The Invisible Government

Random House published The Invisible Government by David Wise & Thomas Ross in 1964, exposing the role the CIA was playing in foreign policy. This included the coups in Guatemala (Operation PBSUCCESS) & Iran (Operation Ajax) & the Bay of Pigs operation. It also revealed the CIA’s attempts to overthrow President Sukarno in Indonesia & the covert operations taking place in Laos & Vietnam. The CIA considered buying up its entire printing. This idea was rejected when Random House pointed out that if this happened they would print a 2nd edition
The invisible government
48 hours
Build-up
Invasion
The case of the Birmingham widows
A history
Burma: the innocent ambassador
Indonesia: “soldiers of fortune”
Laos: the pacifist warriors
Vietnam: the secret war
Guatemala: CIA’s banana revolt
The Kennedy shake-up
The secret elite
The National Security Agency
The Defense Intelligence Agency
CIA: “it’s well hidden”
CIA: the inner workings
The search for control
Purity in the Peace Corps
A gray operator
Missle crisis
Electronic spies
Black radio
CIA’s guano paradise-The 1960 campaign-& now
A conclusion