Description: Further DetailsTitle: SecretsCondition: NewEAN: 9780520219557ISBN: 9780520219557Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/22/1999Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmItem Width: 18mmItem Weight: 454gContributor: David Weir (Foreword by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: The CIA's War at HomeISBN-10: 0520219554Description: This eye-opening expose, the result of fifteen years of investigative work, uncovers the CIA's systematic efforts to suppress and censor information over several decades. An award-winning journalist, Angus Mackenzie waged and won a lawsuit against the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act and became a leading expert on questions concerning government censorship and domestic spying. In "Secrets", he reveals how federal agencies - including the Department of Defense, the executive branch, and the CIA - have monitored and controlled public access to information. Mackenzie lays bare the behind-the-scenes evolution of a policy of suppression, repression, spying, and harassment. Secrecy operations originated during the Cold War as the CIA instituted programs of domestic surveillance and agent provocateur activities. As antiwar newspapers flourished, the CIA set up an 'underground newspaper' desk devoted, as Mackenzie reports, to various counterintelligence activities - from infiltrating organizations to setting up CIA-front student groups.Mackenzie also tracks the policy of requiring secrecy contracts for all federal employees who have contact with sensitive information, insuring governmental review of all their writings after leaving government employ. Drawing from government documents and scores of interviews, many of which required intense persistence and investigative guesswork to obtain, and amassing story after story of CIA malfeasance, Mackenzie gives us the best account we have of the government's present security apparatus. This is a must-read book for anyone interested in the inside secrets of government spying, censorship, and the abrogation of First Amendment rights.Country/Region of Manufacture: USAuthor: Angus MacKenzieGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: Society & Culture, Social SciencesRelease Year: 1999 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Secrets
Title: Secrets
EAN: 9780520219557
ISBN: 9780520219557
Release Date: 04/22/1999
Release Year: 1999
Contributor: David Weir (Foreword by)
Subtitle: The CIA's War at Home
ISBN-10: 0520219554
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Secrets : the Cia's War at Home
Number of Pages: 260 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Topic: Intelligence & Espionage, General, United States / General
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 1999
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, History
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Angus Mackenzie
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
