FACT: In the 1950s, the Central Intelligence Agency organized military incursions into China...
FACT: In 1960, CIA planes bombed Guatemala without provocation...
FACT: In 1973, the CIA encouraged a bloody revolt in Iraq...
Yet in the media at the time, and therefore in the public mind, these events did not happen.
The CIA: A Forgotten History tells the remarkable story of CIA interventions in more than fifty countries, from the earliest actions in China to the present day campaign against Nicaragua. Investigative writer William Blum describes the grim role played by the Agency in overthrowing governments, perverting elections, assassinating leaders, suppressing revolutions, manipulating trade unions and manufacturing 'news' - in detail that's never before appeared in one book.
Blum also shows how the mainstream media have frequently not bothered to probe, highlight or even report many of America's aggressive actions abroad. Effectively, this has helped the US Government camouflage its operations and intentions abroad ever since World War II.
Washington's deception and the media's laxity combine to leave us functionally illiterate about the history of modern US foreign policy. And that, the author believes, is good neither for democracy, nor for development and world peace.
This immensely readable account has been carefully pieced together from widely disparate sources and with a scrupulous eye to documentation.
About the author
William Blum was one of the founders in 1967 of the Washington Free Press, the first 'alternative' newspaper in the US capital. Since 1969 he has been a freelance journalist in the United States, South America and Europe, and his articles have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, To The Point and in a number of other magazines and newspapers.
ISBN 086232 479 3 Hb ISBN 086232 480 7 Pb
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