Ebook: Blind spot: the secret history of American counterterrorism

Title Page; Praise; ALSO BY TIMOTHY NAFTALI; Dedication; Preface; CHAPTER ONE -- The Plot to Kill General Eisenhower; The Channels Theory; The War Room; The Postwar Legacy; The KGB and Terrorism; Fears of Terrorism at Home; CHAPTER TWO -- Hijacking; The El Al Hijacking; Terrorism as a Concept; Nixon and the Hijacking Problem; TWA 840; The September 1970 Crises; CHAPTER THREE -- The Lessons of Munich 1972; Solving the Hijacking Problem?; The "No Concessions" Policy; Morocco and Beirut; CHAPTER FOUR -- "There's Very Little We Can Do"; CHAPTER FIVE -- The Lull Before the Storm; Javits and Ribicoff.;Traces the long history of American efforts to thwart terrorism, from World War II to the Munich Games hostage-taking to the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.