| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 545 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 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. |
| Subject |
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History.
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| Subject(S) |
Intelligence service -- United States -- History.
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Espionage.
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Assassination.
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| ISBN |
9780316441438 (hardcover) |
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