Project Eagle

Robert S. Kim has almost two decades of experience in law and foreign affairs. He has worked in international financial law at a New York firm and in financial regulation at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and at the Department of the Treasury. He previously worked at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and served as the Treasury Department’s deputy attachÉ at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad from 2009 to 2010.

• List of Illustrations     Preface    Note on Terminology    Acknowledgments    Part 1. Jerusalem of the East1. Genesis, 1882–1919    2. Kim Ku and the Korean Liberation Movement    3. Americans of Korea: Clarence Weems and George McCune    Part 2. Crusade in Asia4. The OSS and the Korean Provisional Government    5. Project Eagle    6. Lost Crusade: The End of Project Eagle     7. End of Innocence: The U.S. Military Government in Korea    8. After the Mission    Notes    Bibliography    Index

"I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to know something about modern East Asian history and the relationship of religion and politics."-James H. Grayson, Reading Religion “Robert Kim’s highly informative, intriguing, wonderfully illustrated, and readable Project Eagle helps us envision a reunified Korean nation collaborating with the United States and other Pacific Rim nations toward widespread stability and prosperity in the region.”-Robert M. Sargent, U.S. Foreign Service (Ret.) “Project Eagle is well researched, well written, and full of much-needed information about Korea.”-Helen McCune, daughter of Dr. George M. McCune and granddaughter of the Rev. George S. McCune, contributors to Korean independence