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The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World Paperback – 18 Nov. 2016

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Author of three books on CIA operations, 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. It was a permission Colby was to regret. 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 subsequent 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.

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"[Douglas Valentine's] two books on the FBN/DEA are a major achievement." PETER DALE SCOTT, author of The American Deep State.

"Doug Valentine was examining the dark underbelly of American foreign policy years before people recognized the 'Dark Side' of torture camps and secret wars." ROBERT PARRY, Consortium News

"Doug Valentine courageously takes us inside some of the CIA s most shameful extralegal operations, exposing everything that is wrong with an intelligence service gone rogue. He is a sentinel of the public interest, and his book is a public service. I, for one, wouldn t want to live in a country that didn t have patriots like Doug Valentine. JOHN KIRIAKOU, author of The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA s War on Terror."" --ohn Kiriakou, The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA s War on Terror."

"Valentine's two books on the FBN/DEA are a major achievement." --Peter Dale Scott, The American Deep State

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Douglas Valentine is an American journalist and author of four works of historical non-fiction: The Hotel Tacloban, The Phoenix Program, The Strength of the Wolf (winner of the Choice Academic Library Award), and The Strength of the Pack. His articles have appeared regularly in CounterPunch, ConsortiumNews, and elsewhere. Portions of his research materials are archived at the National Security Archive (both a Vietnam Collection and a separate Drug Enforcement Collection), Texas Tech University’s Vietnam Center, and John Jay College.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clarity Press, Inc. (18 Nov. 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 446 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0997287012
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0997287011
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 2.57 x 22.86 cm

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Ian Henshall

This is the real deal

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 January 2017

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This book is the real deal, the author got accesss to and gained the trust of many officials in the CIA and the DEA. He not only details the terrorism sponsored by the CIA but also drug running on a massive global scale. If ever the rule of law returns to the NATO countries this book could contribute to the case for the prosecution.

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PhilC

Good stuff but not excitingly written

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 September 2019

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True to the title
Content very well researched and worth knowing about
But the writing style, for me, is rather bland, and not compelling

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Hillary needs to read this...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 October 2019

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...before she bangs on any more about Russia interfering in US politics. Brilliant book.

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Vincent

A tour de force.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 December 2016

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Very well researched book. Digs deep into how and why the CIA commit crime, on a massive scale, to support "elite's".

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 March 2017

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It's amazing this treasure trove of a book isn't banned yet. Buy it before it is.

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George Orwell, but not fiction

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Speechless. Read it (or listen).

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