Surprise, Kill, Vanish
The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xiii, 545 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
A character-driven history of CIA covert operations and United States government-sponsored assassinations.
Contents:
An office for ungentlemanly warfare -- Tertia Optio -- Surprise attack in Korea -- Special Forces -- Ruin and rule in Guatemala -- Kings, shahs, monarchs, and madmen -- The KGB's office of liquid affairs -- Green light -- The special group -- An assassination capability -- JFK, KIA -- The studies and observations group -- Kill or capture -- Green Berets -- Revenge -- Colonel Qaddafi's Libya -- Reagan's preemptive neutralization -- Parachute assassins, Saddam Hussein, and Osama bin Laden -- Operation love storm -- Carlos the jackal -- The engineer -- War in Afghanistan -- Poke the bear -- War in Iraq -- Imad Mugniyah -- The moral twilight zone -- Just war -- The hidden hand.
Subjects:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History.
Intelligence service -- United States -- History.
Espionage.
Assassination.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History.
Intelligence service -- United States -- History.
Espionage.
Assassination.
ISBN:
9780316441438
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
GOV Espionage Jac | Eastover | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 6/4/2024) |
GOV Espionage Jac | St. Andrews Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
GOV Espionage Jac | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-475) and index.