Secret and Sanctioned - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Secret and Sanctioned write by Stephen F. Knott. This book was released on 1996. Secret and Sanctioned available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This eye-opening account reveals that covert intelligence operations in the U.S. date much farther back than most people realize--back to the Founding Fathers. Detailing clandestine, unscrupulous operations that took place under such presidents as Washington, Jefferson, Polk, and Lincoln, Knott reveals that presidents have rarely consulted Congress before engaging in such operations.
Covert Operations
Covert Operations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Covert Operations write by Claire C. Carter. This book was released on 2014. Covert Operations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following the tragedies of September 11, 2001, contemporary artists such as Ahmed Basiony, Thomas Demand, Harun Farocki, Jenny Holzer, Trevor Paglen and Taryn Simon urgently pursued the complicated intersection of freedom, security, secrecy, power and violence. Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns features 13 international artists who have collected and revealed unreported information on subjects ranging from classified military sites and reconnaissance satellites to border and immigration surveillance, terrorist profiling, narcotics and human trafficking, illegal extradition flights and nuclear weapons. Among the other contributing artists are Anne-Marie Schleiner, Luis Hernandez Galvan, David Taylor and Kerry Tribe.
Regulating Covert Action
Regulating Covert Action - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Regulating Covert Action write by William Michael Reisman. This book was released on 1992-01-01. Regulating Covert Action available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Covert activity has always been a significant element of international politics. This book attempts to assess the lawfulness of covert action under US and international law and faces the implications for democratic states that covert operations pose.
Covert Regime Change
Covert Regime Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Covert Regime Change write by Lindsey A. O'Rourke. This book was released on 2018-12-15. Covert Regime Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. States seldom resort to war to overthrow their adversaries. They are more likely to attempt to covertly change the opposing regime, by assassinating a foreign leader, sponsoring a coup d’état, meddling in a democratic election, or secretly aiding foreign dissident groups. In Covert Regime Change, Lindsey A. O’Rourke shows us how states really act when trying to overthrow another state. She argues that conventional focus on overt cases misses the basic causes of regime change. O’Rourke provides substantive evidence of types of security interests that drive states to intervene. Offensive operations aim to overthrow a current military rival or break up a rival alliance. Preventive operations seek to stop a state from taking certain actions, such as joining a rival alliance, that may make them a future security threat. Hegemonic operations try to maintain a hierarchical relationship between the intervening state and the target government. Despite the prevalence of covert attempts at regime change, most operations fail to remain covert and spark blowback in unanticipated ways. Covert Regime Change assembles an original dataset of all American regime change operations during the Cold War. This fund of information shows the United States was ten times more likely to try covert rather than overt regime change during the Cold War. Her dataset allows O’Rourke to address three foundational questions: What motivates states to attempt foreign regime change? Why do states prefer to conduct these operations covertly rather than overtly? How successful are such missions in achieving their foreign policy goals?
A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland
A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland write by Seth G. Jones. This book was released on 2018-09-11. A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A tale of victory for peace, for freedom, and for the CIA— a trifecta rare enough to make for required reading.” —Steve Donoghue, Spectator USA In 1981, the Soviet-backed Polish government declared martial law to crush a budding democratic opposition movement. Moscow and Washington were on a collision course. It was the most significant crisis of Ronald Reagan’s fledgling presidency. Reagan authorized a covert CIA operation codenamed QRHELPFUL to support dissident groups, particularly the trade union Solidarity. The CIA provided money that helped Solidarity print newspapers, broadcast radio programs, and conduct an information campaign against the government. This gripping narrative reveals the little-known history of one of America’s most successful covert operations through its most important characters—spymaster Bill Casey, CIA officer Richard Malzahn, Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, Pope John Paul II, and the Polish patriots who were instrumental to the success of the program. Based on in- depth interviews and recently declassified evidence, A Covert Action celebrates a decisive victory over tyranny for US intelligence behind the Iron Curtain, one that prefigured the Soviet collapse.
