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Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators
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- 0316441422
- EAN
- 9780316441421
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- Book Title
- Surprise, Kill, Vanish : the Secret History of Cia Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 2.1 in
- Genre
- History, Political Science
- Topic
- Intelligence & Espionage, Military / United States, United States / 21st Century
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 18.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 560 Pages
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From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units. Surprise . . . your target. Kill . . . your enemy. Vanish . . . without a trace. When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA's Special Activities Division, a highly-classified branch of the CIA and the most effective, black operations force in the world. Originally known as the president's guerrilla warfare corps, SAD conducts risky and ruthless operations that have evolved over time to defend America from its enemies. Almost every American president since World War II has asked the CIA to conduct sabotage, subversion and, yes, assassination. With unprecedented access to forty-two men and women who proudly and secretly worked on CIA covert operations from the dawn of the Cold War to the present day, along with declassified documents and deep historical research, Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen unveils -- like never before -- a complex world of individuals working in treacherous environments populated with killers, connivers, and saboteurs. Despite Hollywood notions of off-book operations and external secret hires, covert action is actually one piece in a colossal foreign policy machine. Written with the pacing of a thriller, Surprise, Kill, Vanish brings to vivid life the sheer pandemonium and chaos, as well as the unforgettable human will to survive and the intellectual challenge of not giving up hope that define paramilitary and intelligence work. Jacobsen's exclusive interviews -- with members of the CIA's Senior Intelligence Service (equivalent to the Pentagon's generals), its counterterrorism chiefs, targeting officers, and Special Activities Division's Ground Branch operators who conduct today's close-quarters killing operations around the world -- reveal, for the first time, the enormity of this shocking, controversial, and morally complex terrain. Is the CIA's paramilitary army America's weaponized strength, or a liability to its principled standing in the world? Every operation reported in this book, however unsettling, is legal.
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Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316441422
ISBN-13
9780316441421
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8038283850
Product Key Features
Book Title
Surprise, Kill, Vanish : the Secret History of Cia Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Intelligence & Espionage, Military / United States, United States / 21st Century
Publication Year
2020
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History, Political Science
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Height
2.1 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
18.3 Oz
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"With Annie Jacobsen's OPERATION PAPERCLIP for the first time the enormity of the effort has been laid bare. The result is a book that is at once chilling and riveting, and one that raises substantial and difficult questions about national honor and security...This book is a remarkable achievement of investigative reporting and historical writing."-- Boston Globe
Dewey Decimal
327.1273009
Dewey Edition
23
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