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1 David Wise and Thomas Ross, The Invisible Government (New York: Random House, 1964); William Colby and Peter Forbath, Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978); John Ranelagh, The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986); William Leary, Perilous Missions: Civil Air Transport and CIA Covert Operations in Asia (University of Alabama Press, 1984); Norman Polmar and Thomas Allen, The Encyclopedia of Espionage (New York: Gramercy, 1997); Ted Gup, The Book of Honor (New York: Doubleday, 2000); James Lilly, China Hands (New York: Public Affairs, 2004).

2 Nicholas Dujmovic, “Two CIA Prisoners in China, 1952–1973,” Studies in Intelliigence Vol. 50, No. 4 (2006), https://www.cia.gov/static/ae841938f772d4185b5c3b5d94f01c4a/Two-CIA-Prisoners-China.pdf.

3 Donald P. Gregg, “In Memoriam—Jack Downey CIA Paramilitary Officer, Prisoner of the People’s Republic of China (1952–73), Harvard Law (1975), Connecticut State Judge (1987–97),” Studies in Intelligence Vol 58, No. 4 (2014), https://www.cia.gov/static/4e64d248aa569f3a63cf7654e6412de5/In-Memoriam-Jack-Downey.pdf.

4 Roger B. Jeans, The CIA and the Third Force Movements in China During the Early Cold War (New York: Lexington, 2018).

5 Henry Kissinger, On China (London: Penguin Press, 2011).

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Laris Gaiser

Laris Gaiser—born in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia—is an associate professor at Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences, Catholic Institute of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and a member of the Italian Team for Security, Terrorism Issues and Managing Emergencies at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart of Milano (Italy). Between 2012 and 2014, he was vice president, and acting president, at Euro-Mediterranean University-EMUNI seated in Portorož (Slovenia). The author can be contacted at [email protected].