The CIA and Third Force Movements in China During the Early Cold War : The Great American Dream.

Cover -- The CIA and Third Force Movements in China during the Early Cold War -- The CIA and Third Force Movements in China during the Early Cold War -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Romanization -- Introduction -- The Cold War Setting -- The Cold War Spreads To China -- Origins Of The Cia's Third Force Project -- The Cia's Search For A Third Force In China -- Gap In The Scholarship -- Organization Of The Study -- Key Sources -- Cia Cover-up Of The Failure Of Its Chinese Third Force Project -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- The Collapse of the Anticommunist Resistance in China and the CIA's Launch of a Third Force, 1949-1950 -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- Quest for a Third Force during the Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Opc Attempt To Recruit General Zhang Fakui As Guerrilla Leader -- Opc's Interest In General Xu Chongzhi As A Guerrilla Leader -- Fading Prospects For Guerrilla Resistance On The Mainland -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- The Creation of a Third Force Committee in Hong Kong, 1950-1952 -- Opc Mission To Zhang Fakui And Xu Chongzhi -- State Department Mission To Hong Kong -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- The Political Wing of the Third Force -- Founding And Organization Of The Fighting League -- Cia Propaganda And Cultural Activities In Hong Kong -- American Assessments Of The Third Force In The Early 1950s -- The Fighting League Goes Public -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- The Creation of a Third Force "Army" in Japan, Okinawa, and Saipan -- Notes -- Chapter 6 -- CIA Debacle -- Notes -- Chapter 7 -- Chinese Nationalist and Communist Reactions to the Third Force -- Chinese Nationalist Opposition To The Third Force -- Chinese Communist Hostility Toward The Third Force -- Notes -- Chapter 8 -- The Demise of the Third Forces, 1953-1954 -- Termination Of Cai Wenzhi's Army -- Collapse Of The Fighting League -- Notes.

Conclusion -- Impossibility Of Penetrating The Totalitarian Mainland -- Wrong Historical Lessons: The Oss In Wartime Burma, China, And Germany -- Shortage Of Experienced Paramilitary Personnel In Opc -- Ignorance Of Chinese Language, Culture, And Society -- " -- Factionalism Within The Cia -- Disunity Within The Chinese Third Force -- The Moral Quandary -- Conclusion: The Cia's Third Force Project -- Notes -- Epilogue -- Trinh Minh ThÉ: Vietnamese Third Force, 1951-1954 -- Cia Mission To Saigon, 1954-1956 -- Lansdale And Third Force Leader Trinh Minh ThÉ -- Trinh Minh ThÉ And The Sects' Attack On Diem -- Was Diem A Third Force Leader? -- Post-1950s Third Force Movements In Vietnam -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Unpublished Primary Sources -- Published Primary Sources -- Cia Studies And Documents -- Fbi Dossiers -- Us State Department Records -- United Kingdom Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Interviews -- Letters -- Newspapers And Journals -- Index -- About the Author.

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 historical and cultural contexts of the region.

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