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Covert Action: The Roots of Terrorism

2 reviews

Ocean Press, 2003

Networks of information
Cover Action collects many articles from the authors' Covert Action Quarterly publication that cover that hottest of topics, terrorism. Spanning about 20 years, this book looks at events from the first 'war on terror' (declared by Reagan, though you never hear this in the news) to the current situation and the possible futures. The Middle East figures heavily (Israel, Palestine, the first ...

Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards: U.S. Covert Action and Counterintelligence

2 reviews

Transaction Publishers, 2000

What Bush's Advisers Are Telling Him
A quick, cheap alternative to setting up your own spy network. SPY BOOKS have evolved. Early in the 20th century we had thrillers and fantasies, shamelessly implausible but racy and fun, culminating in Bond. Thoughtful spy novels began with Somerset Maugham's Ashenden (1928), featuring a detached hero on a journey to disillusion, a process brought to its apotheosis by le Carre via Greene. In ...

Covert Action: The Limits of Intervention in the Postwar World

1 review
Gregory F. Treverton

Basic Books, 1989

Book review
Under Cover, or Out of Control? The New York Times November 29, 1987, Sunday, Late City Final Edition (Review of 2 books, including The perfect failure: Kennedy, Eisenhower, and the CIA at the Bay of Pigs, only this book review included here) The torrent of revelations about the Iran-contra affair during the summer's televised hearings, and in the recently released report of the Congressional ...

Covert Action

11 reviews
Dick Couch

Pocket Star, 2005

good africa stuff
dick couch is an underrated writer;he is p[roducing some very good stuff! i really enjoyed covert action. i had just reread the dogs of war, and this was a good followup. i recommend covert action and all t6he ifor novels.

Promise To Defend (Don Pendleton's Stony Man: Americas Ultra-Covert Intelligence Agency)

1 review
Don Pendleton

Gold Eagle, 2005

OK, but off
This book is entertaining enough, but the characters especially of Carl Lyons are written embarassingly bad. It's ok, not great. You want a really good Stony Man, read Full Blast/Gathering Storm or Silent Arsenal. I also highly recommend any of the Cutting Audio full cast audio books.

Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Infinity Affair (Covert-One)

38 reviews
Robert Ludlum, James Cobb

Grand Central Publishing, 2009

agreat thriller
i really enjoyed this book; and i am really glad that mr.cobb "is back" with his action writing. i bought the book because mr. cobb was listed as the writer.. and certainly was not disappointed. lets have more of mr. cobb..either in the Ludlum series or as his own books.

Executive Secrets: Covert Action and the Presidency

4 reviews
William J. Daugherty

University Press of Kentucky, 2006

Rigorous and Sound
Titles like this may smack of conspiracy theory, but very rarely do authors choose their own titles. A marketing team's title should not be confused with the authors' intent. In this case, a slightly flashy title fits the content--intelligence work is often duller and at the same time more exciting than its glamorous reputation. This point is made clear by the authors of this excellent book, ...

Honorable Treachery: A History of Us Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Action from the American Revolution ...

2 reviews
G. J. A. O'Toole

Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1993

Excellent aid to teaching history
This book is as useful today as when published ten years ago (1991). I searched for years for an easy-to-read explanation of the birth and application of United States political and military intelligence to supplement history instruction. Most history books totally ignore the influence of intelligence on national events and policy creating instead an illusion of brilliant insight by political ...

War at Home: Covert action against U.S. activists and what we can do about it (South End Press Pamphlet ...

5 reviews
Brian Glick

South End Press, 1999

Well done and important
Whether you are a social activist or a person interested in hisory and current events this short book is an important read. It's a little known fact that the federal government, when it is not funding terrorists like Osama bin Laden, uses millions of tax payer dollars each year to surveil, harass, and disrupt legitimate First Ammendment activities of groups it disapproves of here in the United ...

