Chapter 15: The Erosion of National Sovereignty

 
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Leonard C. Lewin, Report From Iron Mountain (New York: Dial Press, 1967). This book is not to be misunderstood. It is a novel; but its content is so close to the reality of those years that many readers insist that the “report” must be true. I have discussed this fully with the author. He assures me that the book is a novel and that he intended it to read that way in order to emphasize its serious content.

 
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A recent euphemism for guerrilla warfare or counter insurgency operations.

 
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Walter B. Wriston, Risk and Other Four-Letter Words (New York: Harper & Row, 1986).

 
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Philip P. Weiner, The Dictionary of the History of Ideas (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1973).

 
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As defined in my 1973 book The Secret Team, Secret Intelligence Operations are “clandestine operations carried out to get deep-secret intelligence data.”

 
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Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (R-Massa.).