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Whiteout de Alexander Cockburn

Whiteout

Autor Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St Clair
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 noi 1999

Prezentat sub forma unei monografii de investigație istorică, Whiteout reprezintă o sinteză exhaustivă a relațiilor subterane dintre agențiile de informații americane și rețelele globale de trafic de stupefiante. Considerăm acest volum esențial pentru înțelegerea modului în care rațiunile geopolitice ale Războiului Rece au prevalat asupra legalității interne, autorii Alexander Cockburn și Jeffrey St Clair documentând minuțios un parcurs ce pornește de la colaborarea cu Lucky Luciano în 1944 și ajunge până la scandalurile epocii Reagan. Remarcăm structura narativă alertă, care reușește să conecteze evenimente aparent disparate: experimentele chimice pe cetățeni americani folosind savanți aduși din lagărele naziste, protejarea cartelurilor din Medellin și alianțele cu mujahedinii afgani. Cititorii familiarizați cu American War Machine de Peter Dale Scott vor aprecia în acest volum modul în care Whiteout extinde analiza dincolo de politica externă, examinând complicitatea presei americane în mușamalizarea acestor adevăruri. Spre deosebire de alte lucrări care se concentrează pe figuri individuale, precum Barry & ‘the boys’, lucrarea de față oferă o perspectivă instituțională asupra modului în care „nevoia de a ști” a fost transformată într-un paravan pentru activități ilicite. Stilul autorilor este unul incisiv, specific jurnalismului de tip polemic, însă ancorat într-o bază factuală solidă, confirmată chiar de mărturiile oficiale ale inspectorului general Fred Hitz din 1998. Volumul nu este doar o cronică a spionajului, ci și un studiu despre erodarea democrației prin secretomanie și alianțe cu figuri precum Klaus Barbie sau Manuel Noriega.

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ISBN-13: 9781859842584
ISBN-10: 1859842585
Pagini: 418
Dimensiuni: 131 x 198 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: VERSO
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

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Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor în relații internaționale și celor pasionați de istoria serviciilor secrete. Este o lectură care oferă o perspectivă critică asupra instituțiilor de putere, explicând mecanismele prin care interesele de securitate națională pot justifica parteneriate cu lumea interlopă. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a contextului istoric care a modelat crizele moderne de sănătate publică și geopolitica drogurilor.

Despre autor

Alexander Cockburn a fost unul dintre cei mai influenți jurnaliști de investigație ai generației sale, cunoscut pentru coloanele sale din The Nation și LA Times. Stilul său, comparat adesea cu cel al lui Mark Twain, este definit de un spirit combativ și o integritate intelectuală rară. În lucrări precum Corruptions of Empire sau A Colossal Wreck, acesta a explorat teme legate de abuzul de putere și ipocrizia politică. Co-fondator al publicației CounterPunch, Cockburn și-a dedicat cariera demascării secretelor guvernamentale, Whiteout rămânând una dintre cele mai documentate lucrări ale sale.

Notă biografică

Alexander Cockburn co-edits CounterPunch with Jeffrey St. Clair. Together they have written Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press and A Dime’s Worth of Difference: Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils.

Jeffrey St. Clair co-edits CounterPunch with Alexander Cockburn. Together they have written Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press and A Dime’s Worth of Difference: Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils.

Descriere scurtă

On March 16, 1998, the CIA’s Inspector General, Fred Hitz, finally let?the cat out of the bag in an aside at a Congressional Hearing. Hitz told?the US Reps that the CIA had maintained relationships with companies and?individuals the Agency knew to be involved in the drug business. Even more?astonishingly, Hitz revealed that back in 1982 the CIA had requested and?received from Reagan’s Justice Department clearance not to report any knowledge?it might have of drug-dealing by CIA assets.

With these two admisstions, Hitz definitively sank decades of CIA denials,?many of them under oath to Congress. Hitz’s admissions also made fools of?some of the most prominent names in US journalism, and vindicated investigators?and critics of the Agency, ranging from Al McCoy to Senator John Kerry.

