The Invisible Government
David Wise, Thomas B. Ross
Language: English
Pages: 379
ISBN: 0394430778
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
OCR'd PDF.
Random House published The Invisible Government by David Wise & Thomas Ross in 1964, exposing the role the CIA was playing in foreign policy. This included the coups in Guatemala (Operation PBSUCCESS) & Iran (Operation Ajax) & the Bay of Pigs operation. It also revealed the CIA's attempts to overthrow President Sukarno in Indonesia & the covert operations taking place in Laos & Vietnam. The CIA considered buying up its entire printing. This idea was rejected when Random House pointed out that if this happened they would print a 2nd edition.
TOC:
The invisible government
48 hours
Build-up
Invasion
The case of the Birmingham widows
A history
Burma: the innocent ambassador
Indonesia: "soldiers of fortune"
Laos: the pacifist warriors
Vietnam: the secret war
Guatemala: CIA's banana revolt
The Kennedy shake-up
The secret elite
The National Security Agency
The Defense Intelligence Agency
CIA: "it's well hidden"
CIA: the inner workings
The search for control
Purity in the Peace Corps
A gray operator
Missle crisis
Electronic spies
Black radio
CIA's guano paradise-The 1960 campaign-& now
A conclusion
gave him a lie-detector test in a motel on Segovia Street in Coral Gables. Two nights later he was flown to Guate mala by the CIA. For a time Garcia practiced dropping paratroops and cargo near Retalhuleu. In November he began flying a C-46 over Cuba, dropping supplies in the Escambray. The C-46S had no guns and there were Castro air force markings on them. At that time the air operations at Retalhuleu were under the supervision of an Ameri can CIA man known as "Colonel Billy Carpenter," a cover
April. Build-Up ((45 After Castro, Alfredo Garcia's five sons, Eduardo, Marcos, Al fredo Jr., Lisardo and Francisco, came to the United States. The CIA needed a navy, and the Garcia Line, since it was Cuban- owned and the only Cuban shipping company still operating from Havana, was perfect cover. And the Garcias wanted to help, despite the risks. The CIA secretly leased the ships. Working chiefly with Ed uardo, the agency then mapped out a complex plan to get the ves sels to Puerto Cabezas
Pentagon quickly reverted to generalities; asked in July to comment on reports from Saigon that the troop level had reached 14,000, it said that was "about the right order of magnitude." The Pentagon also went to great lengths to obscure the fact that U.S. military men were involved in combat—leading troops, and flying helicopters and planes. The official view was that the Americans were in Vietnam purely in "an advisory and training capacity." Despite eyewitness reports to the contrary, the
strife and combat. Unlike Castro, Arbenz did not penetrate theArmy politically, and when he needed it most, THE INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT ((170 it turned on him. Late in the game he had placed spies, popularly known as orejas (the Ears), in various Army posts, but it was too late. He made one other big mistake—he expropriated 225,000 acres of United Fruit's best Pacific-slope holdings. Later the Arbenz regime charged that the United States had supported the CastilloArmas invasion to protect la
Washington for San Juan at the time of the invasion with no idea that the plan would be changed). But Dulles felt the CIA and the Joint Chiefs made a mistake in not arranging for alternatives in case the second strike failed or did not come off. He thought there should have been a contingency plan to make sure the invaders got ashore with their equipment. The Taylor committee presented its views, secretly and orally, to President Kennedy in the summer of 1961.* The committee had worked for