In Search of Enemies - A CIA Story - John Stockwell

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In Search of E\1emies
A CIA Sto1y
JOHN STOCKWELL
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.. [The United States· goal in Angola] was not to keep out the
Cubans and Soviets but to make their imperial efforts as costly as
possible and to prove that. after Vietnam , we were st ill capable of
response, however insane. It is this story that has been told, and in
impressive and convincing detail , by John Stockwell, the former
chief of the CIA's Angola .... 'task force. · His book should not be
missed. Since strategic thought survi-ves by ignoring experience, it
has a highly professional interest in a.voiding accounts such as this.
By the same token, all who are alarmed about the tendency toward
such strategic thinking should strongly welcome Mr. Stockwell·s
book .·· - John Kenneth Galbraith, New York Review of Books
In Search of Enemies is much more than the story of the only war to
be found when the CIA sought to recoup its prestige after the
Vietnam debacle. Though no American troops were committed
to Angola, only ··advisors, .. many millions were spent, many
thousands died. and many lies were told to the American people,
in waging a war without purpose to American vital interests and
without hope of victory.
/11 Search of Enemies is unique in its wealth of detail about CIA
operations and convincing in its argument that the clandestine
services of the CIA shou ld be abolished.
John Stockwell, who lived in Africa for.ten of his early years, is a
graduate of the University of Texas and an alumnus of the U.S.
Marine Corps. After twelve years as a CIA officer, he resigned
from the agency on April I, 1977.
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