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Book The Pueblo Surrender

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert A. Liston
  • Publisher : Robert Liston
  • Release : 2011-01-10
  • ISBN : 0983182825
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book The Pueblo Surrender written by Robert A. Liston and published by Robert Liston. This book was released on 2011-01-10 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the NSA manipulated the U.S. Navy, Pentagon, White House, Congress, tricked the North Koreans, Russians and Chinese, almost caused a war, and concealed the truth for over 40 years. On January 23, 1968, the North Koreans seized the U.S.S. Pueblo. The incident sent shock waves around the world-almost started a war-and has been the focus of controversy and contradiction ever since. Investigative reporter Robert Liston uncovered startling information to support a remarkable conclusion: The Pueblo was purposely surrendered in a covert mission conceived and carried out by the National Security Agency, a super-secret branch of U.S. intelligence. Liston produces documented evidence to show that the Pueblo, controlled by NSA operatives, was used as bait to draw the Soviet Union and Red Chinese into an NSA trap-an operation that enabled the NSA to break the Soviet system of codes, put the KGB on the defensive for years, and stop a possible war between the Soviets and Chinese. For the first time, author Liston brings to light a true story of international intrigue hidden from the American public, from Congress, even from the White House. He goes inside the U.S. intelligence apparatus and reveals how the Pueblo incident may have shaped and controlled American foreign policy and superpower politics for more than twenty years.

Book Act of War

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  • Author : Jack Cheevers
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2013-12-03
  • ISBN : 1101638648
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Act of War written by Jack Cheevers and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATURE “I devoured Act of War the way I did Flyboys, Flags of Our Fathers and Lost in Shangri-la.”—Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author In 1968, the small, dilapidated American spy ship USS Pueblo set out to pinpoint military radar stations along the coast of North Korea. Though packed with advanced electronic-surveillance equipment and classified intelligence documents, its crew, led by ex–submarine officer Pete Bucher, was made up mostly of untested young sailors. On a frigid January morning, the Pueblo was challenged by a North Korean gunboat. When Bucher tried to escape, his ship was quickly surrounded by more boats, shelled and machine-gunned, forced to surrender, and taken prisoner. Less than forty-eight hours before the Pueblo’s capture, North Korean commandos had nearly succeeded in assassinating South Korea’s president. The two explosive incidents pushed Cold War tensions toward a flashpoint. Based on extensive interviews and numerous government documents released through the Freedom of Information Act, Act of War tells the riveting saga of Bucher and his men as they struggled to survive merciless torture and horrendous living conditions set against the backdrop of an international powder keg.

Book The Pueblo Incident

Download or read book The Pueblo Incident written by Mitchell B. Lerner and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mitchell Lerner now examines for the first time the details of this crisis and uses the incident as a window through which to better understand the limitations of American foreign policy during the Cold War." "Drawing on thousands of pages of recently declassified documents from President Lyndon Johnson's administration, along with dozens of interviews with those involved, Lerner provides the most complete and accurate account of the Pueblo incident to date."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Temple of Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert A. Liston
  • Publisher : Robert Liston
  • Release : 2011-07-15
  • ISBN : 0983182868
  • Pages : 173 pages

Download or read book The Temple of Love written by Robert A. Liston and published by Robert Liston. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The naked and drowned body of beauty queen Kellie Greene is no sooner found in her mother's swimming pool than Walter and DeeDee Byerly, known to the cops as the Bye-Byes, begin to turn up information suggesting murder. First, Walter learns his snitch friend, Henry Clay, was beaten up, had his money stolen, and "saw the naked lady," but did not look.Soon DeeDee learns from Hyacinth Owens, the beauteous employee in her flower shop, that Kellie Greene was heavily involved in something called the Temple of Love. Despite warnings, DeeDee sets out to investigate, joining the temple and even donning the sheer costume guaranteed to foster loveand death.Thus, do the Bye-Byes become embroiled in their most dangerous and challenging case, dealing not just with murder, but drugs, hypnotism and sexual temptation. Aided by Latina detective Lupe Hernandez, they must use all the talents that make them the wittiest and most endearing sleuths since Nick and Nora Charles.

