From the Shadows

The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War

By: Robert M. Gates

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Paperback | 9 January 2007 | Edition Number 1

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As the only person to rise from entry-level analyst to Director of the CIA and to serve on the White House staffs of four Presidents, Robert Gates is uniquely qualified to tell the unprecedented inside story of the Cold War. Drawing on his access to classified information and top-level involvement in policy decisions, Gates lays bare the hidden wars and operations the United States waged against communism worldwide. Ever certain that the fifty-year struggle with the Soviet Union was indeed a war, Gates makes candid appraisals of Presidents, key officials, and policies of the period. Among his disclosures are: how Carter laid the foundations for Reagan's covert wars against the Soviets; CIA predictions of a conservative coup against Gorbachev and the collapse of the Soviet Union; CIA and KGB "black operations" against each other; the secret relationship between Pope John Paul II and the Soviets; and three secret CIA-KGB summits.

From the Shadows is a classic memoir on the career of a CIA officer at the center of power during a time when the threat of global annihilation informed America's every move.

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Introduction	p. 15
1969-1974: Detente-The Years of Smoke and Mirrors
Washington and Moscow: 1969	p. 27
So This Was "Detente"?	p. 39
1975-1980: The Mask of Soviet Ascendancy
American Paralysis	p. 53
The "Third World" War	p. 64
Planting Lethal Seeds	p. 85
MUTS, Spies, and Dissidents	p. 97
Defense and Arms Control: Advantage USSR	p. 105
1979: Cold War, Hot War-East War, West War	p. 118
Carter Turns to CIA	p. 135
The Mask of Soviet Ascendancy, the Reality of Vulnerability	p. 170
1981-1986: The Resurgence of the West
The Reawakening	p. 183
Reagan's Sword: Casey at CIA	p. 198
Turning the Tables	p. 226
1983: The Most Dangerous Year	p. 258
The War in Washington, 1983: Shultz Against the Field	p. 278
Central America, 1983-1984: Our Own Worst Enemy	p. 293
Passages: Last Gasp of the Soviet Old Guard	p. 317
1985: Reagan and Gorbachev-the Best of Enemies	p. 327
The Third World Competition, 1985-1986: Washington Pours It On	p. 346
Intelligence Wars	p. 357
1986-1991: Liberation and History's Dustbin
Gorbachev's Uncertain Trumpet, 1986-1987	p. 375
Diversions	p. 390
Geneva to Washington	p. 404
Ending the "Third World" War	p. 427
Gorbachev: Destroying the Soviet System	p. 438
The "Velvet Revolutions" of 1989: The Avalanche of Liberation	p. 449
Together at Last: Bush and Gorbachev	p. 472
Destruction of the "Evil Empire"	p. 508
A Joyless Victory	p. 532
Reflections	p. 553
Notes	p. 577
Index	p. 581
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The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War

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