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Subject: Book List: CIA - Intelligence (autopost)
From: Hiram Clawson
Date: 14 Jun 1997 08:32:15 GMT
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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
There are two lists here, the first is ordered by author (most of the
time.) A second abbreviated list follows and is ordered by title.
These are books related to the intelligence world, the CIA, KGB, NSA,
MI5, MI6, etc... I have read most of these books, for some I have
a brief description here, for a few I have longer book reviews.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions or information
you may have on these books. I would be especially interested
in hearing about which ones are more works of disinformation by
the agencies rather than telling expose's.
--Hiram
[*~ Hiram Clawson - Member, Technical Staff, The Santa Cruz Operation ~*]
[*~ P.O. Box 1900, Santa Cruz, CA 95061 - tel. 408-425-7222 ext. 6289 ~*]
[*~ FAX: 408-429-1887, Electronic mail: uunet!sco!hiramc or hiramc@sco.COM ~*]
1. On The Run
Philip Agee
Lyle Stuart Inc., New Jersey
Copyright (c) 1987
408 total pages, 8 pages photographs, 390 pages text, 10 page index
Agee's description of how he left the CIA, why he did so, and
the account of the subsequent chase as the CIA attempted to
call him to account for the damage he did to the Agency with
"CIA Diary" and other publishing activites he continued while
living in Europe.
2. Inside The Company - CIA Diary
Philip Agee
Bantam Books, Inc. Toronto, New York, London
Copyright (c) 1975
660 total pages, 618 pages text, 41 pages appendix
Agee's ground breaking book describing the day to day
activities of a CIA officer (Agee) in South America. Often
boring in the endless details of mundane activities of
propaganda excercises and political control of the governments
in the countries where Agee worked. As in Stockwell's case,
Agee was a 12 year veteran of CIA service, leaving the service
in 1969 thoroughly disillusioned with how he observed the CIA
working to destroy democracy. Agee pioneered the practice of
naming names in his one person attempt to attack the CIA. For
this he was of course labeled a traitor and hounded by the CIA
continuously to this day. (Described in his book "On the Run").
Recently, Agee has been able to legally enter the United
States and has joined the lecture circuit in the same manner
as Stockwell.
3. Dirty Work - The CIA in Western Europe
A collection of essays edited by Philip Agee and Louis Wolf
Dorset Press, New York
Copyright (c) 1978
319 total pages
4. White Paper Whitewash - Interviews with Philip Agee
Interviews with Philip Agee, edited by Warner Poelchau
Deep Cover Books, New York
Copyright (c) 1981
214 total pages, 101 pages text, 5 page forward, 103 pages appendix
Page - Heading
---- -------
iii - Contents
iv - Acknowledgments
v - Editor's Foreword
1 - Introduction
7 - Recent Fals Documents from the United States
Embassy in Iran
28 - Cases of False Documentation and False Press Stories
Prepared by the CIA
42 - The American Institute for Free Labor Development
as a CIA Front
55 - The CIA and Political Repression in Latin America
75 - Critique of State Department White Paper on El Salvador
101 - text ends
A1 - Text of U.S. State Department White Paper on El Salvador
23 February, 1981 - 87 pages
B1 - Dissent Paper on El Salvador and Central America
11/6/80 - critics of U.S. Policy in Central America
statement, from the NSC, DOS, DOD and CIA
5. La Penca: On Trial in Costa Rica - The CIA vs. The Press
Edited by Tony Avirgan and Martha Honey
Editorial Porvenir, San Jose, Costa Rica
Copyright (c) 1988
155 total pages
This is the transcript testimony at the Libel trial of
John Hull vs. Avirgan-Honey on May 22, 23, 1986 at
the First Penal Court of San Jose, Costa Rica.
John Hull charged them with Libel in their report
on the 30 May 1984 bombing at La Penca, Nicaragua.
The court ruled in favor of Avirgan and Honey.
John Hull at this moment, November 1990, is on the ten
most wanted list of Interpol, wanted in connection with
the bombing by Costa Rican authorities. He was in the
United States until recently, but present whereabouts
are unknown, suspected in Central or South America.
6. The Puzzle Palace - Inside the National Security Agency, America's most
secret Intelligence Organization
James Bamford
Penguin Books, New York
Copyright (c) 1982
655 total pages, 518 text, 4 page appendix, 82 pages notes, 12 pages glossary,
28 page index
7. KGB - The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents
John Barron
Bantam Books, New York
Copyright (c) 1974
640 total pages, 16 pages introduction, preface, 456 pages text,
106 pages appendices, 24 pages notes, 4 pages acknowledgments,
10 page bibliography, 39 page index
8. Secret Contenders - The Myth of Cold War Counterintelligence
Melvin Beck, introduction by Thomas Powers
Sheridan Square Publications, Inc. New York
Copyright (c) 1984
183 total pages, 14 page introduction, 152 pages text, 6 page index
9. The CIA, a forgotten history
William Blum
Zed Books Ltd, London
Copyright (c) 1986
428 total pages, 344 pages text, 78 pages notes and appendix, 6 page index
An accounting of CIA operations in more than 50 countries
since the founding of the CIA in 1947. An excellent companion
to Kwitny's Endless Enemies.
10. Operation Mind Control - Our Secret Government's War Against Its Own People
Walter H. Bowart
Dell Publishing, New York
Copyright (c) 1978
317 total pages, 266 pages text, 8 pages appendix, 4 pages notes,
14 pages Bibliography, 6 page index
Published only once in this paperback form. Similar too,
but different conclusion to "The Manchurian Candidate"
by John Marks.
11. Inside The Shadow Government
The Christic Institute
The Christic Institute, Washington D.C.
Copyright (c) 1988
248 total pages, 200 pages text, 27 pages appendices, 6 page bibliography,
4 page index
This is the Declaration of Plaintiffs' Counsel filed by
The Christic Institute in U.S. District Court, Miami,
Flordia on 31 March 1988. It outlines the case against
29 defendants in Avirgan-Honey vs. Hull et al concerning
the bombing at La Penca, Nicaragua, 30 May 1984. At the
moment, November 1990, the case remains on Appeal in the
Atlanta District court.
12. Out Of Control - The Story of the Reagan Administration's Secret War
in Nicaragua, the Illegal Arms Pipeline, and the Contra Drug Connection
Leslie Cockburn
Atlantic Monthley Press, New York
Copyright (c) 1987
300 total pages, 254 pages text, 34 pages notes, no contents or index although
zeroxed copies of an 8 page index exist, with contents.
So far this book has only been published this one time. This
story is the result of Cockburn's investigations for CBS news
and parts also show up in her Public Broadcast System special:
"Drugs, Guns, and the CIA"
13. Men Of Zeal - A Candid Inside Story of the Iran-Contra Hearings
Senators William S. Cohen and George J. Mitchell
Viking Press, New York
Copyright (c) 1988
382 total pages, 312 pages text, 23 pages notes, 14 page index,
32 pages chronologies and other notes
14. Slow Burn - The Rise and Bitter Fall of American Intelligence in Vietnam
Orrin DeForest and David Chanoff
Simon and Schuster, New York
Copyright (c) 1990
294 total pages, 258 pages text, glossary, 14 page index
15. Assassination On Embassy Row - The Shocking Story of the
Letelier-Moffitt Murders
John Dinges & Saul Landau
McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York
Copyright (c) 1980
412 total pages, 398 pages text, 14 page index
16. Story of a Russian Spy - Handbook for Spies
Alexander Foote
Hillman Periodicals, Inc. New York
Copyright (c) 1949
192 total pages, no contents, no notes, no index, no introductions, nothing
but 192 pages of text.
From the back cover:
"I was for three vital years of the war a member and, to a large
extent, controller of the Russian spy net in Switzerland which
was working against Germany . . . I was a key link in a network
whose lines reached into the heart of the German high command
itself..."
With these words, Alexander Foote, a British subject now working
in a Government in London, opens his astounding true story of
Soviet espionage. Without covering up the facts or preaching
he tells how a Russian spy works, what he looks like, how he
lives, and what his aims are. An important and exciting book.
