American Covert Operations

Author : J. Ransom Clark
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798216045663

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American Covert Operations by J. Ransom Clark Pdf

Traces our country's long history of covert and special operations, focusing on the similarities and differences in the practice from the Revolutionary War to the present. Long before the creation of the CIA, the American government utilized special intelligence strategies with varying degrees of success. Even though critics throughout time have questioned the effectiveness and legitimacy of these tactics, presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama have employed secret operations to benefit the nation's best interest. This book follows America's history of intelligence gathering, undercover operations, and irregular warfare. Through chronologically organized chapters, the author examines secret military maneuvers, highlighting the elements common to covert and special operations across historical eras, and concluding with a chapter on national security since the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Author : James Callanan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 6000018622

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Covert Action in the Cold War by James Callanan Pdf

Author : William Michael Reisman,Reisman, William Michael Reisman,William Michael, Reisman,James E. Baker
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0300050593

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Regulating Covert Action by William Michael Reisman,Reisman, William Michael Reisman,William Michael, Reisman,James E. Baker Pdf

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.

Author : Gregory F. Treverton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : United States
ISBN : 1850430896

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Covert Action by Gregory F. Treverton Pdf

United States Central Intelligence Agency.

Author : Kristian Gustafson
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612343594

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Hostile Intent by Kristian Gustafson Pdf

Kristian Gustafson's Hostile Intent reexamines one of the most controversial chapters in U.S. intelligence history, the Central Intelligence Agency's covert operations in Chile from 1964 to 1974. At the request of successive U.S. presidents, the CIA in conjunction with the State Department and the Defense Intelligence Agency first acted to prevent Chilean socialist Salvador Allende from becoming the democratically elected president of his country and then tried to undermine his government once he was in office. Allende's government eventually fell in a bloody military coup on September 11, 1973. President Richard Nixon's administration and corporate interests were not sorry to see him go, but did U.S. covert operations actually play a decisive role in Allende's downfall? The declassification of thousands of U.S. government documents over the last several years demands that historians take a new look. Since 1973, most observers have maintained that U.S. machinations were responsible for the success of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's coup that forced Allende's fall and suicide. This assessment has been based on a thin documentary record of U.S. activity, the myth of an all-powerful CIA, and the CIA's checkered history of covert action in Latin America. However, Gustafson convincingly shows the conventional wisdom about the impact of U.S. actions is badly flawed. His meticulous research is based upon an intensive examination of previously unavailable U.S. records as well as interviews with key figures. Hostile Intent is the most comprehensive account to date of U.S. involvement in Chile, and its provocative reinterpretation of this involvement will shape all future debates.

Author : Loch K. Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197604410

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The Third Option by Loch K. Johnson Pdf

Introduction: The subterranean world of clandestine interventions -- The forms of covert action -- A ladder of clandestine escalation -- A shadowy foreign policy, 1947-1960 -- Murder most foul, 1960-1975 -- A new approach to covert action, 1975-2000 -- The third option in an age of terror, 2000-2020 -- Legal foundations -- Decision paths and accountability -- Drawing bright lines : ethics and covert action -- The third option reconsidered.

Author : Allan E. Goodman,Twentieth Century Fund. Task Force on Covert Action and American Democracy,Bruce D. Berkowitz
Publisher : Twentieth Century Foundation
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000366794

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The Need to Know by Allan E. Goodman,Twentieth Century Fund. Task Force on Covert Action and American Democracy,Bruce D. Berkowitz Pdf

This report offers new assumptions for the new era in American Foreign affairs in light of the bold changes that occurred throughout the world during the early nineties.

Author : Sarah-Jane Corke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134104123

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US Covert Operations and Cold War Strategy by Sarah-Jane Corke Pdf

Based on recently declassified documents, this book provides the first examination of the Truman Administration’s decision to employ covert operations in the Cold War. Although covert operations were an integral part of America’s arsenal during the late 1940s and early 1950s, the majority of these operations were ill conceived, unrealistic and ultimately doomed to failure. In this volume, the author looks at three central questions: Why were these types of operations adopted? Why were they conducted in such a haphazard manner? And, why, once it became clear that they were not working, did the administration fail to abandon them? The book argues that the Truman Administration was unable to reconcile policy, strategy and operations successfully, and to agree on a consistent course of action for waging the Cold War. This ensured that they wasted time and effort, money and manpower on covert operations designed to challenge Soviet hegemony, which had little or no real chance of success. US Covert Operations and Cold War Strategy will be of great interest to students of US foreign policy, Cold War history, intelligence and international history in general.

Author : William J. Daugherty
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813191610

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Executive Secrets by William J. Daugherty Pdf

Daugherty addresses the public perception of the CIA as a rogue agency that initiates unsanctioned, risky, covert action programs. The 17-year veteran operations officer with the CIA produces evidence to disprove this notion.

Author : Lindsey A. O'Rourke
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501730689

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Covert Regime Change by Lindsey A. O'Rourke Pdf

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?

Author : Stephen F. Knott
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195100983

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Secret and Sanctioned by Stephen F. Knott Pdf

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.

Author : John J. Carter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Espionage, American
ISBN : WISC:89084886373

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Covert Operations and the Emergence of the Modern American Presidency, 1920-1960 by John J. Carter Pdf

Author : Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300101597

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Cloak and Dollar by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Pdf

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, a leading expert on the history of American espionage, here offers a lively and sweeping history of American secret intelligence from the founding of the nation through the present day. Jeffreys-Jones chronicles the extraordinary expansion of American secret intelligence from the 1790s, when George Washington set aside a discretionary fund for covert operations, to the beginning of the twenty-first century, when United States intelligence expenditure exceeds Russia's total defense budget. How did the American intelligence system evolve into such an enormous and costly bureaucracy? Jeffreys-Jones argues that hyperbolic claims and the impulse toward self-promotion have beset American intelligence organizations almost from the outset. Allan Pinkerton, whose nineteenth-century detective agency was the forerunner of modern intelligence bureaus, invented assassination plots and fomented anti-radical fears in order to demonstrate his own usefulness. Subsequent spymasters likewise invented or exaggerated a succession of menaces ranging from white slavery to Soviet espionage to digital encryption in order to build their intelligence agencies and, later, to defend their ever-expanding budgets. While American intelligence agencies have achieved some notable successes, Jeffreys-Jones argues, the intelligence community as a whole has suffered from a dangerous distortion of mission. By exaggerating threats such as Communist infiltration and Chinese espionage at the expense of other, more intractable problems--such as the narcotics trade and the danger of terrorist attack--intelligence agencies have misdirected resources and undermined their own objectivity. Since the end of the Cold War, the aims of American secret intelligence have been unclear. Recent events have raised serious questions about effectiveness of foreign intelligence, and yet the CIA and other intelligence agencies are poised for even greater expansion under the current administration. Offering a lucid assessment of the origins and evolution of American secret intelligence, Jeffreys-Jones asks us to think also about the future direction of our intelligence agencies.

Author : John Prados
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015035342883

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Presidents' Secret Wars by John Prados Pdf

Provides an analysis of postwar covert activities by United States intelligence agencies, documenting the early days of the CIA and its operations.

Author : John J. Carter
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0773477543

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Covert Operations as a Tool of Presidential Foreign Policy in American History from 1800 to 1920 by John J. Carter Pdf