Central Intelligence Agency
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There is no shortage of articles, books, movies and websites about the CIA and the rest of the so-called Intelligence Community. Here are some of the better efforts to understand the American Secret State:
Books by former intel agents - whistleblowers
Phil Agee, Inside the Company: CIA Diary
On the Run
Ralph McGehee
John Stockwell, In Search of Enemies
Other Books and Articles about the CIA
www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-overclass.html
The Origins of the Overclass
By Steve Kangas
www.huppi.com/kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html
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Timeline of CIA Atrocities
By Steve Kangas
Covert Action Quarterly
William Blum, Killing Hope
Websites
cointel.org - the COINTELPRO program, includes archives of many reports by and about covert government programs
cryptome.org - Cryptome.org is an enormous encyclopedia of government documents, a fearless defense of the First Amendment
fas.org - Federation of American Scientists, very detailed database of US military industrial complex
fromthewilderness.com - From the Wilderness, investigative journalism about CIA drugs, 9/11, Peak Oil, published from 1996 to 2006
namebase.org - Namebase is a unique resource on the structure of the establishment.
prouty.org - Col. Fletcher Prouty's books and other writings
ratical.org - one of the best resources on the web about intelligence agencies and positive alternatives to endless war
Movies
Alan Francovich, On Company Business
Falcon and the Snowman
Missing
State of Siege
Assassinations:
Cold War:
Coups:
Drugs - Viet Nam, Central America, Afghanistan:
Operation Paperclip (importing Nazis):
Torture:
Wars:
Victor Marchetti: I would say that this would be done, to my experience, particularly in friendly host countries is always done with the knowledge of the host country. I mean, the CIA did not take these actions upon itself. It’s done in cooperation with the local intelligence services and they of course provided assistance and protection. The CIA has worked with other intelligence organisations in other friendly countries in England, Norway, Canada, Germany, in a whole variety of countries in a large range of joint projects. The only reason the CIA would get involved in supporting certain political parties or undercutting other parties would be because we had the money and the expertise and so forth to be able to do it and this would be viewed as a cooperative venture because the host country welcomes us. What you in Australia must understand is that you are more to blame than the CIA is because you want this to happen, you want a certain administration in control and you don’t want another administration in control. The first question I tell all foreign journalists when they bring out this point is…I ask them, `look, you find out where the loyalties of your intelligence services lies. Do they lie with your country as a whole, for better or worse, or to the Establishment in your country?’ and in most instances the answer you find is `to the Establishment.’ So in essence is like in the old days in Europe where the nobility of various countries had more in common with each other than they did with their own people. This is true of intelligence services. They tend to have more in common with each other and their establishments which they represent than they do with their own people.
-- THE CIA IN AUSTRALIA
Part 3 of a 6 part series Watching Brief, PRNS, October 19