17. The Death Merchant - The Rise and Fall of Edwin P. Wilson
Joseph C. Goulden with Alexander W. Raffio
Simon and Schuster, New York
Copyright (c) 1984
477 total pages, 430 pages text, 7 pages appendix, 6 pages sources and
acknowledgements, 17 page index
18. I was an NKVD Agent - A Top Soviet Spy Tells His Story
Anatoli Granovsky
Western Islands Publishers, Belmont, Massachusetts
Copyright (c) ????
281 total pages
19. In Contempt of Congress
Edited by Joy Hackel and Daniel Siegel - prefaces by Senators Tom Harkin and
George McGovern
Institute for Policy Studies, Washington D.C.
Copyright (c) 1985
136 total pages, 8 page appendix
Part 1. A Citizens' Guide to the Contra Scandal
Part 2. The Reagan Record On Central America: The First Term 1981-1984
a. Nicaragua
b. El Salvador
c. Honduras
d. Guatemala
Appendix: Possible violations of Law
This book is a two column format. One column is the public stated
position of the Reagan-Bush Administration. The second column
is publically available evidence to the contrary, whether it be the
administration itself in moments of candor before congressional
committees, or other sources.
20. The Target Is Destroyed - What really happened to flight 007 & what
America knew about it
Seymour M. Hersh
Vintage Books, New York
Copyright (c) 1986
412 total pages, 357 pages text, 20 pages notes, 2 pages acknowledgments,
11 page index, 20 pages introductions
21. The General Was a Spy - The Truth About General Gehlen and His Spy Ring
Heinz Hoehne & Hermann Zolling - translated from the German by Richard Barry
Introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper and preface to the American edition
by Andrew Tully
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., New York
Copyright (c) 1971
408 total pages, 32 pages photographs, 296 pages text, 39 pages appendix,
24 pages notes, 6 page bibliography, 11 page index
22. October Surprise
Barbara Honegger
Tudor Publishing Co., New York and Los Angeles
Copyright (c) 1989
323 total pages, 292 pages text, 30 pages references
23. Guts and Glory - The Rise and Fall of Oliver North
Ben Bradlee, Jr.
Donald I. Fine, Inc., New York
Copyright (c) 1988
596 total pages, 24 pages photographs, 559 pages text, 2 pages notes,
10 page index
24. The Second Oldest Profession - Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century
Phillip Knightley
Penguin Books, New York
Copyright (c) 1986
462 total pages, 393 pages text, 12 pages notes, 9 pages selected bibliography,
12 page index, 16 pages photographs
Knightley is the espionage expert consultant to the London Times
and the BBC. This book is an excellent summary of the spy
agencies of England, Russia and America during the 1900's.
An accounting of their successes, their failures and their
boasted successes.
25. The Great Heroin Coup - Drugs, Intelligence, & International Fascism
Henrik Krueger, translated from the original German by Jerry Meldon
foreword by Peter Dale Scott
South End Press, Box 68 Astor Station, Boston MA 02123
Copyright (c) 1980
240 total pages, notes at the end of each chapter, index
Probing into the netherworld of narcotics, espionage, and
international terrorism. In so doing, Krueger uncovers the
alliances between the Mafia, right wing extremists,
neo-Fascist OAS veterans in France, and Miami-based Cuban
exiles. Concerns the story of Nixon's war on heroin and of
whether that war's elimination of the French Connection was
dictated by cance, by Mafia penetration of the White House and
the CIA, or by Nixon's desire to help old friends in Florida.
26. The Crimes of Patriots - A true tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA
Jonathan Kwitny
Penguin Books - New York, London, Australia, Canada, New Zealand
Copyright (c) 1987
424 total pages, 400 pages text, notes in text, index
The collapse of the Nugan-Hand international bank in Australia
provides the opportunity to examine how the CIA handles its
international banking. From the records that were produced
during the court trials in Australia in the early eighties, a
most interesting story is laid out that shows the connection
of the CIA with international drug-trafficking and arms
dealing. Many characters from the so-called "Secret Team"
appear in the official record described here, Thomas CLines,
Theodore Shackley, General Richard V. Secord, Rafael "Chi-Chi"
Quintero, and others.
27. Endless Enemies - The Making of an Unfriendly World
Jonathan Kwitny
Penguin Books - New York, London, Australia, Canada, New Zealand
Copyright (c) 1984
434 total pages, 419 pages text, 15 pages index
Kwitny clearly shows how American interventionist activities
abroad have consistently undermined our foreign policy goals.
Attempts by the government and by giant corporations to
manipulate the economies of developing nations, military and
political blunders in many parts of the world, and tremendous
(often inexplicable) expenditures of lives and money seem to
have succeeded only in driving Third World nations toward
corruption and communism. Thoroughly documented. The first
hardback edition is complete, later paperback editions have
Chapter 10 heavily censored concerning the CIA's involvement
in the coup in Iran 19 August, 1953, because of legal action
pending in federal court, Manhattan, alleging copyright
infringement (involving attributed quotations from an
unpublished source) and libel.
28. Acid Dreams - The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion
Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain
Grove Press, New York
Copyright (c) 1985
343 pages, 294 pages text, 25 pages notes, 10 page bibliography, 13 page index
29. The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence
Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks
Dell Publishing Co., New York
Copyright (c) 1974
365 total pages, 325 pages text, 40 pages appendix and index
And yet another disillusioned CIA veteran with accounts of
how the CIA operates, concentrating on the bureaucratic structure.
Marchetti worked for the CIA for 14 years, rising to the
office of executive assistant ot the deputy director. By
Federal Court order, the authors were required to submit the
manuscript of the book to the CIA for review prior to
publication. Under the terms of the court ruling, the CIA
ordered the deletion of 339 passages of varying length.
Later, following demands to the CIA by legal counsel for the
authors - and the commencement of litigation by the publisher
and the authors against the CIA challenging the censorship
involved - all but 168 of these deletions were reinstated.
Later court cases cleared another 25 passages for publication.
30. The Search For "The Manchurian Candidate" - The CIA and Mind Control, the
Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences
John Marks, introduction by Thomas Powers
Dell Publishing, New York
Copyright (c) 1979
264 total pages, 230 pages text, 18 pages notes, 15 page index
31. The Iran-Contra Connection - Secret Teams and Covert Operations
in the Reagan Era
Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott, Jane Hunter
South End Press, 116 St. Botolph Street, Boston MA 02115
Copyright (c) 1987
313 total pages, 233 pages text, 70 pages notes, 14 page index
A study of the roots of contemporary U.S. covert activity in
the history of the past two decades. Covers the details of
CIA and extra-CIA operations including drug-trafficking,
gun-running, government-toppling, and assassination. The
authors argue that the Iran-Contra scandal is not merely a
plan gone awry, but a consistent outgrowth of a long tradition
of covert U.S. activities. From the Bay of Pigs invasion
teams to the NSC organizational team; from the CIA and the
World Anti-Communist League to the Israeli connection and
State Department.
32. Deadly Deceits - My 25 Years in the CIA
Ralph W. McGehee
Sheridan Square Publications, New York
Copyright (c) 1983
243 total pages, 195 pages text, 8 page appendix, 7 page source list,
4 page glossary, 16 page index
33. The Underground Empire - Where Crime and Governments Embrace
James Mills
Dell Publishing Co., Inc., New York
COpyright (c) 1986
1202 total pages, 1170 pages text, 12 pages of reproduced documents,
19 page index
34. The Secret Government - The Constitution In Crisis
Bill Moyers
Seven Locks Press, Cabin John, Maryland
Copyright (c) 1988
148 total pages
This is basically the transcript of the Public Broadcast System
program by the same name.
35. The Chronology - The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret
Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras
The National Security Archive
Warner Books, New York
Copyright (c) 1987
712 total pages, 8 pages photographs, 657 pages text, 7 page glossary,
12 page index, 26 pages appendices, sources
Covering the time from January 1980 thru April 8, 1987,
a daily diary of the Iran-Contra activities.
