The Return: A Book for Frances about Life and Death
             Preface
            Back Cover
      You're in Charge: A Guide to Becoming Your Own Therapist
            Introduction: The Art of Self Observation
             On Dreaming
            Foreign Editions
   Since the New Deal: An Annotated Chronology of the Events That Have Changed the United States
             The C.I.A. (excerpt)
             Origins of the Cold War (excerpt)
             Some Quotations that Demonstrate the Underlying Philosophy Since the New Deal

 
      Afghanistan, "Terrorism," and Blowback   About Anthrax
     Some Thoughts on 9-11-2001

The Central Intelligence Agency

Excerpts from Janette Rainwater's book-in-progress, Since the New Deal: An Annotated Chronology of the Events that Have Changed the United States

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March 17, 1960

President Eisenhower secretly approves Operation Pluto, a CIA plan to create a Cuban government in exile and to train Cuban exiles in Guatemala as a paramilitary force for an invasion of Cuba to take place possibly before the November elections. DDE stresses the need for secrecy and specifies that only two or three Americans should have actual contact with the Cuban mercenaries. [Vice-President Richard Nixon was the project's action officer within the White House with his assistant for National Security Affairs, Lieut. Col. Robert Cushman. When the plans were not ready in time, candidate Nixon suspected a deliberate delay by "liberals" in the CIA to ensure a victory for John Kennedy in the November election.]7

January 20, 1964

KGB Colonel Yuri Nosenko, in Geneva for the disarmament negotiations, defects to the United States. [He brought with him some extremely valuable information:--- details of how the Soviets had bugged the US Embassy in Moscow and the names of more than twenty Soviet agents in the United States. All of this was investigated and verified. However, the CIA found a third item hard to believe:--- the KGB dossier on Lee Harvey Oswald indicated that there was no Soviet involvement in the assassination of JFK but that Oswald could have been a hit man for a consortium of right-wing American millionaires. Nosenko was subjected to polygraphs, isolation chambers, more polygraphs, LSD, forced listening to endless loops of noise, and food deprivation in an effort to demonstrate that he was a KGB plant, or at least a KGB dupe. Finally, after nearly four years of this brutal treatment (and no resolution of the mystery) he was released and allowed to live in the United States under a new name.] 8

June 23, 1971

Daniel Ellsberg appears on CBS-TV news and discloses that he is the "leaker" of the Pentagon Papers and urges that Americans take responsibility to end the hostilities in Indochina which have caused the deaths of one to two million people in the last quarter-century. [Former hawk Ellsberg had become disillusioned while running a CIA "pacification" program in the 1960s. Back home and working at the Rand Corporation think tank with a high security clearance, he methodically photocopied the relevant Pentagon documents over a period of months.]10

January 18, 1973

The trial of Daniel Ellsberg for leaking the Pentagon Papers begins. [During the course of the trial the public learned that the CIA had massively underestimated enemy strength before the 1970 invasion of Cambodia. Upon learning that H .L. Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, already convicted for the Watergate break-in, had also burgled the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist, Judge Matthew Byrne, Jr. declared a mistrial and dismissed all charges against Ellsberg. Judge Byrne also accused the Nixon administration of "gross misconduct", revealing that mid-trial Nixon's special assistant for domestic affairs, John Ehrlichman, had offered him the job of director of the FBI.] 11

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