Introduction to the new edition

Introduction to the original edition

1. China - 1945 to 1960s: Was Mao Tse-tung 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'etat

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

Notes

Appendix I: This is How the Money Goes Round

Appendix II: Instances of Use of United States Armed

Forces Abroad, 1798-1945

Appendix III: U. S. Government Assassination Plots

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Killing Hope: U. S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II > Customer Review #1:

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Definitive

Blums book is probably the definitive overview of major American interventions since WWII, some 55 in number involving either direct military intervention or covert CIA-led subversion. Complementing this inclusive catalogue is a powerful on-target introduction to the new edition, which itself is a revised and updated version of 1986s *CIA: A Forgotten History*. If you are looking for a single volume compendium of US presence abroad, no holds barred, this is the book to get.

There is little need for editorial comment in these accounts of how the Pentagon-CIA axis keeps the world safe for Western commercial interests, or how effectively they remove the Free from the Free World we are told they protect. Instead, Blum lets the record speak for itself, much as Noam Chomsky does in his series of exposes. The picture that emerges is not a pretty one, so be prepared in these pages to deal with realities unprocessed by the usual corps of Washington beauticians.

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Killing Hope: U. S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II > Customer Review #2:

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Not a Conspiracy Theorist

A fact cannot be modified, but it can be problematised--that is, put under analysis. William Blums "Killing Hope" takes the Cold-

War foreign policy of the US and upends conventional apologies and justifications for a rather ruthless campaign to stamp out the ideology that most threatened American dominance in the world: communism. Though I met Blum and can attest that he

is no communist, like any decent American he hates liars. His book exposes lies. Once an idealistic career servant at the State

Department, Blum turned whistle-blower after becoming morally nauseated at the bagful of lies that launched the country on its disastrous adventure in Vietnam. "Killing Hope" is an encyclopedic catalogue of Washingtons lies, misdeeds, and subversions

of democracy all over the globe--mostly carried out in complete secrecy from the American people. From Chile to China,

Blum shows that "freedom and democracy" in foreign lands were never primary goals of US foreign policy but the propaganda

cover for domination and control. Were this a required book in all US high-school history books, American youth could

hardly be lining up to serve in wars that are carried out for exactly the opposite motives from the stated ones. In Iraq today, 145,000 soldiers, who went to fight to liberate Iraq, are finding out that Iraqis do not thank them for their sacrifice. Lied to and misused, they often find this out at the end of a bullet that strikes them down. To historians like Blum, this manipulation of American trust is a crime. His book is, among other things, a passionate dedication to truth-- and hes not making it up, either. Declassified government documents are the major source of his thesis!

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