Douglas Valentine - The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World

Doug Valentine courageously takes us inside some of the CIAs most shameful extralegal operations, exposing everything that is wrong with an intelligence service gone rogue. He is a sentinel of the public interest, and his book is a public service. I, for one, wouldnt want to live in a country that didnt have patriots like Doug Valentine.

JOHN KIRIAKOU,
author of The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIAs War on Terror.

[Douglas Valentines] two books on the FBN/DEA are a major achievement.

PETER DALE SCOTT,
author of The American Deep State.

Doug Valentine was examining the dark underbelly of American foreign policy years before people recognized the Dark Side of torture camps and secret wars.

ROBERT PARRY,
Consortium News

2017 Douglas Valentine
ISBN: 978-0-9972870-1-1
EBOOK ISBN: 978-0-9972870-2-8
In-house editor: Diana G. Collier
Cover: R. Jordan P. Santos
Photo Douglas Valentine: Michael S. Gordon, The Republican

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED: Except for purposes of review, this book may not be copied, or stored in any information retrieval system, in whole or in part, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Valentine, Douglas, 1949- author.

Title: The CIA as organized crime : how illegal operations corrupt

America
and the world / by Douglas Valentine.

Description: Atlanta, GA : Clarity Press, Inc., 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016035980 (print) | LCCN 2016046335 (ebook) |

ISBN
9780997287011 (alk. paper) | ISBN 9780997287028

Subjects: LCSH: United States. Central Intelligence AgencyCorrupt practices. | Phoenix Program (Counterinsurgency program : Vietnam) | Organized crime. | Drug traffic.

Classification: LCC JK486.I6 V35 2017 (print) | LCC JK486.I6 (ebook) | DDC
327.1273dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016035980

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Chapter 1:
How William Colby Gave Me the Keys to the CIA Kingdom

Chapter 2:
One Thing Leads to Another: My Rare Access in Investigating the War on Drugs

PART I:
THE CIAS PHOENIX PROGRAM IN VIETNAM: A TEMPLATE FOR SYSTEMATIC DOMINATION

Chapter 3:
The Vietnam Wars Silver Lining: A Bureaucratic Model for Population Control Emerges

Chapter 4:
The Systematic Gathering of Intelligence

Chapter 5:
What We Really Learned From Vietnam: A War Crimes Model for Afghanistan and Elsewhere

Chapter 6:
The Afghan Dirty War Escalates

Chapter 7:
Vietnam Replay on Afghan Defectors

Chapter 8:
Disrupting the Accommodation: CIA Killings Spell Victory in Afghanistan and Defeat in America

Chapter 9:
The CIA in Ukraine

Chapter 10:
War Crimes as Policy

Chapter 11:
New Games, Same Aims: CIA Organizational Changes

PART II:
HOW THE CIA CO-OPTED AND MANAGES THE WAR ON DRUGS

Chapter 12:
Creating a Crime: How the CIA Commandeered the Drug Enforcement Administration

Chapter 13:
Beyond Dirty Wars: The CIA/DEA Connection and Modern Day Terror in Latin America

Chapter 14:
Project Gunrunner

PART III:
THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Chapter 15:
The Spook Who Became a Congressman: Why CIA Officers Cannot Be Allowed to Hold Public Office

Chapter 16:
Major General Bruce Lawlor: From CIA Officer in Vietnam to Homeland Security Honcho

Chapter 17:
Homeland Security: The Phoenix Comes Home to Roost

PART IV:
MANUFACTURING COMPLICITY: SHAPING THE AMERICAN WORLDVIEW

Chapter 18:
Fragging Bob Kerrey: The CIA and the Need for a War Crimes Tribunal

Chapter 19:
Top Secret America Shadow Reward System

Chapter 20:
How the Government Tries to Mess with Your Mind

Chapter 21:
Disguising Obamas Dirty War

Chapter 22:
Parallels of Conquest, Past and Present

Chapter 23:
Propaganda as Terrorism

Chapter 24:
The War on Terror as the Greatest Covert Op Ever

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Johan Galtung

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Ive taken many liberties with the interview transcripts and articles, expounding and updating for relevance, editing out and consolidating information to avoid repetition. Though a compilation, the material is arranged in narrative form to entertain, hopefully, as well as educate.

Id like to thank my interviewers for indulging me:

Ryan Dawson is Webmaster and host for www.ANCreport.com which features podcasts on politics and economics with professionals from around the world.

Guillermo Jimenez is the owner and editor of Traces of Reality and a regular columnist for the Pan American Post. He is based in South Texas, deep within the DHS constitution-free zone.

Ken McCarthy is an American activist, educator, entrepreneur and Internet commercialization pioneer. Brasscheck TV features videos on a wide range of contemporary topics, available via e-mail subscription.

Lew Rockwell is an American libertarian author and editor, self-professed anarcho-capitalist promoter of the Austrian School of economics, and founder and chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

James Tracy is the author of numerous scholarly publications. His weekly interview program, Real Politik, has been carried on TruthFrequencyRadio.com since 2014, and is published as a podcast on his website, MemoryHoleBlog.com.

Kourosh Ziabari is an award-winning Iranian journalist, writer and media correspondent writing for newspapers and journals across the world.

My co-author of the War Crimes as Policy article, Nicolas J. S. Davies, is the author of Blood on Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq (Nimble Books: 2010).

Id like to say thanks to Diana Collier for envisioning this book; Thomas Wilkinson, Adam Engel and Kara Zugman Dellacioppa for rounding out my thoughts; John Prados for preserving my work at the National Security Archive; and Mark Crispin Miller for giving The Phoenix Program new life at Open Road. Special thanks to Robert Parry at Consortium News, and the late Alex Cockburn and Jeff St. Clair at Counterpunch for publishing my articles.

Most of all, thanks to Alice.

Douglas Valentine
1 August 2016

Credit for prior publication should go to the following:

Chapter 1: How William Colby Gave Me the Keys to the CIA Kingdom (adapted from a July 2015 interview with Professor James Tracy at Real Politic, originally titled Interview 56: Douglas Valentine).

Chapter 2: One Thing Leads to Another: My Rare Access in Investigating the War on Drugs (adapted from a January 2015 interview with Ryan Dawson at ANC Report, originally titled Cops, the CIA, Drugs and the Mafia).

Chapter 3: The Vietnam Wars Silver Lining: A Bureaucratic Model for Population Control Emerges (adapted from a May 2015 article at Dissident Voice, originally titled Inside the CIAs Use of Terror During the Vietnam War).

Chapter 4: The Systematic Gathering of Intelligence (adapted from a May 2004 article at Counterpunch, originally titled ABCs of American Interrogation Methods).

Chapter 5: What We Really Learned From Vietnam: A War Crimes Model for Afghanistan and Elsewhere (adapted from a November 2009 article at Consortium News, originally titled Learning the Wrong Vietnam Lessons ).