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From: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com>
there are different theories about why our government has gotten
so bad, but I subscribe to the following:
1. the public and media
has not done its duty to keep our government in check. in addition
to the 3 branches of govt as "checks and balances" built into our
system, the public and media are the other two crucial ingredients.
our forefathers didn't imagine either the public or media going bad,
but that's what's happened imho.
2. various special interests have hijacked the government. one of the
biggest parasites is the "military industrial complex".
the following book speaks to these points, and some here might be
interested. I believe our government could be reformed if enough
people cared, particularly those in the media and the public. a
position I know will not be shared by any anarchists here.
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The New York Times Book Review, Tim Weiner :
Left in draft form at his death from brain cancer three years ago,
completed by his friends and family, Secrets is Mackenzie's legacy: a book
obsessed. Like the man, it is an unruly piece of work, but it grabs you by
the lapels and holds on.
Synopsis:
Drawing from government documents, scores of interviews, and numerous
stories of CIA malfeasance, the late journalist Angus Mackenzie lays bare
the behind-the-scenes evolution of a policy of suppression, repression,
spying, and harassment beginning before the Johnson administration and
continuing to the present. 11 illustrations.
Card catalog description
This eye-opening expose, the result of fifteen years of investigative work,
uncovers the CIA's systematic efforts over several decades to suppress and
censor information. Angus Mackenzie, an award-winning yournalist, filed and
won a lawsuit against the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act, and in
the process became an expert on government censorship and domestic spying.
Mackenzie lays bare a complex narrative of intrigue among federal agencies
and their senior staff, including the Department of Defense, the executive
branch, and the CIA. From cover-ups and secrecy oaths, to scandals over
leaks and exposure, to the government's often insidious attempts to monitor
and control public access to information, Mackenzie tracks the evolution of
a policy of suppression, repression, spying, and harassment.
The publisher, University of California Press, www.ucpress.edu , 08/20/97:
This Book is Now Available
"If anything is more corrupting than power, it is power exercised in
secret. Angus Mackenzie's magnificently researched, lucidly written study
of the CIA's outrageous threats to freedom in America over the years is a
summons to vigilance to protect our democratic institutions."
--Daniel Schorr
"The late Angus Mackenzie has left an appropriate legacy in Secrets: The
CIA's War at Home, a fitting capstone to his long career of exposing
government secrecy and manipulation of public information. Secrets is a
detailed, fascinating and chilling account of the agency's program of
disinformation and concealment of public information against its own
citizens."
--Ben H. Bagdikian, author of THE MEDIA MONOPOLY
"Scrupulously reported, fleshed out with a fascinating cast of characters,
skillfully illuminating a subject the news media seldom looked into and
never got straight, Angus Mackenzie's last and best work richly deserves a
posthumous Pulitzer -- for nonfiction, history, or both."
--Jon Swan, former senior editor, Columbia Journalism Review
"This courageous, uncompromising book belongs on the bookshelf of every
serious student of journalism and the First Amendment."
--Tom Goldstein, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University
"Even in 1997, the exposures of courageous, enterprising journalists like
Mackenzie are crucial for an open government."
--Publishers Weekly
This eye-opening expose, the result of fifteen years of investigative work,
uncovers the CIA's systematic efforts to suppress and censor information
over several decades. An award-winning journalist, Angus Mackenzie waged
and won a lawsuit against the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act and
became a leading expert on questions government censorship and domestic
spying. In Secrets, he reveals how federal agencies--including the
Department of Defense, the executive branch, and the CIA--have monitored and
controlled public access to information. Mackenzie lays bare the
behind-the-scenes evolution of a policy of suppression, repression, spying,
and harassment.
Secrecy operations originated during the Cold War as the CIA instituted
programs of domestic surveillance and agent provocateur activities. As
antiwar newspapers flourished, the CIA set up an "underground newspaper"
desk devoted, as Mackenzie reports, to various counterintelligence
activities--from infiltrating organizations to setting up CIA-front student
groups. Mackenzie also tracks the policy of requiring secrecy contracts for
all federal employees who have contact with sensitive information, insuring
governmental review of all their writings after leaving government employ.
