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    Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA
    Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA
    Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA
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    Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA

    Written by Randall B. Woods

    Narrated by Michael Puttonen

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    World War II commando, Cold War spy, and CIA director under presidents Nixon and Ford, William Egan Colby played a critical role in some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century. A quintessential member of the greatest generation, Colby embodied the moral and strategic ambiguities of the postwar world, and first confronted many of the dilemmas about power and secrecy that America still grapples with today.
    In Shadow Warrior, eminent historian Randall B. Woods presents a riveting biography of Colby, revealing that this crusader for global democracy was also drawn to the darker side of American power. Aiming to help reverse the spread of totalitarianism in Europe and Asia, Colby joined the U.S. Army in 1941, just as America entered World War II. He served with distinction in France and Norway, and at the end of the war transitioned into America's first peacetime intelligence agency: the CIA. Fresh from the fight against fascism, Colby zealously redirected his efforts against international communism. He insisted on the importance of fighting communism on the ground, doggedly applying guerilla tactics for counterinsurgency, sabotage, surveillance, and information-gathering on the new battlefields of the Cold War. Over time, these strategies became increasingly ruthless; as head of the CIA's Far East Division, Colby oversaw an endless succession of assassination attempts, coups, secret wars in Laos and Cambodia, and the Phoenix Program, in which 20,000 civilian supporters of the Vietcong were killed. Colby ultimately came clean about many of the CIA's illegal
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPost Hypnotic Press
    Release dateNov 4, 2013
    ISBN9781927401736
    Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA

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    • 5/5
      Not only is this an exciting, richly detailed account of Colby‘s life and work, but because of the narrator it is also an exquisite listening experience.
    • 5/5
      For those who love America or live through the "Viet Nam" experience this is a hard book to get through.
      That being said, this book is well written and thought provoking. I would suggest it to anyone who like peaking behind the curtain or enjoys a good conspiracy. Do it. Take the time andread/listen to the table of Bill Colby.
    • 4/5
      A well researched and balanced biography of former DCI William Colby, responsible in part for the CIA's response to the Church Committee's investigations during the Ford years, and earlier for the controversial Phoenix program during the Vietnam conflict. Woods tells Colby's story ably and in great detail, and it makes for a sometimes troubling, but always enlightening read.