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The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine
[PDF file]: […] prewar European colonial powers given the UN Charter and its promise of national self-determination. The US regime was also able to market itself as the ideal development agent. Unscathed by World War II, it had already devoted substantial efforts to ‘rebuild’ Europe and supply food and other economic aid to countries left in distress […]
Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, and, This Land: The Story of a Movement
The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973
[PDF file]: […] (see note 18) p. 608. 29 Robert Moss, Chile’s Marxist Experiment (Newton Abbot, Devon: David and Charles, 1973). 30 See McEvoy, (see note 18). Brian Crozier, Free Agent. The Unseen War 1941-1991 (London: Harper Collins, 1993), p. 115. 31 See Jennifer M. Piscopo and Peter M. Siavelis, ‘Chile’s Constitutional Moment’, Current History Vol. 120, […]
Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York intellectuals by John Rodden
End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin
[PDF file]: […] discussion of the plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan on p. 209. It turns out that the idea was proposed to ‘the plotters’ by an FBI agent. ‘Nearly half of the paramilitary group that planned to kidnap, put on trial, and execute Whitmer (the governor of Michigan) were feds or informers’. 7 The […]
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill
[PDF file]: […] Almost everyone who knew Whitson well believed he was working for some branch of the CIA, operating in various parts of the world as an anti-communist penetration agent and fixer. O’Neill writes, ‘Once he’d consumed me, I found myself fixating on possibilities that I would’ve dismissed as insane only months before.’ CHAOS and COINTELPRO […]
Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan
[PDF file]: […] Hunt, two senior ex-CIA officers, joined ex-FBI Gordon Liddy in ‘the plumbers’.4 The author can’t quite demonstrate that Hunt, and/or McCord, and/or Eugenio Martinez (a CIA contract agent, also in ‘the plumbers’), told the CIA what they were doing out of the White House basement. But it would be a surprise if none of […]