Bibliograph

Surprise, kill, vanish, the secret history of CIA paramilitary armies, operators, and assassins, Annie Jacobsen

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Surprise, kill, vanish, the secret history of CIA paramilitary armies, operators, and assassins, Annie Jacobsen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-475) and index

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Surprise, kill, vanish

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1099524601

Responsibility statement

Annie Jacobsen

Sub title

the secret history of CIA paramilitary armies, operators, and assassins

Summary

A character-driven history of CIA covert operations and United States government-sponsored assassinations

Table Of 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

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