Douglas Valentine: How I came to understand the CIA

[Douglas Caddy]

 

 

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/23/how-i-came-to-understand-the-cia/

[David Andrews]

Good one.  I appreciated Valentine's Phoenix Program book some years ago, and have been wanting to read his other work.

Edited December 25, 2016 by David Andrews

[David Andrews]

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/07/the-cia-and-drugs-inc-a-covert-history/

A useful article by Valentine, partly on the SE Asia drug trade.

It's important for assassination researchers to get a handle on a paradigm it took a me a lot of reading to grasp: Since at least WW II (if not since the domestic strike breaking of the pre-war period) organized crime has not been merely an occasional set of go-to guys for isolated dirty work, but a readily mobilized covert force for the official covert forces.  They provide plausible deniability and eventual legal disposability through arrest and imprisonment, or through rub-outs by other gangsters.  Because they can't fight City Hall - or, in the case of Barry Seal, the White House.  Drug trade movement through organized crime funds wars, counter-revolutions, and military and covert operations.

Edited December 25, 2016 by David Andrews