**Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II**
is a 2003 [book](List_of_Libertarian_Socialist_Books "wikilink") by
[William Blum](William_Blum "wikilink") which discusses...[US
military](United_States_of_America "wikilink") and [CIA](CIA "wikilink")
interventions since [World War II](World_War_II "wikilink"), it outlines
the efforts to build an [American Empire](American_Empire "wikilink") in
the second half of the 20th century through a combination of invasions,
[bombings](Bombing "wikilink"), supporting coups, backing terrorists and
interfering in elections.

## Summary

### 1\. China 1945 to 1960s: Was Mao Tse-tung just paranoid?

### 2\. Italy 1947-1948: Free elections, Hollywood style

### 3\. Greece 1947 to early 1950s: From cradle of democracy to client state

### 4\. The Philippines 1940s and 1950s: America's oldest colony

### 5\. Korea 1945-1953: Was it all that it appeared to be?

### 6\. Albania 1949-1953: The proper English spy

### 7\. Eastern Europe 1948-1956: Operation Splinter Factor

### 8\. Germany 1950s: Everything from juvenile delinquency to terrorism

### 9\. Iran 1953: Making it safe for the King of Kings

### 10.Guatemala 1953-1954: While the world watched

### 11\. Costa Rica mid-1950s: Trying to topple an ally, part I

### 12\. Syria 1956-1957: Purchasing a new government

### 13\. The Middle East 1957-1958: The Eisenhower Doctrine claims another backyard for America

### 14\. Indonesia 1957-1958: War and pornography

### 15\. Western Europe 1950s and 1960s: Fronts within fronts within fronts

### 16\. British Guiana 1953-1964: The CIA's international labor mafia

### 17\. Soviet Union late 1940s to 1960s: From spy planes to book publishing

### 18\. Italy 1950s to 1970s: Supporting the Cardinal's orphans and techno-fascism

### 19\. Vietnam 1950 - 1973 : The Hearts and Minds Circus

### 20\. Cambodia 1955-1973: Prince Sihanouk walks the high-wire of neutralism

### 21\. Laos 1957-1973: L'Armee Clandestine

### 22\. Haiti 1959-1963: The Marines land, again

### 23\. Guatemala 1960: One good coup deserves another

### 24\. France/Algeria 1960s: L'etat, c'est la CIA

### 25\. Ecuador 1960-1963: A textbook of dirty tricks

### 26\. The Congo 1960-1964: The assassination of Patrice Lumumba

### 27\. Brazil 1961-1964: Introducing the marvelous new world of death squads

### 28\. Peru 1960-1965: Fort Bragg moves to the jungle

### 29\. Dominican Republic 1960-1966: Saving democracy from communism by getting rid of democracy

### 30\. Cuba 1959 to 1980s: The unforgivable revolution

### 31\. Indonesia 1965: Liquidating President Sukarno ... and 500,000 others, East Timor 1975: And 200,000 more

### 32\. Ghana 1966: Kwame Nkrumah steps out of line

### 33\. Uruguay 1964-1970: Torture — as American as apple pie

### 34\. Chile 1964-1973: A hammer and sickle stamped on your child's forehead

### 35\. Greece 1964-1974: "Fuck your Parliament and your Constitution," said the President of the United States

### 36\. Bolivia 1964-1975: Tracking down Che Guevara in the land of coup d'etat

### 37\. Guatemala 1962 to 1980s: A less publicized "final solution"

### 38\. Costa Rica 1970-1971: Trying to topple an ally, part II

### 39\. Iraq 1972-1975: Covert action should not be confused with missionary work

### 40\. Australia 1973-1975: Another free election bites the dust

### 41\. Angola 1975 to 1980s: The Great Powers Poker Game

### 42\. Zaire 1975-1978: Mobutu and the CIA, a marriage made in heaven

### 43\. Jamaica 1976-1980: Kissinger's ultimatum

### 44\. Seychelles 1979-1981: Yet another area of great strategic importance

### 45\. Grenada 1979-1984: Lying — one of the few growth industries in Washington

### 46\. Morocco 1983: A video nasty

### 47\. Suriname 1982-1984: Once again, the Cuban bogeyman

### 48\. Libya 1981-1989: Ronald Reagan meets his match

### 49\. Nicaragua 1978-1990: Destabilization in slow motion

### 50\. Panama 1969-1991: Double-crossing our drug supplier

### 51\. Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991: Teaching Communists what democracy is all about

### 52\. Iraq 1990-1991: Desert holocaust

### 53\. Afghanistan 1979-1992: America's Jihad

### 54\. El Salvador 1980-1994: Human rights, Washington style

### 55\. Haiti 1986-1994: Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?

### 56\. The American Empire: 1992 to present 383

## External Links

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