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100 1 Valentine, Douglas,|d1949-|eauthor.
245 14 The CIA as organized crime :|bhow illegal operations
corrupt America and the world /|cby Douglas Valentine.
264 1 Atlanta, GA :|bClarity Press, Incorporated,|c[2017]
264 4 |c©2017
300 1 online resource (446 pages)
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504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-435) and
index.
505 0 How William Colby gave me the keys to the CIA kingdom --
One thing leads to another: my rare access in
investigating the war on drugs -- The Vietnam War's silver
lining: a bureaucratic model for population control
emerges -- The systematic gathering of intelligence --
What we really learned from Vietnam: a war crimes model
for Afghanistan and elsewhere -- The Afghan 'dirty war'
escalates -- Vietnam replay on Afghan defectors --
Disrupting the accommodation: CIA killings spell victory
in Afghanistan and defeat in America -- The CIA in Ukraine
-- War crimes as policy -- New games, same aims: CIA
organizational changes -- Creating a crime: how the CIA
commandeered the Drug Enforcement Administration -- Beyond
dirty wars: the CIA/DEA connection and modern day terror
in Latin America -- Project gunrunner -- The spook who
became a congressman: why CIA officers cannot be allowed
to hold public office -- Major general Bruce Lawlor: from
CIA officer in Vietnam to Homeland Security Honcho --
Homeland security: the phoenix comes home to roost --
Fragging Bob Kerrey: the CIA and the need for a war crimes
tribunal -- Top secret America shadow reward system -- How
the government tries to mess with your mind -- Disguising
Obama's dirty war -- Parallels of conquest, past and
present -- Propaganda as terrorism -- The war on terror as
the greatest covert op ever.
520 This book provides insight into the paradigmatic
approaches evolved by CIA decades ago in Vietnam which
remain operational practices today in Afghanistan, El
Salvador, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere. Valentine's
research into CIA activities began when CIA Director
William Colby gave him free access to interview CIA
officials who had been involved in various aspects of the
Phoenix program in South Vietnam. The CIA would rescind it,
making every effort to impede publication of The Phoenix
Program, which documented the CIA's elaborate system of
population surveillance, control, entrapment, imprisonment,
torture and assassination in Vietnam. While researching
Phoenix, Valentine learned that the CIA allowed opium and
heroin to flow from its secret bases in Laos, to generals
and politicians on its payroll in South Vietnam. His
investigations into this illegal activity focused on the
CIA's relationship with the federal drugs agencies
mandated by Congress to stop illegal drugs from entering
the United States. Based on interviews with senior
officials, Valentine wrote two subsequent books, The
Strength of the Wolf and The Strength of the Pack, showing
how the CIA infiltrated federal drug law enforcement
agencies and commandeered their executive management,
intelligence and foreign operations staffs in order to
ensure that the flow of drugs continues unimpeded to
traffickers and foreign officials in its employ.
Ultimately, portions of his research materials would be
archived at the National Security Archive, Texas Tech
University's Vietnam Center, and John Jay College. This
book includes excerpts from the above titles along with
updated articles and transcripts of interviews on a range
of current topics, with a view to shedding light on the
systemic dimensions of the CIA's ongoing illegal and extra
-legal activities. These terrorism and drug law
enforcement articles and interviews illustrate how the
CIA's activities impact social and political movements
abroad and in the United States. A common theme is the
CIA's ability to deceive and propagandize the American
public through its impenetrable government-sanctioned
shield of official secrecy and plausible deniability.
Though investigated by the Church Committee in 1975, CIA
praxis then continues to inform CIA praxis now. Valentine
tracks its steady infiltration into practices targeting
the last population to be subjected to the exigencies of
the American empire: the American people.
588 Description based on print version record.
610 10 United States.|bCentral Intelligence Agency|xCorrupt
practices.
610 17 United States.|bCentral Intelligence Agency.|2fast
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610 20 Phoenix Program (Counterinsurgency program : Vietnam)
610 27 Phoenix Program (Counterinsurgency program : Vietnam)
|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01995342
650 0 Organized crime.
650 0 Drug traffic.
650 7 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International|2bisacsh
650 7 POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
|2bisacsh
650 7 Corruption.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01352550
650 7 Drug traffic.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00898722
650 7 Organized crime.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01047884
776 08 |iPrint version:|aValentine, Douglas, 1949-|tCIA as
organized crime.|dAtlanta, GA : Clarity Press, Inc.,
[2017]|z9780997287011|w(DLC) 2016035980|w(OCoLC)960106392
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