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Jim Choate
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Sat Jan 10 20:58:10 PST 1998
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> Subject: cia manipulation
> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 98 20:40:24 -0800
> From: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri at 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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