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Critical Bibliography of Secondary Sources

• Ahern, Thomas L, Donald P Gregg, and Donald P. P Gregg. Vietnam Declassified: The CIA and Counterinsurgency. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2010.
• Aldrich, Richard J, Gary Rawnsley, and Ming-Yeh T Rawnsley. “Introduction: The Clandestine Cold War in Asia, 1945-65.” Intelligence and National Security 14, no. 4 (1999): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684529908432569.
• Anderson, David M, and Daniel Branch. “Allies at the End of Empire-Loyalists, Nationalists and the Cold War, 1945-76.” International History Review 39, no. 1 (2017): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2016.1230770.
• Bayandor, Darioush. Iran and the CIA : the Fall of Mosaddeq Revisited. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
• Becker, Marc. “The CIA on Latin America.” The Journal of Intelligence History, 2020, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/16161262.2020.1826805.
• Becker, Marc. The CIA in Ecuador. Duke University Press, 2020.
• Berger, Daniel, William Easterly, Nathan Nunn, and Shanker Satyanath. “Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War.” The American Economic Review 103, no. 2 (2013): 863–96. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.103.2.863.
• Bilgin, Pinar, and Adam David Morton. “Historicising Representations of ‘Failed States’: Beyond the Cold-War Annexation of the Social Sciences?” Third World Quarterly 23, no. 1 (2002): 55–80. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436590220108172.
• Bloch, Jonathan., and Patrick. Fitzgerald. British Intelligence and Covert Action : Africa, Middle East and Europe Since 1945. Kerry, Ireland: Brandon, 1983.
• Blum, William. The CIA: a Forgotten History : US Global Interventions Since World War 2. London: Zed Books, 1986. (Hathi Trust)
• Blum, William. Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II. 2nd ed., updated. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2004.
• Callanan, James. Covert Action in the Cold War: US Policy, Intelligence and CIA Operations. London ;: I.B. Tauris, 2010.
• Citino, Nathan J. “The ‘Crush’ of Ideologies: The United States, the Arab World, and Cold War Modernisation.” Cold War History 12, no. 1 (2012): 89–110. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2010.506608.
• Cormac, Rory. “The Currency of Covert Action: British Special Political Action in Latin America, 1961-64.” Journal of Strategic Studies, 2020, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2020.1852937.
• Cormac, Rory. “The Pinprick Approach: Whitehall’s Top-Secret Anti-Communist Committee and the Evolution of British Covert Action Strategy.” Journal of Cold War Studies 16, no. 3 (2014): 5–28. https://doi.org/10.1162/JCWS_a_00469.
• Cormac, Rory, Calder Walton, and Damien Van Puyvelde. “What Constitutes Successful Covert Action? Evaluating Unacknowledged Interventionism in Foreign Affairs.” Review of International Studies, 2021, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210521000231.
• Conboy, Kenneth. The Cambodian Wars: Clashing Armies and CIA Covert Operations. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019.
• Daugherty, William J. Executive Secrets : Covert Action and the Presidency. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004.
• Davies, Philip H. J. “Intelligence, Information Technology, and Information Warfare.” Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 36, no. 1 (2002): 312–52. https://doi.org/10.1002/aris.1440360108.
• Dixon, C. J., D. W. Drakakis-Smith, and H. D. Watts. Multinational Corporations and the Third World. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
• Easter, David. “Active Soviet Military Support for Indonesia During the 1962 West New Guinea Crisis.” Cold War History 15, no. 2 (2015): 201–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2014.995173.
• Ferreira, Roberto Garcia. “THE CIA AND JACOBO ARBENZ: HISTORY OF A DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN.” Journal of Third World Studies 25, no. 2 (2008): 59–81.
• Ginat, Rami, and Uri Bar-Noi. “Tacit Support for Terrorism: The Rapprochement Between the USSR and Palestinian Guerrilla Organizations Following the 1967 War.” Journal of Strategic Studies 30, no. 2 (2007): 255–84. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390701248756.
• Goethem, Geert van, and Robert Anthony Waters. American Labor’s Global Ambassadors : the International History of the AFL-CIO During the Cold War. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
• Gregor, Richard. “Ladislav Bittman, ‘The KGB and Soviet Disinformation: An Insider’s View.’” Canadian Slavonic Papers 28, no. 4 (1986): 480–.
• Hammond, Andrew. “Through a Glass, Darkly: The CIA and Oral History.” History (London) 100, no. 340 (2015): 311–26. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.12098.
