Marchetti, Victor and Marks, John D.
The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence.
New York: Dell Publishing, 1975. 397 pages.
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The CIA went to court prior to publication of this book, claiming that it would harm national security. The court disagreed, but the publisher had to submit the manuscript to the CIA for prior review. They asked for 339 deletions, most of which were refused by the court.
Along with Philip Agee's "Inside the Company: CIA Diary," this was one of the most important works on the CIA to appear in the 1970s. While Agee's book is a detailed look at one officer's activities in several Latin American countries, Marchetti and Marks give an overview of the CIA's administrative structure and operational history.
(An appendix reprints the detailed notes from a secret four-hour 1968 Council on Foreign Relations meeting that discussed intelligence issues. Richard Bissell gave the talk while nineteen other luminaries, such as Allen Dulles, listened and offered comments. It's clear from gems like this that the ruling class knows who they are, even if most of their subjects don't.)
Victor Marchetti spent 14 years in the CIA, where he became an executive assistant to the deputy director, and John Marks spent five years in the State Department, where he worked as an analyst and as staff assistant to the intelligence director.
Currently Marchetti lives in Vienna, Virginia while Marks lives in Washington, D.C.
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Another interesting book on the same website ...
Olmsted, Kathryn S.
Challenging the Secret Government:
The Post-Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI.
Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. 255 pages.
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It may come as a surprise to viewers of "The X Files," but prior to the 1970s there was almost no information in the officially-acknowledged public record to suggest that the FBI and CIA had ever engaged in illegal or questionable activities. Then in the wake of Watergate, reports surfaced in the press of CIA involvement in the coup in Chile, and massive domestic spying by the CIA and FBI against war protesters. These were followed with stories of CIA plots to kill foreign leaders. The Church Committee in the Senate, and the Pike Committee in the House, were formed to investigate.
Congressman Michael J. Harrington (D-MA), and journalists such as Seymour Hersh (New York Times) and Daniel Schorr (CBS), played a significant role in exposing this secret history.
At the time, many thought that the momentum for exposure would lead to significant reforms. But a year later the climate had changed dramatically.
Harrington was in trouble with the House Ethics Committee for leaking information about Chile, the Pike Committee report was suppressed by Congress, and Daniel Schorr was fired from CBS after leaking the Pike report to the Village Voice.
The author suggests that the momentum for reform was lost when the revelations became more than a deluded, complacent public could comfortably bear.
ISBN 0-8078-4562-0
AMERICAN EAGLE - A SYMBOL OF ...??!?
CIA ~ NATO
The logo of NATO, the world-army-in-waiting, and the emblem of the CIA
http://www.davidicke.net/symbolism/jclicker/series3page8.html
The Voice of the Eagle
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/tbacig/studproj/a1041/eagle/america.html
The Meaning of the Heraldic Symbolism of the American Coat-of-Arms and the Presidential Seal
http://www.anycities.com/jahtruth/amerca.htm
THE MASONIC SEAL OF AMERICA
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American Eagle Foundation
http://www.eagles.org/edayproclamation.html
Serving Freedom
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