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It would be nice to say that the origin story of American clandestine services, starting in World War II as the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and later coalescing as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), resulted in level-headed counterintelligence efforts aimed at promoting democracy throughout the world.
The Quiet Americans, is anything but.
Anderson focuses on a specific 12-year period (1944-1956), which saw the steady emergence of U.S. intelligence and counterintelligence efforts abroad. In that time, the U.S. government went from saving Western democracy to attempting to destabilize and occasionally overthrow foreign regimes not to our liking.
“And at the end of this time span: humiliation. After years of trying to spur an anti-communist uprising somewhere in Eastern Europe, American Cold Warriors were finally handed one in Hungary in October 1956, only to have all their talk of [communist] ‘rollback’ and liberation be exposed as meaningless rh
In 2003, American academic Rachel Ehrenfeld published
Funding Evil, a book about terrorism financing. In it, she stated that Saudi businessman Khalid Salim bin Mahfouz and his family provide financial support to Islamic terrorist groups. Bin Mahfouz then brought a defamation lawsuit in the United Kingdom, even though Ehrenfeld did not live in the UK, had never lived in the UK, and the book had not even been published in the UK.
The case brought to light has been coined as “libel tourism,” in which wealthy figures file defamation lawsuits in countries unfriendly to libel, like the UK, because their defamation laws are much more strict than in other Western nations, especially the US, even though the basic definition of defamation is essentially the same in the UK as in the US.