Lost in the Cold War: the story of Jack Downey, America's longest-held POW
"In 1952, John T. "Jack" Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer from Connecticut, was shot down over Manchuria during the Korean War. The pilots died in the crash, but Downey and his partner Richard "Dick" Fecteau were captured by the Chinese. For the next twenty years,...
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| Schriftenreihe: | A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American-East Asian Relations
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| Zusammenfassung: | "In 1952, John T. "Jack" Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer from Connecticut, was shot down over Manchuria during the Korean War. The pilots died in the crash, but Downey and his partner Richard "Dick" Fecteau were captured by the Chinese. For the next twenty years, they were tortured, put through show trials, held in solitary confinement, placed in reeducation camps, and toured around China as political pawns. Other prisoners of war came and went, but Downey and Fecteau's release hinged on the United States acknowledging their status as CIA assets. Not until Nixon's visit to China did Sino-American relations thaw enough to secure Fecteau's release in 1971 and Downey's in 1973. Lost in the Cold War is the never-before-told story of Downey's decades as a prisoner of war and the efforts to bring him home. Downey's lively and gripping memoir-written in secret late in life-interweaves horrors and deprivation with humor and the absurdities of captivity. He recounts his prison experiences: fearful interrogations, pantomime communications with his guards, a 3,000-page overstuffed confession designed to confuse his captors, and posing for "show" photographs for propaganda purposes. Through the eyes of his captors and during his tours around China, Downey watched the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the drastic transformations of the Mao era. In interspersed chapters, Thomas J. Christensen, an expert on Sino-American relations, explores the international politics of the Cold War and tells the story of how Downey and Fecteau's families, the CIA, the U.S. State Department, and successive presidential administrations worked to secure their release"-- |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | X, 329 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780231199124 |
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| spelling | Downey, John T. 1930-2014 Verfasser (DE-588)1278266577 aut Lost in the Cold War the story of Jack Downey, America's longest-held POW John T. Downey, Thomas J. Christensen, and Jack Lee Downey New York Columbia University Press [2022] X, 329 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American-East Asian Relations Includes bibliographical references and index "In 1952, John T. "Jack" Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer from Connecticut, was shot down over Manchuria during the Korean War. The pilots died in the crash, but Downey and his partner Richard "Dick" Fecteau were captured by the Chinese. For the next twenty years, they were tortured, put through show trials, held in solitary confinement, placed in reeducation camps, and toured around China as political pawns. Other prisoners of war came and went, but Downey and Fecteau's release hinged on the United States acknowledging their status as CIA assets. Not until Nixon's visit to China did Sino-American relations thaw enough to secure Fecteau's release in 1971 and Downey's in 1973. Lost in the Cold War is the never-before-told story of Downey's decades as a prisoner of war and the efforts to bring him home. Downey's lively and gripping memoir-written in secret late in life-interweaves horrors and deprivation with humor and the absurdities of captivity. He recounts his prison experiences: fearful interrogations, pantomime communications with his guards, a 3,000-page overstuffed confession designed to confuse his captors, and posing for "show" photographs for propaganda purposes. Through the eyes of his captors and during his tours around China, Downey watched the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the drastic transformations of the Mao era. In interspersed chapters, Thomas J. Christensen, an expert on Sino-American relations, explores the international politics of the Cold War and tells the story of how Downey and Fecteau's families, the CIA, the U.S. State Department, and successive presidential administrations worked to secure their release"-- Downey, John T. / 1930-2014 Korean War, 1950-1953 / Secret service / United States United States / Central Intelligence Agency / Officials and employees / Biography Korean War, 1950-1953 / Prisoners and prisons, Chinese Prisoners of war / United States / Biography Prisoners of war / China / Biography Korean War, 1950-1953 / Military intelligence / United States New Haven County (Conn.) / Biography Cold War Prisonniers de guerre / Chine / Biographies Guerre froide Guerre de Corée, 1950-1953 / Service des renseignements militaires / États-Unis HISTORY / Asia / General United States / Central Intelligence Agency Military intelligence Employees Prisoners of war Secret service China Connecticut / New Haven County United States 1950-1953 Biographies Christensen, Thomas J. 1962- Verfasser (DE-588)1013473396 aut Downey, Jack Lee Verfasser (DE-588)1079934073 aut Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe 978-0-231-55295-0 (DE-604)BV048457159 |
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