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Spies On The Mekong
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Author : Ken Conboy
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2021-08-09
Spies On The Mekong written by Ken Conboy and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-09 with Political Science categories.
During the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agencys biggest and longest paramilitary operation was in the tiny kingdom of Laos. Hundreds of advisors and support personnel trained and led guerrilla formations across the mountainous Laotian countryside, as well as running smaller road-watch and agent teams that stretched from the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the Chinese frontier. Added to this number were hundreds of contract personnel providing covert aviation services. It was dangerous work. On the Memorial Wall at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, nine stars are dedicated to officers who perished in Laos. On top of this are more than one hundred from propriety airlines killed in aviation mishaps between 1961 and 1973. Combined, this grim casualty figure is orders of magnitude larger than any other CIA paramilitary operation. But for the Foreign Intelligence officers at Langley, Laos was more than a paramilitary battleground. Because of its geographic location as a buffer state, as well as its trifurcated political structure, Laos was a unique Cold War melting pot. All three of the Lao political factions, including the communist Pathet Lao, had representation in Vientiane. The Soviet Union had an extremely active embassy in the capital, while the Peoples Republic of Chinathough in the throes of the Cultural Revolutionhad multiple diplomatic outposts across the kingdom. So, too, did both North and South Vietnam. All of this made Laos fertile ground for clandestine operations. This book comprehensively details the cloak-and-dagger side of the war in Laos for the first time, from agent recruitments to servicing dead-drops in Vientiane.
Black Erawan
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Author : Ken Conboy
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2021-07-31
Black Erawan written by Ken Conboy and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-31 with categories.
The first detailed look at the CIA's clandestine operations in Laos during the Cold War.
Death Zones And Darling Spies
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Author : Beverly Deepe Keever
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2020-02-17
Death Zones And Darling Spies written by Beverly Deepe Keever and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Chosen for 2015 One Book One Nebraska In 1961, equipped with a master's degree from famed Columbia Journalism School and letters of introduction to Associated Press bureau chiefs in Asia, twenty-six-year-old Beverly Deepe set off on a trip around the world. Allotting just two weeks to South Vietnam, she was still there seven years later, having then earned the distinction of being the longest-serving American correspondent covering the Vietnam War and garnering a Pulitzer Prize nomination. In Death Zones and Darling Spies, Beverly Deepe Keever describes what it was like for a farm girl from Nebraska to find herself halfway around the world, trying to make sense of one of the nation's bloodiest and bitterest wars. She arrived in Saigon as Vietnam's war entered a new phase and American helicopter units and provincial advisers were unpacking. She tells of traveling from her Saigon apartment to jungles where Wild West-styled forts first dotted Vietnam's borders and where, seven years later, they fell like dominoes from communist-led attacks. In 1965 she braved elephant grass with American combat units armed with unparalleled technology to observe their valor--and their inability to distinguish friendly farmers from hide-and-seek guerrillas. Keever's trove of tissue-thin memos to editors, along with published and unpublished dispatches for New York and London media, provide the reader with you-are-there descriptions of Buddhist demonstrations and turning-point coups as well as phony ones. Two Vietnamese interpreters, self-described as "darling spies," helped her decode Vietnam's shadow world and subterranean war. These memoirs, at once personal and panoramic, chronicle the horrors of war and a rise and decline of American power and prestige.
Spies
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Author : Scott Stone
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 1998-11
Spies written by Scott Stone and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11 with categories.
By Edgar Award-winning author Scott C.S. Stone…. MacTavish told him all he knew, and Hoon then pointed to Natalya. She told him everything, including the fact that the Americans were sending secret agents to intercept them with the stolen object. Hoon pointed to Stratton, who protested he had been kidnapped and was merely trying to get his cameraman and get on the air. Farley claimed he was the zoologist, Dr. James Bonde and felt immediately that nobody believed him. At the end they all had the same information, except for one thing, and at last Hoon turned to the Old One, "Now", he said softly, but with a hint of steel in his voice, "it is your turn, Old One. What is it that we all seek?"
Spies And Commandos
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Author : Kenneth J. Conboy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Spies And Commandos written by Kenneth J. Conboy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
During the Vietnam War, the U.S. sought to undermine Hanoi's subversion of the Saigon regime by sending Vietnamese operatives behind enemy lines. All the commandos were killed or captured, with many reporting false information. This book traces the rise and demise of this secret operation.
Secrets And Lies In Vietnam
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Author : Panagiotis Dimitrakis
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-05-20
Secrets And Lies In Vietnam written by Panagiotis Dimitrakis and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-20 with Political Science categories.