• Johnson, Loch K. “Reflections on the Ethics and Effectiveness of America’s ‘Third Option’: Covert Action and U.S. Foreign Policy.” Intelligence and National Security 35, no. 5 (2020): 669–85. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2020.1739479.
• Kragh, Martin, and Sebastian Åsberg. “Russia’s Strategy for Influence through Public Diplomacy and Active Measures: The Swedish Case.” Journal of Strategic Studies 40, no. 6 (2017): 773–816. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2016.1273830.
• Ganser, Daniele. NATO’s Secret Armies : Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe. Hoboken: Routledge, 2004.
• Gasztold, Przemysław. “Wars, Weapons and Terrorists: Clandestine Operations of the Polish Military Intelligence Station in Beirut, 1965-1982.” International History Review 43, no. 1 (2021): 122–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2019.1664609.
• Gerard, Emmanuel. “Chapter 9: the CIA,” in Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba, 133-155. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674735729.
• Glenn, Patrick, and Bryan Gibson. The Global Cold War : Third World Interventions And The Making Of Our Times. First edition. Macat Library, 2017.
• Gould, Philip. “MY CLANDESTINE CAREER.” The Virginia Quarterly Review 75, no. 3 (1999): 558–72.

• Goodman, Allan E., and Bruce D. Berkowitz. The Need to Know : the Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Covert Action and American Democracy ; with a Background Paper. New York, N.Y: Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1992.
• Godson, Roy. Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards : U.S. Covert Action and Counterintelligence. Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor and Francis, 2001.
• Gustafson, Kristian. “Early Stages in the Evolution of Covert Action Governance in the United States, 1951–1961.” Public Policy and Administration 28, no. 2 (2013): 144–60. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952076712456233.
• Hager, Robert P. “The Cold War and Third World Revolution.” Communist and Post-Communist Studies 52, no. 1 (2019): 51–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2019.02.001.
• Heiss, M. A., “Chapter 6. Whistling in the Dark: US Efforts to Navigate UN Policy toward Decolonization, 1945–1963” in Sewell, Bevan, Maria Ryan, Robert J. McMahon, David Ekbladh, Andrew Rotter, and Alan McPherson. Foreign Policy at the Periphery: The Shifting Margins of US International Relations since World War II.Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2017. jhu.edu/book/49221.
• Hyde, Earl M. “Bernard Schuster and Joseph Katz: KGB Master Spies in the United States.” International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 12, no. 1 (1999): 35–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/088506099305214.
• Johnson, A. Ross. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty : the CIA Years and Beyond. Washington, D.C: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2010.
• Johnson, Loch K. “Witness Testimony from the Church Committee Hearings on Covert Action, 1975.” Intelligence and National Security 34, no. 6 (2019): 899–913. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2019.1606884.
• Johnson, Loch K. “Reflections on the Ethics and Effectiveness of America’s ‘Third Option’: Covert Action and U.S. Foreign Policy.” Intelligence and National Security 35, no. 5 (2020): 669–85. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2020.1739479.
• Kaplan, Jeffrey. “More East Than West: The World Council of Churches at the Dawn of the Cold War.” Terrorism and Political Violence 31, no. 1 (2019): 33–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2019.1574131.
• Karabell, Zachary. Architects of Intervention : the United States, the Third World, and the Cold War, 1946-1962. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999.
• Kearns, Oliver. “State Secrecy, Public Assent, and Representational Practices of U.S. Covert Action.” Critical Studies on Security 4, no. 3 (2016): 276–90. https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2016.1246305.
• Kinahan, G. M., “Exposing Soviet Active Measures in the 1980s: a Model for the Bush Administration.” The Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies 15, no. 3 (1990): 301–.
• Klehr, Harvey, F. I. Firsov, and John Earl Haynes, “Chapter 9: Conclusion,” in The Secret World of American Communism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995, pp. 322-328.
• Latham, Michael E., The Right Kind of Revolution : Modernization, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011.
• Latell, Brian. Castro’s Secrets: the CIA and Cuba’s Intelligence Machine. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
• Leffler, Melvyn P, and Odd Arne Westad. The Cambridge History of the Cold War. 3. Cambridge University Press, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521837194.
• Long, Stephen. “CIA-MI6 Psychological Warfare and the Subversion of Communist Albania in the Early Cold War.” Intelligence and National Security 35, no. 6 (2020): 787–807. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2020.1754711.
• Lorenzini, Sara. Global Development: A Cold War History.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. jhu.edu/book/67489.
• MacQueen, N., “A Third World?,” in Martel, Gordon. A Companion to International History 1900-2001. 1. Aufl. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
• Mahar, Donald G. Shattered Illusions: KGB Cold War Espionage in Canada. Lanham, MD: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2017.
