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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 12 b&w halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- 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