36. Piercing The Reich - The Penetration of Nazi Germany by American
Secret Agents during World War II
Joseph E. Persico
Ballantine Books, New York
Copyright (c) 1979
504 Total pages, 24 pages photographs, 423 pages text, 12 page bibliography,
21 page index
37. The Man Who Kept the Secrets - Richard Helms and the CIA
Thomas Powers
Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Copyright (c) 1979
456 total pages, 356 pages text, 76 pages notes, 4 page bibliography,
16 page index
38. Dirty Work 2 - The CIA in Africa
Ellen Ray, William Schaap, Karl Van Meter, Louis Wolf
Lyle Stuart Inc., Secaucus, N.J.
Copyright (c) 1979
540 total pages
A collection of essays on various activities in Africa by
the CIA. Included is Louis Wolf's second "Who's Who"
of the CIA with 700 biographies on CIA employees that
work or have worked recently in Africa. This listing is
200 pages in itself.
39. The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
Alfred W. McCoy with Cathleen B. Read and Leonard P. Adams II
Harper & Row, Publishers - New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London
Copyright (c) 1972
464 total pages, 385 pages text, 79 pages notes, glossary, index
Paperback editions have a few more notes.
A classic study of the connection between the CIA
and the world heroin trade. Includes an excellent
summary of the history of heroin and its connections
with the colonial powers of the middle east and
the far east. Introduces the connection between the CIA and
the Sicilian and Corscian Mafia. Follows the movement of the
heroin trade from the middle east to the far east during
France's Indochina war following WW II. Details the
complicity of our Vietnamese allies and their involvement in
the heroin trade of the 1960's, resulting in the heroin
epidemic in the U.S. towards the end of the 1960's. The CIA
attempted to prevent the publication of this book. Today it
is a rare book on the used book market, fetching as much as
$60 when a bookstore can find it. Can be found in libraries.
Highly recommended.
40. Air America
Christopher Robbins
Avon Books, New York
Copyright (c) 1979
328 total pages, 303 pages text, 2 page acknowledgments, 3 pages notes,
2 page bibliography, 8 page index
According to Alexander Cockburn in a review of the movie:
"Air America" 13 September, 1990, the first edition of
this book in 1979 is different than the second edition
in 1988, with CIA drug references toned down.
41. The Sovereign State of ITT
Anthony Sampson
Fawcett Crest Books, Greenwich, Connecticut
Copyright (c) 1973
335 pages, 300 pages text, 6 page chronology, 5 pages notes, 10 page index
4 pages notes on sources
42. BLOWBACK - America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War
Christopher Simpson
Collier Books, New York
Copyright (c) 1988
414 total pages, 16 pages photographs, 290 pages text, 66 pages notes,
12 pages bibliography, 14 pages archival sources, 15 pages index
43. OSS - The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency
R. Harris Smith
University of California Press, Berkeley, California
Copyright (c) 1972
470 total pages, 387 pages text, 34 pages notes, 16 page bibliography,
12 pages acknowledgments, preface, contents
44. Decent Interval - An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told
by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam
Frank Snepp
Vintage Books, New York
Copyright (c) 1977
603 total pages, 580 pages text, 8 page index
45. In Search of Enemies - A CIA Story
John Stockwell
W. W. Norton & Company, London and New York
Copyright (c) 1978
285 total pages, 254 pages text, notes in text, appendix, index
John Stockwell, former CIA agent, describes his involvement in
the Angola war of 1975-76. Stockwell was Chief of the CIA
Angola Task Force. He describes the incredible ineptness of
the CIA bureaucracy and its constant bungling of the Angola
situation. If most of the CIA covert wars are carried out
in the same manner as this mess, it is no wonder that they
always lose and leave corrupt murderous dictators in the
aftermath. After 12 years as a CIA officer, Stockwell
resigned from the Agency on April 1, 1977 and has since
continued to lecture on the problems that CIA activities cause
for U.S. foreign policy. The CIA successfully litigated
against Stockwell and continues to receive all royalities that
this book generates.
46. The Hidden History of the Korean War
I.F. Stone
Monthly Review Press, New York
Copyright (c) 1952
384 total pages, 348 pages text, 4 page appendix, 11 page reference list,
5 page index
A collection of Stone's journalistic writings during the War.
Generally regarded as an accurate depiction of the darker side
of the Korean War.
47. Journey Into Madness - The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control
and Medical Abuse
Gordon Thomas
Bantam Books, New York
Copyright (c) 1989
387 total pages, 353 pages text, 14 pages notes, 8 pages sources,
one page select Bibliography, 10 page index
48. CIA - The Inside Story
Andrew Tully
Fawcett World Library, New York
Copyright (c) 1962
224 total pages, 217 pages text, 7 page index
One of the earliest public descriptions of CIA activities.
Quite a bit of promotion for the CIA, often glorifying CIA
activities in places such as Iran and Guatemala. Neverless, a
valuable early look at the CIA.
49. Veil: the Secret Wars of the CIA
Bob Woodward
Simon and Schuster
Copyright (c) 1987
543 total pages, 485 pages text, 2 page Central American Covert-Action
Chronology, 3 pages acknowledgments, 30 page index, 16 pages
photographs
Focusing on the tenure of Director of Central Intelligence
William J. Casey, 28 January, 1981 thru 29 January 1987
50. Spy Catcher
Peter Wright, with Paul Greengrass
Dell Publishing, New York
Copyright (c) 1987
481 total pages, 3 page glossary, 12 page index, 9 page preface, no contents
51. Bay of Pigs - The Untold Story
Peter Wyden
Simon and Schuster, New York
Copyright (c) 1979
384 total pages, 32 pages photographs, 327 pages text,
3 page bibliographical notes, 8 pages notes, 10 page index
A list ordered by Title:
1. Acid Dreams - The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion
Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain
2. Air America
Christopher Robbins
3. Assassination On Embassy Row - The Shocking Story of the
Letelier-Moffitt Murders
John Dinges & Saul Landau
4. Bay of Pigs - The Untold Story
Peter Wyden
5. BLOWBACK - America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War
Christopher Simpson
6. The Chronology - The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret
Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras
The National Security Archive
7. CIA - The Inside Story
Andrew Tully
8. The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence
Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks
9. The CIA, a forgotten history
William Blum
10. The Crimes of Patriots - A true tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA
Jonathan Kwitny
11. Deadly Deceits - My 25 Years in the CIA
Ralph W. McGehee
12. The Death Merchant - The Rise and Fall of Edwin P. Wilson
Joseph C. Goulden with Alexander W. Raffio
13. Decent Interval - An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told
by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam
Frank Snepp
14. Dirty Work - The CIA in Western Europe
A collection of essays edited by Philip Agee and Louis Wolf
15. Dirty Work 2 - The CIA in Africa
Ellen Ray, William Schaap, Karl Van Meter, Louis Wolf
16. Endless Enemies - The Making of an Unfriendly World
Jonathan Kwitny
17. The General Was a Spy - The Truth About General Gehlen and His Spy Ring
Heinz Hoehne & Hermann Zolling - translated from the German by Richard Barry
Introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper and preface to the American edition
by Andrew Tully
18. The Great Heroin Coup - Drugs, Intelligence, & International Fascism
Henrik Krueger, translated from the original German by Jerry Meldon
foreword by Peter Dale Scott
19. Guts and Glory - The Rise and Fall of Oliver North
Ben Bradlee, Jr.
