![]() ![]() ![]() Ironically, the author concludes that domestic enemies ultimately undermined the United States’ early attempts to maneuver in the postwar world. In the postwar period, he argues, fear of communism led to a series of national security directives that established the CIA and freed it to initiate a host of covert operations, everything from infiltrating agents into the Balkans and Eastern Europe to overthrowing elected governments in Guatemala and Iran, blackmail, sabotage, even murder. foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold War through the linked biographies of four men-Michael Burke, Edward Lansdale, Peter Sichel and Frank Wisner-veterans of the World War II Office of Strategic Services who served in the newly formed CIA.Īnderson believes American foreign policy is inherently flawed, doomed to failure at its inception. Journalist, historian and novelist Anderson dissects U.S. 'The Quiet Americans' Book Review: The Cold War through the Eyes of Four CIA Men Close ![]()
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