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The Untold History of the United States

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by Oliver Stone


  British Petroleum (BP), 258

  Brokaw, Tom, 525

  Brooks Brothers Riot, 494, 495

  Broward County, Fla., 494

  Brown, Harold, 403, 415, 417

  Brown Brothers, xxx–xxxi, xxxii, 40

  Brown Brothers Harriman, 81, 122, 254

  Brown v. Board of Education, xiii

  Bryan, William Jennings, xxv, xxvi, 3, 5–6, 43, 74, 418, 489

  Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 360, 412, 415, 419, 420, 475, 536

  anticommunism of, 402, 404, 406, 409, 544, 566

  and early-warning system failure, 417–18

  influence on Carter by, 403–7, 407, 409–10, 413, 415–19, 491

  in Trilateral Commission, 402–3

  Buchanan, Pat, 483, 492

  Buckley, William Francis, 457

  Buck v. Bell, 80–81

  budget deficits, G. W. Bush’s, 545, 547

  Buffet, Warren, 546

  Bulgaria, 90, 111, 114, 209, 214, 521

  in NATO, 537

  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 224, 253, 301, 318

  Bundy, McGeorge, 269, 290, 291–92, 292, 297, 307, 327, 329, 337, 344, 347, 352, 367

  Bundy, William, 332, 333

  Bureau of Investigative Journalism, British, 573

  Burma, 100, 138, 305, 328

  Bush, George H. W., 81, 178, 377, 464–66, 494, 496, 516, 566

  at CIA, 396–97, 399, 403, 420, 426, 466

  Gorbachev and, 464, 466, 467, 469–71, 483, 537

  in Iran-Contra scandal, 456–58, 466

  Noriega pursued by, 471–73

  Persian Gulf War and, 483

  as Reagan’s vice president, 421–22, 424, 425, 432–33, 438, 465

  Bush, George W., 81, 140, 372, 391, 490, 501, 532, 562, 608, 609

  administration of, 685n

  on Afghanistan, 506–7, 513, 551

  axis of evil of, 522, 534

  budget surplus turned to deficit under, 545, 547

  compassionate conservatism shed by, 492, 494, 495–96

  contempt for public opinion of, 494–95, 512, 524–25

  executive powers usurped by, 550–51

  federal spending under, 545

  on Iran, 535, 544

  Iraq and, 474–81, 491, 501–3, 504, 510, 512–34, 544, 573, 595

  low approval ratings of, 499, 547–48

  National Guard service of, 523

  nuclear policy of, 538–39

  Pakistan and, 535

  post-9/11 climate exploited by, 504–5

  Russia and, 536–42

  in 2000 election, 492–94

  unilateralism and PNAC agenda of, 494, 496, 497

  war crimes imputed to, 499–500, 507, 511, 549

  war on terror of, 504–5, 526, 530, 537, 544–45, 572

  Bush, G. W., administration of, 491, 517, 521, 540, 542, 562, 564, 570, 598, 612, 613, 685n

  Citigroup bailout and, 552–53

  NATO expanded by, 469

  Vietnam combat avoided by, 523–24

  Bush, Jeb, 464, 490, 493

  Bush, Prescott, 81–82

  Bush, Vannevar, 197

  Business Week, 56–57

  Butler, Nicholas Murray, 11–12, 195

  Butler, Smedley, xxx–xxxiii, xxxii, 64, 377

  Butterfield, Alexander, 368, 389–90

  Byrd, Robert, 483

  Byrnes, James F. “Jimmy,” 120, 121, 128, 142–44, 147, 160, 162–64, 165, 175, 177–78, 184, 187, 196–97, 203, 207