20. The Hidden History of the Korean War
I.F. Stone
21. I was an NKVD Agent - A Top Soviet Spy Tells His Story
Anatoli Granovsky
22. In Contempt of Congress
Edited by Joy Hackel and Daniel Siegel - prefaces by Senators Tom Harkin and
George McGovern
23. In Search of Enemies - A CIA Story
John Stockwell
24. Inside The Company - CIA Diary
Philip Agee
25. Inside The Shadow Government
The Christic Institute
26. The Iran-Contra Connection - Secret Teams and Covert Operations
in the Reagan Era
Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott, Jane Hunter
27. Journey Into Madness - The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control
and Medical Abuse
Gordon Thomas
28. KGB - The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents
John Barron
29. La Penca: On Trial in Costa Rica - The CIA vs. The Press
Edited by Tony Avirgan and Martha Honey
30. The Man Who Kept the Secrets - Richard Helms and the CIA
Thomas Powers
31. Men Of Zeal - A Candid Inside Story of the Iran-Contra Hearings
Senators William S. Cohen and George J. Mitchell
32. October Surprise
Barbara Honegger
33. On The Run
Philip Agee
34. Operation Mind Control - Our Secret Government's War Against Its Own People
Walter H. Bowart
35. OSS - The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency
R. Harris Smith
36. Out Of Control - The Story of the Reagan Administration's Secret War
in Nicaragua, the Illegal Arms Pipeline, and the Contra Drug Connection
Leslie Cockburn
37. Piercing The Reich - The Penetration of Nazi Germany by American
Secret Agents during World War II
Joseph E. Persico
38. The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
Alfred W. McCoy with Cathleen B. Read and Leonard P. Adams II
39. The Puzzle Palace - Inside the National Security Agency, America's most
secret Intelligence Organization
James Bamford
40. The Search For "The Manchurian Candidate" - The CIA and Mind Control, the
Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences
John Marks, introduction by Thomas Powers
41. The Second Oldest Profession - Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century
Phillip Knightley
42. Secret Contenders - The Myth of Cold War Counterintelligence
Melvin Beck, introduction by Thomas Powers
43. The Secret Government - The Constitution In Crisis
Bill Moyers
44. Slow Burn - The Rise and Bitter Fall of American Intelligence in Vietnam
Orrin DeForest and David Chanoff
45. The Sovereign State of ITT
Anthony Sampson
46. Spy Catcher
Peter Wright, with Paul Greengrass
47. Story of a Russian Spy - Handbook for Spies
Alexander Foote
48. The Target Is Destroyed - What really happened to flight 007 & what
America knew about it
Seymour M. Hersh
49. The Underground Empire - Where Crime and Governments Embrace
James Mills
50. Veil: the Secret Wars of the CIA
Bob Woodward
51. White Paper Whitewash - Interviews with Philip Agee
Interviews with Philip Agee, edited by Warner Poelchau
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Subject: Reading list on intelligence agencies & repression (autopost)
From: bghauk@berlin.infomatch.com (Brian Hauk)
Date: 13 Jun 1997 16:28:50 GMT
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[ Article reposted from misc.activism.progressive ]
[ Author was Rich Winkel ]
[ Posted on 4 Jun 1997 08:32:21 GMT ]
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** Topic: Reading List on Intelligence/Spys **
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READING LIST ON
INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES
& POLITICAL REPRESSION
by Chip Berlet & Linda Lotz
Revised (1/14/91)
Distributed by:
Movement Support Network / Center for Constitutional Rights
National Lawyers Guild Civil Liberties Committee
This is the reading list circulated by Phil Agee at his Speakout
lectures. For information about the refusal of the U.S. government to
enter the country to lecture, see "Agee" topic in this conference.
For the reading list, see the following Reply files:
THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
#1 CIA--GENERAL
#2 CIA--SPECIFIC COUNTRIES AND REGIONS
#3 CIA--ALLIANCES WITH DICTATORS, FASCISTS AND NAZIS
#4 CIA--AT HOME
#5 CIA--MEMOIRS OF FORMER DIRECTORS & EMPLOYEES
THE POLITICS OF COVERT ACTION
#6 INTELLIGENCE NETWORKS & POLICY MAKERS
#7 IRAN--CONTRAGATE
REPRESSION IN THE UNITED STATES
#8 THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION & COINTELPRO
#9 OTHER ASPECTS OF POLITICAL REPRESSION
OTHER RESOURCES
#10 MAGAZINES, NEWSLETTERS & PERIODICALS
#11 WHAT TO DO - FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT
#12 WHAT TO DO - EDUCATION & ORGANIZING GUIDES
#13 WHAT TO DO - LITIGATION
#14 ODDS & ENDS
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READING LIST ON
INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES
& POLITICAL REPRESSION
by Chip Berlet & Linda Lotz
Revised (1/14/91)
THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
CIA--GENERAL
"At War With Peace: U.S. Covert Operations" Kit Gage/NCARL, First
Amendment Foundation, 1990. An indispensible pamphlet chronicling the
history of CIA covert actions, its human costs, laws regulating it, and
restrictions to information about it. $2.50 NCARL, 1313 West 8th
Street, Suite 313, Los Angeles, CA 90017. 213-484-6661.
"The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA". John Ranelagh, 1987,
Touchstone/Simon & Schuster. A revised edition of the most
widely-accepted comprehensive history of the CIA, now current through
Iran-Contragate and the appointment of William Webster as Director.
"Under Cover: Thirty-Five Years of CIA Deception". Darrell Garwood,
1985, Grove Press. Fully documented history of covert operations by a
former UPI Pentagon correspondent. Includes an extensive chronology.
"The CIA, A Forgotten History: U.S. Global Interventions Since World
War 2" William Blum, 1987, Zed Press. A thorough review of the record
of CIA invlovement when the cold war turns hot.
"Secret Warriors: Inside the Covert Military Operations of the Reagan
Era." Steven Emerson, 1986, Putnam & Sons. The best comprehensive
account of covert ops. during the Reagan Years.
"Presidents' Secret Wars: CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations Since
World War II." John Prados, Morrow, 1986. Good overview with linkage
to problem of foreign policy and secrecy.
"The Man Who Kept Secrets--Richard Helms and the CIA". Thomas Powers,
1979, Knopf. A portrait of the CIA Director who launched nefarious and
deadly CIA activities in Chile, Iran and Vietnam.
"The Secret Team: The CIA and its Allies in Control of the World"
Fletcher Prouty, 1974. Early critical research on the CIA, but is
marred by a somewhat over-reaching analysis.
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CIA--SPECIFIC COUNTRIES AND REGIONS
"Dirty Work I--The CIA in Western Europe." Philip Agee and Louis Wolf,
1978, Lyle Stuart. A compilation of articles including the classic "How
to Spot a Spook" and a list of 700 alleged agents.
"Dirty Work II--The CIA in Africa." Philip Agee and Louis Wolf, 1979,
Lyle Stuart. (Available from Covert Action Information Bulletin, Box
50272, Washington, DC 20004). Articles focusing on Africa.
"Weakness and Deceit: U.S. Policy and El Salvador." Raymond Bonner,
1984, New York Times Books.
"With the Contras: A reporter in the fields of Nicaragua." Christopher
Dickey, 1985, Simon and Schuster.
"The CIA's Nicaraguan Manual: Psychological Operations in Guerrilla
Warfare." CIA, 1985, Vintage. A collection of essays written by the
CIA and others.
"Washington's War on Nicaragua." Holly Sklar, 1988, South End Press.
The only full review of U.S. foreign policy toward Nicaragua. Makes
connections between rightist political ideology and support for covert
operations as standard U.S. foreign policy tool.
"Nicaragua: The Price of Intervention." Peter Kornbluh, 1987,
Institute for Policy Studies. Some sections are useful for reference to
counter-insurgency.
"The Freedom Fighter's Manual." CIA, 1985, Grove Press. A copy, with
translation, of the CIA's manual that targets D'Escoto and others in
Nicaragua for disruption and assassination.
"Ropes of Sand: America's Failure in the Middle East." Wilbur Crane
Eveland, 1980, W.W. Norton. The CIA attempted to censor this in-depth
examination of the U.S. activities in the Middle East.
"The Foreign Policy of Intervention: The CIA in Guatemala." R.H.
Immerman, 1983, University of Texas Press. From the 1954 overthrow of
President Arbenz to the later role of the U.S. in Guatemala, our
government has played a key role in that country.
"Bitter Fruit--The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala."
Stephen Kinzer and Stephen Schleisinger, 1982, Doubleday.
"Perilous Missions: Civil Air Transport and CIA Covert Operations in
Asia." William M. Leary, 1984, University of Alabama.
"Grenada--The Struggle Against Destabilization." Chris Searle, 1983,
W.W. Norton. The coordinated efforts of the CIA and economic and
diplomatic agencies to resist changes in Grenada.
