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Surprise, kill, vanish : the definitive history of secret CIA assassins, armies and operators
From the dawn of the Cold War to the present day, when diplomacy has failed and war is unwise, the President has called on the CIA's Special Activities Division -- a highly classified branch of the CIA and the most effective, top-secret killing machine in the world. With unprecedented access tot he CIA's Senior Intelligence Service -- it's counterterrorism chiefs, targeting officers, and ground operators who conduct today's close-quarters killing operations around the world -- this book unveils a complex world of individuals working in treacherous environments populated with killers, connivers and politicians. Following this global history of ruthless operations of sabotage, subversion and even assassination, Annie Jacobsen reveals for the first time the sheer depth of this shocking, controversial and morally complex division.
Nuclear war : a scenario
\"Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These projects are vital to how we understand the world we really live in: where one nuclear missile begets one in return; where the choreography of the world's end requires massive decisions made on seconds-notice, with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War: A Scenario explores this ticking clock scenario, based on dozens of new interviews with military and civilian experts who have built the weapons; created the response plans; and been responsible for those decisions should they need to have been made. Nuclear War: A Scenario is unlike any other book in its depth and urgency\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Surprise, kill, vanish : the secret history of CIA paramilitary armies, operators, and assassins
A character-driven history of CIA covert operations and United States government-sponsored assassinations.
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The Pentagon's brain : an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency
\"In this penetrating history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency, Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of \"the Pentagon's brain\" from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present. This is the essential book on DARPA--a compelling narrative about the clandestine intersection of science and the American military and the often jaw-dropping, futuristic, and frightening results\"--Back cover.
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Phenomena : The secret history of the U.S. government's investigations into extrasensory perception and psychokinesis
For more than forty years, the United States government has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets; to divine other nations' secrets; and even to predict future threats to national security. The intelligence agencies and military services involved include the CIA, DIA, NSA, DEA, the Navy, Air Force, and Army -- and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now Jacobsen tells the story of these radical, controversial programs, using declassified documents as well as exclusive interviews with more than fifty of the individuals involved.
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