Direct Action: A Covert War Thriller

15 reviews
John Weisman

William Morrow, 2005

Virtual Reality
"Direct Action" is so heartpoundingly real it might as well be virtual reality. This book is a powerful page-turner that provides so much inside info that you feel you are right there with Tom Stafford and his buddies, every minute of the journey. If you're curious about all the dirty little secrets behind counter-terrorism and how difficult it is to do your job if you are CIA or ex-CIA, then ...

April '65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War
William A. Tidwell

Kent State University Press, 1995

William A. Tidwell establishes the existence of a Confederate Secret Service and clarifies the Confederate decision-making process to show the role played by Jefferson Davis in clandestine operations. While the book focuses on the Confederate Secret Service's involvement with the Lincoln assassination, the information presented has implications for various other aspects of the Civil War. The most thorough description of the Confederate Secret ...

THE SAND TABLE SCORPION

VELLUM PUBLISHING, INC., 2008

Chandler Hollis is drifting through life in an alcoholic haze after learning his childhood home in Vietnam has been attacked and his family killed. Then government agents drag him to Washington to be a principal player in a covert operation to aid the people of his former homeland. Soon he finds himself in Vietnam once more, armed with only a special machete, which he must use to kill and stamp his victims, creating a legend of a ghost-figure ...

Sudden Recall: Operation TANGO: A Top Secret CIA Covert Action

3 reviews
Andy Anderson

iUniverse, Inc., 2007

So That's What the CIA's Deadly Covert Operations Really Involved?
Having lived through the Cold War but never serving in the military or the Central Intelligence Agency, I am grateful to Andy Anderson for pulling back the screen of secrecy in a fictionalized tale that tells it like it was in the good old days of his own 25 year CIA career, entitled SUDDEN RECALL,OPERATION TANGO: A Top Secret CIA Covert Action. This spy and espionage thriller set in 2001 is ...

WildC.A.T.S. Covert Action Teams #7 January 1994
Brandon Choi and Jim Lee

Image Comics, 1994

U.S. Covert Actions by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Chile (Including the "Assassination" of ...
N.A.

Arc Manor, 2008

Text of both the Church Committee and Hinchey Reports on US Covert Actions in Chile between 1963 and 1973, including the in involvement of the CIA in the coup and the possibility of its participation in the "assassination" of Salvadore Allende

Edge of God

7 reviews, 2005

Tom Clancy (Without Remorse) meets Stephen Coonts (Flight of the Intruder) in Beowulf Pels' new book.....EDGE OF GOD.
Pels bridges the gap between Coonts and Clancy with his technological detail of a Clancy thriller and the imagery of a Coonts story line. "Edge of God" takes you into the real time world of terrorism and choices that the men and women who fight the world's bad guys must make. Pels heightens the tension so well, that I actually found myself with an increased pulse-rate and trying not to skip ...

The CIA's Black Ops: Covert Action, Foreign Policy, and Democracy

6 reviews
John Jacob Nutter

Prometheus Books, 1999

Even More Relevant Today
John J. Nutter's The CIA's Black Ops traces the history of the use of covert operations by Cold War-era policymakers as a "third option," used in situations in which neither diplomacy nor overt military action were deemed desirable. A political scientist and not a historian, the author argues that covert operations were unavoidable (and, at times, necessary) during the Cold War and still are in ...

Regulating Covert Action: Practices, Contexts and Policies of Covert Coercion Abroad in International and ...

2 reviews
W. Michael Reisman, James E. Baker

Yale University Press, 1992

The Clearest Exposition Available
Reisman and Baker bring much needed clarity to an legal area which is controversial and a moving target. Superb exposition. Useful "take aways" for a national security practitioner. Have always enjoyed Reisman's clarity of thought particularly in his analysis of Law of the Sea issues - - he does it again in the area of covert operations. I hope a second edition is written which analyzes the law ...

WildC.A.T.S. Covert Action Teams #5 November 1993
Brandon Choi and Jim Lee

Image Comics, 1993

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