BOOK REVIEWS: Two Sorry Tales of American Misadventure in Asia

"Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and The CIA’s Covert War in China" and "Mr. X and the Pacific: George F. Kennan and American Policy in East Asia"

Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and The CIA’s Covert War in China By John Delury. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, hard cover, 397 pp, with notes and index.

Mr. X and the Pacific: George F. Kennan and American Policy in East Asia. By Paul J. Heer, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY. Hard cover, 298 pp, with notes and index.

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