MCMAHON%GRIN1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (McMahon,Brian D) (01/14/91)
In TELECOM Digest V11 #30, our Moderator writes: >Read and enjoy "The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence". It is a >fascinating book and explains lots of CIA dirty tricks. The book was >banned here in the USA, but now and then you can find a copy. PAT] Pat, this is rather old information. Marchetti, Victor, and John D. Marks. _The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence_. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974 Library of Congress Number 74-4995 ISBN: 0-394-48239 I doubt that it is still in print, since its content is now severely dated, and many more recent treatments of the Agency are available. But it is certainly not the sort of samizdat that the Moderator seems to imply. In fact, it was even included on a list of books about the intelligence community compiled by CIA. It certainly is a good treatment of problems in the Agency in the days before the Church Committee, but anyone looking for an expose of current Dirty Deeds will be disappointed. In some minds, though, CIA is already guilty of almost any crime imaginable. Brian McMahon <MCMAHON@GRIN1.BITNET> Grinnell College Computer Services Grinnell, Iowa 50112 USA Voice: +1 515 269 4901 Fax: +1 515 269 4936
cramer%clem@sun.com (Sam Cramer) (01/16/91)
I realize we may be getting a bit off the track here. Nonetheless... People who put stock in what Marchetti has to say may be interested in knowing that he is an outspoken anti-semite. Sam