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

 1 2 3 4 5 6 8                                                                p.7

--- Oliver L. North, a Marine lieutenant assigned to the National Security Council staff who was the principal manager of the illegal supply to the contras, convicted May 6, 1989 on three counts--- destroying documents, aiding the obstruction of Congress and accepting an illegal gratuity. Judge Gesell chose to impose a fine of $100,000 and 1200 hours community service in an inner-city counseling program rather than a jail sentence!
--- former National Security Advisor John M. Poindexter, convicted April 7, 1990 of five felonies for obstructing and lying to Congress and sentenced to six months imprisonment on each count, to be served concurrently. Both men had their convictions overturned on the grounds that testimony was tainted by information given to Congress while under immunity in the joint House-Senate Iran-Contra Hearings.]25
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Notes

1. The Nation, January 28, 1991, pp. 93-95.

2. Countercoup: The Struggle for the Control of Iran (1979) was written by Kermit Roosevelt, the CIA officer who organized the coup. He gives no evidence in the book to support his contention that Mossadegh had formed an alliance with either the Soviet Union or the Tudeh (communist) party. William Blum, The CIA: Forgotten History, US Global Interventions Since World War 2, London: Zed Books, 1986, p. 69.

3. Matchbox, Fall, 1976.

4. Blum, op. cit., pp. 67-76.

5. Olson was a biochemist with the Army, working at Fort Detrick. He had devised some ingenious methods for the dissemination of lethal agents such as anthrax and equine encephalitis:-- a lipstick that would kill after contact with the skin, an aerosol for asthma that would result in pneumonia, and a cigarette lighter that produced a lethal gas.

6. Gordon Thomas, Journey into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse, New York: Bantam, 1989, pp. 160-162.

7. Michael Beschloss, Crisis Years: Kennedy and Krushchev, 1960-63, New York: Harper/Collins, 1991, p. 1 02; John M. Newman, Oswald and the CIA, New York: Carroll and Graf, 1995, pp. 126, 131.

8. Thomas, op. cit. pp. 260-264; John Ranelagh, The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA from Wild Bill Donovan to William Casey, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986, pp.404-409.

10. Fred Emery, Watergate: The Corruption of American Politics and the Fall of Richard Nixon, New York: Random House, 1994, pp. 42-43.

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