To oppose the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the United States formed an extraordinary anti-communist alliance with militant Islamic forces in South Asia. In this controversial book, John Cooley provides the first behind-the-scenes account of this alliance and of how th…
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To oppose the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the US formed an anti-communist alliance with militant Islamic forces in Central Asia. This book provides an account of this alliance and how it backfired with the events of September 11.
To oppose the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the US formed an anti-communist alliance with militant Islamic forces in Central Asia. This book provides an account of this alliance and how it backfired with the events of September 11.
The author discusses his twenty-year career as a CIA operative in the Middle East and examines how the agency's abandonment of its original mission resulted in a failure to acknowledge the growing threat of militant Islamic terrorist groups.
The author discusses his twenty-year career as a CIA operative in the Middle East and examines how the agency's abandonment of its original mission resulted in a failure to acknowledge the growing threat of militant Islamic terrorist groups.
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An investigative account describing how some of the biggest names in American defense and intelligence were involved in dope trade, tax evasion, and gunrunning.
An investigative account describing how some of the biggest names in American defense and intelligence were involved in dope trade, tax evasion, and gunrunning.
Details the secret history of the CIA's involvement in Vietnam, starting in 1954 that was designed to suppress hard-core insurgents and win the loyalty of the peasants. The author draws from field experience, CIA documents, and eyewitness accounts to provide an analysis of the a…
Vietnam Declassified is a detailed account of the CIA's effort to help South Vietnamese authorities win the loyalty of the Vietnamese peasantry and suppress the Viet Cong. Covering the CIA engagement from 1954 to mid-1972, it provides a thorough analysis of the agency and its pa…
"Any serious study of the Vietnam War would be less than complete without accounting for the CIA's role in that conflict - a role that increased dramatically after the Tet Offensive in 1968." "John Sullivan was one of the CIA's top polygraph examiners during the final four years…