Valentine's Newest - THE CIA AS ORGANIZED CRIME!

[Peter Lemkin]

in case you are not familiar with Valentine, I would say you can NOT go wrong with any of his books or research....

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How Illegal Operations
Corrupt America and the World

Douglas Valentine

ISBN 978-0-9972870-1-1
$28.95 2016


EBOOK:
ISBN: 978-0-9972870-2-8
$19.00
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SYNOPSIS

• We live in a world increasingly fearful of terrorism and catalyzed by
  programmed events and developments whose sources are often
  unclear. 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.
  
  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.
  • [B][size=12]EXCERPT from the Introduction
    
    In the wake of September 11, 2001, my articles about the Phoenix program
    became more relevant than ever before. The third, "Homeland Insecurity,"
    appeared on October 1, 2001, and predicted that the government would
    establish Phoenix-style "extra-legal military tribunals that can try suspected
    terrorists without the ordinary legal constraints of American justice."
    
    The United States soon established detention centers at Guantánamo in Cuba,
    Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, and at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
    And the CIA established "black sites" around the world. But I was referring to
    plans by the Bush administration to rob American citizens of their right to due
    process. And that is exactly what happened in January 2013 when President
    Obama signed a National Defense Authorization Act that provides for the
    indefinite detention of Americans.
    
    These developments were easy to predict, given my back-ground in Phoenix. In
    the October 2001 article, for example, I explained that Phoenix would become
    the bureaucratic model for the "homeland security" program that now envelops
    America and subjects its citizens to the same blanket surveillance that the
    Phoenix program imposed on the people of South Vietnam. Almost ten years
    later, in July 2011, the Washington Post published its "Top Secret America"
    exposé, which outlined America's "heavily privatized military-corporate-
    intelligence establishment." Lead reporter Dana Priest calls it the "vast and
    hidden apparatus of the war on terror."
    
    This Phoenix-style network constitutes America's internal security apparatus,
    and it is targeting you, under the guise of protecting you from terrorism. And
    that is why, more than ever, people need to understand what Phoenix is really
    all about.
    
    When the CIA created Phoenix in June 1967, it was called ICEX-SIDE: Intelligence
    Coordination and ExploitationScreening, Interrogation and Detention of the
    Enemy. The SIDE function is often ignored as journalists and propagandists
    focus on the sensational aspect that involves the targeted assassination of
    terrorists and their sympathizers, often by remote-controlled drones.
    But in the first instance, Phoenix was a massive dragnet that packed South
    Vietnam's prisons, jails, and detention centers to overflowing. The foundation
    stone of this network was a jerry-rigged judicial system based on Stalinist
    security courts that did not require evidence to convict a person. People
    charged with national security violations had no right to legal representation,
    due process, or habeas corpus.
    
    As Johan Galtung taught us, "Personal violence is for the amateur in dominance,
    structural violence is the tool of the professional. The amateur who wants to
    dominate uses guns; the professional uses social structure."
    
    It was perfectly clear, following the terror attacks of 9/11, that America's elite
    were creating exactly this kind of criminally legal social structure. Climate
    change, overpopulation, income inequality, dwindling resources, and other
    geopolitical factors are pushing the rich into gated communities in every nation
    in the world.
    
    The establishment is preparing for the dystopian future that lies ahead.
    
    
  
  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. He provided expert testimony at the King v Jowers
  trial on the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination at the request
  of the King family.
  
  
  TRANSNATIONAL CRIME IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY
  
  
  
  
  "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.
  
  "[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
  
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  TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
  Acknowledgments
  
  INTRODUCTION:
  
  How Colby Gave Me the Keys to the CIA Kingdom
  
  One Thing Leads to Another: My Rare Access in Investigating the War on Drugs
  
  
  
  PART I: HOW THE CIA'S PHOENIX PROGRAM IN VIETNAM BECAME THE TEMPLATE FOR
  SYSTEMATIC DOMINATION AT HOME AND GWOT
  
  The Vietnam War's Silver Lining: A Bureaucratic Model for Population Control Emerges
  
  The Systematic Gathering of Intelligence
  
  Learning the Wrong Vietnam Lessons
  
  Afghan 'Dirty War' Escalates
  
  The Politics of 'Defectors' in Vietnam and Afghanistan
  
  Disrupting the Accommodation: Why Counter-Terrorism Backfired in Afghanistan
  
  Preemptive Man-hunting: The Phoenix Program model Applied in Iraq
  
  The CIA and Ukraine
  
  The CIA and Mexico
  
  War Crimes as Policy
  
  New Games, Same Aims: CIA Organizational Changes
  
  
  
  PART II: HOW THE CIA CO-OPTED FEDERAL DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SECRETLY
  MANAGES THE WAR ON DRUGS
  
  The largest drug cartel in the world
  
  How the CIA Commandeered the DEA
  
  Beyond Dirty Wars: Vietnam, the Phoenix Program, the CIA/DEA Connection, and Modern
  Day Terror in Latin America
  
  Operation Drug Runner Part 1
  
  Operation Drug Runner Part 2
  
  Operation Drug Runner Part 3
  
  Maps and Photos
  
  
  
  PART III: THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION OF HOMELAND SECURITY
  
  The Spook Who Would Be Congressman
  
  Flight of the Phoenix, Career Path: From Vietnam to Homeland Security
  
  Homeland Insecurity: Laying the Groundwork for Police State America
  
  Homeland Security: When the Phoenix Comes Home to Roost (adapted from a May 2003
  article at Covert Action Quarterly)
  
  
  
  PART IV: MANUFACTURING COMPLICITY: SHAPING THE AMERICAN WORLD VIEW
  
  How Government Tries to Mess with Your Mind
  
  Obama's Dirty War
  
  Parallels of Conquest, Past and Present
  
  Top Secret America Shadow Reward System
  
  Propaganda as Terrorism
  
  The War on Terror as the Greatest Covert Op
  
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