Killing Hope

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Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
Author(s) William Blum
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) History
Publisher Common Courage Press
Publication date 2003
Media type Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages 500 pp
ISBN 1-56751-253-4
OCLC Number 53832319

Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions since World War II is a history book on covert CIA operations and U.S. military interventions during the second half of the 20th century. It was written by former State Department employee William Blum. The book takes a strongly critical view of American foreign policy.

The book covers various US foreign policy ventures from just after World War II onward. Its basic premise is that the Soviet Union occupied the Warsaw Pact states only to better defend its territory[citation needed] and the American Cold War-era activities abroad were done with imperialist motives. It is an updated and revised version of one of Blum's previous works, The CIA - A Forgotten History.

Noam Chomsky called it "Far and away the best book on the topic."[1] Former CIA officer John Stockwell called it "The single most useful summary of CIA history." [2]

Contents

Book Contents [edit]

  1. China - 1945 to 1960s: Was Mao Zedong just paranoid?
  2. Italy - 1947-1948: Free elections, Hollywood style
  3. Greece - 1947 to early 1950s: From cradle of democracy to client state
  4. The Philippines - 1940s and 1950s: America's oldest colony
  5. Korea - 1945-1953: Was it all that it appeared to be?
  6. Albania - 1949-1953: The proper English spy
  7. Eastern Europe - 1948-1956: Operation Splinter Factor
  8. Germany - 1950s: Everything from juvenile delinquency to terrorism
  9. Iran - 1953: Making it safe for the King of Kings
  10. Guatemala - 1953-1954: While the world watched
  11. Costa Rica - Mid-1950s: Trying to topple an ally - Part 1
  12. Syria - 1956-1957: Purchasing a new government
  13. Middle East - 1957-1958: The Eisenhower Doctrine claims another backyard for America
  14. Indonesia - 1957-1958: War and pornography
  15. Western Europe - 1950s and 1960s: Fronts within fronts within fronts
  16. British Guiana - 1953-1964: The CIA's international labor mafia
  17. Soviet Union - Late 1940s to 1960s: From spy planes to book publishing
  18. Italy - 1950s to 1970s: Supporting the Cardinal's orphans and techno-fascism
  19. Vietnam - 1950-1973: The Hearts and Minds Circus
  20. Cambodia - 1955-1973: Prince Sihanouk walks the high-wire of neutralism
  21. Laos - 1957-1973: L'Armée Clandestine
  22. Haiti - 1959-1963: The Marines land, again
  23. Guatemala - 1960: One good coup deserves another
  24. France/Algeria - 1960s: L'état, c'est la CIA
  25. Ecuador - 1960-1963: A text book of dirty tricks
  26. The Congo - 1960-1964: The assassination of Patrice Lumumba
  27. Brazil - 1961-1964: Introducing the marvelous new world of death squads
  28. Peru - 1960-1965: Fort Bragg moves to the jungle
  29. Dominican Republic - 1960-1966: Saving democracy from communism by getting rid of democracy
  30. Cuba - 1959 to 1980s: The unforgivable revolution
  31. Indonesia - 1965: Liquidating President Sukarno … and 500,000 others East Timor - 1975: And 200,000 more
  32. Ghana - 1966: Kwame Nkrumah steps out of line
  33. Uruguay - 1964-1970: Torture—as American as apple pie
  34. Chile - 1964-1973: A hammer and sickle stamped on your child's forehead
  35. Greece - 1964-1974: "Fuck your Parliament and your Constitution," said the President of the United States
  36. Bolivia - 1964-1975: Tracking down Che Guevara in the land of coup d'état
  37. Guatemala - 1962 to 1980s: A less publicized "final solution"
  38. Costa Rica - 1970-1971: Trying to topple an ally—Part 2
  39. Iraq - 1972-1975: Covert action should not be confused with missionary work
  40. Australia - 1973-1975: Another free election bites the dust
  41. Angola - 1975 to 1980s: The Great Powers Poker Game
  42. Zaire - 1975-1978: Mobutu and the CIA, a marriage made in heaven
  43. Jamaica - 1976-1980: Kissinger's ultimatum
  44. Seychelles - 1979-1981: Yet another area of great strategic importance
  45. Grenada - 1979-1984: Lying—one of the few growth industries in Washington
  46. Morocco - 1983: A video nasty
  47. Suriname - 1982-1984: Once again, the Cuban bogeyman
  48. Libya - 1981-1989: Ronald Reagan meets his match
  49. Nicaragua - 1981-1990: Destabilization in slow motion
  50. Panama - 1969-1991: Double-crossing our drug supplier
  51. Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991: Teaching communists what democracy is all about
  52. Iraq - 1990-1991: Desert holocaust
  53. Afghanistan - 1979-1992: America's Jihad
  54. El Salvador - 1980-1994: Human rights, Washington style
  55. Haiti - 1986-1994: Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?
  56. The American Empire - 1992 to present

U.S. government assassination plots

Editions [edit]

First published in the mid-1980s, it has since been updated several times by the author.

See also [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_kevin_ba_080507_william_blum_to_noam.htm
  2. ^ http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/RepresentativePress/binLadenphoto.html&date=2009-10-25+09:44:13

External links [edit]

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