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Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China
Authored by John Delury
Narrated by Lee Goettl

0:00 Intro
0:03 Prologue
33:08 Part I: Axis Mundi
1:37:18 Outro

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

In the winter of 1952, at the height of the Korean War, the CIA flew a covert mission into China to pick up an agent. Trained on a remote Pacific island, the agent belonged to an obscure anti-communist group known as the Third Force based out of Hong Kong. The exfiltration would fail disastrously, and one of the Americans on the mission, a recent Yale graduate named John T. Downey, ended up a prisoner of Mao Zedong's government for the next twenty years. Unraveling the truth behind decades of Cold War intrigue, John Delury documents the damage that this hidden foreign policy did to American political life. The US government kept the public in the dark about decades of covert activity directed against China, while Downey languished in a Beijing prison and his mother lobbied desperately for his release. Mining little-known Chinese sources, Delury sheds new light on Mao's campaigns to eliminate counterrevolutionaries and how the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party used captive spies in diplomacy with the West. Agents of Subversion is an innovative work of transnational history, and it demonstrates both how the Chinese Communist regime used the fear of special agents to tighten its grip on society and why intellectuals in Cold War America presciently worried that subversion abroad could lead to repression at home.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Delury is professor of Chinese studies at Yonsei University. He is the coauthor of Wealth and Power.


Lee Goettl resides in the Midwest with his wife, daughter, and three dogs, enjoying all things book-related. He has recorded over eighty audiobooks, including playing two characters in Seth Rogen's Yearbook. He also works as a voice artist for commercials, e-learning, and medical narration.

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

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Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Media Inc
Published on: October 15, 2022
ISBN: 9798765067482
Duration: 16 hr, 12 min
Genres: History / Asia / China, Political Science / Intelligence & Espionage, Political Science / International Relations / Diplomacy

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