The CIA and Third Force movements in China during the early Cold War : the great American dream /
"This study examines the CIA's "third force" strategy--providing support for a third-party alternative over two primary on-the-ground options--in East Asia during the first decade of the Cold War. The author argues that the strategy failed due to a lack of understanding of the hi...
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
2018
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the CIA and the Chinese Third Force during the early 1950s
- The collapse of the anticommunist resistance in China and the CIA's launch of a Third Force, 1949-1950
- Quest for a Third Force during the Korean War, 1950-1953
- The creation of a Third Force committee in Hong Kong, 1950-1952
- The political wing of the Third Force : the fighting league for Chinese freedom and democracy
- The creation of a Third Force "army" in Japan, Okinawa, and Saipan
- CIA debacle : the Downey-Fecteau Third Force mission to Manchuria
- Chinese nationalist and communist reactions to the Third Force
- The demise of the Third Forces, 1953-1954
- Conclusion : why did the CIA's Chinese Third Force project fail?
- Epilogue : "The great American dream" : the CIA and the Vietnamese Third Force in the early 1950s