Category Archives: Spy

Cold War and the Amerasia Affair

Posted on February 9, 2012 | Leave a comment
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A fascinating view inside the State Department at the onset of the Cold War. Anyone interested in the Amerasia Affair will find it most interesting. Read >>> Creating A Security Office

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Vietnam: The OSS and Ho Chi Minh, 1945

Posted on August 20, 2011 | Leave a comment
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The French underground in Indochina assisted in rescuing downed Allied pilots. A solid spy network had been constructed in Vietnam that was actively transmitting good intelligence on the Japanese. As time passed the OSS gained increasing access to the output of the underground. Pilots were rescued. Then suddenly in spring 1945 the flow of information ceased without warning. The Japanese had launched their coupe de main in Vietnam. Grasping for a new strategy, OSS colonel Paul Helliwell turned to Major Archimedes Patti… MORE>>

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Spy Stories: Volume Two

Posted on March 19, 2011 | Leave a comment
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Author Fred Jerome details the activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in spying on Albert Einstein and his associates. He also details the pacifist and socialist politics of Albert Einstein and his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement which provoked J. Edgar Hoover into leading an F.B.I. campaign to link the Nobel Prize-winning physicist to Soviet espionage activities and discredit his reputation…More>>

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Spy Stories: Volume One

Posted on March 19, 2011 | Leave a comment
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In 1966 Governor Reagan had just been elected. He had won in some part because he had campaigned loudly on the need to restore order at UC Berkeley, where “beatniks, radicals and “filthy speech advocates” were proof of what he called the “morality and decency gap in Sacramento.” In January 1967 he called two senior FBI agents to the governor’s mansion in Sacramento… More>>

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News Article: Hiding Details of Dubious Deal, U.S. Invokes National Security

Posted on February 20, 2011 | Leave a comment
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Mr. Montgomery and his associates received more than $20 million in government contracts by claiming that software he had developed could help stop Al Qaeda’s next attack on the United States. But the technology appears to have been a hoax, and a series of government agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency and the Air Force, repeatedly missed the warning signs, the records and interviews show. Newly disclosed informations shows that the software Montgomery sold to the DOD actually prompted an international false alarm that led President George W. Bush to order airliners to turn around over the Atlantic Ocean in 2003, and that’s not all… More>>

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Online Book: CIA Essay on Phoenix Program

Posted on February 17, 2011 | 1 Comment
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Happy hunting in Tay Ninh Province 1969-70. In South Vietnam the CIA ran a pacification program known as Phoenix that was both ruthless and controversial…. more>>

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Essay: US Intelligence Breakdowns Since Pearl Harbor

Posted on February 14, 2011 | Leave a comment
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By no means an exhaustive accounting, but plenty troubling nonetheless… More>>

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Online Book: CIA History of Rural Pacification in Vietnam

Posted on February 14, 2011 | Leave a comment
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The CIA‘s history of the ill-fated rural pacification program during the Vietnam era. Notable participants included Ed Lansdale and Richard Holbrooke… More>>

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