BOOK REVIEW
The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World
By Douglas Valentine 2016
Website: www.douglasvalentine.com
About the Author
Douglas Valentine is an American journalist and author of historical nonfiction. His other books include:
The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Viet Nam 1990,
The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs 2004.
The Strength of the Pack: The Personalities, Politics, and Espionage Intrigue that Shaped the DEA 2009,
His articles have appeared regularly in CounterPunch, ConsortiumNews, and elsewhere. Portions of his research materials are archived at Texas Tech University’s Vietnam Center, at John Jay College, and at the National Security Archive, in both a Vietnam Collection and a separate Drug Enforcement Collection.
Courageously takes us inside the CIA’s most shameful extralegal operations
John Kiriakou
About the Book
“This book provides a cross-section of Douglas Valentine’s investigations into CIA engagement in terrorism, drugs, and propaganda. …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.” — Text from Barnes & Noble
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Endorsements
John Kiriakou, author of The Reluctant Spy says, “Courageously takes us inside the CIA’s most shameful extralegal operations, exposing an intelligence service gone rogue.”
Roger Morris, author of Richard Milhous Nixon, says, “Valentine belongs to that precious remnant of journalists and historians with the wisdom to see our time, the integrity and courage to write about it, and the literary grace to bring it all chillingly alive.”
This book’s popularity is demonstrated in the fact that its Amazon rank is #9 in in the category “Arms Control”. Customer Reviews rate it an average of 4.5 out of 5 stars from 159 ratings.
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