"Decent Interval." Frank Snepp, 1977, Vintage Books. A former CIA
officer describes the Agency's failure to prepare for the evacuation of
Saigon in 1975.
"In Search of Enemies." John Stockwell, 1978, W.W. Norton. The former
head of the CIA's Angolan Task Force criticizes the Agency's role in the
country.
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CIA--ALLIANCES WITH
DICTATORS, FASCISTS AND NAZIS
"Blowback: The First Full Account of America's Recruitment of Nazis,
and its Disastrous Effect on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy."
Christopher Simpson, 1988, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. The title says it
all.
"Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Reagan Administration: The Role of
Domestic Fascist Networks in the Republican Party and their Effect on
U.S. Cold War Politics." Russ Bellant, 1988, Political Research
Associates. What the Blowback crowd did with their spare time after the
OSS/CIA recruited them to the U.S. $6.50 from Political Research
Associates, Suite 205, 678 Mass. Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139.
"Inside the League: The Shocking Expose of How Terrorists, Nazis, and
Latin American Death Squads Have Infiltrated the World Anti-Communist
League." Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson, 1986, Dodd, Mead. Traces
role of anti-Semites and neo-Nazis sheltered by CIA in private covert
action and propaganda wars around the world and how they network through
WACL.
"The Belarus Secret: The Nazi Connection in America." John Loftus,
1982, Paragon House. The first full account of the clandestine
operation to bring Nazi collaborators to the U.S. to help wage guerrilla
warfare against eastern bloc nations.
"The Paperclip Conspiracy: The Hunt for the Nazi Scientists" How the
U.S. covered up the thousands of corpses at Nazi slave labor rocket
facilities so we would beat them Russkies in launching the first
intercontinental ballistic missile.
"Missing: The Execution of Charles Horman." Thomas Hauser, 1978,
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (Touchstone / Simon & Schuster Edition, 1988).
American officals turn their back when the Chilean Junta murders a young
American.
"The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence and International Fascism."
Henrik Kruger, 1980, South End Press. Drug dealing and other activities
in Southeast Asia.
"Cry of the People--The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America."
Penny Lernoux, 1982, Doubleday. The Catholic Church in conflict with
U.S. policy.
"Hidden Terrors." A.J. Langguth, 1978, Pantheon Books. How the CIA,
the Pentagon, and U.S. police advisors encouraged military takeovers in
Latin America.
"The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda". Edward S.
Herman, 1982, South End Press. How the CIA's advisors are actually
contributing to terrorism, through training, supplying arms, etc. to
foreign governments and rebel groups.
"The Pentagon-CIA Archipelago: The Washington Connection and Third
World Fascism". Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman, 1978, South End Press.
U.S. counter-revolutionary violence and subversion in the Third World.
"The Death Merchant". Joseph C. Goulden, 1984, Bantam. The story of
Edwin Wilson , who used his CIA connections to operate an international
arms firm and supplied Quaddafi with tons of explosives and with hit men
for political assassinations.
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CIA--AT HOME
"Labyrinth" Taylor Branch and Eugene M. Propper, 1983, Penguin. The
story of the search for the assassins of Orlando Letelier.
"Secret Agenda, Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA." Jim Hougan, 1984,
Random House. One of many books exploring the CIA's role in Watergate.
"Search for the Manchurian Candidate." John P. Marks, 1979, Quadrangle
Press. The history of the CIA's drug and behavior control programs.
"Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion." Martin Lee and
Bruce Shlain, 1985, Grove Press. The CIA thought LSD would
revolutionize the spy trade...nobody's perfect.
"The Mind Manipulators." Alan W. Scheflin and Edward M. Opton, Jr.,
1978, Paddington Press, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap. Reviews
behavior modification experiments by the CIA and the Army.
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CIA--MEMOIRS OF FORMER DIRECTORS & EMPLOYEES
"Inside the Company." Philip Agee, 1978, Penguin Books. A diary
spanning twelve years of Agee's CIA work with a special focus on Central
and South America and Mexico.
"On the Run." Philip Agee, 1987, Lyle Stuart. The CIA takes a dim view
of Agee's philosophical turnabout and chases him around the world with
an alarming lack of humor.
"Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA." Ralph Mcgehee, 1983,
Sheridan Square. ($9.95 + 1.50 S/H c/o IMA 145 W. 4th St., N.Y., N.Y.
10012) Author's growing disillusionment with role of CIA as covert
action arm of the presidency.
"The CIA under Reagan, Bush and Casey: The Evolution of the Agency from
Roosevelt to Reagan." Ray S. Cline, 1981, Acropolis Books. Expanded
version of the former Director's memoirs.
"Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA." William Colby and Peter Forbath,
1978, Simon and Schuster. From the former CIA Director during the
Congressional investigations of the Agency.
"Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy." 1981, St. Martins Press.
Gives insights into the man who had no qualms about torture or murder to
`protect' the U.S. national security.
"The Night Watch: My 25 Years of Peculiar Service." David Atlee
Phillips, 1977, Athenum. A peculiar yet fascinating un-apologetic
reminiscence.
"Portrait of a Cold Warrior." Joseph Burkholder Smith, 1976, G.P.
Putnam and Sons. An insightful look from the view of the agent on the
street--in the Philippines, Indonesia and elsewhere.
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THE POLITICS OF COVERT ACTION
INTELLIGENCE NETWORKS & POLICY MAKERS
"The Terrorism Industry: The Experts and Institutions That Shape View
of Terror." Edward Herman & Gerry O'Sullivan, 1990, Pantheon. A
thorough discussion of how the concept and reality of terrorism has been
packaged and manipulated for to promote authoritarian and rightist
political ideology.
"The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the
CIA." Jonathan Kwitny, 1987, W. W. Norton. Wall Street Journal
reporter Kwitny unravels the mystery of the Nugan Hand Bank scandal.
"The Puzzle Palace--A Report on America's Most Secret Agency." James
Bamford, 1982, Houghton Mifflin. Details history, bureaucracy and scope
of activities of the National Security Agency.
"The Lawless State: The Crimes of the U.S. Intelligence Agencies."
Morton Halperin et al, 1978, Penguin Books. (Available from the
American Civil Liberties Union/Center for National Security Studies, 122
Maryland Ave. NE, Washington, DC 20002.) Overview of efforts to spy
and disrupt by the CIA, FBI, NSA, IRS and grand juries.
"A World of Secrets--the Uses and Limits of Intelligence." Walter
Laquer, 1985, The 20th Century Fund. How foreign intelligence is used
and misused; and what can be done as seen by mainstream critics.
"Secret Contenders: The Myth of Cold War Counterintelligence." Melvin
Beck, 1984, Sheriden Square Press. A devastating critique that details
the waste and lunacy of some CIA clandestine operations and concludes
that U.S. citizens are ultimately the real target of CIA propaganda
campaigns.
"Covert Action: The Limits of Intervention in the Postwar World"
Gregory F. Treverton, Basic Books. A critical re-assessment of covert
operations as a tool of U.S. foreign policy.
"Intelligence Requirements for the 1990's: Collection, Analysis,
Counterintelligence, and Covert Action." Roy Godson, ed., Lexington
Books/D.C. Heath. Edited by one of the more horrific geeks of the
intelligence empire, this collection of essays provides a blueprint for
creating the U.S. police state. A shopping list for the guardians of
post-Constitutional America. Sequal to the popular Intelligence
Requirements for the 1980's series of books.
"The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence." Victor Marchetti and John
Marks, 1980, Dell Books. Classic overview of the CIA and intelligence
operations; updated to include deletions by the CIA.
"The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia." Alfred W. McCoy, with
Cathleen B. Read and Leonard P. Adams II, 1972, Harper--Colophon Books.
How the CIA and Air America served as the conduit for the Golden
Triangle opium trade in an effort to build an anti-communist army.
"Gifts of Deceit: Sun Myung Moon, Tongsun Park and the Korean Scandal."
Robert Boettcher with Gordon L. Freedman, 1980, Holt, Rinehart & Wilson.
Moon's links to the Korean CIA and other assorted dirty linen is hung
out in this documented expose. Shows Moon as a power-hungry
anti-democratic theocrat.
