Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the Cia's Covert War in China

by John Delury

Book Overview

Agents of Subversion reconstructs the remarkable story of a botched mission into Manchuria, showing how it fit into a wider CIA campaign against Communist China and highlighting the intensity--and futility--of clandestine operations to overthrow Mao.

In the winter of 1952, at the height of the Korean War, the CIA flew a covert mission into China to pick up an agent. Trained on a remote Pacific island, the agent belonged...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501765973
• ISBN13: 9781501765971
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.7" x 9.2"