The author of three books on CIA operations, Douglas Valentine began his research in to the agency’s activities when CIA director William Colby gave him free access to interview agency officials who had been involved in various areas of the Phoenix program in South Vietnam. It was a permission Colby was to regret. The CIA would ultimately rescind it and made every work to impede publication of The Phoenix Plan, which documented an elaborate system of population monitoring, control, about The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the Globe entrapment, imprisonment, torture, and assassination in Vietnam.

While researching Phoenix, Valentine learned that the CIA allowed opium and heroin to circulation 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 firms mandated by Congress to stop illegal medicines from entering america. Based on interviews with senior officials, Valentine had written two subsequent books, The effectiveness of the Wolf and The Strength of the Pack, showing how the CIA infiltrated federal drug enforcement companies and commandeered their professional management, intelligence, and foreign operations staffs to be able to make certain the unimpeded stream of medicines to traffickers and international officials in its make use of.

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

This book includes excerpts from these titles, along with subsequent articles and transcripts of interviews on a range of current topics, using a view to shedding light in the systemic dimensions from the CIA’s ongoing illegal and extralegal activities. These content and interviews illustrate the way the agency’s activities impact interpersonal and political motions abroad and at home.

A common theme is the CIA’s capability to deceive and propagandize the American open public through its impenetrable, government-sanctioned shield of formal secrecy and plausible deniability.

Though investigated with the Church Committee in 1975, CIA praxis after that continues to see CIA praxis today. Valentine songs the agency’s stable expansion into procedures targeting the final population to go through the exigencies of the American empire: the American people themselves.