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Feet to the Fire - CIA Covert Operations in Indonesia, 1957-1958 (Paperback)
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Feet to the Fire - CIA Covert Operations in Indonesia, 1957-1958 (Paperback)
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Today the vast archipelago of Southeast Asia islands known as
Indonesia is in the headlines because of political instability,
religious tension, and violence in the streets. Forty years ago
similar conditions led the Central Intelligence Agency to mount a
top-secret covert action campaign designed to hold that nation's
left-leaning President Sukarno's feet to the fire and prevent a
strategic crossroad from falling into the communist camp. The
Agency supported rebels with weapons, planes, and a memorable cast
of bigger-than-life American agents. In a fast-paced, engrossing
narrative evoking the novels of John LeCarré and Graham Greene,
the authors provide the first unclassified, detailed case study of
an operation that has escaped public scrutiny for decades. Their
work adds significantly to our understanding of the CIA and
American involvement in Asia. Drawing on declassified documents and
an extraordinary number of interviews with CIA and Indonesian
participants, Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison reconstruct the
delicate, dangerous game played by American intelligence agents
across the Indonesian archipelago. This is a story of ideologues
and soldiers of fortune--historic CIA legends like Allen Dulles and
Franklin Wisner, and notorious special operators like Tony ""Poe""
Poshepny, whose reputation reached mythic proportions later in
Laos, and Allen Pope, an indefatigable B-26 pilot who was captured
and sentenced to die. But it also includes the transfixing exploits
of Montana smokejumpers, Polish aircrews, Muslim anti-communist
guerrillas, U.S. Navy submarine crews, and Filipino mercenary
pilots flying P-51 Mustangs. With the problems in today's Indonesia
far from solved and the complex U.S.-Indonesian relationship coming
under close scrutiny, this fascinating account of an American
covert operation gone bad will play a significant role in shedding
new light on the CIA's efforts in Southeast Asia.
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