Author: Vince Houghton
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1541774582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow. The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well known is that the city of Miami, mere miles away, was a pivotal, though less well known, part of Cold War history. With its population of Communist exiles from Cuba, its strategic value for military operations, and its lax business laws, Miami was an ideal environment for espionage. Covert City tells the history of how the entire city of Miami was constructed in the image of the US-Cuba rivalry. From the Bay of Pigs invasion to the death of Fidel Castro, the book shows how Miami is a hub for money and cocaine but also secrets and ideologies. Cuban exiles built criminal and political organizations in the city, leading Washington to set up a CIA station there, codenamed JMWAVE. It monitored gang activities, plotted secret operations against Castro, and became a base for surveilling Latin American neighbors. The money and infrastructure built for the CIA was integral to the development of Miami. Covert City is a sweeping and entertaining history, full of stunning experimental operations and colorful characters--a story of a place like no other.
Covert City
Author: Vince Houghton
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1541774582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow. The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well known is that the city of Miami, mere miles away, was a pivotal, though less well known, part of Cold War history. With its population of Communist exiles from Cuba, its strategic value for military operations, and its lax business laws, Miami was an ideal environment for espionage. Covert City tells the history of how the entire city of Miami was constructed in the image of the US-Cuba rivalry. From the Bay of Pigs invasion to the death of Fidel Castro, the book shows how Miami is a hub for money and cocaine but also secrets and ideologies. Cuban exiles built criminal and political organizations in the city, leading Washington to set up a CIA station there, codenamed JMWAVE. It monitored gang activities, plotted secret operations against Castro, and became a base for surveilling Latin American neighbors. The money and infrastructure built for the CIA was integral to the development of Miami. Covert City is a sweeping and entertaining history, full of stunning experimental operations and colorful characters--a story of a place like no other.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1541774582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow. The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well known is that the city of Miami, mere miles away, was a pivotal, though less well known, part of Cold War history. With its population of Communist exiles from Cuba, its strategic value for military operations, and its lax business laws, Miami was an ideal environment for espionage. Covert City tells the history of how the entire city of Miami was constructed in the image of the US-Cuba rivalry. From the Bay of Pigs invasion to the death of Fidel Castro, the book shows how Miami is a hub for money and cocaine but also secrets and ideologies. Cuban exiles built criminal and political organizations in the city, leading Washington to set up a CIA station there, codenamed JMWAVE. It monitored gang activities, plotted secret operations against Castro, and became a base for surveilling Latin American neighbors. The money and infrastructure built for the CIA was integral to the development of Miami. Covert City is a sweeping and entertaining history, full of stunning experimental operations and colorful characters--a story of a place like no other.
Report
Author: New York (N.Y.). Law Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
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Author: United States. 61st Congress, 1909-1911. House. [from old catalog]
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Covert Network
Author: Eric Thomas Chester
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315286475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
This book tells the story of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the largest nonsectarian refugee relief agency in the world. Founded in the 1930s by socialist militants, the IRC attracted the support of renowned progressives such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Norman Thomas, and Reinhold Niebuhr. But by the 1950s it had been absorbed into the American foreign policy establishment. Throughout the Cold War, the IRC was deeply involved in the volatile confrontations between the two superpowers and participated in an array of sensitive clandestine operations. The IRC thus evolved from a small organization of committed activists to a global operation functioning as one link in the CIA's covert network.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315286475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
This book tells the story of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the largest nonsectarian refugee relief agency in the world. Founded in the 1930s by socialist militants, the IRC attracted the support of renowned progressives such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Norman Thomas, and Reinhold Niebuhr. But by the 1950s it had been absorbed into the American foreign policy establishment. Throughout the Cold War, the IRC was deeply involved in the volatile confrontations between the two superpowers and participated in an array of sensitive clandestine operations. The IRC thus evolved from a small organization of committed activists to a global operation functioning as one link in the CIA's covert network.
Legislative Document
Author: New York (State). Legislature
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 1628
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 1628
Book Description
Covert colonialism
Author: Florence Mok
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526158183
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This book fills the long-standing void in the existing scholarship by constructing an empirical study of colonial governance and political culture in Hong Kong from 1966 to 1997.Using under-exploited archival and unofficial data in London and Hong Kong, it overcomes the limitations in the existing literature which has been written mainly by political scientists and sociologists, and has been primarily theoretically driven. It addresses a highly contested and timely agenda, one in which colonial historians have made major interventions: the nature of colonial governance and autonomy of the colonial polity. This book focusing on colonialism and the Chinese society in Hong Kong in a pivotal period will generate meaningful discussions and heated debates on comparisons between ‘colonialism’ in different space and time: between Hong Kong and other former British colonies; and between colonial and post-colonial Hong Kong.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526158183
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This book fills the long-standing void in the existing scholarship by constructing an empirical study of colonial governance and political culture in Hong Kong from 1966 to 1997.Using under-exploited archival and unofficial data in London and Hong Kong, it overcomes the limitations in the existing literature which has been written mainly by political scientists and sociologists, and has been primarily theoretically driven. It addresses a highly contested and timely agenda, one in which colonial historians have made major interventions: the nature of colonial governance and autonomy of the colonial polity. This book focusing on colonialism and the Chinese society in Hong Kong in a pivotal period will generate meaningful discussions and heated debates on comparisons between ‘colonialism’ in different space and time: between Hong Kong and other former British colonies; and between colonial and post-colonial Hong Kong.
Annual Report of the Superintendent of Banks Relative to Savings Banks, Industrial Banking Companies, Investment Companies, Safe Deposit Companies, Personal Loan Companies and Personal Loan Brokers, 1857-
Code of Federal Regulations
Annual Report of the Superintendent of the Banking Department of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Banking Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Vols. for , 1881, 1887,1926, 1928, 1931, 1934, 1936-38 issued also without detailed statement.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Vols. for , 1881, 1887,1926, 1928, 1931, 1934, 1936-38 issued also without detailed statement.
Annual Report of the State Board of Tax Commissioners of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). State Board of Tax Commissioners
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
Book Description