Killing Hope

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Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions since World War II (ISBN 1-56751-252-6) is a history book on covert CIA operations and U.S. military interventions during the second half of the 20th century, written by former State Department employee William Blum. The book takes a strongly critical view of American foreign policy. Noam Chomsky called it "Far and away the best book on the topic." First published in the mid-1980s, it has since been updated several times by the author.

The book covers various US foreign policy ventures from just after World War II onward. Its basic premise is that the Soviet Union occupied the Warsaw Pact states only to better defend its territory^{[citation needed]} and the American Cold War-era activities abroad were done with imperialist motives.