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Into Tibet the CIA's First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition to Lhasa
by Laird, Thomas
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0802117147
- ISBN 13
- 9780802117144
- Seller
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
Grove Press, 2002 364 pp with 8 B&W plates. The story of Douglas Mackierman, the first CIA agent killed in the line of duty, who was sent by the CIA to collect intelligence on Russian uranium mining in northwestern China - an unsettling sign that Russia was developing an atomic bomb. Simultaneously he began organization of anti-Chinese nomads into proxy U.S. fighting forces in Central Asia. Although the United States has never recognized Tibet's claim to independencee, "Into Tibet" uncovers evidence that in 1950 the CIA and the State Department were working covertlt to do just that. A largely unknown and riviting history. Text is clean tight and unmarked. Maps on endpapers. DJ is clean, bright, undamaged.. First Edition.. Hardcover. New/New.
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- Bookseller
- Catron Grant Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 200581
- Title
- Into Tibet the CIA's First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition to Lhasa
- Author
- Laird, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0802117147
- ISBN 13
- 9780802117144
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Bookseller catalogs
- China; Tibet;
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About the Seller
Catron Grant Books
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico
About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
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