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Spies in the Himalayas: Secret Missions and Perilous Climbs (Modern War Studies) (Modern War Studies (Hardcover))
M.S. Kohli
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Hardcover. After the Chinese detonated their first nuclear test in 1964, America and India were both concerned. The CIA knew it needed to gather more information, but had few ways of achieving this. This text chronicles the effort to plant a sensing device on a Himalayan peak in order to listen in on China. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, 28 photographs, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FPC; 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW3; JPSH; JWMN; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
In the towering mountains of northern India, a chilling chapter was written in the history of international espionage. After the Chinese detonated their first nuclear test in 1964, America and India, which had just fought a border war with its northern neighbour, were both concerned. The CIA knew it needed more information on China's growing nuclear capability but had few ways of peeking behind the ""Bamboo Curtain"". Because of the extreme remoteness of Chinese testing grounds, conventional surveillance in this pre-satellite era was next to impossible. The solution to this intelligence dilemma was a joint American-Indian effort to plant a ... Read more
In the towering mountains of northern India, a chilling chapter was written in the history of international espionage. After the Chinese detonated their first nuclear test in 1964, America and India, which had just fought a border war with its northern neighbour, were both concerned. The CIA knew it needed more information on China's growing nuclear capability but had few ways of peeking behind the ""Bamboo Curtain"". Because of the extreme remoteness of Chinese testing grounds, conventional surveillance in this pre-satellite era was next to impossible. The solution to this intelligence dilemma was a joint American-Indian effort to plant a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
Series
Modern War Studies
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700612239
SKU
V9780700612239
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About M.S. Kohli
M. S. Kohli, India's most eminent mountaineer, led the successful Everest Expedition of 1965 that put nine men on the summit - a world record that stood for seventeen years. His books include Mountaineering in India and The Himalayas. Kenneth Conboy is a former policy analyst and deputy director at the Heritage Foundation whose other books include The CIA's Secret ... Read more
Reviews for Spies in the Himalayas: Secret Missions and Perilous Climbs (Modern War Studies) (Modern War Studies (Hardcover))
A riveting first-hand account of one of the darker moments of Cold War espionage, with plenty of James Bondian flourishes: a CIA-backed spy mission to the roof of the world... snowstorms and deadly frostbite... and a missing nuclear-powered eavesdropping device that threatens to leak lethal contamination into the Ganges. What a ride! Frank Snepp, former CIA agent and author of ... Read more