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#1 When Pearl Harbor was bombed in a surprise attack in 1941, Billy Waugh knew more about war than most twelve-year-old boys. He was astounded by the boldness of the paratrooper unit, and vowed to go to war one day.
#2 In May 1942, two British-trained assassins, Jan Kubiš and Josef Gabčík, were sent to kill Reinhard Heydrich, a Nazi general. The existence of a British commando unit, Special Operations Executive, was a source of great controversy within the British military establishment.
#3 The SOE was a British organization that trained commandos to infiltrate enemy-occupied territory and perform hit-and-run operations. The short-term goal of their efforts was to create paranoia among Nazi officials and embolden underground resistance movements.
#4 On May 27, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated in Prague by two British SOE commandos, Jan Kubiš and Gabčík. He was hit by debris from the bomb, which had been thrown by Kubiš. Heydrich was unable to move because of the debris lodged in his organs.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	10 avril 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669383604
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

When Pearl Harbor was bombed in a surprise attack in 1941, Billy Waugh knew more about war than most twelve-year-old boys. He was astounded by the boldness of the paratrooper unit, and vowed to go to war one day.

#2

In May 1942, two British-trained assassins, Jan Kubiš and Josef Gabčík, were sent to kill Reinhard Heydrich, a Nazi general. The existence of a British commando unit, Special Operations Executive, was a source of great controversy within the British military establishment.

#3

The SOE was a British organization that trained commandos to infiltrate enemy-occupied territory and perform hit-and-run operations. The short-term goal of their efforts was to create paranoia among Nazi officials and embolden underground resistance movements.

#4

On May 27, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated in Prague by two British SOE commandos, Jan Kubiš and Gabčík. He was hit by debris from the bomb, which had been thrown by Kubiš. Heydrich was unable to move because of the debris lodged in his organs.

#5

Heydrich was assassinated by Czechoslovakian nationals, and Hitler was enraged. The reprisals were brutal, and the Nazis flooded the basement tunnels beneath a Russian Orthodox church in Prague with water, killing Kubiš and Gabčík.

#6

The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich was a success, and it made the Czechs look weak. But the Czech people were happy to have their country back, and they were pleased with the reprisals against the Germans.

#7

The American equivalent of SOE’s Division D, the Special Operations Branch, was assigned to infiltrate, prepare the battlefield, and conduct sabotage and subversion. The mandate of the Special Operations Branch was to effect physical subversion of the enemy.

#8

The OSS trained its agents to work from a mind-set that was diametrically opposed to U. S. Army doctrine at the time. Conventional warfare was based upon frontal assault against an enemy’s main line of resistance. Guerrilla warfare was the opposite, close-quarters combat and throat slitting were standard.

#9

The final phase of Jedburgh training involved parachuting infiltration techniques, taught in Altrincham, Manchester, at a facility code-named STS-51. On June 5, 1944, the eve of the Normandy invasion, the first Jedburgh team, Team Hugh, parachuted into Nazi-occupied France with instructions from Prime Minister Winston Churchill to set Europe ablaze.

#10

The British Special Operations Executive had plans to assassinate Adolf Hitler, but the laws of war forbade assassination, and many British generals argued that such a high-profile assassination could open the door to a war crimes trial.

#11

The OSS planned to insert an OSS commando team disguised as enemy soldiers into Nazi territory, and kill Hitler. But to command such a unit deep in enemy territory involved extreme risk. The drop zone chosen was deep within the Inn Valley in Austria.

#12

The OSS was abolished in 1945, and the following year, President Truman signed an order abolishing the organization. America was the new standard-bearer of democratic ideals, and the military was the mightiest in the world. Gentlemen did not slit throats.

#13

In 1946, America’s ambassador to the Soviet Union, Walter Bedell Smith, was set to meet with Josef Stalin. He was apprehensive about how not to go to war with the Soviet Union.

#14

In 1946, power came in numbers. The Soviet Union had taken possession of almost half of Europe, then kept much of it after the Nazis capitulated. The question Bedell Smith needed answered was simple but uncomfortable: How much further was Stalin going to go.

#15

In a speech to a joint session of Congress, President Truman warned the American people that Moscow had to be stopped. He called for the support of free peoples who were resisting subjugation.

#16

The CIA was created to take charge of these covert-action operations, which were officially called paramilitary activities. These activities would be carried out by the CIA in peacetime, and during wartime they would coordinate with the Defense Department and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

#17

In 1950, the CIA was created to carry out covert operations, which were meant to be unnoticed by the public. When the North Korean army invaded South Korea, the Western world was caught off guard. The CIA had failed to foresee an attack that the U. S. national-security apparatus feared could be the opening salvo of World War III.

