Surprise, Kill, Vanish the Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, Assassins
New York, NY : Hachette Audio, [2019],p2019
Format: Audiobook on CD
Edition: Unabridged.
Description: 15 audio discs (approximately 19 hrs.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Since 1947, domestic and foreign assassinations have been executed under the CIA-led covert action operations team. Before that time, responsibility for taking out America's enemies abroad was even more shrouded in mystery. Despite Hollywood notions of last-minute rogue-operations and external secret hires, covert action is actually a cog in a colossal foreign policy machine, moving through, among others, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the House and Senate Select Committees. At the end of the day, it is the president, not the CIA, who is singularly in charge.
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.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Intelligence service -- United States -- History.
Espionage.
Assassination.
Assassination.
Espionage.
Intelligence service.
United States.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Intelligence service -- United States -- History.
Espionage.
Assassination.
Assassination.
Espionage.
Intelligence service.
United States.
ISBN:
9781478993346
UPC: 9781478993346
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
CD GOV Jacobsen | Southeast | Book on CD Nonfiction | In |
"Includes a PDF of photos" on disc 15.
Compact discs.
Read by the author.
Compact discs.
Read by the author.