Operation Valuable Fiend (eBook)

The CIA's First Paramilitary Strike Against the Iron Curtain

Albert Lulushi (Autor)

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2014
368 Seiten
Arcade Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62872-394-6 (ISBN)

Infos

In 1949, a newly minted branch of the CIA (the precursor of todays 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 Moscows 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 Albanias 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 actionsinvolving some of the same agency operativesincluding the coup dtats in Iran and Guatemala and the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Autor

Albert Lulushi was born in Albania and experienced firsthand the oppression of Europe’s harshest Stalinist regime before fleeing to the West in 1990. He moved to the United States in 1991 and built a successful career as an information technology entrepreneur working with US government agencies and Fortune 500 companies. He has assisted US government officials at the highest levels in establishing and conducting relations between the United States, Albania, and Kosovo since the fall of Communism.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.6.2014
• Zusatzinfo: 62 B&W photos, B&W illustrations, maps
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Aldrich Ames • Allen Dulles • american embassy • american spy • bill donovan • central intelligence • CIA Agent • cia directors • CIA headquarters • CIA officers • cia operations • cia station • Cold War • david hoffman • declassified documents • defense industry • de Gaulle • Delta Force • edward lee • electronics engineer • espionage history • espionage techniques • french people • hoffman tells • industrial complex • Intelligence Agencies • intelligence community • Intelligence Gathering • intelligence operations • intelligence operatives • intelligence services • killing machine • le carr • military history • military industrial • Military operations • military research • military secrets • Military Technology • operations command • RADAR systems • real-life spy technological information • researched history • russian citizens • Russian spies • secret documents • soviet citizens • soviet military • soviet spy • soviet technology • Soviet Union • Special • spy activities • spy craft • spy operations • spy thrillers inside story • Strategic Services • trade craft • true spy • war espionage • Wild Bill
• ISBN-10: 1-62872-394-7 / 1628723947
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62872-394-6 / 9781628723946