  Cahn, Anne, 397, 417

  Calderón, Felipe, 603–4

  California, 246, 357, 421

  forced sterilizations in, 80–81

  Japanese internment and evacuation of, 152–54, 155

  potential terrorist targets in, 505

  Sinclair’s “End Poverty” campaign in, 56

  Calley, William, 368

  Cambodia, 305, 338, 463, 466, 612

  Khmer Rouge in, 388–89

  Nixon’s bombing of, 360–61, 363, 370, 371, 379, 388

  Vietnamese troops in, 389, 467

  Cambone, Stephen, 685n

  Camp David Accords, 404

  Canada, xvii, 190, 422, 546, 554, 582, 603

  Cannon, Walter, 60

  capitalism, xviii–xix, 34, 48, 60, 63, 104, 274, 276, 322, 426, 454, 485

  democracy and, 8, 26, 28

  fall of communism and triumph of, 469

  FDR’s approach to, 49

  free-market, 545

  imperialism and, xxx–xxxiii

  and increasing income inequality, 545–47

  in Iraq, 530

  post–World War II, 111

  Russian crony, 485

  Russian hardships under, 538

  third world countries and, 257–58

  transition from socialism to, 484

  World War I and, 4, 5

  capitalists, 78, 82

  FDR on, 557–58

  foreign markets supported by, xxii

  Caravan of Death, 378

  Caribbean, xvii, xxviii, 434–35, 436, 603

  Carlsbad Cavern National Park, 284

  Carlucci, Frank, 425, 431

  Carnegie, Andrew, xxii, 80

  Carroll, James, 299

  Carroll, Joseph, 299

  Carter, Jimmy, 397, 407, 422, 428, 430, 432, 433–34, 461, 566

  achievements of, 391, 404–5

  on Afghanistan, 413–16, 425, 459

  and Central America, 410–12

  dependence on Brzezinski by, 403–7, 407, 409–10, 413, 415–19, 491

  election of, 400–401, 401

  Iran and, 408–10, 411

  on Trilateral Commission, 401–3, 490, 491

  Carter Doctrine, 414–15

  Cartwright, James, 578

  “Case for American Empire, The” (Boot), 503

  Casey, William, 399, 420, 426–27, 427, 430–31, 436, 456, 458–59, 460, 461, 471

  Castillo Armas, Carlos, 262, 264–65

  Castro, Fidel, 279, 280, 288, 293, 343, 346, 377, 391, 406

  Cuban Missile Crisis and, 308, 310

  J. F. Kennedy and, 320–22, 325

  opposition to, 291, 303–4

  Castro, Raul, 603

  Catholics, 84, 141, 246, 269, 426, 432

  liberation theology among, 433

  Catholic World, 177

  Cattell, James McKeen, 11

  caudillos (strongmen), 38, 40

  CBS, 116, 181, 208, 466, 547

  Census Bureau, 556

  Center for American Progress, 579–80

  Center for Constitutional Rights, 499, 575

  Center for Strategic and International Studies, 518, 580, 608

  Central America, xxxi, xxxii, xxxii, 43–44, 425, 428, 433, 436, 456, 471, 567, 603

  unrest in, 410–12

  U.S. investment in, xxix–xxx

  Central Asia, 126

  natural gas in, 488, 490, 591

  Soviet, 413, 416

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 82, 209, 213–14, 238, 246, 248, 253, 263, 265, 270, 272, 295, 316, 386, 403, 408, 417, 422, 424, 431, 475, 502, 523, 564

