The Ops Story

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The OPS Story approaches the Cold War with a well-considered balance of history, personal drama, and experience. The violence, suspense and excitement are totally nonfiction. The communist quest for world domination aided by ideologues in America ranged worldwide. It was subtle and clandestine and cost many lives. Many of the Americans serving in the Office of Public Safety ("OPS") died serving their country, defiled by communist propaganda and betrayed by self-serving politicians and ideologues.

This book offers an exciting, clandestine view into Cold War politics! As an OPS's officer, Adolph Saenz was an active participant in the Cold War struggle for over two decades, and in his book he recounts the history of the United States' police assistance to foreign countries to help them combat communist aggression. As an American Hispanic from New Mexico, he blends well into the Latin American cultures that he works in. Despite the treachery of Cold War politics, he is an effective OPS officer and is accepted by his Latin American police and military counterparts as an ally. He is constantly a potential target for terrorists and kidnappers, and his work is "considered to be dangerous" as per U.S. Government records. His replacement is kidnapped and assassinated by Marxist terrorists. His assignments take him to Bolivia and Che' Guevarra, to Uruguay and the Marxist Tupamaro terrorists, and to Colombia where he faces a deadly kidnapping cartel in Cali.

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The Story that Needed to be Told.......2002-11-09

Few people have heard of the Office of Public Safety, and most of those who have heard of it have read distorted and slanderous versions of what this organization was about. OPS was actually part of a program of assistance to developing countries during the 60's and part of the 70's, the height of the cold war. Specifically, it was established to provide advice and assistance to police forces in third world countries. The philosophy underlying this initiative was that social and economic progress cannot take place in an atmosphere of insecurity and lawlessness.
The author, Adolph Saenz, who has had a distinguished career in the military service as well as in law enforcement, was a member of the OPS organization and served primarily in Latin American countries. The Public Safety Advisors were probably the most distinguished and experienced group of law enforcement officials ever to work within any single organization. Many worked in conditions of physical hardship and danger. Some were wounded and some were killed. I have met with high ranking police officials who still remembered gratefully the lessons they had learned 25 years earlier from OPS Advisors.
The sad truth is that the literature which is available about OPS derives from a few basic books which were written by people who seem to hold extreme left wing and anti-American points of view. Other authors then parrot the distortions and misinterpretations which are rife in these sources.
Saenz, in writing this book, finally gives interested readers an opportunity to see the workings of the OPS from the point of view of an advisor who worked in a number of different countries. He writes with insight and humour and does not hesitate to show the warts, blemishes, and problems in the program.
As a former Criminalistic Advisor, I am proud to have known Adolph Saenz and delighted to have had the opportunity to read and recommend his book.

How one American tried to prevent the spread of terrorism..........2002-05-20

This book is a fascinating true account of one man's journey through the Cold War. It should be read by anyone interested in how the US tries to stop terrorism (which should be every American). It also shows how the efforts of (well-meaning) Americans sometimes ties the hands of those who are trying to prevent terrorism.
Mr. Saenz was a policeman in Albuquerque, then joined the Office of Public Safety (OPS) during the 1960's, a crucial time in the Cold War. He was assigned to many exciting missions, including Panama, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Columbia. Primarily designed to assist police officers in foreign countries, OPS came under congressional scrutiny and was disbanded after the Church hearings in the mid-'70's. OPS was accused of everything from torture to being a front for the CIA.
Mr. Saenz is dispassionate in the best sense. He denies the accusations leveled against the agency, without resorting to rhetoric or name-calling.
Instead, he provides the reader with detailed information about many of his missions, including counter-terrorism, kidnap negotiations, and police assistance.
I have known Mr. Saenz for more than a year, and find him to be extremely intelligent, patriotic, and humble. My film production company has optioned the film rights to this book. It is almost like an Hispanic-American James Bond story. As a film, it could provide an exciting account of the inner workings of the Cold War and counterterrorism.
Perhaps the highest praise I can give Mr. Saenz is this: he knows I am left-wing, yet we get along very well. He is very open to hearing different points of view, and his most valuable message is that ideology on either side should not detract from love of country or the desire to stop the menace of terrorism. If more Americans practiced this type of tolerance, I believe we'd make our great country even better.

