in the Cold War written by James Callanan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born out of the ashes of World War II, the covert action arm of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was created to counter the challenge posed by the Soviet Union and its allies and bolster American interests worldwide. It evolved rapidly into an eclectic, well-resourced organization whose activities provided a substitute for overt military action and afforded essential backup when the Cold War turned hot in Korea and Vietnam. This comprehensive examination of a still controversial subject sheds valuable new light on the undercover operations mounted by the CIA during the Cold War. Using a wide range of unpublished government records and documents, James Callanan traces the growth of the agency chronologically as it forged a covert action mission that sought to advance US foreign and defense policy in all corners of the globe. Offering a powerful perspective on a pivotal period in American history, "Covert Action in the Cold War" makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of global politics during the Cold War.

Executive Secrets

Author : William J. Daugherty
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813191614
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Executive Secrets written by William J. Daugherty and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-06-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daugherty addresses the public perception of the CIA as a rogue agency that initiates unsanctioned, risky, covert action programs. The 17-year veteran operations officer with the CIA produces evidence to disprove this notion.

Secret and Sanctioned

Author : Stephen F. Knott
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195100980
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Secret and Sanctioned written by Stephen F. Knott and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eye-opening account reveals that covert intelligence operations in the U.S. date much farther back than most people realize--back to the Founding Fathers. Detailing clandestine, unscrupulous operations that took place under such presidents as Washington, Jefferson, Polk, and Lincoln, Knott reveals that presidents have rarely consulted Congress before engaging in such operations.

Covert Regime Change

Author : Lindsey A. O'Rourke
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501730681
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Covert Regime Change written by Lindsey A. O'Rourke and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: States seldom resort to war to overthrow their adversaries. They are more likely to attempt to covertly change the opposing regime, by assassinating a foreign leader, sponsoring a coup d’état, meddling in a democratic election, or secretly aiding foreign dissident groups. In Covert Regime Change, Lindsey A. O’Rourke shows us how states really act when trying to overthrow another state. She argues that conventional focus on overt cases misses the basic causes of regime change. O’Rourke provides substantive evidence of types of security interests that drive states to intervene. Offensive operations aim to overthrow a current military rival or break up a rival alliance. Preventive operations seek to stop a state from taking certain actions, such as joining a rival alliance, that may make them a future security threat. Hegemonic operations try to maintain a hierarchical relationship between the intervening state and the target government. Despite the prevalence of covert attempts at regime change, most operations fail to remain covert and spark blowback in unanticipated ways. Covert Regime Change assembles an original dataset of all American regime change operations during the Cold War. This fund of information shows the United States was ten times more likely to try covert rather than overt regime change during the Cold War. Her dataset allows O’Rourke to address three foundational questions: What motivates states to attempt foreign regime change? Why do states prefer to conduct these operations covertly rather than overtly? How successful are such missions in achieving their foreign policy goals?

Covert Action in Chile, 1963-1973

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Covert Action in Chile, 1963-1973 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Covert Action

Author : Dick Couch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416510435
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Covert Action written by Dick Couch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First there was The Mercenary Option. Now IFOR, the surgical strike team led by former Navy SEAL Garrett Walker, returns in an explosive adventure charged with authenticity and suspense. COVERT ACTION Formed by a wealthy industrialist after the terror attacks on American soil, the Intervention Force is a professional strike team called in on missions others can't -- or won't -- undertake. IFOR has already defused a seemingly impenetrable scheme for nuclear annihilation; now they are called into one of the world's hottest zones. In the Zimbabwean province of Tonga, an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever has U.S. officials on the alert for bioterrorism. Walker leads his Black Ops team into the heart of danger in the African nation to unhinge the workings of two terrorist kingpins -- the brilliant Russian Pavel Zelinkow and Al Qaeda mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- before a cataclysm is unleashed on an unsuspecting world. For "hard-as-nails adventure that will keep you riveted to your chair" (Stephen Coonts), delve into the IFOR novels from Dick Couch.

War at Home

Author : Brian Glick
Publisher : South End Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896083493
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book War at Home written by Brian Glick and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a must handbook for private study and group discussion by all progressive and radical activists. Today's defense depends on our knowledge of yesterday's repression. The message: the political police haven't forgotten us--we can't afford to forget them and their methods.--Philip Agee, former CIA agent

The Cia's Secret Operations

Author : Harry Rositzke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000315479
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Cia's Secret Operations written by Harry Rositzke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am grateful to those of my colleagues in this first generation of American "spymasters" who were willing to share their experiences with me even after I retired to my unclassified farm . I am indebted to Howard Roman , who worked with Allen Dulles on his intelligence writings , for his assistance in the preparation of the early chapters, and to Nancy Kelly, my editor at Reader's Digest Press , for the sharp edge of her pruning shears .

Covert Operations

Author : Karma Lochrie
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812207194
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Covert Operations written by Karma Lochrie and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book In Covert Operations, Karma Lochrie brings the categories and cultural meanings of secrecy in the Middle Ages out into the open. Isolating five broad areas—confession, women's gossip, medieval science and medicine, marriage and the law, and sodomitic discourse—Lochrie examines various types of secrecy and the literary texts in which they are played out. She reads texts as central to Middle English studies as the "Parson's Tale," the "Miller's Tale," the Secretum Secretorum, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as well as a broad range of less familiar works, including a gynecological treatise and a little-known fifteenth-century parody in which gossip and confession become one. As she does so she reveals a great deal about the medieval past—and perhaps just as much about the early development of the concealments that shape the present day.