"Rollback: Right-wing Power in U.S. Foreign Policy." Thomas
Bodenheimer & Robert Gould, 1989, South End Press. A look at the
confrontational rightist political agenda that fuels U.S. militarism.
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IRAN--CONTRAGATE
"Out of Control: The Story of the Reagan Administration's Secret War in
Nicaragua, the Illegal Arms Pipeline, and the Contra Drug Connection."
Leslie Cockburn, 1987, Atlantic Monthly Press. This account by a CBS
News correspondent is currently the best-documented expose on
Iran-Contragate.
"The Culture of Terrorism." Noam Chomsky, 1978, South End Press. A
brilliant polemic which argues that behind Iran-Contragate is a
relentless drive for world power by the U.S. government.
"The Iran Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the
Reagan Era." Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott and Jane Hunter, 1987,
South End Press. Hunter's section on the Israeli intelligence
connection is compelling, but some of the other material drifts into
conspiracy-minded conclusions not entirely supported with facts. Still,
a good overview of Iran-Contragate covert action as not an isolated
incident but a logical outcome of institutionalized U.S. covert action
policy.
"The Soft War: The Uses and Abuses of U.S. Economic Aid in Central
America." Tom Barry and Deb Preusch, 1988, Grove Press. These
researchers from the Albuquerque-based Resource Center have compiled a
well-documented critique of the uses of so-called humanitarian aid in
Central America.
"Packaging the Contras: A Case of CIA Disinformation." Edgar Chamorro,
1987, Institute for Media Analysis. ($5.00 +1.00 S/H to 145 W. 4th St.,
N.Y., N.Y. 10012) A former Contra leader reveals how the CIA created the
image of the Contras as the "democratic alternative."
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REPRESSION IN THE UNITED STATES
THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION & COINTELPRO
"War at Home: Covert Action Against U.S. Activists and What We Can Do
About It." Brian Glick, 1989, South End Press. Must reading for all
serious political activists. Provides a comprehesive and common sense
approach for those who must engage in political activity while facing
governmental and right-wing attacks. Includes a cogent analysis of the
relationship between U.S. political economy and domestic covert action.
"Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther
Party and the American Indian Movement." Ward Churchill & Jim Vander
Wall, 1988, South End Press. A chilling account of the murderous
tactics used aginst non-white political activists. 500 pages and an
extensive index and footnotes.
"COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against
Dissent in the United States." Ward Churchill & Jim Vander Wall, 1989,
South End Press. Actual FBI documents and commentary make a strong case
for convincing skeptics. Replaces the "Counter-intelligence" book
previously issued by the NLG.
"The FBI v. The First Amendment" Richard Criley, 1990, First Amendment
Foundation. The story of how the FBI attempted to "neutralize" the
National Committee Against Repressive Legislation (NCARL) which was
founded in 1960 as the National Committee to Abolish the House Committee
on Un-American Activities (HUAC/HCUA). 100 pages, $7.50. Available
from: First Amendment Foundation, 1313 W. 8th St., Suite 313, Los
Angeles, CA 90017.
"The Liberals and J. Edgar Hoover." William W. Keller, 1989, Princeton
University Press. How liberal congresspersons squirm and look away when
they are supposed to oversee agencies of police power and thus allow
their more reactionary collegues to craft agencies such as the FBI into
tools of repression.
"COINTELPRO: The FBI's Secret War on Political Freedom." Nelson
Blackstock, 1976, Vintage Books. The FBI's campaign to infiltrate and
disrupt the Socialist Workers Party; good overview of the other Bureau
investigations of additional left organizations.
"The Age of Surveillance: The Aims & Methods of America's Political
Intelligence System." Frank Donner, 1980, Alfred Knopf. The classic
tome documenting surveillance and harassment in the United States from
World War I to 1980.
"The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr." David J. Garrow, 1981, Norton.
Documents the extensive investigation undertaken by the Bureau to find
ways to discredit and disrupt his quest for freedom.
"The File." Penn Kimball, 1985, Avon. How an innocent man became the
subject of an FBI investigation.
"Hoover and the Un-Americans: The FBI, HUAC, and the Red Menace."
Kenneth O'Reilly, 1983, Temple University Press. Documents the role of
the FBI in engineering the rise of McCarthyism.
"Racial Matters": "The FBI's Secret File on Black America, 1960--1972."
Kenneth O'Reilly, 1988, Free Press. How the FBI attacked the civil
rights movement while posing as its defender against violent attacks.
Useful to expose the film "Mississippi Burning" as a dangerous lie.
"The Killing of Karen Silkwood." Richard Rashke, 1981, Houghton
Mifflin. The FBI's role in the life, and investigation after the death
of the Oklahoma atomic worker.
"Beyond the Hiss Case: The FBI, Congress and the Cold War." Athan
Theoharis, 1982, Temple University Press.
"FBI." Sanford Unger, 1976, Little Brown and Co. An in-depth study,
with background on many officials; glossary of acronyms for COINTELPRO
investigations.
"In the Spirit of Crazy Horse" Peter Matthiessen, 1983, Viking Press.
The story of how the FBI targeted the American Indian Movement.
"Voices from Wounded Knee." Told by the participants and residents of
Wounded Knee. 1976, Akwesasne Notes (a Native American newspaper
published from the Mohawk Nation, Rooseveltown, New York 13683). An
account of the occupation at Wounded Knee, with some details on FBI
presence on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
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OTHER ASPECTS OF POLITICAL REPRESSION
"It Did Happen Here: Recollections of Political Repression in America."
Bud Schultz and Ruth Schultz, 1989, University of California Press.
With their own words, victims of political repression in the U.S.
discuss their lives and their battles. A powerful indictment of the
myth of equal justice under law in the U.S.
"Liberty Under Siege: American Politics 1976-1988" Walter Karp, 1988,
Henry Holt & Co. Reviewing this book, Bill Moyers quipped it was "like
a cold shower on the morning after. Here, finally, is a reveille for
reality, a call to stop this long intoxication with illusion and look at
what has been happening to our republic."
"Universities in the Business of Repression: The
Academic-Military-Industrial Complex and Central America." Jonathan
Feldman, 1989, South End Press. How campus-based research programs are
influenced by a militarist mentality.
"Under Cover: Police Surveillance in America" Gary T. Marx, 1988,
Twentieth Century Fund/University of California Press. The most
thoughtful critical analysis of undercover police techniques currently
available.
"Murder Under Two Flags:The U.S., Puerto Rico, and the Cerro Maravilla
Cover-up." Anne Nelson, 1986, Ticknor & Fields. How Puerto Rican
police officials murdered young "Independenistas" as part of an illegal
intelligence operation and then enlisted U.S. government agencies in the
cover-up.
"Domestic Intelligence: Monitoring Dissent in America." Richard E.
Morgan, 1980, University of Texas. Considers the tension between
privacy and the need for government to protect the community, from the
perspective of the government."My Discovery of America." Farley Mowat,
1985, Atlantic Monthly Press. A Canadian naturalist writer details how
he was denied entry to the U.S. under the 1950 McCarren-Walters
Immigration Act and how the American people came to his support.
"The Great Fear." David Caute, 1978, Simon and Schuster.
Anti-communist purge under Truman and Eisenhower.
"Political Repression in Modern America, 1870 to Present.", 2nd edition.
Robert J. Goldstein, 1978, Schenkman Books, Inc. Government, corporate
and other pressures brought to bear on political groups through the
years.
"Political Hysteria in America--the Democratic Capacity for Repression."
Murray B. Levin, 1971, Basic Books. Underlying forces that create
repressive periods such as the Red Scare of the 1920's and the McCarthy
era.
"Spooks: The Haunting of America--the Private Use of Secret Agents."
Jim Hougan, 197, William Morrow and Co. How private agents, often
former FBI or CIA employees, now provide security services for
multinational corporations.
"The Private Sector: Rent-a-cops, Private Spies and the Police
Industrial Complex. "George O'Toole, 1978, W.W. Norton. Very hard to
find but worth it.
