1981, ISBN: 0060380039

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[EAN: 9780060380038], [PU: NY. 1981. Harper & Row.], Political Science |General, Jacket, blue & blue ½ cloth hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond.… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780060380038], [PU: NY. 1981. Harper & Row.], Political Science |General, Jacket, blue & blue ½ cloth hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean, a little sunfaded along the edges. top edge spotty, few faint spots on the foredge. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ first edition so stated. first printing ( # 1 in # line). x+373p.+ author bio note. glossy b&w photo illustrations.notes & sources. bibliographic notes. index. world history. american history. conspiracy theory. secret societies. CIA. organized crime. mafia. communism. espionage. covert operations. ~ "Alert! Alert! Look well at the rainbow. The first will rise very soon. Chico is in the house. Visit him. The sky is blue . The fish is red." ~from E. Howard Hunt's coded CIA radio message to Cuba to deceive Castro about the nature of the Bay of Pigs invasion.~ It was the dirtiest, most sensational, most secret war in American history, a war spanning two decades and linking the Bay of Pigs with the Mafia, the murder of a president, and Watergate. The Fish Is Red, from CIA superspy E. Howard Hunt's codeword for the Bay of Pigs invasion, discloses for the first time ever the fantastic story of our undeclared war against Cuba. It provides a dismaying and oftentimes hilarious insight into United States foreign policy. Warren Hinckle, the legendary founding editor of Ramparts, and ex~FBI agent and author William Turner have interviewed an astonishing array of characters~Mafia hit men, pro~ and anticommunist Cubans~and have eaten stone crabs and gone on beer busts with the CIA men paid to do in Castro. Their true~ life stories are classics in the annals of American dementia and at times read like scenes out of a nonfiction, Cold~War Catch~22. This has been a deadly serious war nonetheless, and years of research have gone into what is the most definitive account to date. For some, the scheme to eliminate Castro was a profitable one. Richard Nixon and Howard Hughes gained unseemly financial advantages thanks to the Secret War, and those holding CIA meal tickets thrived~if smuggling guns or dope was their "cover," they pocketed the profits. The Mafia teamed up with the CIA but in its business~as~usual fashion cut its losses early and went on to invest in other islands, notably Haiti. One lesson of all this is that the Secret War compromised American institutions in so devastating a way that it contributed to the destruction of two presidencies. The CIA's concealment from the Warren Commission of how its paramilitary "assets" were linked to the murder of President Kennedy is detailed in the book. And when Richard Nixon adopted the tactics and men of the Secret War for a covert assault on his own government, it ultimately destroyed him, too. The Fish Is Red casts American~Cuban, American~Soviet relations in a revised light, with revelations as incriminating to American foreign policy as William Shawcross's Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia.<

1981, ISBN: 9780060380038

Hardcover book. 373 pages. Published by HarperCollins Publishers (1981) Media > Book, [PU: Harper & Row; Collins; HarperCollins]

1981, ISBN: 0060380039

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