April '65

Author : William A. Tidwell
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873385152
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book April '65 written by William A. Tidwell and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the history of the Confederate Secret Service and its involvement in the assassination of President Lincoln. The author uses previously unknown records and traces the development of Confederate doctrine for the conduct of irregular warfare.

Disrupt and Deny

Author : Rory Cormac
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191087521
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Disrupt and Deny written by Rory Cormac and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British leaders use spies and Special Forces to interfere in the affairs of others discreetly and deniably. Since 1945, MI6 has spread misinformation designed to divide and discredit targets from the Middle East to Eastern Europe and Northern Ireland. It has instigated whispering campaigns and planted false evidence on officials working behind the Iron Curtain, tried to ferment revolution in Albania, blown up ships to prevent the passage of refugees to Israel, and secretly funnelled aid to insurgents in Afghanistan and dissidents in Poland. MI6 has launched cultural and economic warfare against Iceland and Czechoslovakia. It has tried to instigate coups in Congo, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and elsewhere. Through bribery and blackmail, Britain has rigged elections as colonies moved to independence. Britain has fought secret wars in Yemen, Indonesia, and Oman — and discreetly used Special Forces to eliminate enemies from colonial Malaya to Libya during the Arab Spring. This is covert action: a vital, though controversial, tool of statecraft and perhaps the most sensitive of all government activity. If used wisely, it can play an important role in pursuing national interests in a dangerous world. If used poorly, it can cause political scandal — or worse. In Disrupt and Deny, Rory Cormac tells the remarkable true story of Britain's secret scheming against its enemies, as well as its friends; of intrigue and manoeuvring within the darkest corridors of Whitehall, where officials fought to maintain control of this most sensitive and seductive work; and, above all, of Britain's attempt to use smoke and mirrors to mask decline. He reveals hitherto secret operations, the slush funds that paid for them, and the battles in Whitehall that shaped them.

Covert Operations

Author : Claire C. Carter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934435861
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Covert Operations written by Claire C. Carter and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the tragedies of September 11, 2001, contemporary artists such as Ahmed Basiony, Thomas Demand, Harun Farocki, Jenny Holzer, Trevor Paglen and Taryn Simon urgently pursued the complicated intersection of freedom, security, secrecy, power and violence. Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns features 13 international artists who have collected and revealed unreported information on subjects ranging from classified military sites and reconnaissance satellites to border and immigration surveillance, terrorist profiling, narcotics and human trafficking, illegal extradition flights and nuclear weapons. Among the other contributing artists are Anne-Marie Schleiner, Luis Hernandez Galvan, David Taylor and Kerry Tribe.

The CIA's Black Ops

Author : John Jacob Nutter, Ph.D
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615923977
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book The CIA's Black Ops written by John Jacob Nutter, Ph.D and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast array of CIA black "ops" (operations) has turned the agency into a policy maker dangerously independent of the government that created it. This is an unprecedented declassification of foreign exploits and domestic secrets.

US Covert Operations and Cold War Strategy

Author : Sarah-Jane Corke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113410412X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book US Covert Operations and Cold War Strategy written by Sarah-Jane Corke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on recently declassified documents, this book provides the first examination of the Truman Administration’s decision to employ covert operations in the Cold War. Although covert operations were an integral part of America’s arsenal during the late 1940s and early 1950s, the majority of these operations were ill conceived, unrealistic and ultimately doomed to failure. In this volume, the author looks at three central questions: Why were these types of operations adopted? Why were they conducted in such a haphazard manner? And, why, once it became clear that they were not working, did the administration fail to abandon them? The book argues that the Truman Administration was unable to reconcile policy, strategy and operations successfully, and to agree on a consistent course of action for waging the Cold War. This ensured that they wasted time and effort, money and manpower on covert operations designed to challenge Soviet hegemony, which had little or no real chance of success. US Covert Operations and Cold War Strategy will be of great interest to students of US foreign policy, Cold War history, intelligence and international history in general.

The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence

Author : Loch K. Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199888477
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence written by Loch K. Johnson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-12 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence is a state-of-the-art work on intelligence and national security. Edited by Loch Johnson, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, the handbook examines the topic in full, beginning with an examination of the major theories of intelligence. It then shifts its focus to how intelligence agencies operate, how they collect information from around the world, the problems that come with transforming "raw" information into credible analysis, and the difficulties in disseminating intelligence to policymakers. It also considers the balance between secrecy and public accountability, and the ethical dilemmas that covert and counterintelligence operations routinely present to intelligence agencies. Throughout, contributors factor in broader historical and political contexts that are integral to understanding how intelligence agencies function in our information-dominated age. The book is organized into the following sections: theories and methods of intelligence studies; historical background; the collection and processing of intelligence; the analysis and production of intelligence; the challenges of intelligence dissemination; counterintelligence and counterterrorism; covert action; intelligence and accountability; and strategic intelligence in other nations.