Laurence J. Yadon - The Greatest Stories Never Told: Covert Ops

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For my parents, Helen Edmonds Yadon and Laurence J. Yadon

The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings... Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe... no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of clear and present danger, then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent... For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influenceon infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.

PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY

T HE BOOK THAT YOU NOW HOLD IS THE SIXTH IN A SERIES LAUNCHED WITH my friend, coauthor, and military historian, the late Robert Barr Smith, in 2016. These pages take the reader on little-known, yet unforgettable adventures with mostly American soldiers, marines, and sailors who conducted secret military missions, now called covert operations, from the American Revolution to the present.