Twilight Warriors
Covert Air Operations Against the USSR
1st Edition
Published on 11. June 2013
288 pages
978-1-61251-362-1 (ISBN)
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From the start of the Cold War to the fall of Saigon, from the Congo to Tibet, from the Bay of Pigs to North Vietnam and Nicaragua, here is a comprehensive overview of U.S. air-supported covert operations against the Soviet bloc. Twilight Warriors brings a sense of continuity to the shifting, shadowy battlefronts of the Cold War, spanning the postwar decades with one fascinating account after another. The known and not-so well known are woven together to provide the big picture: failed early attempts to set up spy cells behind the Iron Curtain (confounded by the agent Kim Philby), the actual CIA plane that secretly appeared in the James Bond film "Thunderball," Operation Mongoose, clandestine "airlines," and the gutsy breed who took to the skies as airborne spies. This is a sweeping, globe-trotting account of covert ops in the post-war era that reads like an epic secret history.
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Curtis Peebles is the author of The Corona Project and 11 other books on aerospace history. He is with the NASA History Office at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I. Eastern Europe and the USSR
- 1. Spies and Anti-Soviet Resistance Groups
- 2. The Soviet Counterintelligence State
- II. Asia
- 3. Covert Action in the Korean War
- 4. Civil Air Transport and the Secret War against Mainland China
- 5. ARCWs and SAFE Areas
- III. After Stalin
- 6. Tinker, Tailor, Tourist, Spy
- 7. Tibet-The Covert War for Shangri-la
- 8. Thunderball
- IV. The Longest War
- 9. Air America
- 10. The Covert War against North Vietnam
- Conclusion: The Darkness of the Future
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