The Vietnam War lasted twenty years, and was the USA's greatest military failure. An attempt to stem the spread of Soviet and Chinese influence, the conflict in practice created a chaotic state torn apart by espionage, terrorism and guerilla warfare. American troops quickly became embroiled in jungle warfare and knowledge of the other side's troop movements, communication lines, fighting techniques and strategy became crucial. Panagiotis Dimitrakis uncovers this battle for intelligence and tells the story of the Vietnam War through the newly available British, American and French sources - including declassified material. In doing so he dissects the limitations of the CIA, the NSA, the MI6 and the French intelligence- the SDECE- in gathering actionable intelligence. Dimitrakis also shows how the Vietminh under Ho Chi Minh established their own secret services; how their high grade moles infiltrated the US and French military echelons and the government of South Vietnam, and how Hanoi's intelligence apparatus eventually suffered seriously from 'spies amongst us' paranoia. In doing so he enhances our understanding of the war that came to define its era.
Code Breakers And Spies Of The Vietnam War
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Author : Andrew Coddington
language : en
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2018-07-15
Code Breakers And Spies Of The Vietnam War written by Andrew Coddington and has been published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-15 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, the conflict in Vietnam was much more than a battle between Vietnamese and American forces. Although the fighting may have taken place in monsoon-swept cities and booby-trapped jungles, the Vietnam War was fought on a much larger scale. Spies were active on all fronts, including within the United States itself. Readers will explore how technology and tactics not only shaped the Vietnam War, but changed the ethics of American surveillance from then until the present day.
The Spy Who Loved Us
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Author : Thomas A. Bass
language : en
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date : 2009-02-10
The Spy Who Loved Us written by Thomas A. Bass and has been published by PublicAffairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Pham Xuan An was a brilliant journalist and an even better spy. A friend to all the legendary reporters who covered the Vietnam War, he was an invaluable source of news and a font of wisdom on all things Vietnamese. At the same time, he was a masterful double agent. An inspired shape-shifter who kept his cover in place until the day he died, Pham Xuan An ranks as one of the preeminent spies of the twentieth century. When Thomas A. Bass set out to write the story of An’s remarkable career for The New Yorker, fresh revelations arrived daily during their freewheeling conversations, which began in 1992. But a good spy is always at work, and it was not until An’s death in 2006 that Bass was able to lift the veil from his carefully guarded story to offer up this fascinating portrait of a hidden life. A masterful history that reads like a John le Carré thriller, The Spy Who Loved Us offers a vivid portrait of journalists and spies at war.
Spies And Commandos
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Author : Kenneth Conboy
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2000-03-16
Spies And Commandos written by Kenneth Conboy and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-16 with History categories.
During the Vietnam war, the United States sought to undermine Hanoi's subversion of the Saigon regime by sending Vietnamese operatives behind enemy lines. A secret to most Americans, this covert operation was far from secret in Hanoi: all of the commandos were killed or captured, and many were turned by the Communists to report false information. Spies and Commandos traces the rise and demise of this secret operation-started by the CIA in 1960 and expanded by the Pentagon beginning in1964-in the first book to examine the program from both sides of the war. Kenneth Conboy and Dale Andrade interviewed CIA and military personnel and traveled in Vietnam to locate former commandos who had been captured by Hanoi, enabling them to tell the complete story of these covert activities from high-level decision making to the actual experiences of the agents. The book vividly describes scores of dangerous missions-including raids against North Vietnamese coastal installations and the air-dropping of dozens of agents into enemy territory-as well as psychological warfare designed to make Hanoi believe the "resistance movement" was larger than it actually was. It offers a more complete operational account of the program than has ever been made available-particularly its early years-and ties known events in the war to covert operations, such as details of the "34-A Operations" that led to the Tonkin Gulf incidents in 1964. It also explains in no uncertain terms why the whole plan was doomed to failure from the start. One of the remarkable features of the operation, claim the authors, is that its failures were so glaring. They argue that the CIA, and later the Pentagon, was unaware for years that Hanoi had compromised the commandos, even though some agents missed radio deadlines or filed suspicious reports. Operational errors were not attributable to conspiracy or counterintelligence, they contend, but simply to poor planning and lack of imagination. Although it flourished for ten years under cover of the wider war, covert activity in Vietnam is now recognized as a disaster. Conboy and Andrade's account of that episode is a sobering tale that lends a new perspective on the war as it reclaims the lost lives of these unsung spies and commandos.
Mekong Drillship
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Author : Russ Long
language : en
Publisher: Vantage Press
Release Date : 1999-07-01
Mekong Drillship written by Russ Long and has been published by Vantage Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07-01 with Fiction categories.