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Jacobsen, Annie.
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United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History.
Intelligence service -- United States -- History.
Espionage.
Assassination.
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Jacobsen, Annie.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History.
Intelligence service -- United States -- History.
Espionage.
Assassination.
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Surprise, kill, vanish : the
secret
history
of
CIA
paramilitary
armies
,
operators
, and
assassins
/ Annie Jacobsen.
by
Jacobsen, Annie.
Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Call #:
327.1273 J175s
Subjects
United States. Central Intelligence Agency --
History
.
Intelligence service -- United States --
History
.
Espionage.
Assassination.
ISBN:
9780316441438 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Secret
history
of
CIA
paramilitary
armies
,
operators
, and
assassins
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xiii, 545 p. : col. ill.; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-475) and index.
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.
Summary:
A character-driven
history
of
CIA
covert operations and United States government-sponsored assassinations.
Holds:
3
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Bedford Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
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