Mysterious Third Hand -- Secret Operations of 20th Century American Intelligence Agencies

Author: Liu Xuemei et al.
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: For a period of time, I felt uneasy about the Central Intelligence Agency changing its original mission. It has now become an arm of government action and sometimes even an arm of government decision-making. When the Central Intelligence Agency was established, I never imagined it would wear the cloak of peacetime on one side while engaging in dagger-like operations on the other. I believe some of the things we have experienced and the embarrassing situations are partly due to this president's well-behaved intelligence arm straying from its original role, leading it to be labeled as a symbol of shameless and mysterious foreign diplomatic conspiracies. – Harry S. Truman, President of the United States
This book tells the stories of plots such as "The Bern Channel," "Operation Sunrise," "The Anti-Communist Vanguard," "The Soaring Eagle," "Helmet Plus Dagger," and "From the Bay of Pigs Invasion to Operation Catamount."