#18

The CIA had failed to anticipate the invasion of an ally by communist forces, and this put the CIA in a compromised position. President Truman decided that CIA director Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter had to go. He chose Walter Bedell Smith, who was physically unwell, to replace him.

#19

The CIA had feared Kim Il Sung, the most dangerous type of dictator, was a Soviet puppet. He was actually a war hero who’d battled Japanese invaders in the Paektu Mountain region of Korea during World War II.

#20

The CIA had a list of targets, and the first was Kim Il Sung, the leader of North Korea. The idea that an Indian American named Cherokee Buffalo could make his way to Pyongyang and kill Kim Il Sung was ambitious and foolhardy. It set a precedent for what would become known as lethal direct action: targeted killing.

#21

In 1951, Jack Singlaub served as CIA deputy chief of station in Seoul. He and his colleagues worked out of the newly renovated Traymore Hotel downtown. Their cover was that they were with an advisory organization called the Special Operations Group, Joint Advisory Commission, Korea (JACK), 8132nd Army Unit.

#22

The CIA was trying to train indigenous forces in Korea to be inserted behind enemy lines. They didn’t know who was a traitor and who was not. They tested the idea of dropping agents from planes by parachuting them, then letting their bodies fall through the air before pulling their rip cords.

#23

In Washington, a battle was underway between the CIA and the U. S. Army over covert-action operations. The CIA wanted to handle all covert action in peacetime, but the army wanted to lead these operations in war time.

#24

The CIA and the Pentagon both had different ideas about how to handle the conflict in Korea. The CIA was about taking risks, while the Pentagon was about following strict procedures and protocols.

#25

The missions were dangerous, and they often had limited communication with their CIA and army handlers in the south. The rate of return was low, and it was common to run more than one mission per flight.

#26

The AVIARY team was sent to drop the Chinese guerrilla fighters behind enemy lines. The first Chinese partisan jumped out of the plane, but the third man, who was carrying a grenade, instead of jumping, rolled the grenade into the seating area of the aircraft and leapt out.

#27

The CIA had failed in Korea because it entered the game too late, and had no reliable network of agents on the ground. In Guatemala, the plan was to be preemptive. Fix things before they happened. This doctrine would become known as regime change.

#28

The CIA’s covert-action operations were already three times the size of the Agency’s intelligence and espionage budgets combined. The amount of intelligence that could be gleaned from inside a totalitarian state like North Korea was close to zero.

#29

During a chance encounter on a train, Waugh learned about secret wars being conducted by the U. S. government as covert operations behind enemy lines. He would spend the next seven decades engaged in or training for direct-action, kill-or-be-killed operations against America’s enemies.

#30

In 1953, Billy Waugh was transferred to a U. S. military base in Augsburg, Germany. Before he left, he saved up his army money and bought himself a car, a sharp-looking 1949 Chevrolet four-door sedan. It was his first car and he adored it. When he received orders to travel to Germany, he arranged to have it shipped across the Atlantic so he could drive it around on the autobahn.

#31

The US Army’s vision for unconventional warfare was to support resistance movements in foreign lands that shared America’s pro-Western, anticommunist goals. To say that unconventional warfare could ever be defined in simple terms was wishful thinking.

#32

The Special Forces were a group of soldiers who were extremely competitive, self-reliant, and stress-resistant. They were born of an almost inhuman ability to absorb any stressful situation and carry on into battle without letting mental concerns or emotions get in the way.

#33

Lauri Törni was a Finnish soldier who was awarded the Knight of the Mannerheim Cross for his leadership and bravery. He was arrested and charged with treason, but was pardoned by Finnish president Juho Paasikivi. He then went to Venezuela and became a American carpenter.

#34

The U. S. Army Special Forces began to grow in the 1950s. Hundreds, then thousands, of unconventional American warriors volunteered to join this elite group. They worked tirelessly training and equipping guerrilla fighters around the globe so as to keep the threat of Soviet expansion in check.

#35

In 1954, Che Guevara went to Guatemala to study medicine. While there, he witnessed the violence of civil unrest first hand, and was inspired to lead a revolution. His actions put him directly in the crosshairs of three U. S. presidents.

#36

In 1950, President Truman created a new advisory committee, the Psychological Strategy Board, to determine the desirability and feasibility of covert-action operations. The board included the director of Central Intelligence, the undersecretary of state, and the deputy secretary of d