Cold War exiles and the CIA : plotting to free Russia / Benjamin Tromly.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191875984 (ebook) :Subject(s): United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History -- 20th century
| Russians -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Cold War -- Influence | Exiles -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Exiles -- Soviet Union | Espionage, American -- History -- 20th century | United States -- Foreign relations -- Russia | Russia -- Foreign relations -- United StatesAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780198840404DDC classification: 327.1273009045 LOC classification: JK468.I6Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, the United States government unleashed covert operations intended to weaken the Soviet Union. As part of these efforts, the CIA committed to supporting Russian exiles, populations uprooted either during World War Two or by the Russian Revolution decades before. No one seemed better prepared to fight in the American secret war against communism than the uprooted Russians, whom the CIA directed to carry out propaganda, espionage, and subversion operations from their home base in West Germany. Yet the American engagement of Russian exiles had unpredictable outcomes. Drawing on recently declassified and previously untapped sources, this text examines how the CIA's Russian operations became entangled with the internal struggles of Russia abroad and also the espionage wars of the superpowers in divided Germany.
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This edition also issued in print: 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, the United States government unleashed covert operations intended to weaken the Soviet Union. As part of these efforts, the CIA committed to supporting Russian exiles, populations uprooted either during World War Two or by the Russian Revolution decades before. No one seemed better prepared to fight in the American secret war against communism than the uprooted Russians, whom the CIA directed to carry out propaganda, espionage, and subversion operations from their home base in West Germany. Yet the American engagement of Russian exiles had unpredictable outcomes. Drawing on recently declassified and previously untapped sources, this text examines how the CIA's Russian operations became entangled with the internal struggles of Russia abroad and also the espionage wars of the superpowers in divided Germany.
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