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  • Jacobsen, Annie.
     
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  • United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History.
     
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  • Intelligence service -- United States -- History.
     
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  • Espionage.
     
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  • Assassination.
     
     
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    Surprise, kill, vanish : the secret history of CIA paramilitary armies, operators, and assassins / Annie Jacobsen.
    by Jacobsen, Annie.
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    Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
    Call #:327.1273 J175s
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  • United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History.
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  • Intelligence service -- United States -- History.
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  • Espionage.
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  • 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.
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