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Exciting Black Ops Mission
Weisman continues top notch
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SOAR
Research overwhelms the story

SOAR: A Black Ops Novel
John Weisman
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ASIN: 006052409X
Release Date: 2003-08-05

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Black ops master storyteller John Weisman creates a scenario so real that if he weren't claiming to write fiction, SOAR would be classified top secret.

On the eve of a groundbreaking U.S.-China summit, a covert CIA operation to bug a secret nuclear test site in western China goes terribly wrong when the American black ops team is captured by a vicious fringe group of Islamic terrorists. With the clock ticking, the president scrambles Major Michael Ritzik, the young CO of Sword Squadron, a top secret element of the Army's elite Delta Force, to rescue the hostages without leaving any fingerprints.

Its mission: impossible -- exactly what Delta trains to do. But then things go from bad to worse. U.S. intelligence learns the terrorists have not only ambushed a Chinese army convoy, they have also hijacked a highly unstable nuclear weapon and armed it. Beijing dispatches its own special forces in hot pursuit. Now Ritzik must use speed, surprise, and violence of action to beat the Chinese to the target, grab the spooks, and disarm the nuke.Failure is not an option.

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Exciting Black Ops Mission.......2007-03-18

Four CIA operatives have been covertly inserted into China to plant devices that will measure if the Chinese are secretly testing smaller yield nuclear devices. They are ambushed by a group of Islamic terrorists who have also highjacked an unstable older nuclear device. The President orders Major Michael Ritzik to lead a top secret element of Delta Force into the area to rescue the CIA men and disarm the nuclear device. Along with the Delta Force group Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy Tracy Wei-Liu is added to the group to actually deactivate the device. Several Chinese gunships are encountered and dispatched. The escape is made in a captured Chinese helicopter. Weisman writes authoritatively. The book moves along quite well. Though, I think it bogs down a bit during the planning stage of the mission. Still, quite a worthwhile read.

Weisman continues top notch.......2006-03-11

While some things require a leap of faith, and not a little imagination, this story is very much the work of a master story teller. It isn't anything like the books he does with Dick Marcinko, but that takes away nothing; the two have very different styles, and this is a different story. BRAVO!

A+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++.......2006-01-04

WOW! this book is so amazing! IT IS SO EXCITING AND EXHILERATING! ITS SO GOOD! So far I am at page 8, I'm about to read more of it. I recommend this book to page 8, its so cool. For a full review of the book, read other peoples so you can listen to someone who got to, at least page 9. My favorite part of the book so far is when he puts his glasses on, ITS SO INTENSE!

P.S. The book is utterly confusing.

SOAR.......2005-06-08

The story is simple and straightforward: A clandestine CIA team operating at the Chinese-Uzbek border are taken captive by Islamic guerillas, who have also hijacked a tactical, nuclear weapon. The Combat Applications Group, CAG, aka Delta Force, is sent in to quietly rescue the CIA team and retrieve the nuke without getting caught by Chinese special forces. What makes the novel stand out is the level of detail taken to portray the planning and execution of the mission at every step of the way. The title is an odd choice since the Special Operations Aviation Regiment do not play as large a role as the title suggests. A more appropriate title would have been CAG or Delta, but it's a superior thriller nonetheless, and probably one of the most realistic portrayals of the Delta Force in fiction. Hopefully the author will turn out more books like this, but his next ones (Jack in the Box; Direct Action) focus more so around the CIA.

Research overwhelms the story.......2004-07-18

If you're looking for a fairly quick, Clancy-esque beach read, you could do worse than SOAR. I know, that's not exactly a ringing endorsement. But this action yarn has all the realism in technical details and battle engagements that you'd wish for-and for some people that's all they want.