Book The Brandywine Game

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert A. Liston
  • Publisher : Robert Liston
  • Release : 2011-05-02
  • ISBN : 098318285X
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book The Brandywine Game written by Robert A. Liston and published by Robert Liston. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rogers was dead, Khruchenko was dead. Only Sloane survived…and the secret that was to have died with him in the little shop in Munich.The defector had said that he could identify the mole, the Soviet agent who sat on the Committee, the group that ran the Agency. That's what Khruchenko said, but Sloane couldn’t even be certain they existed. But too much had gone wrong too many times for him to doubt that the mole was real. And, just maybe, he knew who it was, knew more than the code name "Parsley."But could he live long enough to do something with the information? The mole was in a position to use both American and Russian agents to get at Sloane, and he was taking advantage of that. All Sloane had on his side was a vacationing political science instructor, Freddie Falscape, and a finely honed tradecraft. Finally, the woman was willing to help. Now is was a matter of time…

Book Someone She Knew

    Book Details:
  • Author : Liston House
  • Publisher : Robert Liston
  • Release : 2011-10
  • ISBN : 0983182876
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book Someone She Knew written by Liston House and published by Robert Liston. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One by one, coeds at bucolic Hinsdale College are being sadistically murdered. Veteran Ohio detective Ralph Burroughs had never seen anything like these ghastly crimes. There are no clues—except all the victims know their killer. They go off with him to their deaths. With great reluctance Burroughs allows Cassie Morgan, a young psychologist, to join the investigation. She believes she can attract the killer for Burroughs to catch. She does ID several suspects, but the murders continue. Burroughs and Cassie come to love each other deeply. He worries constantly about her, but believes he has taken every precaution to protect her. Then as they lay a final trap for the killer, Cassie disappears.

Book The Pueblo Revolt

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  • Author : David Roberts
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2008-06-30
  • ISBN : 1416595694
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book The Pueblo Revolt written by David Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic and tragic story of the only successful Native American uprising against the Spanish, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. With the conquest of New Mexico in 1598, Spanish governors, soldiers, and missionaries began their brutal subjugation of the Pueblo Indians in what is today the Southwestern United States. This oppression continued for decades, until, in the summer of 1680, led by a visionary shaman named Pope, the Puebloans revolted. In total secrecy they coordinated an attack, killing 401 settlers and soldiers and routing the rulers in Santa Fe. Every Spaniard was driven from the Pueblo homeland, the only time in North American history that conquering Europeans were thoroughly expelled from Indian territory. Yet today, more than three centuries later, crucial questions about the Pueblo Revolt remain unanswered. How did Pope succeed in his brilliant plot? And what happened in the Pueblo world between 1680 and 1692, when a new Spanish force reconquered the Pueblo peoples with relative ease? David Roberts set out to try to answer these questions and to bring this remarkable historical episode to life. He visited Pueblo villages, talked with Native American and Anglo historians, combed through archives, discovered backcountry ruins, sought out the vivid rock art panels carved and painted by Puebloans contemporary with the events, and pondered the existence of centuries-old Spanish documents never seen by Anglos.

Book Don Diego  Or  The Pueblo Indian Uprising of 1680

Download or read book Don Diego Or The Pueblo Indian Uprising of 1680 written by Albert B. Reagan and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historic Churches of New Mexico Today

Download or read book Historic Churches of New Mexico Today written by Frank Graziano and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interpretive guide combines history and ethnography to represent living traditions at the adobe and stone churches of New Mexico. Each chapter treats a particular church or group of churches and includes photographs, practical information for visitors, and context pertinent to current understanding. Frank Graziano provides unprecedented coverage of the churches by combining his extensive fieldwork with research in archives and previous scholarship. The book is written in an engaging narrative prose that brings the reader inside of congregations in Indian and Hispanic villages. The focus is less on church buildings than on people in relation to churches -- parishioners, caretakers, priests, restorers -- and on the author's experiences researching among them.

