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Covert Network - Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,474

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Covert Network - Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA (Hardcover): Eric Thomas Chester

Covert Network - Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA (Hardcover)

Eric Thomas Chester

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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.

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Imprint:	M.E.Sharpe
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 1995
First published:	1996
Authors:	Eric Thomas Chester
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-1-56324-550-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Fascism & Nazism Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Political control & influence > Political oppression & persecution > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Promotions
LSN:	1-56324-550-7
Barcode:	9781563245503