ALOV00-21 Albert Lulushi - Operation Valuable Fiend.nfo
General Information
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Title: Operation Valuable Fiend: The CIA's First Paramilitary Strike against the Iron Curtain
Author: Albert Lulushi
Read By: James Conlan
Copyright: 2014
Audiobook Copyright: 2014
Genre: Non-Fiction - History - Military
Publisher: Audible
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Media: Digital
Length each: Chapterized - lossless
Source: Audible Enhanced
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Number of MP3s: 21
Total Duration: 10:25:45
Total MP3 Size: 286.71
Parity Archive: No
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Ripped With: SoundTaxi
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Book Description
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Publisher's Summary
National Clandestine Service), flush with money and burning with determination
to roll back the Iron Curtain, embarked on the first paramilitary operation
in the history of the agency. They hatched an elaborate plan, coordinated
with the British Secret Intelligence Service, to foment popular rebellion
and detach Albania, the weakest of the Soviet satellites in Europe,
shut down by 1954.
In Operation Valuable Fiend, Albert Lulushi gives the first full accounting
of this CIA action, based on hundreds of declassified documents, memoirs,
and recollections of key participants, including Albanian exiles recruited
for missions and their Communist opponents. Up till now, the story of
the operation has been obfuscated and even distorted. Some blamed the
Soviet mole Kim Philby for sabotaging it; the communists credited the
prowess of their secret police; and CIA memoirs were heavily sanitized.
Lulushi documents a range of factors that led to the failure, from inexperience-
d CIA case officers outsmarted in spy-vs-spy games by their ruthless
Stalinist opponents; to rivalries between branches of the CIA and between
the agency and friendly intelligence services; and conflicts among anti-Communi-
The book also shows how this operation served as the proving ground
for techniques used in later CIA Cold War paramilitary actions - involving
and Guatemala and the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
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