Western Corporations and Covert Operations in the early Cold War Re-examining the Vogeler/Sanders Case

Name: Western Corporations and Covert Operations in the early Cold War
Author: Margaret Muranyi Manchester

Auteur: Margaret Muranyi Manchester

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Margaret Muranyi Manchester

Engels
Hardcover
9781032253862
28 mei 2024
202 pagina's

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This book examines the Vogeler/Sanders espionage case that ruptured ties between the US and UK and Hungary in 1949, and analyses this as an example of Western covert operations in the early Cold War.

The work focuses on the 1949 case of ITT in Hungary, where two of its executives, the American Robert A. Vogeler and the Briton Edgar Sanders, were arrested by the secret police, tortured, forced to confess, put on a public show trial, and found guilty of espionage. This happened at a time that the US and the UK were cooperating in numerous operations to undermine the credibility of the communist regime and to encourage local resistance by “all means short of war.” Using the case as a lens to examine the dynamics of the early Cold War, the book integrates business history, diplomatic history and intelligence history, and thereby traces the impact of the case on Anglo-Hungarian, American-Hungarian, and Anglo-American relations during the critical period of 1949-1956. Vogeler’s case had a strong impact on the growing criticism of the Truman Administration’s containment policies and contributed to the demand for a more activist policy of ‘liberation of captive peoples’. His experiences also rallied the business community, especially trade associations such as the National Foreign Trade Council, the US Chamber of Commerce, and the National Association of Manufacturers, to support the anti-communist crusade both abroad and at home. Vogeler’s wife also waged a personal campaign to secure her husband’s release and exemplifies the activism of conservative and Catholic women who waged their own anti-communist crusade. The book thus tells the “rest of the story” often omitted in traditional works.

This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War history, intelligence studies and European political history.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 28 mei 2024
Aantal pagina's: 202

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Hoofdauteur: Margaret Muranyi Manchester
Hoofduitgeverij: Routledge

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Product breedte: 156 mm
Product lengte: 234 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 156 mm
Verpakking lengte: 234 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 550 g

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Geschiedenis

Defensie & Oorlogsvoering

Politiek

Sociologie

Europa

Oorlogen

Internationale betrekkingen

Interdisciplinaire studies

Koude Oorlog

Diplomatie

Spionage & Geheime diensten

Polemologie

Regio's & Landen

Noord-, Midden-, & Zuid-Amerika

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Taal: Engels
Periode: Koude Oorlog, ca. 1950-1999
Beschikbaarheid: Te reserveren
Land: Verenigde Staten, Hongarije

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