By Glenn P. Hastedt
A complete two-volume evaluate and research of all features of espionage within the American ancient event, concentrating on key contributors and technologies.
• contains over 750 entries in chronologically equipped sections, protecting vital spies, spying applied sciences, and events
• Written by means of a professional workforce of contributing students from quite a few fields inside heritage and political science
• presents a chronology of key occasions concerning using espionage via the USA or via enemies inside of our borders
• A word list of key espionage phrases
• an intensive bibliography of print and digital assets for extra reading
• photographs of key members plus maps of geographical destinations and armed forces engagements the place espionage performed a massive role
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On the Run. , 1987. Glenn P. Hastedt AIR AMERICA Air America was a private air transportation firm secretly owned by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It was particularly active in support of covert CIA operations in Southeast Asia. Air America has also been accused of participating in drug 10 © 2011 ABC-Clio. All Rights Reserved. Air Force Intelligence smuggling operations while carrying out these missions. Air America helicopters participated in the final evacuation of South Vietnamese and Americans from Saigon in 1975.
Capitalist powers, notably the victorious Allies of World War I, were inclined to “strangle the infant in its cradle” as Churchill later remarked, because it offered an example to then-virulent revolutionary movements among their own people. Communist parties, in the United States as in Western Europe, were perceived as posing a danger of sedition and civil strife, possibly even insurrection, not espionage. The American Communist Party, organized in 1919 by Charles Ruthenberg and Louis Fraina, joined by leaders of the Russian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Ukrainian, and Jewish language federations from the former Socialist Party of America, competed for recognition from the fractious Communist International with the Communist Labor Party, organized by John Reed and Alfred Wagenknecht.
Army adopted the European institution of the “general staff,” resulting in the creation of the Military Information Division, or G-2 (although the navy created the Office of Naval Intelligence in 1882). G-2 became the army’s chief source of intelligence, but its potential as a military intelligence agency was not realized during peacetime in the years leading up to World War I. 28 © 2011 ABC-Clio. All Rights Reserved. American Intelligence, World War I After the outbreak of World War I, a new intelligence agency arose that came to be known as U-1.