Book A Matter of Accountability

Download or read book A Matter of Accountability written by Trevor Armbrister and published by Random House Business. This book was released on 1970 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 23, 1968, North Korean gunboats surrounded the USS Pueblo in the Sea of Japan, setting off an international incident that threatened to destabilize the entire region. The slow, lightly armed spy ship came under a withering cannon barrage that killed one and wounded ten, including the captain. At the end of the day, the Pueblo surrendered all her sensitive spying instruments and classified documents without firing a shot, in what may have been one of the greatest intelligence disasters of the last half of the twentieth century.Trevor Armbrister has re-created the amazing events that culminated in the first surrender of a U.S. Navy ship since the War of 1812, from the ship itself - a nearly-defenceless former coastal freighter that frequently had to be hand-steered - to the unheeded warnings from North Korea about U.S. spy ships - to the lack of air support when the ship came under fire.

Book Lawyers  Reports Annotated

Download or read book Lawyers Reports Annotated written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Koreas

Download or read book The Koreas written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book True Faith And Allegiance

Download or read book True Faith And Allegiance written by James H. Toner and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James H. Toner is professor of international relations and military ethics at the U.S. Air War College and author of Morals Under the Gun.

Book Historical Dictionary of United States Intelligence

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of United States Intelligence written by Michael A. Turner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the United States has had some kind of intelligence capability throughout its history, its intelligence apparatus is young, dating only to the period immediately after World War II. Yet, in that short a time, it has undergone enormous changes—from the labor-intensive espionage and covert action establishment of the 1950s to a modern enterprise that relies heavily on electronic data, technology, satellites, airborne collection platforms, and unmanned aerial vehicles, to name a few. This second edition covers the history of United States intelligence, and includes several key features: Chronology Introductory essay Appendixes Bibliography Over 600 cross-referenced entries on key events, issues, people, operations, laws, regulations This book is an excellent access point for members of the intelligence community; students, scholars, and historians; legal experts; and general readers wanting to know more about the history of U.S. intelligence.

Book Secret History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Craig P. Bauer
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 2016-04-19
  • ISBN : 1466561874
  • Pages : 603 pages

Download or read book Secret History written by Craig P. Bauer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of an Outstanding Academic Title Award from CHOICE MagazineMost available cryptology books primarily focus on either mathematics or history. Breaking this mold, Secret History: The Story of Cryptology gives a thorough yet accessible treatment of both the mathematics and history of cryptology. Requiring minimal mathematical prerequisites, the

Book To Risk It All

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  • Author : Admiral James Stavridis, USN
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2022-05-24
  • ISBN : 059329775X
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book To Risk It All written by Admiral James Stavridis, USN and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the great naval leaders of our time, a master class in decision-making under pressure through the stories of nine famous acts of leadership in battle, drawn from the history of the United States Navy, with outcomes both glorious and notorious At the heart of Admiral James Stavridis’s training as a naval officer was the preparation to lead sailors in combat, to face the decisive moment in battle whenever it might arise. In To Risk it All, he offers up nine of the most useful and enthralling stories from the US Navy’s nearly 250-year history, and draws from them a set of insights that we can all put to use when confronted with fateful choices. Conflict. Crisis. Risk. These words have a distinct meaning in a military context that we hope will never apply identically in our own lives. But at the same time, as Admiral Stavridis shows with great clarity, many lessons are universal. To Risk it All is filled with thrilling and heroic exploits, but it is anything but a shallow exercise in myth burnishing. Every leader in this book has real flaws, as all humans do, and the stories of failure, or at least the decisions that have been defined as such, are as crucial as the stories of success. In the end, when this master class is concluded, we will be better armed for hard decisions both expected and not.

Book Explorers and Settlers of Spanish Texas

Download or read book Explorers and Settlers of Spanish Texas written by Donald Eugene Chipman and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides biographical sketches of the men and women who discovered, explored, and settled Spanish Texas from 1528 to 1821, including profiles of religious figures, governors, pioneers, Indian agents, and army captains.