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Title: Spies in the Himalayas: Secret Missions and Perilous Climbs (Modern War Studies) by M. S. Kohli, Kenneth Conboy ISBN: 0-7006-1223-8 Publisher: University Press of Kansas Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag
Comment: This book at best can be described as a dragging narration of a poorly planned combined secret mission between CIA and IB (Indian Intelligence Bureau) in the mid 60s. The book goes on and on about things that the mountain climbers had to go through for planting a sensor (actually two or three) on Himalayan peaks for eavesdropping on China. The book probably gains some importance because the loss of one of the sensors made headlines nearly 10 years afterwards due to fear of contamination of the holy Ganges river. The whole story sounds real silly with a lot of money spent for no evident goal. The writer displays some good style, but often the narration goes haywire making the reader wonder where he is being led to.
Rating: 5
Summary: Mountainclimbing and the CIA!
Comment: Kohli is a mountaineer from India who led an Everest expedition in 1965 that put nine men on the summit. Conboy is a former Heritage Foundation analyst. Immediately after his 1965 triumph, Kohli was asked to lead a covert mission to place a nuclear-powered sensor on the north face of a remote Himalayan peak to monitor Chinese nuclear tests. The monitor was a joint project of the CIA and its Indian equivalent. Because the placement had to be secret, above 22,000 feet, and in one of the most inhospitable regions of the earth, Kohli assembled a group of highly capable climbers and Sherpa porters. Nothing went easily. Weather and bad luck foiled the first attempt, and in the second attempt the nuclear generator was lost. After many difficulties and two deaths the sensor was placed, then promptly went silent. Another expedition was mounted to replace it. Half Cold War adventure and half mountaineering saga. Amateurishly written, but Kohli's obvious enthusiasm and the excitement of climbing comes through. I liked it.
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Title: The CIA's Secret War in Tibet by Kenneth Conboy, James Morrison ISBN: 0700611592 Publisher: University Press of Kansas Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Into Tibet: The CIA's First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition to Lhasa by Thomas Laird ISBN: 080213999X Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Naked Mountain by Reinhold Messner, Tim Carruthers ISBN: 0898869595 Publisher: Mountaineers Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure by Maria Coffey, Tom Hornbein ISBN: 0312290659 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War by Thomas C. Reed ISBN: 0891418210 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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