Mission to Mao
An innovative history of US intelligence officers on the ground and the first official contacts between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party
From 1944 to 1947, the United States planted a liaison mission in the headquarters of Chinese Communist forces behind the lines. Nicknamed the "Dixie Mission," for its location in "rebel" territory, it was an interagency delegation that included i...
An innovative history of US intelligence officers on the ground and the first official contacts between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party
From 1944 to 1947, the United States planted a liaison mission in the headquarters of Chinese Communist forces behind the lines. Nicknamed the "Dixie Mission," for its location in "rebel" territory, it was an interagency delegation that included i...
