Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II - Softcover

Blum, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551640961 ISBN 13: 9781551640969

Publisher: Black Rose Books, 1997

Synopsis

A look at the effects, often devastating, that the U.S. military’s and the CIA’s little adventures around the globe have had on the political stability and peoples of the countries they meddled in. In not one case documented has the result been greater freedom or newfound peace. Among the CIA’s own files and those of other intelligence agencies around the world, Blum has found:

hard evidence that a CIA unit was set up to train Uruguayan police in the finer points of torture;
how operatives conducted a campaign to unseat an Australian Prime Minister who was opposed to the Vietnam war;
how in Zaire, Mobutu was installed and supported;
how U.S. training and target identification programs helped set up and run the death squads of El Salvador.

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About the Author

William Blum is one of the United States' leading non-mainstream experts on American foreign policy. He left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer because of his opposition to what the US was doing in Vietnam. He then became a founder and editor of the Washington Free Press, the first 'alternative' newspaper in the capital. Blum has been a freelance journalist in the US, Europe and South America. He currently sends out a free monthly newsletter, The Anti-Empire Report. To be put on Blum's mailing list, send him an email. Previous issues of the report can be read on his website. email bblum6@aol.com website williamblum.org Other books by William Blum Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions since World War II Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir

Review

'Far and away the best book on the topic.' - Noam Chomsky 'A valuable reference for anyone interested in the conduct of US foreign policy.' - Choice 'I enjoyed it immensely.' - Gore Vidal 'The single most useful summary of CIA history.' - John Stockwell, former CIA officer and author ' Each chapter I read makes me more and more angry.' - Helen Caldicott 'A very useful piece of work, daunting in scope, important.' - Thomas Powers, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist 'A very valuable book. The research and organization are extremely impressive.' - A.J. Langguth, author and former 'New York Times' bureau chief

Edition details

• Publisher: Black Rose Books
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551640961
• ISBN 13: 9781551640969
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 458