The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt

The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World

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. Valentineâ€™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 CIAâ€™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 CIAâ€™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 Universityâ€™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 CIAâ€™s ongoing illegal and extra-legal activities. These terrorism and drug law enforcement articles and interviews illustrate how the CIAâ€™s activities impact social and political movements abroad and in the United States. A common theme is the CIAâ€™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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Clarity Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-11-28
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Clarity Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-11-28
Format	Kindle eBook

The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World

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