The involvement of the CIA with drug traffickers is a story that has?slouched into the limelight every decade or so since the creation of the?Agency. Most recently, in 1996, the San Jose Mercury News published a sensational?series on the topic, “Dark Alliance”, and then helped destroy?its own reporter, Gary Webb.

In Whiteout, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair?finally put the whole story together from the earliest days, when the CIA’s?institutional ancestors, the OSS and the Office of Naval Intelligence, cut?a deal with America’s premier gangster and drug trafficker, Lucky Luciano.

They show that many of even the most seemingly outlandish charges leveled?against the Agency have basis in truth. After the San Jose Mercury News?series, for example, outraged black communities charged that the CIA had?undertaken a program, stretching across many years, of experiments on minorities.?Cockburn and St. Clair show how the CIA imported Nazi scientists straight?from their labs at Dachau and Buchenwald and set them to work developing?chemical and biological weapons, tested on black Americans, some of them?in mental hospitals.

Cockburn and St. Clair show how the CIA’s complicity with drug-dealing?criminal gangs was part and parcel of its attacks on labor organizers, whether?on the docks of New York, or of Marseilles and Shanghai. They trace how?the Cold War and counterinsurgency led to an alliance between the Agency?and the vilest of war criminals such as Klaus Barbie, or fanatic heroin?traders like the mujahedin in Afghanistan.

Whiteout is a thrilling history that stretches from Sicily in 1944 to?the killing fields of South-East Asia, to CIA safe houses in Greenwich Village?and San Francisco where CIA men watched Agency-paid prostitutes feed LSD?to unsuspecting clients. We meet Oliver North as he plotted with Manuel?Noriega and Central American gangsters. We travel to little-known airports?in Costa Rica and Arkansas. We hear from drug pilots and accountants from?the Medillin Cocaine Cartel. We learn of DEA agents whose careers were ruined?because they tried to tell the truth.

The CIA, drugs… and the press. Cockburn and St. Clair dissect the shameful?way many American journalists have not only turned a blind eye on the Agency’s?misdeeds, but helped plunge the knife into those who told the real story.

Here at last is the full saga. Fact-packed and fast-paced, Whiteout is? a richly detailed excavation of the CIA’s dirtiest secrets. For all who ?want to know the truth about the Agency this is the book to start with.

Recenzii

“Cockburn and St. Clair present a litany of CIA misdeeds, from the recruitment of Nazi scientists after WWII to the arming of opium traffickers in Afghanistan. All of this is extremely well documented ... A chilling history that many will take issue with of what the CIA has been up to in the past 50 years.”—KIRKUS

“A solid, pitiless piece of muckraking, ... Cockburn and St. Clair raise troubling questions about the role of a largely secretive government agency in a democratic society.”—San Diego Union Tribune

“A probing examination of the CIA’s chilling history of coddling major drug traffickers, gangsters and Nazi psychopaths.”—Philadelphia Tribune

“A convincing, well-researched, comprehensive condemnation of the CIA.”—Maximum Rock 'N Roll
"Cockburn and St. Clair present a litany of CIA misdeeds, from the recruitment of Nazi scientists after WWII to the arming of opium traffickers in Afghanistan. All of this is extremely well documented ... a chilling history that many will take issue with of what the CIA has been up to in the past 50 years." - Kirkus "A solid, pitiless piece of muckraking, ... Cockburn and St. Clair raise troubling questions about the role of a largely secretive government agency in a democratic society." -- San Diego Union Tribune "A probing examination of the CIA's chilling history of coddling major drug traffickers, gangsters and Nazi psychopaths." -- Philadelphia Tribune "A convincing, well-researched, comprehensive condemnation of the CIA." -- Maximum Rock 'n Roll

Descriere

The authors present documentation they claim reveals a litany of misdeeds of the CIA--from the recruitment of Nazi scientists after World War II to the arming of opium traffickers in Afghanistan. "All of this is extremely well-documented, " says "Kirkus."