  Afghanistan and, 413–15, 416, 459–60, 488, 506, 583

  Al-Qaeda threat and, 497–98

  anti-Castro Cubans employed by, 457

  Bay of Pigs and, 266, 279, 291–92, 294–95

  bin Laden unit of, 528

  black propaganda of, 426–27

  “black site” prison facilities of, 504, 507, 508–9, 567

  Central America Task Force of, 430

  and Chile, 372–75, 377–78

  Counterterrorism Center of, 488, 509, 574, 587

  Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams of, 571–72

  Covert Operations Group of, 514

  Cuban intelligence operation of, 303–4

  Directorate of Plans at, 348

  drones and, 573–74, 577

  extraordinary rendition program of, 561

  in Guatemala, 263, 265, 266, 430

  Indonesia and, 348–49, 352


  Iran and, 259–60, 408, 409–10, 457, 534–35

  Iraq and, 514, 517, 519, 520

  Italian elections subverted by, 215

  J. F. Kennedy’s change of heart and, 322–23

  Johnson’s Latin American policy and, 343–44, 346

  kill lists of, 574

  in Nicaragua, 430, 455–58

  9/11 and, 507

  Noriega and, 471

  Overseas Internal Security Program of, 338

  in Pakistan, 581

  in Poland, 468

  President’s Daily Brief and, 405

  in Reagan’s anti-Communist crusade, 426

  on Soviet Union, 450, 466

  Special Operations Group of, 335

  Special Projects operation of, 214

  surveillance of antiwar groups by, 335, 338

  Taliban and, 486, 488

  Team B and conservative takeover of, 396–99, 426, 466, 490, 542–43

  torture and, 507–11, 514

  on Vietnam, 327, 329–30, 370

  Central Powers, 4–5

  Century of the Common Man, xi, 101, 181

  Chad, 536

  Chalabi, Ahmed, 491, 514–15, 520, 529

  Chamberlain, Neville, 88, 192, 217, 475

  Chamberlain-Kahn Act of 1918, 16

  Chamber of Commerce, U.S., 54–55, 63, 560

  Chapin, Frederic, 428, 430

  Chase Bank, 77–78, 82

  Chase Manhattan Bank, 372, 401

  Chávez, Hugo, 391, 603

  Chechnya, 468, 486

  Chemical Warfare Service (CWS), 20–24, 26

  chemical weapons, 18–26, 27, 517, 518

  Iraqi, 440, 473, 516, 517

  Syrian, 601–2

  in Vietnam, 306, 330–32, 331, 364–65

  Cheney, Dick, 391, 399, 435, 457, 466, 472, 474, 475, 477–80, 482–83, 485, 489, 498, 507, 547, 561, 562, 564, 568, 576, 612, 685n

  contempt of, for public opinion, 494, 512

  Energy Task Force of, 513

  as G. W. Bush’s vice-president, 492–94, 496

  Halliburton and, 490, 531

  on Iran, 534–35

  and Iraq, 491, 514, 515, 519–20, 525, 529, 533

  larger agenda of, 504, 511

  9/11 and, 501

  unpopularity of, 499, 547

  Vietnam avoided by, 523

  Chennault, Anna, 358–59

  Chennault, Claire, 222, 358

  Chernenko, Konstantin, 446

  Chernobyl nuclear accident, 450

  Chernyaev, Anatoly, 449, 469

  Chiang Kai-shek, see Jiang Jieshi

  Chicago, Ill., 242, 341, 357, 358, 423

  general strike in, xix

  Haymarket riots in, xx, xx

  Chicago, University of, 10, 21, 177, 185, 269, 383, 561

  Metallurgical Laboratory at, 134–36, 160–61

  Chicago Tribune, xxiv, 12, 61–62, 69, 70, 73, 80, 96, 191–92, 235, 240, 293, 377, 423, 533–34

  Childs, Marquis, 225

  Chile, 138, 372–79, 375, 379, 424, 521, 555, 603

  China, xvi, xxxii, xxxii, 45, 103, 116, 236, 257, 268, 348, 459, 477, 543, 576, 609, 611, 612, 613

  as America’s new global rival, 605–12

  Boxer Rebellion in, xxxi

  Carter and, 408, 413, 415

  casualties of, 87, 244, 245

  Communists in, 188, 249

  Communist takeover of, 222–23, 226, 236, 238, 366

  drones of, 576–77

  G. H. W. Bush and, 466–67

  human rights in, 408

  Internet censorship in, 563, 564

  Japanese aggression in, 85, 88, 90, 150

  Korean war and, 238–42, 244–46, 248, 250–51

  MacArthur’s proposed war with, 242–44

  Nixon and, 379, 381–82, 388–89

  nuclear weapons of, 349, 363, 382, 539, 540

  as potential nuclear target, 250, 268, 281–82, 287, 295, 312

  Russia’s ties with, 540

  Soviet relations with, 223, 251, 349, 363

  Tiananmen Square demonstrations in, 467, 477

  trade with, xxiv–xxv, 610

  United Nations and, 236, 313

  U.S. relations with, 466–67

  Vietnam War and, 334–35

  Chinese Communist Party, 222–23

  Christian Century, 83, 156

  Churchill, Winston, 28, 29, 95–96, 104, 110–13, 119–21, 138, 146, 189, 225, 251, 259, 424