Drawing from government documents and scores of interviews, many of which
required intense persistence and investigative guesswork to obtain, and
amassing story after story of CIA malfeasance, Mackenzie gives us the best
account we have of the government's present security apparatus. This is a
must-read book for anyone interested in the inside secrets of government
spying, censorship, and the abrogation of First Amendment rights.
FROM THE BOOK:
"The major villains of the censorship story are a succession of
policymakers from the Johnson administration through the Bush
administration and on into the Clinton years, including several presidents
themselves. In a sense, theirs is a spy story--not an action-packed one like
in the movies but one about sleight-of-hand and subterfuge far truer to
reality."
ANGUS MACKENZIE (1950-1994), an investigative reporter known for his
persistence and independence, was one of the nation's foremost experts on
freedom of information laws. Known for crusading journalism in defense of
the First Amendment, his work appeared in publications ranging from
alternative weeklies to the Washington Post and the Columbia Journalism
Review. Mackenzie was affiliated with the Center for Investigative
Reporting in San Francisco and taught at the School of Journalism at the
University of California, Berkeley.
DAVID WEIR was a co-founder of the Center for Investigative Reporting,
where he managed contracts with "60 Minutes," "20/20," CNN, CBS News, ABC
News, and many other outlets. He served as editor and writer at a number of
publications, including Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, and the San Francisco
Examiner. He has won or shared over two dozen journalism awards, including
the National Magazine Award.
The publisher, University of California Press, www.ucpress.edu , 08/20/97:
"If anything is more corrupting than power, it is power exercised in
secret. Angus Mackenzie's magnificently researched, lucidly written study
of the CIA's outrageous threats to freedom in America over the years is a
summons to vigilance to protect our democratic institutions."
--Daniel Schorr
"The late Angus Mackenzie has left an appropriate legacy in Secrets: The
CIA's War at Home, a fitting capstone to his long career of exposing
government secrecy and manipulation of public information. Secrets is a
detailed, fascinating and chilling account of the agency's program of
disinformation and concealment of public information against its own
citizens."
--Ben H. Bagdikian, author of THE MEDIA MONOPOLY
"Scrupulously reported, fleshed out with a fascinating cast of characters,
skillfully illuminating a subject the news media seldom looked into and
never got straight, Angus Mackenzie's last and best work richly deserves a
posthumous Pulitzer -- for nonfiction, history, or both."
--Jon Swan, former senior editor, Columbia Journalism Review
"This courageous, uncompromising book belongs on the bookshelf of every
serious student of journalism and the First Amendment."
--Tom Goldstein, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University
"Even in 1997, the exposures of courageous, enterprising journalists like
Mackenzie are crucial for an open government."
--Publishers Weekly
This eye-opening expose, the result of fifteen years of investigative work,
uncovers the CIA's systematic efforts to suppress and censor information
over several decades. An award-winning journalist, Angus Mackenzie waged
and won a lawsuit against the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act and
became a leading expert on questions government censorship and domestic
spying. In Secrets, he reveals how federal agencies--including the
Department of Defense, the executive branch, and the CIA--have monitored and
controlled public access to information. Mackenzie lays bare the
behind-the-scenes evolution of a policy of suppression, repression, spying,
and harassment.
Secrecy operations originated during the Cold War as the CIA instituted
programs of domestic surveillance and agent provocateur activities. As
antiwar newspapers flourished, the CIA set up an "underground newspaper"
desk devoted, as Mackenzie reports, to various counterintelligence
activities--from infiltrating organizations to setting up CIA-front student
groups. Mackenzie also tracks the policy of requiring secrecy contracts for
all federal employees who have contact with sensitive information, insuring
governmental review of all their writings after leaving government employ.
