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Zusatztext “Cockburn and St. Clair present a litany of CIA misdeeds! from the recruitment of Nazi scientists after WWII to the arming of opium traffickers in Afghanistan. All of this is extremely well documented ... A chilling history that many will take issue with of what the CIA has been up to in the past 50 years.”— KIRKUS “A solid! pitiless piece of muckraking! ... Cockburn and St. Clair raise troubling questions about the role of a largely secretive government agency in a democratic society.”— San Diego Union Tribune “A probing examination of the CIA’s chilling history of coddling major drug traffickers! gangsters and Nazi psychopaths.”— Philadelphia Tribune “A convincing! well-researched! comprehensive condemnation of the CIA.”— Maximum Rock 'N Roll Informationen zum Autor Alexander Cockburn (1941–2012) was the coeditor of CounterPunch and the author of a number of titles, including Corruptions of Empire , The Golden Age Is in Us , Washington Babylon (with Ken Silverstein) and Imperial Crusades . One of three brothers, all journalists, he is the son of the journalist and author Claud Cockburn. Born in Ireland and educated in Scotland and England, he moved to America in 1972, soon establishing himself as a radical reporter and commentator, writing for the Village Voice , the New York Review of Books , Esquire and Harpers . He also wrote regular columns for the Nation , Wall Street Journal , Los Angeles Times , New Statesman , and his influential newsletter CounterPunch . In 1991 he settled in Petrolia, a rural hamlet in Humboldt County, Northern California, where he remained until his death. Klappentext The authors present documentation they claim reveals a litany of misdeeds of the CIA--from the recruitment of Nazi scientists after World War II to the arming of opium traffickers in Afghanistan. "All of this is extremely well-documented, " says "Kirkus." Zusammenfassung An expose of the CIA's involvement in the drug trade and the media's silence on the issue. ...
