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Title: The CIA's Greatest Hits (The Real Story Series) by Mark Zepezauer ISBN: 1-878825-30-5 Publisher: Odonian Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: It's 1997: Do you know where your government is?
Comment: A terrific, terrifying little conspiracy cover-up book. The CIA has been responsible for destroying numerous economies and good governments, causing considerable mayhem since its creation. Don't miss the section on Jonestown, which has nothing in common with the recent Rancho Santa Fe cult suicides: it was murder (primarily of blacks, which was news to me). References are included for those who want further facts
Rating: 5
Summary: A grand summary
Comment: Many books attempt to include more detail on whatever historical situation they are attempting to *cover*. I know that disinformation is a large part of any secret circus stunt, and everything that happens at a circus might be more convincing than any of the parts of the world that allegedly existed before and after the momentous events that are summarized on the back cover of this book as times when the C.I.A. "participated in the assassinations of . . . literally millions of ordinary people in Indonesia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Vietnam, East Timor and many other countries." I've been in one of those countries on a U.S. government project that was not quite secret enough to suit some people, and it seemed like the C.I.A. was there long before I was, and even William Colby couldn't convince LBJ that hundreds of thousands of American troops shooting people there might get into the newspapers more often than he would like. I like reading this book on places I have never been, like Germany, whose famous Hitler employed General Reinhard Gehlen as "Hitler's intelligence chief for the Eastern front" (p. 6) before he had the opportunity to help form the C.I.A. pursuant to a "secret treaty, his spy organization--which came to be called the Gehlen Org--would work for, and be funded by, the US until a new German government came to power." (p. 6). I have searched for other information on the web about Reinhard Gehlen, which corresponds so well to the information in this book, that it is possible that the secret treaty also required Gehlen to teach the C.I.A. everything it knows.
Hit number 38: Crooked Banks, on BCCI, which had a London branch that was shut down by British bank examiners in 1991, managed loosely "Roughly $20 billion of BCCI's assets remain unaccouted for," though "Before collapsing, BCCI managed to facilitate a host of CIA covert operations, notably George Bush's efforts to pump weapons to Saddam Hussein's Iraq (see Hit #40) and Edwin Wilson's `unauthorized' arming of Libya (see Hit #30)." (p. 81). Some people might still believe that BCCI was a Pakastani bank, and Mark Zepezauer seems to be dubiously relying on a rumor that it was the work of "Director Richard Helms in particular, actually started the bank, and that it `wasn't a Pakistani bank at all.'" (pp. 80-81)
Rating: 1
Summary: So-so book, but many inaccuracies
Comment: If you want some casual reading from a very leftist author, this is the book for you. However, if you are a rational thinking American, toss this one in the fire. Mr. Zepezauer is a self-proclaimed liberal, as is evident in ALL of his works, who has a hard time portraying even a little bit of the other side of the story. Yes, the CIA has made mistakes, but it must be acknowledged that over 80% of the CIA's past operations are still classified. As a result, many of the good things the Agency has done are not known or not reported (this is the classic media case of the negative being a better story than the positive; want proof, watch the news and observe how many more murders and crimes receive attention than good acts do). Additionally, many of the facts, such as throwing people out of helicopters in Vietnam, are partly true. In this case, there was a person thrown out of a helicopter, but it was a dummy, set up to look like an enemy soldier. This entire setup, involving a Huey with a dummy and another Huey with the captured enemy soldier, was nothing more than an elaborate interrogation technique. The captured enemy soldier is led to believe that his captors are willing to kill him if he is unwilling to give information (this technique very seldomly failed to achieve it's intended results). There are other falsities, but I don't have enough room to list them. So in conclusion, for a simple, waste-your-time read, get this book from the library, but in no way take it for the absolute authority on the subject.
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Title: Secrets, Lies and Democracy (The Real Story Series) by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 1878825046 Publisher: Odonian Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: Take the Rich off Welfare by Mark Zepezauer ISBN: 0896087069 Publisher: Consortium Pub. Date: 15 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Killing Hope : U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War IIUpdated Through 2003 by William Blum ISBN: 1567512526 Publisher: Common Courage Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: What Uncle Sam Really Wants (The Real Story Series) by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 1878825011 Publisher: Odonian Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $8.50 |
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Title: Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project) by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 0805074007 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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