Drawing from government documents and scores of interviews, many of which
required intense persistence and investigative guesswork to obtain, and
amassing story after story of CIA malfeasance, Mackenzie gives us the best
account we have of the government's present security apparatus. This is a
must-read book for anyone interested in the inside secrets of government
spying, censorship, and the abrogation of First Amendment rights.
FROM THE BOOK:
"The major villains of the censorship story are a succession of
policymakers from the Johnson administration through the Bush
administration and on into the Clinton years, including several presidents
themselves. In a sense, theirs is a spy story--not an action-packed one like
in the movies but one about sleight-of-hand and subterfuge far truer to
reality."
ANGUS MACKENZIE (1950-1994), an investigative reporter known for his
persistence and independence, was one of the nation's foremost experts on
freedom of information laws. Known for crusading journalism in defense of
the First Amendment, his work appeared in publications ranging from
alternative weeklies to the Washington Post and the Columbia Journalism
Review. Mackenzie was affiliated with the Center for Investigative
Reporting in San Francisco and taught at the School of Journalism at the
University of California, Berkeley.
DAVID WEIR was a co-founder of the Center for Investigative Reporting,
where he managed contracts with "60 Minutes," "20/20," CNN, CBS News, ABC
News, and many other outlets. He served as editor and writer at a number of
publications, including Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, and the San Francisco
Examiner. He has won or shared over two dozen journalism awards, including
the National Magazine Award.
...
From Kirkus Reviews , 07/01/97:
A muckraking adventure in the violation of First Amendment rights. Although
it probably won't come as a surprise to most readers that the federal
government is capable of spying on its citizens, Mackenzie professes a
certain bewilderment at the lengths to which the CIA went to suppress
dissent in the days of Vietnam. The veteran left-wing journalist, who died
of brain cancer in 1994, began his career as the publisher of an antiwar
rag called the People's Dreadnaught; harassed by campus police, he was
forced to suspend publication, although he later won $2,500 in a lawsuit
against Beloit College over the matter. At a national level, he writes,
similar suppression was the order of the day. Although the CIA is
constrained by law from conducting investigations ``inside the continental
limits of the United States and its possessions,'' in fact, Mackenzie
charges, it concocted an elaborate counterintelligence program against
various home-grown protest groups in the 1960s and early '70s, reasoning
that it was taking antiterrorist measures and thus living up to the spirit,
if not the letter, of its charter. Among the targets, Mackenzie writes, was
Ramparts, a venerable leftist magazine that managed to earn the wrath of
the Feds by reporting on that very internal spying. Other targets were the
libertarian guru Karl Hess, renegade CIA whistleblowers Victor Marchetti
and Philip Agee, and a host of lesser-known dissidents. The CIA emerges as
the heavy, naturally, but the real villains in Mackenzie's account are
various policymakers from the Johnson administration to the present.
``Incrementally over the years they expanded a policy of censorship to the
point that today it pervades every agency and every department of the
federal government,'' he writes. And, he continues, that change was so
gradual that few guardians of the First Amendment noticed. Mackenzie is
occasionally over the top, sometimes glib. But his charges ring true, and
civil-liberties advocates will find much of interest in his pages. (11 b&w
illustrations, not seen) -- Copyright (c)1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All
rights reserved.
Table of Contents
Foreword
     By David Weir
Editors' Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue: The CIA and the Origins of the Freedom of Information Act
1. Conservatives Worry and the Cover-Up Begins
2. You Expose Us, We Spy on You
3. The CIA tries to Censor Books
4. Bush Perfects the Cover-Up
5. Censor Others as You Would Have Them Censor You
6. Did Congress Outlaw This Book?
7. Trying to Hush the Fuss
8. Overcoming the Opposition
9. Censorship Confusion
10. The Pentagon Resists Censorship
11. Hiding Political Spying
12. One Man Says No
13. Control of Information
14. The CIA Openness Task Force
Epilogue: The Cold War Ends and Secrecy Spreads
App. Targets of Domestic Spying
Notes
Index
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