SOAR is about a secret Delta Force rescue mission to extract a covert CIA operations team from western China after the latter has been captured by Uighur terrorists. The "Mission Impossible"-like rescue also involves a lot of shooting, bomb-making, and the defusing of a nuclear weapon. It's basically an action movie (with a lamentable lack of gratuitous sex).

The problem is that the characters are only sketchily drawn; they basically exist for their roles or skills. One might as well have called them "CIA Guy No. 1," "CIA Guy No. 2," "Delta Guy No. 1," etc. The guys in "The Dirty Dozen" had more personality. The politicos in Washington seem to have a little more depth, but that's at least in part because John Weisman seems to have adapted the personalities of some of our current officeholders for these roles. (President Forrest admittedly doesn't seem much like President Bush.) For some reason, there's a token female character, Tracy Wei-Liu, that's dragged through the story line, ostensibly to defuse the nuke. Perhaps the real reason is the short diversion in the latter part of the book in which the main character, Mike Ritzik, engages in a bit of repartee with her on the morality of killing in battle. But Ritzik just gets royally pissed off, and the subject is dropped. In the lead-up to the climax, the characters seem to get sidetracked into a few exchanges like this that, to me, seem unlikely when you're literally under the gun. I guess the author is trying to score a few political points amidst the fun.

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Bestselling author W.E.B. Griffin, whose novels about various branches of the military have won him battalions of fans, returns to the Brotherhood of War series with this crackling yarn. A detachment of Special Forces hotshots teams up with presidential counselor Sandy Felter to put a stop to Che Guevara's attempts to "liberate" the Congo from President Joseph Mobutu's anticommunist government.

Under Felter's direction, the Green Berets dispatch a special detachment to the Congo. Their mission is to convince Mobutu of the wisdom of the American plan to discredit and humiliate Che and his Cuban troops, rather than martyr him, and thus bring an end to his plan to export Castro-style communism to Africa and South America. Repelling the Simba insurgents with help from forces led by South African mercenary Mike Hoare, Mobutu accepts the plan, along with the Green Beret's covert assistance, war materiel, and a fighting force manned by many of the characters who peopled The Aviators, Griffin's last Brotherhood adventure. Yes, fans, the good guys are back--especially flying ace Jack Portet, (a pilot drafted into the army right out of Leopoldville, where he was helping his father run a regional airline), George Washington "Father" Lunsford, and Master Sergeant "Doubting" Thomas. And a lot of them are black, a talented crew of African American airmen and specialists pressed into the Special Forces not just because they're brave and able but because they can pass as Congolese soldiers and thereby keep the American presence under wraps.

As a matter of historical fact Guevara failed badly in the Congo, and after retreating to Cuba, tried the same gambit in Bolivia, where he eventually died under fire and gained the martyrdom the U.S. tried so hard to prevent. But Special Ops offers a close-up look at a little-known piece of military history in a gloriously testosterone-pumped epic, seasoned with a touch of sex and romance. That may seem incongruous, given Griffin's clipped, terse writing style, which is punctuated with plenty of military dispatches and a few gratuitous growls at the internecine rivalry among American intelligence agencies. It's even more incongruous when the general's daughter gets the flying ace, and her father's highly placed friends not only get Portet an officer's stripes but fly her to the Congo to stand by her man. But none of that will stop Griffin's delighted readers from snapping up his latest chronicle of men at war. --Jane Adams

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W.E.B. Griffin first burst upon the national scene with his Brotherhood of War series of the U.S. Army. In 1988, he published the last Brotherhood novel, The Aviators, yet there was always one more story he wanted to tell-and here it is. Craig Lowell, Sandy Felter, Jack Portet, Geoff Craig, Robert Bellmon, George Washington "Father" Lunsford, Master Sergeant Doubting Thomas-they're all back, with the women who love them, in the crackling new novel Special Ops.

