The CIA as Organized Crime

How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World

By: Douglas Valentine

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's summary

The author of three books on CIA operations, Douglas Valentine began his research into the agency's activities when CIA director William Colby gave him free access to interview agency 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 eventually rescind it and made every effort to impede publication of The Phoenix Program, which documented an 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 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 enforcement agencies and commandeered their executive management, intelligence, and foreign operations staffs in order to ensure the unimpeded flow of drugs to traffickers and foreign officials in its employ.

Ultimately, portions of his research materials were archived at the National Security Archive, Texas Tech University's Vietnam Center, and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

This book includes excerpts from the aforementioned 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 extralegal activities. These articles and interviews illustrate how the agency's activities impact social and political movements abroad and at home.

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 today. Valentine tracks the agency's steady expansion into practices targeting the last population to be subjected to the exigencies of the American empire: the American people themselves.

©2016 Douglas Valentine (P)2017 Skyboat Media, Inc., and Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Phoenix program=Gangstalking

The operation known as the phoenix program is the father of todays Gangstalking ptogram. People are being driven to imprisonment/death by this program covertly employed by our own government right now, today!

Tons of insight, but a little bias

I truly enjoyed this book and all the work it must have taken to write it. The only downside was the author's seemingly lack of any patriotism, whatsoever. BLM is falsely accused of being a terrorist organization? I didn't see when the book was written, but possibly before all the riots and killing that took place a couple summers ago. That,and other bias comments, turned me off. Nonetheless, a great book.I agreed with almost everything he asserted.

Most important book so far this century

The title of this review says everything you need to know about this exceptionally well written book.

Excellent read

Very informing. Stuff the American people (and world, frankly) need to know about how their government works.

Pure Shocking Shameful Truth

The Monsters Among US stripped to the core. Mass Murders and Wall Street Nazis, guess what party they belong to now?

This is the Big Picture like few have seen it before. When I publish ‘Big Brother, SpyRadio & The Hit Parade’ I’ll fill in a piece of the 70s, 80s, & 90s.

For instance, Metromedia Corporation was a CIA Front. Its nationwide network was spying on Americans, repacking and selling invasion of privacy as New Wave Rock n’ Roll. WNEW AM-FM-TV in New York was the Flagship. Former OSS Agent John W. Kluge was its appointed head who became the richest man in America until being displaced by Bill Gates.

Deeply disturbing and provocative

This book builds on the insideous and extremely sad historical reality of the CIA's strategic contributions to perpetuating CAPITALISM AMERICAN STYLE via orchestrating government takedowns and resorting to Phoenix Program style modus operandi. Beware and do what you can within your own life and sphere of influence to choose and do good over evil.

A must-read for anyone who truly loves the U.S.

But only if you can handle the truth. Some hear this as revelation; others as confirmation. Others refuse to believe.

Very informative

Great information in this book it answers alot of questions that haunt my brains

Jaw-dropping and mind blowing

This book is fascinating. Almost want my blissful ignorance back. Lifts the veil on the nefarious nature of the mafioso CIA / National Security State and definitely changes the way I pretty much perceive every thing.

A must listen for all citizens of the world.

Douglas Valentine is a rare gem in the field of muck rackers. And his target is the one we know the least about and are lied to about the most, the CIA. This should be required reading for all US high schools.