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Killing Hope

U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

William Blum
CURRENT EVENTS

HISTORY

1998

458 pages, bibliography, index

Paperback ISBN: 1-55164-096-1 $28.99
Hardcover ISBN: 1-55164-097-X $57.99

Prices are in Canadian dollars in Canada and in US dollars elsewhere

 This book looks at the effects, often devastating, that the U.S. military's and the CIA's little adventures around the globe have had on the political stability and peoples of the countries they meddled in. In not one case documented has the result been greater freedom or newfound peace. Among the CIA's own files and those of other intelligence agencies around the world, Blum has found:

hard evidence that a CIA unit was set up to train Uruguayan police in the finer points of torture;
how operatives conducted a campaign to unseat an Australian Prime Minister who was opposed to the Vietnam war;
how in Zaire, Mobutu was installed and supported ;
how U.S. training and target identification programs helped set up and run the death squads of El Salvador.

Just four of the fifty-two chapters.

Killing Hope provides the most comprehensive study available of U.S. intervention and shows the continuity defining it in China in the 1940s to Guatemala today. It covers interventions in more than fifty countries, and describes the grim role played by the U.S. in overthrowing governments, perverting elections, assassinating leaders, suppressing revolutions, manipulating trade unions and manufacturing "news."

"A valuable reference for anyone interested in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy."Choice

"Far and away the best book on the topic."Noam Chomsky

"A very valuable book. The research and organization are extremely impressive." A.J. Langguth, former New York Times bureau chief

"I enjoyed it immensely."Gore Vidal

"The single most useful summary of CIA history."John Stockwell, former CIA officer and author

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William Blum worked for the State Department until 1967 at which time he became one of the founders and editors of the Washington Free Press. In the mid-1970s, working with a former CIA officer, he wrote and published an expos of the CIA, its personnel and their misdeeds. Since that time he has been a freelance journalist, working in the U.S., in Europe and in South America, particularly in Chile, and is currently living in Los Angeles.
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