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This extraordinary book sheds new light on one of the most iconic CIA/MI6 covert actions. Beautifully written and persuasively argued, it prompts us to rethink decades of research about secret regime change and 'plausibly deniable' methods. * Richard J. Aldrich, author of GCHQ * The disastrous British and American joint covert operation against Enver Hoxha's communist Albania is a seminal chapter in the origins of the Cold War and the history of both the CIA and MI6. Drawing on a treasure trove of archives. Stephen Long unravels this complex story with extraordinary detail. A Rich Harvest of Bitter Fruit is eye-opening. * Richard H. Immerman, author of The Hidden Hand * Long provides incredible new details on how this operation unfolded across almost a decade and he does so with the storytelling skills of a master spy novelist. At a time when stories of contemporary covert actions dominate our headlines, this book is a useful reminder of just how complicated these types of campaigns can become. I have no doubt it will fundamentally change the way we will approach the histories of early Western covert operations. * Dr Sarah-Jane Corke, co-founder and past president of the Society for Intelligence History *

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Stephen Long received a PhD in US Foreign Policy and Intelligence from the University of Birmingham in the UK. He has subsequently taught on US foreign policy, the Anglo-American intelligence services, international relations, Cold War history and US-Latin American relations at Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham, Canterbury Christ Church, and in his present position at Xi'an-Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) in Suzhou, China.

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