Agents of Subversion : : The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China / / John Delury.
Agents of Subversion reconstructs the remarkable story of a botched mission into Manchuria, showing how it fit into a wider CIA campaign against Communist China and highlighting the intensity—and futility—of clandestine operations to overthrow Mao. In the winter of 1952, at the height of the Korean...
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Delury, John, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Agents of Subversion : The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China / John Delury. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource (408 p.) : 12 b&w halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- PROLOGUE -- Part I AXIS MUNDI -- 1 THE LOSS OF CHINA -- 2 REALISM AND RESTRAINT -- 3 SUBVERSION AND REPRESSION -- 4 INTELLIGENCE OR PSYWAR -- Part II CALL TO ADVENTURE -- 5 AT WAR IN KOREA -- 6 THE THIRD FORCE -- 7 MAKING COUNTERREVOLUTION -- 8 HONG KONG FIGHT LEAGUE -- 9 MANCHURIAN MANHUNT -- Part III ROAD OF TRIALS -- 10 EXFILTRATION -- 11 QUIET AMERICANS -- 12 SUBVERSION ON TRIAL -- 13 IMPLAUSIBLE DENIAL -- Part IV RESCUE FROM WITHOUT -- 14 PRISONERS OF THE PAST -- 15 WAR AND REVOLUTION -- 16 RELEASE -- EPILOGUE -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Agents of Subversion reconstructs the remarkable story of a botched mission into Manchuria, showing how it fit into a wider CIA campaign against Communist China and highlighting the intensity—and futility—of clandestine operations to overthrow Mao. In the winter of 1952, at the height of the Korean War, the CIA flew a covert mission into China to pick up an agent. Trained on a remote Pacific island, the agent belonged to an obscure anti-communist group known as the Third Force based out of Hong Kong. The exfiltration would fail disastrously, and one of the Americans on the mission, a recent Yale graduate named John T. Downey, ended up a prisoner of Mao Zedong's government for the next twenty years. Unraveling the truth behind decades of Cold War intrigue, John Delury documents the damage that this hidden foreign policy did to American political life. The US government kept the public in the dark about decades of covert activity directed against China, while Downey languished in a Beijing prison and his mother lobbied desperately for his release. Mining little-known Chinese sources, Delury sheds new light on Mao's campaigns to eliminate counterrevolutionaries and how the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party used captive spies in diplomacy with the West. Agents of Subversion is an innovative work of transnational history, and it demonstrates both how the Chinese Communist regime used the fear of special agents to tighten its grip on society and why intellectuals in Cold War America presciently worried that subversion abroad could lead to repression at home. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Cold War. Espionage, American China History 20th century. Intelligence officers United States Biography. Intelligence service United States History 20th century. Spies United States Biography. Cold War History. Diplomatic History. History. HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. bisacsh imprisoned US spies in china, intelligence in foreign affairs, US china korean war, cia and china. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110751826 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2022 English 9783110992960 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2022 9783110992939 ZDB-23-DEG https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501765988 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501765988 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501765988/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- PROLOGUE -- Part I AXIS MUNDI -- 1 THE LOSS OF CHINA -- 2 REALISM AND RESTRAINT -- 3 SUBVERSION AND REPRESSION -- 4 INTELLIGENCE OR PSYWAR -- Part II CALL TO ADVENTURE -- 5 AT WAR IN KOREA -- 6 THE THIRD FORCE -- 7 MAKING COUNTERREVOLUTION -- 8 HONG KONG FIGHT LEAGUE -- 9 MANCHURIAN MANHUNT -- Part III ROAD OF TRIALS -- 10 EXFILTRATION -- 11 QUIET AMERICANS -- 12 SUBVERSION ON TRIAL -- 13 IMPLAUSIBLE DENIAL -- Part IV RESCUE FROM WITHOUT -- 14 PRISONERS OF THE PAST -- 15 WAR AND REVOLUTION -- 16 RELEASE -- EPILOGUE -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index |
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