"An eye-witness account by a former government official of the State Department pattern for disaster"--Dust jacket.

List of illustrations -- Chronoogical table -- Peacock mountain -- Liberators and liberated -- The people vote -- Operation cigarette -- The thirty-eighth parallel -- AMIK -- Washington background -- The voice that failed -- The ECA story -- Puppets and marionettes -- Diplocat to fishmonger -- The missionary story -- Seoul, June 25, 1950 -- Index.