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Irreparable Harm

A Firsthand Account of How One Agent Took on the CIA in an Epic Battle Over Free Speech

By: Frank Snepp,Anthony Lewis

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Irreparable Harm

A Firsthand Account of How One Agent Took on the CIA in an Epic Battle Over Free Speech

By: Frank Snepp,Anthony Lewis

Among the last CIA agents airlifted from Saigon in the waning moments of the Vietnam War, Frank Snepp returned to headquarters determined to secure help for the Vietnamese left behind by an Agency eager to cut its losses. What he received instead was a cold shoulder from a CIA that in 1975 was already in turmoil over congressional investigations of its operations throughout the world. In protest, Snepp resigned to write a damning account of the agency's cynical neglect of its onetime allies and inept handling of the war. His expose, Decent Interval, was published in total secrecy, eerily evocative of a classic spy operation, and only after Snepp had spent eighteen months dodging CIA efforts to silence him. The book ignited a firestorm of controversy, was featured in a 60 Minutes exclusive, received front-page coverage in the New York Times, and launched a campaign of retaliation by the CIA, capped by a Supreme Court decision that steamrolled over Snepp's right to free speech. In the wake of Snepp's harrowing experiences, his legal case has been used by Presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton to narrow the First Amendment freedoms of all federal employees, especially "whistleblowers." Such encroachments make it clear that Snepp's very personal story has a great deal of relevance for all of us and certainly for anyone who has grown increasingly distrustful of the federal government's "national security argument.

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University Press of Kansas

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070061091X

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9780700610914

Decent Interval

An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam

By: Frank Snepp

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Decent Interval

An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam

By: Frank Snepp

Widely regarded as a classic on the Vietnam War, Decent Interval provides a scathing critique of the CIA's role in and final departure from that conflict. Still the most detailed and respected account of America's final days in Vietnam, the book was written at great risk and ultimately at great sacrifice by an author who believed in the CIA's cause but was disillusioned by the agency's treacherous withdrawal, leaving thousands of Vietnamese allies to the mercy of an angry enemy. A quarter-century later, it remains a riveting and powerful testament to one of the darkest episodes in American history.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700612130

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Irreparable Harm

A Firsthand Account of How One Agent Took on the CIA in an Epic Battle Over Free Speech

By: Frank Snepp,Anthony Lewis

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A Firsthand Account of How One Agent Took on the CIA in an Epic Battle Over Free Speech

By: Frank Snepp,Anthony Lewis

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Decent Interval

An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam

By: Frank Snepp

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An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam

By: Frank Snepp

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Tiger Man of Vietnam

By: Frank Walker

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Tiger Man of Vietnam

By: Frank Walker

In 1963, 28-year-old Australian Captain Barry Petersen was sent to Vietnam as part of the 30-man Australian Training Team, two years before the first official Australian troops arrived. Seconded to the CIA, he was sent to the remote Central Highlands to build an anti-communist guerrilla force among the indigenous Montagnard people. He was sent o...

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1458761991

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9781458761996

Congress Oversees the United States Intelligence Community, 1947-1994

By: Frank John Smist

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Congress Oversees the United States Intelligence Community, 1947-1994

By: Frank John Smist

Foreseeing conflict between the legislative and executive branches over the proper functions of government, the Founders of the United States built into the U.S. Constitution the checks and balances that Edwin S. Corwin called "an invitation to struggle." Smist argues that congressional intelligence-oversight committees--such as Senator Church's 1975-76 committee--can, by taking up this struggle, not only handle sensitive information responsibly but help shape rational foreign policy. When Congress is shut out of the intelligence process-as in President Carter's abortive Iran rescue mission and Reagan's Iran-Contra affair-the results can be catastrophic. Smist's detailed analysis of congressional oversight of U.S. intelligence from Pearl Harbor through Iran-Contra is based largely on his interviews with participants, including senators, representatives, and executive-branch officials. The analysis is informed by Smist's dialectical model of "institutional" (conservative, supportive) versus "investigative" (radical, questioning) oversight, which allows him to uncover the frequently obscured historical value of previous Senate and House investigative committees. For example, the Pike committee, 1975-76, even though its final report was suppressed by the House, was able to elicit then Secretary of State Kissinger's admission of presidential control over covert actions, thus shattering the doctrine of "plausible deniability." Because these committees continue to wrestle with the principles underlying government, their unfolding drama is meaningful for the student of constitutional history. This book provides new conceptual tools for the study of intelligence oversight and gives the direct testimony of key participants, making it important not only as political science but as history." --

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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087049841X

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9780870498411

Systematic Pomology

Treating Description, Nomenclature, and Classification of Fruits

By: Frank Waugh

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Systematic Pomology

Treating Description, Nomenclature, and Classification of Fruits

By: Frank Waugh

Systematic pomology, or the branch of pomology dealing with our knowledge of the fruits themselves, is explored in Frank Waugh's 1903 book, as well as the trees, bushes, or vines on which they grow. He treats three distinct subjects: description, nomenclature, and classification.

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Applewood Books

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1429013508

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9781429013505

Dark Lanterns

Secret Political Societies, Conspiracies, and Treason Trials in the Civil War

By: Frank L. Klement

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Dark Lanterns

Secret Political Societies, Conspiracies, and Treason Trials in the Civil War

By: Frank L. Klement

During the agonizing days of the Civil War four secret political societies, often known as dark lantern societies, became household words throughout the North. Three of these groups--the Knights of the Golden Circle, the Order of American Knights, and the Sons of Liberty--supposedly were umbrellas for antiwar Democrats and were reportedly involved in treasonable activities. The Union League, on the other hand, was a patriotic political organization intent upon buttressing northern morale and giving support to the war program of the Lincoln administration. The accusations and counter accusations that passed between these opposing forces helped spread fantastic rumors about their power and influence. Treason trials held in Cincinnati and Indianapolis based convictions on hearsay, while the leaders of the Order of American Knights and the Knights of the Golden Circle spent much of the war in prison without benefit of trial. Today reputable reference sources still matter-of-factly credit these societies with large memberships and evil motives.In Dark Lanterns Frank L Klemment refutes past historical theories and shows quite clearly that these societies were never much more then paper-based organizations with vague goals and little ability to carry them out. Recounting the actual histories of these organizations, he shows how they were senationalized, even fictionalized, in both Republican and Democratic newspaper and magazine exposés. He also probes the trials arising from the supposed conspiracy to establish a separate confederacy in the Midwest and the so-called Camp Douglas conspiracy, which was intended to release the Confederate prisoners housed there. Despite the furor they generated, Klement concludes that these dark lantern societies were essentially engaged in nothing more than a war of words and that their alleged power was greatly exaggerated by political propaganda.Meticulously researched and lucidly argued, Dark Lanterns explores a controversial and puzzling aspect of the Civil war. It will be hard to dispute Klements' finding that generations of historians have swallowed whole a tale that was largely the product of myth and legend.

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LSU Press

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0807115673

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9780807115671

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Irreparable Harm

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Decent Interval

Irreparable Harm

Irreparable Harm

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Decent Interval

Tiger Man of Vietnam

Tiger Man of Vietnam

Congress Oversees the United States Intelligence Community, 1947-1994

Congress Oversees the United States Intelligence Community, 1947-1994

Systematic Pomology

Systematic Pomology

Dark Lanterns

Dark Lanterns

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