Surprise, Kill, Vanish : The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins (Hardcover)

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The high rating of this book surprises me. The book goes off on many tangents such as the Secret Service, which seems to have been included mainly because the head of the Secret Service was once a CIA operative. You will read more alphabet acronyms than you thought existed. I will give the author...

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I have found Jacobsen's previous books very interesting, but I was somewhat disappointed with this book. From the title I expected more detailed accountings of some of the covert actions implied in the title. Most of the accounts were general things read about in other cold war histories. I suppo...

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A highly readable account of the clandestine and secretive world of covert assassination and team's performing this. From an American history point of view this was very interesting and sheds light on the foreign policy decisions of recent times. Recommended.

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A highly readable account of the clandestine and secretive world of covert assassination and team's performing this. From an American history point of view this was very interesting and sheds light on the foreign policy decisions of recent times. Recommended.