Secrets: The CIA's War at Home by Angus MacKenzie (English) Paperback Book

Description: Secrets by Angus MacKenzie, David Weir Reveals how federal agencies - including the Department of Defense, the executive branch, and the CIA - have monitored and controlled public access to information. This book is suitable for those interested in the inside secrets of government spying, censorship, and the abrogation of First Amendment rights. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This eye-opening exposé, the result of fifteen years of investigative work, uncovers the CIAs 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 governments 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. Notes Winner of the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for Best Investigative Journalism. Flap "If anything is more corrupting than power, it is power exercised in secret. Angus Mackenzies magnificently researched, lucidly written study of the CIAs outrageous threats to freedom in America over the years is a summons to vigilance to protect our democratic institutions."--Daniel Schorr "The late Angus Mackenzie has left an appropriate legacy in Secrets: The CIAs War at Home, a fitting capstone to his long career of exposing government secrecy and manipulation of public information. Secrets is a detailed, fascinating and chilling account of the agencys program of disinformation and concealment of public information against its own citizens."--Ben H. Bagdikian, author of The Media Monopoly "Scrupulously reported, fleshed out with a fascinating cast of characters, skillfully illuminating a subject the news media seldom looked into and never got straight, Angus Mackenzies last and best work richly deserves a posthumous Pulitzer--for nonfiction, history, or both."--Jon Swan, former senior editor, Columbia Journalism Review "This courageous, uncompromising book belongs on the bookshelf of every serious student of journalism and the First Amendment."--Tom Goldstein, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University Author Biography Angus Mackenzie (1950-1994), an investigative reporter known for his persistence and independence, was one of the nations foremost experts on freedom of information laws. Known for crusading journalism in defense of the First Amendment, his work appeared in publications ranging from alternative weeklies to the Washington Post and the Columbia Journalism Review. Mackenzie was affiliated with the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco and taught at the School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. David Weir was a co-founder of the Center for Investigative Reporting, where he managed contracts with "60 Minutes," "20/20," CNN, CBS News, ABC News, and many other outlets. He served as editor and writer at a number of publications, including Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, and the San Francisco Examiner. He has won or shared over two dozen journalism awards, including the National Magazine Award. Table of Contents FOREWORD by David Weir EDITORS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION PROLOGUE: THE CIA AND THE ORIGINS OF THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT ONE CONSERVATIVES WORRY AND THE COVER-UP BEGINS TWO YOU EXPOSE US, WE SPY ON YOU THREE THE CIA TRIES TO CENSOR BOOKS FOUR BUSH PERFECTS THE COVER-UP FIVE CENSOR OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM CENSOR YOU SIX DID CONGRESS OUTLAW THIS BOOK? SEVEN TRYING TO HUSH THE FUSS EIGHT OVERCOMING THE OPPOSITION NINE CENSORSHIP CONFUSION TEN THE PENTAGON RESISTS CENSORSHIP ELEVEN HIDING POLITICAL SPYING TWELVE ONE MAN SAYS NO THIRTEEN CONTROL OF INFORMATION FOURTEEN THE CIA OPENNESS TASK FORCE EPILOGUE: THE COLD WAR ENDS AND SECRECY SPREADS APPENDIX: TARGETS OF DOMESTIC SPYING NOTES INDEX Review "Contain[s] a wealth of information about our governments ever-increasing tendency to deprive its citizens of information we deserve and need."--Susie Linfield, "Los Angeles Times Promotional Winner of the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for Best Investigative Journalism. Kirkus US Review A muckraking adventure in the violation of First Amendment rights. Although it probably wont come as a surprise to most readers that the federal government is capable of spying on its citizens, Mackenzie professes a certain bewilderment at the lengths to which the CIA went to suppress dissent in the days of Vietnam. The veteran left-wing journalist, who died of brain cancer in 1994, began his career as the publisher of an antiwar rag called the Peoples Dreadnaught; harassed by campus police, he was forced to suspend publication, although he later won $2,500 in a lawsuit against Beloit College over the matter. At a national level, he writes, similar suppression was the order of the day. Although the CIA is constrained by law from conducting investigations "inside the continental limits of the United States and its possessions," in fact, Mackenzie charges, it concocted an elaborate counterintelligence program against various home-grown protest groups in the 19605 and early 705, reasoning that it was taking antiterrorist measures and thus living up to the spirit, if not the letter, of its charter. Among the targets, Mackenzie writes, was Ramparts, a venerable leftist magazine that managed to earn the wrath of the Feds by reporting on that very internal spying. Other targets were the libertarian gum Karl Hess, renegade CIA whistleblowers Victor Marchetti and Philip Agee, and a host of lesser-known dissidents. The CIA emerges as the heavy, naturally, but the real villains in Mackenzies account are various policymakers from the Johnson administration to the present. "Incrementally over the years they expanded a policy of censorship to the point that today it pervades every agency and every department of the federal government," he writes. And, he continues, that change was so gradual that few guardians of the First Amendment noticed. Mackenzie is occasionally over the top, sometimes glib. But his charges ring true, and civil-liberties advocates will find much of interest in his pages. (Kirkus Reviews) Long Description This eye-opening expos Details ISBN0520219554 Author David Weir Short Title SECRETS Publisher University of California Press Language English ISBN-10 0520219554 ISBN-13 9780520219557 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1999 Imprint University of California Press Subtitle The CIAs War at Home Country of Publication United States Pages 260 Place of Publication Berkerley Residence US Birth 1950 Death 1994 DOI 10.1604/9780520219557 UK Release Date 1999-04-22 AU Release Date 1999-04-22 NZ Release Date 1999-04-22 US Release Date 1999-04-22 Publication Date 1999-04-22 DEWEY 327.120973 Illustrations 11 b-w photographs Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159728503;

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