The CIA as Organized Crime

How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World

De: Douglas Valentine

Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki

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.

TRUTH HURTS corrupt organizations

love this highly recommended if you really want to know how things actually go I've heard this first hand from multiple Insider sources. this is all true.

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.

Written by KGB

The book sounds like it's been written by KGB. How many "facts" are indeed facts is hard to say.

The CIA as Organized Crime: A personal perspective

A must read for the better understanding of current and past negative world activities. While unfortunately most of the events and practices brought to light in this text come as little or no surprise, the historical reflection of how this organization came to be and how to try to corral this monster and all of its collaborative entities leaves little to the imagination.

New favorite book. Horrifying, illuminating

Very well written and preformed. The author is informative and while the subject matter is extremely disturbing I’m glad to know. I’ve also read The Phoenix Program by the same author, and I would say the two books pair well together.

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

Hopefully the worm is starting to turn.

Excellent book calling out the establishment. This book should be in high school classrooms. Many in the establishment won’t enjoy this book.