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RESOURCES
MAGAZINES, NEWSLETTERS & PERIODICALS
"Covert Action Information Bulletin." Following in the footsteps of the
original 1970's Counterspy Magazine, this periodical chronicles CIA
activities around the world. Also looks at surveillance and
disinformation campaigns in the U.S. Write: PO Box 50272, Washington
DC 20004.
"The National Reporter" (Formerly called "Counterspy)". Another
spin-off from the original Counterspy, it ceased publication in late
1988.
"First Principles: National Security and Civil Liberties." Newsletter
that focuses on intelligence operations that undermine fundamental
political rights. Special emphasis on the problems of reform. Write:
Center for National Security Studies, 122 Maryland Ave. NE, Washington
DC 20002.
"Lies of Our Times: A Journal to Correct the Record" Devoted to the
analysis of misinformation, disinformation and propaganda. Institute
for Media Analysis, Inc., Sheriden Square Press, Inc., 145 West 4th
Street, New York, N.Y. 10012.
"The Right to Know & the Freedom to Act" Newsletter of the National
Committee Against Repressive Legislation. A First Amendment monitoring
service. $15 annually. Write: NCARL, 1313 West 8th Street, Suite 313,
Los Angeles, California 90017.
"Movement Support Network News." This newsletter provides information
about current harassment of the sanctuary and Central American movement
supporters in the U.S. A recent chronology shows extensive harassment
including: visits to activists, IRS audits, and activities at the U.S.
border. $7.50 per year ($6.00 limited income). Write: Center for
Constitutional Rights, 666 Broadway, New York, NY 10012.
"Public Eye" Another spawn of the first "Counterspy." Not currently
publishing. Last issue Spring 1989.
"Our Right to Know" Defunct. Last issue Spring 1989.
"Guild Notes". Newspaper that covers current surveillance and
harassment litigation. Write: National Lawyers Guild, 55 Avenue of the
Americas, New York, NY 10013.
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WHAT TO DO
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT
"Are You Now or Have You Ever Been in the FBI Files?" Ann Mari Buitrago
and Leon Andrew Immerman, 1981, Grove Press. Overview of the FOIA--how
to use it, how the FBI will respond, and glossary of terms to help read
documents when they arrive.
"Using the FOIA--A Step by Step Guide." Center for National Security
Studies. Detailed instructions, sample letters, and what to expect from
a range of agencies. $2.00 from CNSS, 122 Maryland Ave. N.E.,
Washington DC 20002.
"FOIA-Kit" Available from CCR (see above).
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WHAT TO DO
EDUCATION & ORGANIZING GUIDES
"If An Agent Knocks: Federal Investigators and Your Rights." Center
for Constitutional Rights. Explains why it is important to have an
attorney with you when you talk to the FBI, regardless of how innocuous
the agents' questions may be. English and Spanish editions available.
$1 plus postage. Write: CCR, 666 Broadway, New York, NY 10012.
"Radical Re-entry (And Departure): Coming through Customs." Center for
Constitutional Rights. Because Customs agents are stopping political
activists at the borders in search of information such as contacts in
Nicaragua, this booklet is helpful for the political traveler. $1 plus
postage. Write: CCR (see above).
"Political Rights Information Series."
#1 Common Sense Security
by Sheila O'Donnell. Simple list of
safe practices.
#2 Bugs, Taps & Infiltrators: What to do about
political spying.
by Linda Lotz. How to face these problems
seriously but without paranoia.
#3 Redbaiting & Political Smears
by Chip Berlet & Rachel Rosen DeGolia. How
smears are used to derail dissident
movements, and some suggestions for
countering them.
#4 Reading List on Intelligence Agencies
and Political Repression
by Linda Lotz & Chip Berlet. A lengthy
annotated bibliography which Phil Agee
distributes at his speaking engagements.
#5 The Hunt for Red Menace: The FBI and Right-Wing
Spy Networks.
by Chip Berlet. Ideological justifications
used by government agencies for
infiltrating and disrupting activist
groups.
Produced by the National Lawyers Guild Civil
Liberties Committee. Write: CCR (see above).
"Red-Baiting Packet" Bill of Rights Foundation. A collection of
material concerning McCarthy-style smear attacks, both old and new.
Includes essays by long-time activists Anne Braden and Frank Wilkinson.
$2 from BORF, Suite 1400, 220 S. State Street, Chicago, IL 60605.
"Reports on The Secret Team" Publications and organizing guides on
Iran-Contragate and intelligence abuse are available from the Christic
Institute. The Christic Institute stresses the role of individual bad
actors rather than systemic or institutional problems, and sometimes
their allegations stretch beyond their ability to provide documentation,
still they have been in the forefront of organizing grassroots
opposition to U.S. covert action. Christic Institute, 1324 North
Capitol Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20002-3337.
"NameBASE (formerly SPYBASE)." A computerized database with search
features comprising an index of date and page citations to appearances
of the names of more than 20,000 individuals and organizations in
hundreds of books and thousands of newspaper and magazine clippings, all
dealing with the CIA, FBI and U.S. government repression in general.
Available for MS-DOS and CP/M machines. Write for pricing for your
computer. Available from Public Information Research, P.O. Box 5199,
Arlington, VA 22205. 703-241-5437.
"Computer Accessed Information Systems (BBS's)." Persons with a
computer and modem can read and download information on covert action
and repression from the following local computer Bulletin Board Systems:
AMNET (617) 221-5815, (3,12,24bps-24hr-8N1); NYONLINE (718) 852-2662,
(3,12,24bps-24hr-8N1); Beyond War, (718) 442-1056; NOWAR, (312) 939-4411
(3,12,24bps-24hr-8N1). For information on the international PEACENET,
call (415) 923-0900 [voice], or write PEACENET, 3228 Sacramento St., San
Francisco, CA 94115.
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WHAT TO DO
LITIGATION
"Litigation Under the Federal Freedom of Information Act and Privacy
Act." Editions updated regularly. Allan Adler, Ed. Important
reference book for attorneys using the FOIA; covers many federal
agencies. Write: Center for National Security Studies, 122 Maryland
Ave. N.E., Washington DC 20002.
"The Law of Electronic Surveillance." Major update 1984, supplemented
annually. James C. Carr. Write: Clark Boardman, 435 Hudson Street,
New York, NY 10014.
"Representation of Witnesses Before Federal Grand Juries." The Grand
Jury Project. Major update 1984, supplemented annually. Write: Clark
Boardman (see above).
"Police Misconduct Law and Litigation Manual." Michael Avery and David
Rudovsky, National Lawyers Guild Civil Liberties Committee, Updated
annually. Also available is the bi-monthly litigation newsletter:
Police Misconduct and Civil Rights Law Report. Write: Clark Boardman
(see above).
"Police Misconduct and Civil Rights Law Report." National Lawyers Guild
Civil Liberties Committee, Bi-monthly litigation newsletter and
companion to above manual. Write: Clark Boardman (see above).
"Civil Rights Litigation and Attorneys Fees Annual Handbook." National
Lawyers Guild Civil Liberties Committee. A more issue-oriented and
broadly-targeted collection of essays. Issued annually. Write: Clark
Boardman (see above).
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ODDS & ENDS
Report All Incidents to the
Movement Support Network!
The Movement Support Network (MSN) is a project of the Center for
Constitutional Rights with cooperation from the National Lawyers Guild.
MSN was founded in 1984 to respond to increasing government surveillance
and harassment of people involved in Central America solidarity work and
people active in the sanctuary movement. Since then the network has
expanded to serve as a monitoring mechanism to collect information about
surveillance and harassment of persons involved in peace and social
justice issues.
By collecting and disseminating information on specific incidents, MSN
not only organizes opposition to such abuses, but also raises public
awareness of important civil liberties issues, and helps activists place
isolated incidents in a national context. For more information or to
report an incident, contact MSN, 666 Broadway, New York, N.Y., 10012.
The MSN HOTLINE # is (212) 614-6422.
Movement Support Network
Center for Constitutional Rights
666 Broadway, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Reading list distribution
Supported by:
Center for Constitutional Rights
National Lawyers Guild Foundation
Speakout - Agee Tour
This list was originally compiled by Linda Lotz with the assistance of
the Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica, CA, and Political Research
Associates, Cambridge, MA. Chip Berlet continues to update and revise
the listing. Some of these books are no longer in print, but were
included because of their historical and reference value. They may be
available at your local library or through an inter-library loan
program.
