Secrets : the CIA's war at home / Angus Mackenzie with a foreword by David Weir
- Bib ID:
- 81266
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- MacKenzie, Angus
- Description:
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997
- xiii, 241 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0520200209 (alkaline paper)
- Summary:
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This eye-opening expose, the result of fifteen years of investigative work, uncovers the CIA's systematic efforts over several decades to suppress and censor information. Angus Mackenzie, an award-winning yournalist, filed and won a lawsuit against the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act, and in the process became an expert on government censorship and domestic spying. Mackenzie lays bare a complex narrative of intrigue among federal agencies and their senior staff, including the Department of Defense, the executive branch, and the CIA. From cover-ups and secrecy oaths, to scandals over leaks and exposure, to the government's often insidious attempts to monitor and control public access to information, Mackenzie tracks the evolution of a policy of suppression, repression, spying, and harassment.
- Full contents:
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- Foreword / David Weir
- Prologue: The CIA and the Origins of the Freedom of Information Act
- 1. Conservatives Worry and the Cover-Up Begins
- 2. You Expose Us, We Spy on You
- 3. The CIA tries to Censor Books
- 4. Bush Perfects the Cover-Up
- 5. Censor Others as You Would Have Them Censor You
- 6. Did Congress Outlaw This Book?
- 7. Trying to Hush the Fuss
- 8. Overcoming the Opposition
- 9. Censorship Confusion
- 10. The Pentagon Resists Censorship
- 11. Hiding Political Spying
- 12. One Man Says No
- 13. Control of Information
- 14. The CIA Openness Task Force
- Epilogue: The Cold War Ends and Secrecy Spreads
- App. Targets of Domestic Spying.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-230) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1997
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