The History of CIA Covert Operations Lakewood High School Grade 12 - Ms. Scheer

Lakewood HS Pathfinders Lakewood City Schools Lakewood Public Library

Central Intelligence Agency The official site.

Frontline: Chasing the Sleeper Cell PBS report takes viewers inside a secret investigation of an alleged Al Qaeda cell operating in the U.S.

Cold War Lesson Plan: The CIA's Covert Operations Contains several good links.

Cold War Lesson Plan: Spies, Communism, and Bananas: How and Why the CIA overthrew a government that led to 40 years of brutal repression (Guatemelan coup)

51 Years of Hidden History: A Roundup of Documented Reports on the CIA

Center for the Study of Intelligence An agency of the CIA.

CIA - History From the Federation of American Scientists.

The Largest Covert Operation in CIA History The arming between 1979 and 1988 of the Afghan moujahedeen.

CIA Covert Operations (Author Unknown) A timeline.

CIA Greatest Hits Excerpts from a book by Mark Zepezauer.

The CIA: A Brief History by Yuno Hu reprinted from IndyMedia.

David Johnson - Covert Operations: Indonesia 1965

Equipo Nizkor - Covert Operations and the CIA's Hidden History in the Philippines

Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy

The CIA: America's Premier International Terrorist Organization Serendipity is self-described as a "libertarian, anti-fascist, anti-war, anti-Zionist and anti-prison-planet website." Much here is about the CIA and drug-trafficking. Find also information and excerpts from Ralph McGehee and his CIABASE, plus links to more sites.

Supporting the "Secret War" CIA Air Operations in Laos, 1955-1974 CIA Studies in Intelligence, Winter 1999-2000.

Covert Action In Chile 1963-1973 Staff Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities

CIA Machinations in Chile in 1970

Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 2 The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations

Documents Related to the Iran/Contra Affair

World History Archives: The Retrospective History of Chile

World History Archives: The Retrospective History of Indonesia

World History Archives: History of Cambodia

World History Archives: History of Laos

World History Archives: The Retrospective History of Guatemala

World History Archives: The Retrospective History of Nicaragua

World History Archives: The retrospective history of Socialist Cuba

"CIA worked with Pakistan to create Taliban"

Research Databases: OneSearch (Outside the Library OPLIN databases require an Ohio public library card for access.)

Selected articles available online or in the Library:

Chile, 9/11/73.
Author: Kornbluh, Peter; Source: Nation, 9/29/2003.

Oh, What a Fine Plot We Hatched. (And Here's What to Do the Next Time).
Author: Risen, James; New York Times, 06/18/2000, sec. 4 p.7.

American Militarism and Blowback: The Costs of Letting the Pentagon Dominate Foreign Policy.
Author(s): Johnson, Chalmers; Source: New Political Science; 03/2002.

How a Plot Convulsed Iran in '53 (and in '79).
Author(s): Risen, James; Source: New York Times; 04/16/2000, p1.

Notes on the CIA's Secret War in Afghanistan.
Author: Prados, John. Source: Journal of American History, 09/2002.

Covert Acts, Scandals.
The ‘Rogue Elephant’.
Source: CQ Researcher; 01/25/2002.

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