administrations, Crist has spent more than ten years researching and writing The Twilight War, and he breaks new ground on virtually every page. It is a story of shocking miscalculations, bitter debates, hidden casualties, boldness, and betrayal.Ī senior historian for the federal government with unparalleled access to senior officials and key documents of several U.S. This conflict has frustrated five American presidents, divided administrations, and repeatedly threatened to bring the two nations into open warfare. Battles are fought at sea with Iranians in small speedboats attacking Western oil tankers. Fights rage in the shadows, between the CIA and its network of spies and Iran's intelligence agency. This surreptitious war began with the Iranian revolution and simmers today inside Iraq and in the Persian Gulf. It is a conflict that has never been acknowledged and a story that has never been told. Agent: The Wiley Agency.The dramatic secret history of our undeclared thirty-year conflict with Iran, revealing newsbreaking episodes of covert and deadly operations that brought the two nations to the brink of open warįor three decades, the United States and Iran have engaged in a secret war. If there is a moral to this story, it may be that despite the furious machinations of the world’s intelligence agencies, critical change points more often than not hinge on blind luck and happenstance. and then posted videos on YouTube claiming that he was being held captive by the CIA), but the broad outlines of the narrative are not nearly as “secret” as the subtitle implies. Crist reveals many previously unreported details of recent maneuverings, such as the provenance of the Stuxnet virus and the backstory of the bizarre case of Shahram Amiri (the nuclear scientist who defected to the U.S. military.”) Enriched by hundreds of interviews with key players as well as the author’s own experiences in the Persian Gulf, this is a comprehensive and readable account of American-Iranian hostilities since the 1979 revolution. (Crist loses no time in labeling the American invasion of Iraq, for instance, as one of the “worst planned campaigns ever executed by the U.S. This shadow war is characterized by espionage, assassination plots, and frequent eruptions of open hostilities, and exacerbated by egregious missteps and blunders by both sides.
In this well-researched book, historian and former marine Crist makes the case that the United States is already enmeshed in a hidden war with Iran that has raged unacknowledged for decades.
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