Twilight Warriors : Covert Air Operations Against the USSR

by Peebles, Curtis

• ISBN13: 9781591146605
• ISBN10: 1591146607
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-30
• Publisher: Naval Inst Pr

Summary

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 (attempts doomed by infamous traitor 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 postwar era that reads like an epic secret history.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xi
Acronyms and Abbreviations	xiii
Introduction	1	(8)
I. Eastern Europe and the USSR
1. Spies and Anti-Soviet Resistance Groups	9	(27)
2. The Soviet Counterintelligence State	36	(29)
II. Asia
3. Covert Action in the Korean War	65	(20)
4. Civil Air Transport and the Secret War against Mainland China	85	(21)
5. ARCWs and SAFE Areas	106	(25)
III. After Stalin
6. Tinker, Tailor, Tourist, Spy	131	(28)
7. Tibet-The Covert War for Shangri-la	159	(34)
8. Thunderball	193	(34)
IV. The Longest War
9. Air America	227	(30)
10. The Covert War against North Vietnam	257	(32)
Conclusion: The Darkness of the Future	289	(14)
Notes	303	(9)
Bibliography	312	(9)
Index	321	(10)
About the Author	331