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Melvin Goodmans long career as a respected intelligence analyst at the CIA, specializing in US/Soviet relations, ended abruptly. In 1990, after twenty-four years of service, Goodman resigned when he could no longer tolerate the corruption he witnessed at the highest levels of the Agency. In 1991 he went public, blowing the whistle on top-level officials and leading the opposition against the appointment of Robert Gates as CIA director. In the widely covered Senate hearings, Goodman charged that Gates and others had subverted the process and the ethics of intelligence by deliberately misinforming the White House about major world events and covert operations.In this breathtaking expose, Goodman tells the whole story. Retracing his career with the Central Intelligence Agency, he presents a rare insiders account of the inner workings of Americas intelligence community, and the corruption, intimidation, and misinformation that lead to disastrous foreign interventions. An invaluable and historic look into one of the most secretive and influential agencies of US government--and a wake-up call for the need to reform its practices.Melvin A. Goodman served as a senior analyst and Division Chief at the CIA from 1966 to 1990. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Harpers, and many others. He is author of six books on US intelligence and international security.

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PRAISE FOR WHISTLEBLOWER AT THE CIA

Mel Goodman shines a critical whistleblower light into the dark recesses of the CIA as a former insider. His book serves in the public interest as a warning and wake-up call for whats at stake and why we cannot trust the CIA or the intelligence establishment to do the right thing.

Thomas Drake, former NSA senior executive and whistleblower

Mel Goodmans Whistleblower at the CIA is not just an insiders look at politics at the highest levels of government. Its also a personal account of the political odyssey Goodman had to negotiate for telling the truth. The CIA likes for its employees to believe that everything is a shade of grey. But some things are black or white, right or wrong. Mel Goodman did what was right. He may have paid with his career, but hes on the right side of history.

John Kiriakou, former CIA counterterrorism officer and former senior investigator, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Mel Goodmans Whistleblower at the CIA confirmed for me what my own experience had revealed during six hectic days and seven sleepless nights at CIA headquarters, getting Colin Powell ready for his presentation to the UN Security Council on Iraqs Failure to Disarm on February 5, 2003. Mr. Goodman provided exhaustive detail on why the agency has failed, again and again, and will continue to fail if some future president and congress do not step in and dramatically change the way CIA functions.

Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell

A refreshingly honest, well-sourced expose of the CIA that not only furnishes the authors compelling personal story of standing up to inflated estimates sprinkled with little-known but historically significant details of the jewels and the warts, the successes and failures of decades of U.S. intelligence analysis. Especially instructive to our current era plagued by faulty group-think and the war on whistleblowers, the book chronicles how contrarian analysts are often the best source for premonitory intelligence. This book is a must-read not only for political historians and American citizens wanting to know the unvarnished and often surprising truth about the intelligence side of the CIA but for all students contemplating a career with the CIA or other intelligence agency.

Coleen Rowley, retired FBI agent

In this fascinating and candid account of his years as a senior CIA analyst, Mel Goodman shows how the worst enemies of high quality intelligence can come from our own midst, and how the politicization of intelligence estimates can cause more damage to American security than its professed enemies. Whistleblower at the CIA is a must-read for anyone interested in the intricate web of intelligence-policymaking relations.

Uri Bar-Joseph, author of The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel

ALSO BY MELVIN A. GOODMAN

National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism

Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA

Bush League Diplomacy: Putting the Nation at Risk (with Craig Eisendrath)

The Phantom Defense: Americas Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion (with Craig Eisendrath)

The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze (with Carolyn M. Ekedahl)

The End of Superpower Conflict in the Third World

Gorbachevs Retreat: The Third World

WHISTLEBLOWER AT THE CIA
A PATH OF DISSENT
Melvin A. Goodman

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City Lights Books | San Francisco

Copyright 2017 by Melvin A. Goodman

All Rights Reserved

Cover design: Herb Thornby

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Goodman, Melvin A. (Melvin Allan), 1938- author.

Title: Whistleblower at the CIA : an insiders account of the politics of intelligence / Melvin A. Goodman.

Other titles: Whistleblower at the Central Intelligence Agency

Description: San Francisco : City Lights Publishers, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016047282 (print) | LCCN 2017000887 (ebook) | ISBN 9780872867307 (paperback) | ISBN 9780872867314 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Goodman, Melvin A. (Melvin Allan), 1938- | United States. Central Intelligence AgencyOfficials and employeesBiography. | United States. Central Intelligence AgencyManagement. | United States. Central Intelligence AgencyHistory. | Intelligence servicePolitical aspectsUnited States. | Whistle blowingUnited States. | BISAC: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political. | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security. | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General.

Classification: LCC JK468.I6 G6633 2017 (print) | LCC JK468.I6 (ebook) | DDC

327.12730092 [B] dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016047282

City Lights Books are published at the City Lights Bookstore

261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94133

www.citylights.com

To my mentors who were models of courage and integrity: the late Professor Amin Banani, professor emeritus at UCLA; the late professors Owen Lattimore and Robert Slusser of Johns Hopkins University; the late ambassador Robert White, who heroically exposed the crimes of the Reagan administration in Central America; the late Professor Alvin Z. Rubinstein of the University of Pennsylvania; Professor Robert Ferrell of Indiana University; and once again my wife, Carolyn McGiffert Ekedahl, who made sure that the crimes of the George W. Bush administration and the CIA could not be forgotten.

INTRODUCTION

THE PATH TO DISSENT: A WHISTLEBLOWER AT THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

This is the story of an unreasonable man at the Central Intelligence Agency. There will be insights about the CIA and the forces of top-down corruption within the intelligence process, some settling of old scores within the Agency, and introspection about a 42-year career spent serving my country in the military and intelligence communities during the height of the Cold War. I joined the agency in the 1960s, a decade of radical change and upheaval in American culture. My closest friends questioned the decision of a self-confessed progressive to join one of the most secretive agencies in the government when the U.S. war against Vietnam was becoming increasingly ugly and divisive. Ironically, I found a more spirited and intelligent debate over the war in CIA corridors than I experienced in graduate school at Indiana University where I participated in the teach-in movement against the war.

There has been a great decline in the stature and influence of the CIA over the past two decades. The CIAs failure to anticipate the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the collapse of the Warsaw Pact in 1990, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, which ended the Cold War that fostered the CIA, deeply damaged the credibility of the entire intelligence community. The manipulation of intelligence for political endspoliticizationwas responsible for these failures, and two decades later this process of corruption helped the Bush administration make the catastrophic decision to invade and occupy Iraq without any evidence of a threat or provocation. The insistence of Vice President Dick Cheney to conjure phony intelligence in order to go to war against Iraq in 2003 was particularly criminal. With the end of the CIAs anti-communism mission, the Agency had to come up with other missions; the ethical and operational failures in these missions further damaged its reputation. The CIAs role in the Terror Wars has included extrajudicial killings, assassinations, secret prisons, torture and abuse, and extraordinary renditions that have violated the U.S. Constitution and international law.

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