In November 1964, Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara went to the Congo with two hundred men, intent on making it his first step in taking over Africa and South America. He failed, thanks in large part to the efforts of an intrepid band of Green Berets. Licking his wounds, he retreated to Cuba to recruit more men and try the same thing in Bolivia. He failed there, too. In fact, he died there, and thus, despite his incompetence, became a glorious martyr to the cause. But who was trying to kill him, really?...and who was trying to keep him alive?

There, Griffin has some surprises up his sleeve, and as he takes us through the twists and turns of Special Ops, he spins a story of devilish cunning and thrilling adventure.

"Brotherhood of War is an American epic."-Tom Clancy

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A poorly written and unentertaining read.......2007-01-08

No-one expects war novels to be great literature but one does expect them to be written to a professional standard. Anyone who buys a war novel by a professional writer and 'recognised' author of these sorts of books such as W.E.B. Griffin does expect two qualities to feature in the text: the first is that the book is entertaining and the second is a certain level of competence when it comes to using words. Special Ops has neither--and the reading, and paying, public certainly deserves better.

The plot and the story-line are long, dragging, and convoluted without being suspenseful or interesting. This together with all the comings and goings of the characters who almost to a man and woman know each other or have been associated with each other in some way previously in their service careers, coincidentally and unbelievably, make the story slow going. (I never realised that the United States Army was such a small world.)

And if the plot and plan of the novel weren't long and drawn-out enough, Griffin adds insult to injury by writing in a tediously verbose way. He says in ten words that which could have been said in six, or even less. And with this Griffin throws in some very trite lines, adding a certain immaturity and silly schoolboy naivete to the book which it could well do without. Another aspect of the book's language is that Griffin sometimes uses expressions that weren't in widespread use in 1964/65 in the US, or anywhere else, but became current after the 1960s, during the 70s and 80s. Some of the characters utter lines in dialogue that sound as if they came from the mouths of adolescents in the 1980s or 90s rather than from full-grown men and women in the mid 60s.

All in all, this book is not a good book: it is too poorly written, tells a slow and not very credible story in too many words, and is simply tiresome to read. I see that others in some reviews of this book have come to these same or similar conclusions. This is unsurprising: the book's flaws are quite clear. I've given it a one-star rating as there is no nil rating.

In a few years' time, I may read another of Griffin's books, just for the sake of comparison, as anyone who has written as prolifically as W.E.B. Griffin must have written a good book somewhere along the line. But after just wading through some 773 pages of unremitting tedium of Special Ops (once I start a book I finish it) it will certainly be a while.

I usually don't read this type of novel.......2006-12-26

And I don't expect the quality of writing in serious literature but there are subjects he seems to be winging it on and really doesn't know much about. There is a lot on Argentina which Mr. Griffin obviously does know a lot about but I'm not sure how this much on Argentina fits.

There is a lt colonel investment banker, a lot polo which fits well with Argentina and investment bankers, they are all staying in luxury digs in the keys, and lots of drinking and fine dining. No middle class officers here.

All in all not a particularly interesting book, not believable, and not terribly well written.

Great book.......2006-11-10

After so long Griffin decided to continue in his brotherhood of war series.
But nevertheless it is just as good as the others in the series.

Comment on entire series.......2006-07-14

I have just finished re-reading the entire Brotherhood of War series. While the storyline is interesting, there are too many errors in the research or in the editing. I am not sure who is to blame.

Foremost, to anyone who has been in the military is the use of an incorrect phoenic alphabet. Next, anyone who has flown or has read anything about flying knows that runway numbers are derived from compass headings and therefore couldn't include a runway 37 as listed in one of the novels. Another reference to "Kennedy" airport in 1959 is just plain dumb. Idlewild was not renamed until 1963. Also in the 1959 time frame was a reference to a "Visa" card. First of all the initial visas were called BankAmericard and they didn't come along until the mid to late '60's.

