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A 5 page research paper that examines Peter Grose's book on Operation Rollback, which is the saga of various American intelligence agencies and their endeavors to overthrow Communism during the Cold War. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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his book, Grose sorts through the plethora of intelligence organizations that existed during World War II, which serves to make the beginning of Groses book somewhat disjointed. Under Roosevelt,
it seemed the government was more intrigued by the Soviet experiment than anything else and were more interested in seeing how it turned out rather than in attempting to stop
it.1 However, the exception to this attitude was held by George F. Kennan, Ambassador to the Soviet Union and later director of various US intelligence agencies.2 It was Kennan whom
Grose credits as formulating "Operation Rollback," which he outlined in the famous "Long Telegram" of 1946, in which Kennan advocated hiring East European and Russian ?migr?s to do dangerous cover
work behind the Iron Curtain.3 Kennans plan was an aggressive campaign that was designed to not just contain Communist expansion in Eastern Europe, but to undo Soviet power in Eastern
Europe, as well as the Soviet Union itself.4 The efforts ranged from psychological warfare via Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, to a variety of cultural and intellectual front organization,
to subversion from agents who were parachuted behind enemy lines.5 Another tactic employed was to train revolutionaries in various Soviet satellites, Albania for example, as well as sneaking agents
onto the editorial boards of intellectually-oriented newspapers.6 Grose tells of how American intelligence agencies recruited Albanian, Ukrainian and Polish guerilla forces, and how those same agencies subsequently got them all
killed. It was a double agent named Kim Philby who was responsible for most of the deaths.7 He would inform Soviet authorities of covert activities and troops would be
waiting for the doomed paratroopers. This was also because most of the schemes to penetrate Soviet territory were planned in conjunction with British intelligence and it is now known
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