Influence: The Soviet Task Leading to Pearl Harbor, the Iron Curtain, and the Cold War
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Book Description
The Great Game of espionage is a game of spies, sabotage, distortion, lies. But it is also about INFLUENCE-conveying the delusion of friendship and cooperation while influencing world events from within a foreign government. So it was that an internationally respected senior statesman serving in the highest levels of the FDR administration was actually Stalin's asset.
How did it happen, and-more imortantly-how can we keep it from happening again? INFLUENCE outlines both the motivation, machination, and consequence of a foreign power pulling the strings of a high American official. INFLUENCE is both a throroughly documented account of our failings, and our best hope to prevent a recurrance of history.
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Espionage-The Great Game-is about spies. About sabotage. About distortions and lies. About delusions of friendship and cooperation. About the back-room influence of world events.
As war raged in Europe and Asia between 1940 and 1945, such serious disagreements arose between Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt on how to end the war-who would assume control of what, when, and where, and who would relinquish control over what to whom-that the anticipated peace became more a temporary stage prop than historical fact. The need to influence the compromises became preeminent within the alliance. But today we know Stalin held the Ace in the Hole: a well established Influence Apparatus in Washington. Roosevelt's only asset was the blind trust of "Uncle Joe". Stalin won the Great Game. INFLUENCE describes the birth of Russian-Japanese hostility at the turn of the last century. It details wars between Japan and Russia, the future Soviet Union, and how the threat to the USSR by Japan in the east grew to equal Hitler's from the west.
As war grew close, Stalin had two tasks. He knew that because he could not battle invaders on two fronts, he must influence western political strategy to divert the Japanese south, into the Pacific, and away from Siberia. This done, he needed America to join the war against Hitler. Pearl Harbor was the answer.
Influence: The Soviet Task Leading to Pearl Harbor, the Iron Curtain, and the Cold War
Influence: The Soviet Task Leading to Pearl Harbor, the Iron Curtain, and the Cold War,Peter B. Niblo,Elderberry Press (OR),1930859147,Espionage, Soviet,History,History - General History,History: World,Intelligence service,Military - Intelligence/Espionage,Secret service,Soviet Union,World - General,World War, 1939-1945,World history,History & Theory,International Relations - General,Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union,United States - 20th Century,Political Science
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