I could go on and on regarding the research and editing errors, but you get the idea.

Having said all of that, If one can put aside the obvious errors, this series makes for a good read.

Entertaining action and characters.......2006-02-01

Having not read previous books in the series I cannot comment on how it fits the series. I am generally a pure military history reader but occasionally pick up an historical fiction such as this so I have only read a couple of Mr. Griffin's other works. I must say, Mr. Griffin knows how to weave a great plot and create a depth of characters like few other authors. I enjoyed this work very much. At times it seemed to move a little slow but the time spent in understanding and relating to the characters pays off when the action and mystery unfolds. All in all, the book gives you an enjoyable time in service with the early Special Operations forces.

The reader in this edition also did a great job of appropriate emotion in the reading.

Atlantic tender beef: Canadian beef producer & consumer co-ops expanding market for home-grown meats.(Cover Story) : An article from: Rural Cooperatives

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Atlantic tender beef: Canadian beef producer & consumer co-ops expanding market for home-grown meats.(Cover Story) : An article from: Rural Cooperatives
Tom Webb
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Counter terrorism: at special ops forum, experts weigh prospect of WMD attacks.(SPECIAL OPERATIONS)(Weapons of Mass Destruction)(Cover Story): An article from: National Defense

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This digital document is an article from National Defense, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2006. The length of the article is 2594 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Desert commandos: special operators say training goes both ways.(Special Ops IN AFRICA)(Cover story): An article from: National Defense

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From forest to ocean: diverse Washington co-ops show business model flexibility.(Cover story): An article from: Rural Cooperatives

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Seek and destroy: military officials warn al Qaeda determined to attack with WMD.(Special OPS)(Cover Story): An article from: National Defense

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Harold Kennedy
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A landmark book in the studies of Freud, H.D., modernism, gender, and sexuality. The poet H.D. (1886-1961) was in psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud in Vienna during the spring of 1933 and again in the fall of 1934. She visited him daily at his study at 19 Berggasse, while outside Nazi thugs and militia bullied their way through the streets. Freud was old, and fragile. H.D. was forty-six and despairing of her writing life, which seemed to have reached a dead end, for all her success. Her sessions with Freud proved to be the point of transition, the funnel into which were poured her memories of the past and associations in the present—and from which she emerged reborn. H.D. came to Freud at the urging of her companion, the novelist Bryher (1884-1983), the daughter of a wealthy British shipping magnate. Freud welcomed H.D. as a creative spirit whose work he respected, but he did ask her not to prepare for their sessions, write about them in her journal, or talk about them with her friends, especially Bryher, who remained home in England. H.D.'s letters from Vienna filled the gap. Breezy, informal, irreverent, vibrant with detail, they revolve around her hours with Freud, making her correspondence unique in the spectrum of reminiscences, journals, memoirs, and biographies swirling around the legacy of the "Professor" and the movement he founded. The volume includes H.D. and Bryher's letters, as well as letters by Freud to H.D. and Bryher, most of them published for the first time. In addition, the book includes H.D. and Bryher's letters to and from Havelock Ellis, Kenneth MacPherson, Robert McAlmon, Ezra Pound, and Anna Freud, among others. Fully annotated with Index and Photographs

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Seminal addition to History Of Psychology reference shelves.......2003-01-06

Deftly compiled and edited by Susan Stanford Friedman (Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women's Studies and Chair of the English Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Analyzing Freud: Letters of H. D., Bryher, And their Circle is a fascinating, informative primary source providing invaluable insights into the life and work of the famous father of modern psychoanalysis -- Sigmund Freud. The poet H. D. was one of Freud's patients in 1933 and 1934; her letters to her novelist companion Bryher (which often revolve around the hours she spent with Freud), offer a unique glimpse into the inception of psychoanalysis, the modern-day science of the mind. Analyzing Freud is a very highly recommended, essential, seminal addition to History Of Psychology reference shelves and supplemental reading lists.

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