Encyclopedia of Political Assassinations - Nigel West

Encyclopedia of Political Assassinations

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Buch | Hardcover
388 Seiten
2017
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-0238-1 (ISBN)
118,45 inkl. MwSt
With the recent declassification of secret documents new light has been shed on old mysteries. For example, we now know that what might be termed the "JFK assassination conspiracy industry" was deliberately fueled and manipulated by the KGB so as to distract the CIA and undermine confidence in successive U.S. administrations. Also, new evidence continues to emerge of Vladimir Putin’s commitment to the extra-judicial elimination of "extremists" overseas, as legitimized by the Duma in July 2006. Controversially, the legislation included a definition of “extremists” as "those slandering the individual occupying the post of president of the Russian Federation”.

The Encyclopedia of Political Assassinations contains a chronology, an introduction, and appendixes. The encyclopedia section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries on assassinations, intelligence agencies, politics and foreign relations.

Nigel West is the European Editor of the International Journal of Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence and teaches the history of postwar intelligence at the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies. He is the author of many books, including the Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence (Scarecrow, 2005), Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence (Scarecrow, 2006), Historical Dictionary of Cold War Counterintelligence (Scarecrow, 2007), and Historical Dictionary of Sexspionage (Scarecrow, 2009). In October 2003 he was awarded the U.S. Association of Former Intelligence Officers' first Lifetime Literature Achievement Award. In 2012 he was appointed a judge of the St Ermin’s Intelligence Book of the Year award.

Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
Abbreviations and Glossary
Chronology
Introduction
The Encyclopedia
Appendix 1 Operation FOXLEY
Appendix II CIA Report,Soviet Use of Assassination and Kidnapping
Appendix III CIA PB/FORTUNE Contingency Plan for Guatemala
Appendix IV CIA Report The Attack That Failed: Iraq’s Attempt to AssassinateFormer President Bush in Kuwait in April 1993.
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 240 mm
Gewicht 753 g
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Lexikon / Chroniken
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-5381-0238-2 / 1538102382
ISBN-13 978-1-5381-0238-1 / 9781538102381
Zustand Neuware
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