Torrent details for "Operation Valuable Fiend by Albert Lulushi EPUB"    Log in to bookmark

wide
Torrent details
Cover
Download
Torrent rating (0 rated)
Controls:
Category:
Language:
English English
Total Size:
2.79 MB
Info Hash:
d1397df5902424c2d4845cf3c13ea3bc759ce215
Added By:
Added:  
15-03-2019 02:01
Views:
538
Health:
Seeds:
0
Leechers:
0
Completed:
446
wide




Description
wide
xx

Operation Valuable Fiend by Albert Lulushi EPUB

In 1949, a newly minted branch of the CIA (the precursor of today’s National Clandestine Service), flush with money and burning with determination to roll back the Iron Curtain, embarked on the first paramilitary operation in the history of the agency. They hatched an elaborate plan, coordinated with the British Secret Intelligence Service, to foment popular rebellion and detach Albania, the weakest of the Soviet satellites in Europe, from Moscow’s orbit. The operation resulted in dismal failure and was shut down by 1954.

In Operation Valuable Fiend, Albert Lulushi gives the first full accounting of this CIA action, based on hundreds of declassified documents, memoirs, and recollections of key participants, including Albanian exiles recruited for missions and their Communist opponents. Up till now, the story of the operation has been obfuscated and even distorted. Some blamed the Soviet mole Kim Philby for sabotaging it; the communists credited the prowess of their secret police; and CIA memoirs were heavily sanitized. Lulushi documents a range of factors that led to the failure, from inexperienced CIA case officers outsmarted in spy-vs-spy games by their ruthless Stalinist opponents; to rivalries between branches of the CIA and between the agency and friendly intelligence services; and conflicts among anti-Communist factions that included Albania’s colorful exiled leader, King Zog.

The book also shows how this operation served as the proving ground for techniques used in later CIA Cold War paramilitary actions - involving some of the same agency operatives - including the coup d’états in Iran and Guatemala and the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.

xx

  User comments    Sort newest first

No comments have been posted yet.



Post anonymous comment
  • Comments need intelligible text (not only emojis or meaningless drivel).
  • No upload requests, visit the forum or message the uploader for this.
  • Use common sense and try to stay on topic.

  • :) :( :D :P :-) B) 8o :? 8) ;) :-* :-( :| O:-D Party Pirates Yuk Facepalm :-@ :o) Pacman Shit Alien eyes Ass Warn Help Bad Love Joystick Boom Eggplant Floppy TV Ghost Note Msg


    CAPTCHA Image 

    Anonymous comments have a moderation delay and show up after 15 minutes