• Mason, Mike. Development and Disorder: A History of the Third World Since 1945. Toronto: Between The Lines, 2000.
• McCrisken, Trevor. “The Housewife, the Vigilante and the Cigarette-Smoking Man: The CIA and Television, 1975-2001.” History (London) 100, no. 340 (2015): 293–310. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.12100.
• McMahon, R., “Chapter 1. How the Periphery Became the Center: The Cold War, the Third World, and the Transformation in US Strategic Thinking,” in Sewell, Bevan, Maria Ryan, Robert J. McMahon, David Ekbladh, Andrew Rotter, and Alan McPherson. Foreign Policy at the Periphery: The Shifting Margins of US International Relations since World War II.Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2017. jhu.edu/book/49221.
• McMahon, Robert J. The Cold War in the Third World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Mickolus, Edward F., Stories from Langley : a Glimpse Inside the CIA. Place of publication not identified: Potomac Books, An imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
• Mickolus, Edward. More Stories from Langley: Another Glimpse Inside the CIA
• Murphy, David E, Sergei A Kondrashev, and George Bailey. Battleground Berlin: CIA Vs. KGB in the Cold War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
• Parker, Jason C. Hearts, Minds, Voices: US Cold War Public Diplomacy and the Formation of the Third World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190251840.001.0001.
• Paterson, Thomas G. “Chapter 12: The Clandestine Response: The CIA, Covert Actions, and Congressional Oversight,” in Meeting the Communist Threat Truman to Reagan, pp. 54-77. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
• Pikovskaia, Kristina. “‘We Could Not Be There’: Storytelling and the Narratives of Soviet Military Advisers, Specialists and Interpreters in Angola During the Civil War (1975-1992).” Journal of Southern African Studies 46, no. 5 (2020): 903–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2020.1797355.
• Rakove, Robert B., Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
• Rositzke, Harry August. The CIA’s Secret Operations : Espionage, Counterespionage, and Covert Action. London: Routledge, 2019.
• Rudgers, David F. “The Origins of Covert Action.” Journal of Contemporary History 35, no. 2 (2000): 249–62. https://doi.org/10.1177/002200940003500206.
• Soviet Covert Action (the Forgery Offensive) : Hearings before the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, House of Representatives, Ninety-Sixth Congress, Second Session, February 6, 19, 1980, 1980.
• Stockwell, John. In Search of Enemies : a CIA Story. 1st ed. New York: Norton, 1978.
• The Rote Kapelle: the CIA’s History of Soviet Intelligence and Espionage Networks in Western Europe, 1936-1945. Washington, D.C: University Publications of America, 1979. (Hathi Trust)
• Scott, Len. “Secret Intelligence, Covert Action and Clandestine Diplomacy.” Intelligence and National Security 19, no. 2 (2004): 322–41. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268452042000302029.
• Smith, Bradley F. The Shadow Warriors: O.S.S. and the Origins of the C.I.A. New York: Basic Books, 1983. (Hathi Trust)
• Statler, Kathryn C., and Andrew L. Johns. The Eisenhower Administration, the Third World, and the Globalization of the Cold War. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
• Glenn, Patrick, and Bryan Gibson. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions And The Making Of Our Times. First edition. Macat Library, 2017.
• Telepneva, Natalia. “A Cultural Heritage for National Liberation? The Soviet-Somali Historical Expedition, Soviet African Studies, and the Cold War in the Horn of Africa.” International Journal of Heritage Studies : IJHS 26, no. 12 (2020): 1185–1202. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2019.1664620.
• Telepneva, Natalia. “Saving Ghana’s Revolution: The Demise of Kwame Nkrumah and the Evolution of Soviet Policy in Africa, 1966–1972.” Journal of Cold War Studies 20, no. 4 (2019): 4–25. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws_a_00838.
• Treverton, Gregory F. Covert Action : the Limits of Intervention in the Postwar World. New York: Basic Books, 1987.
• Waters, Robert, and Gordon Daniels. “The World’s Longest General Strike: The AFL-CIO, the CIA, and British Guiana,” Diplomatic History 29, no. 2 (2005): 279–307. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2005.00474.x.
• Westad, O. (2005). “Creating the Third World: The United States confronts revolution.” In The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times, 110-157. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511817991.005
• Wilford, Hugh. America’s Great Game : the CIA’s Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East. New York: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2013.
• Wilford, Hugh. The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2008.. Lincoln: Potomac Books, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv13pk8ms.