Linda Lotz is the field secretary of the American Friends Service
Committee's Pacific Southwest Regional Office. Ms. Lotz was formerly a
staff organizer for the now-defunct Campaign for Political Rights, a
Washington, D.C.-based coalition which organized against covert action
abroad and political surveillance and repression at home. She continues
to monitor political repression of dissidents and activists.
Chip Berlet is a paralegal investigator and journalist who has written
extensively about government intelligence abuse for publications ranging
from the "Chicago Sun-Times" to "Covert Action Information Bulletin".
He is secretary of the National Lawyers Guild Civil Liberties Committee,
and works on the staff of the Cambridge-based Political Research
Associates where he monitors authoritarianism. He is currently
co-writing a book, with PRA director Dr. Jean Hardisty, about the
growing strength of the political right wing in the United States.
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Newsgroups: alt.politics.org.cia,alt.conspiracy,alt.journalism
Some CIA/conspiracy-related subjects, and where you will find
documented evidence about them:
Air America's (CIA's) Vietnam heroin smuggling:
Jonathan Kwitney's "Crimes of Patriots" and
Bo Gritz's "Betrayed" (video and book).
The latter book/video is also about Golden Triangle war lord Khun Sa
and his U.S. handler, Richard Armitage, as well as about Colombian
Cartel / Iran-Contras / Mena airport smuggling, and Lebanon's Baca
Valley heroin smuggling (which may have been the real reason for the
Pan Am 103 crash).
Joel Bainerman's, "The Crimes of a President: Conspiracy and Cover-
up in the Bush and Reagan Administration,"
Lester Coleman's, "On the Trail of the Octopus,"
BBC-aired documentary, "The Maltese Double Cross",
Alan Friedman's "Spider's Web", about secret arms sales to Iraq, Iran,
Afghanistan, El Salvador and Nicaraguan, etc. (Secret arms sales ops
cause enormous human suffering and huge numbers of deaths.)
There have been numerous movies ("Air America"), and books (T. Ross
and D. Wise's 1964 book, "The Invisible Government"
Also, John Prados "Presidents' Secret Wars: CIA and Pentagon Covert
Ops") and articles (Wall Street Journal, Covert Action Quarterly,
Penthouse, and Spotlight) that are by (or about) former CIA agents and
military involvement in these illegal Agency-approved operations.
Some of these were about:
the Nugan Hand Bank --- see Penny Lernoux's Penthouse article and her
book by the same name, "Blood Money,"
Oliver North, former-Director of Central Intelligence Bill Casey,
former CIA agent Ted Shackley --- see "Blonde Ghost" by David Korn,
Also:
Gary Sick's "October Surprise,"
Bob Parry's "Trick or Treason,"
Ari Ben-Menashe's "Profits of War,"
Rodney Stich's "Defrauding America,"
former Houston Post reporter Pete Brewton's "The Mafia, the CIA,
and George Bush,"
Peter Dale Scott's "War Conspiracy" and "Cocaine Politics,"
Linda Hunt's "Secret Agenda,"
former DEA agents Celerino Castillo's "Powder Burns" and Michael
Levine's "The Big White Lie,"
Re: former CIA agent, and arms dealer to Libya, Edwin P. Wilson, see
Joseph C. Goulden's "The Death Merchant"
Re: DEA informant and drug and arms smuggler Barry Seal, see the
Penthouse "Crimes of Mena" article (7/95) by Roger Morris and Sally
Denton.
By the way, the Washington Post supposedly paid many thousands of
dollars to Roger Morris and Sally Denton for their story on Mena, but
after 11 weeks of delays they lost their nerve and spiked it. Bob
Guccione published it in Penthouse in July of the same year ('95).
Also see:
Terry Reed's and John Cummings's "Compromised: Clinton, Bush
and the CIA"
In addition, Terry Reed has a book coming out on Barry Seal and his
coke and weapons smuggling operation that was based in Mena, Arkansas.
Another book project now underway is the story of the CIA's drug
operation in New York, featuring some startling accounts of former
NYPD official "Big Al" Carone, a former Colonel in Army Intelligence.
Carone, a former "bagman" for NYPD, was a personal friend of DCI Bill
Casey, and was a "banker" for the CIA's drug operations between 1946
and 1980. He died of "CIA flu" along with other "bagmen" associates,
Russell Herman and "fixer/briber" Al Hobert and NYPD "dirty" cop Gene
Howard, who were all "on the take."
Two more CIA drug smuggling operation reports were broadcast on
nationwide TV. One program was done by Mike Wallace of "60 Minutes";
it re-broadcast his 2-year-old report about a Venezuelan Cartel / CIA
supposed cocaine smuggling sting operation. Unfortunately, this CIA
operation allowed many millions of dollars of coke to hit the streets
of America, without ever busting anyone. The other one was a British
TV broadcast of the suppressed "The Maltese Doublecross," a
documentary on heroin smuggling that was regularly carried out on Pan
Am's flight 103. This documentary presents witnesses and evidence
that show how the 103 Lockerby crash may well have resulted from this
ongoing heroin smuggling operation.
Re: specially designed NSA chips have supposedly been placed in
computers, along with Inslaw's stolen PROMIS Plus (which are then sold
through these NSA "front companies," such as Systematics, Boston
Systematics, Hadron and Israeli Systematics and agents, such as Robert
Maxwell, to strategic and highly sensitive ally and enemy customers
alike), see related articles and info: TIME MAGAZINE 8/19/95--"Onward
Cyber Soldier," NEW YORK TIMES 8/19--"Citibank Fraud Case Raises
Computer Questions," as well as the WALL STREET JOURNAL'S publication
(3/3/95) of John A. Dean's letter to DCI John Woolsley.)
Inslaw and their Atlanta law firm, with the assistance of attorney
Eliott Richardson (Pres. Nixon's former Attorney General who resigned
in protest over Watergate), are preparing to go back into the Court of
Federal Claims in December '95 after a more than 10-year battle to
seek a multi-hundred million dollar judgement for non-payment of
royalties. A number of knowledgeable people state that _if_ PROMIS's
advanced software _was_ stolen, and then used, since the early 1980s,
for numerous applications such as in our nuclear subs and in our
nuclear missile defense system, Inslaw should be owed in excess of
half a billion dollars.
Some politicians and journalists privately, with only a few publicly,
have supported Inslaw's position that the government stole their
PROMIS software, but almost all have been unwilling to really
investigate and go public with the real facts. Respected reporter,
SEYMOUR HERSH, one of a few reporters to attempt to get the whole
Inslaw story out, recently researched and proposed an article for the
New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, and Atlantic Monthly, but
unfortunately they all passed.
Even a House investigation and retired Federal Judge Nicholas J.
Bua's grand jury 1993 investigation in Chicago didn't get to the
bottom of this government scandal, possibly because of the magnitude
of the situation. Attorney General Barr appointed Bua as a Special
Counsel, but in reality he was more of a "dependent counsel." Even
though former CIA agent, Chuck Hayes, who secured many of the
witnesses (such as Ari Ben-Menashe), did testify, Michael Riconosciuto
along with many [other] witnesses didn't (in person or at all). The
Judge was sued for not conducting a proper investigation by Chicago
investigative journalist Sherman Skolnick and Michael Riconosciuto.
Bua submitted a "whitewashed" report to Attorney General Reno, who
turned it over to the White House who did nothing... except send
Inslaw information in a secure envelope to Vince Foster shortly before
his death.
Debra Gorham, former secretary to Vince Foster and William Kennedy,
her prior boss, secretly testified before Senate Whitewater Committee
on 6/23/95. In addition to Webster Hubbell, William Kennedy was
another Rose Law Firm partner who resigned at the White House under a
scandal and, also as Jackson Stephen's attorney in 1984, he filed
incomplete information with the Federal Reserve about Stephens's
family holding in Worthen Bank (NEW YORK TIMES 5/9/95 "Fed Ends
Inquiry Into an Arkansas Family").
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