  as anti-Soviet, 190–94, 191, 200

  Atlantic Charter and, 98, 99, 102–3, 464

  on atomic weapons, 180, 249, 255, 271, 285

  in meeting with Stalin, 113–14, 115, 206, 209

  at Potsdam, 161, 163–64, 165

  at Yalta Conference, 114–17, 118

  Citigroup, 551, 552–54

  Citizens United case, 558

  Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 49, 51

  civil liberties, 561–62

  abuse of, xii, 44

  Obama and, 549, 550–51

  post-9/11 violation of, 504–5

  security vs., 560–65

  civil rights, G. W. Bush administration record on, 544–45

  Civil Rights Congress, 232

  civil rights movement, 233, 340, 356

  Civil War, U.S., 19, 80

  Clapper, James, 577

  Clapper, Raymond, 69–70

  Clark, Bennett Champ, 65, 74, 77

  Clarke, Richard, 497, 502–4

  Clarke, Wesley, 522–23

  clash of civilizations thesis, xv

  Clemenceau, Georges, 7, 17, 31–32, 34

  Cleveland, Grover, 422

  Clifford, Clark, 204–6, 211–12, 218, 221, 333–34, 341

  Clinton, Bill, 392, 483–84, 487, 488, 496, 535, 551, 568, 608, 685n

  on bin Laden, 490

  federal spending under, 545

  Iraq and, 491–92

  Russia and, 485, 537

  Clinton, Bill, administration of, 488, 490, 514, 547, 554, 565, 613

  NATO expanded by, 469

  Clinton, Hillary, 518, 551, 564, 566–68, 569, 578, 580, 588, 592, 595, 606–7, 608

  CNN, 514, 515–16, 521, 587, 591

  Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), 529

  Coast Guard, 232, 283

  Coetzee, J. M., xiii

  Cohen, Eliot, 490, 567, 685n

  Cohen, Stephen, 459

  Colby, William, 399

  Cold War, 143, 180, 181–226, 235–36, 248–49, 251–72, 273–323, 325–54, 356, 392, 402, 405, 409, 414, 421, 426, 447, 462, 469, 508, 523, 539, 541, 543, 544, 611, 612

  end of, xi, 463–64, 465, 469, 482, 605

  Cole, USS, Al-Qaeda attack on, 490

  Colombia, xvii, xxviii, 338, 428–29, 603, 604

  Medellín drug cartel in, 471

  colonialism, 43, 268, 426

  banning of, xi

  see also specific countries

  Colson, Charles, 362, 385, 390

  Columbia University, 2, 11–12, 195, 356, 402, 420, 550, 556

  Combined Chiefs of Staff, 138, 148

  Commentary, 399, 434, 522

  Commerce Committee, 439

  commercial banks, 552

  Commission on Training Camp Activities (CTCA), 16–17, 17

  Committee of Physicians for the Improvement of Medical Care, 62

  Committee on Public Information (CPI), 8–10, 9, 24, 36

  Committee on Social and Political Implications (Franck Committee), 160–61, 185

  Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), 399, 402, 404–5, 416, 436, 443, 445, 490

  communism, 26, 33, 58, 64, 72, 73, 84, 96, 194, 197, 207, 236, 237, 242, 293, 577–78

  in China, 222–23, 226, 350, 605, 607

  in Soviet Union, 56–57, 85

  in U.S., 57–60, 62, 108, 204, 212, 231, 233, 235

  Communist Party:

  Brazilian, 343

  Chinese, 350, 605, 607

  Soviet, 349, 350, 446

  Communist Party of the U
nited States of America (CPUSA), 57–60, 62, 108, 204, 212, 231, 233, 235

  Communists, 37, 77, 84, 128, 129, 210, 215, 220, 221, 232, 252, 266, 290, 332, 348, 351, 384, 428, 485, 580

  in Dominican Republic, 347

  Greek, 114

  Guatemalan, 261–66

  Hollywood, 212

  Jewish, 219

  postwar popularity of, 188

 

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