Secrets : The CIA's War at Home / MacKenzie/Weir; ed. by Angus MacKenzie, David Weir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacKenzie/Weir, Author.

Contributor:

Mackenzie, Angus, Editor.

Weir, David, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.) : 11 b/w photographs

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1997]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This eye-opening exposé, the result of fifteen years of investigative work, uncovers the CIA's systematic efforts to suppress and censor information over several decades. An award-winning journalist, Angus Mackenzie waged and won a lawsuit against the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act and became a leading expert on questions concerning government censorship and domestic spying. In Secrets, he reveals how federal agencies--including the Department of Defense, the executive branch, and the CIA--have monitored and controlled public access to information. Mackenzie lays bare the behind-the-scenes evolution of a policy of suppression, repression, spying, and harassment. Secrecy operations originated during the Cold War as the CIA instituted programs of domestic surveillance and agent provocateur activities. As antiwar newspapers flourished, the CIA set up an "underground newspaper" desk devoted, as Mackenzie reports, to various counterintelligence activities--from infiltrating organizations to setting up CIA-front student groups. Mackenzie also tracks the policy of requiring secrecy contracts for all federal employees who have contact with sensitive information, insuring governmental review of all their writings after leaving government employ. Drawing from government documents and scores of interviews, many of which required intense persistence and investigative guesswork to obtain, and amassing story after story of CIA malfeasance, Mackenzie gives us the best account we have of the government's present security apparatus. This is a must-read book for anyone interested in the inside secrets of government spying, censorship, and the abrogation of First Amendment rights.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

EDITORS ' PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

PROLOGUE: THE CIA OF THE FREEDOM OF AND THE ORIGINS IN FORMATION ACT

ONE Conservatives Worry and the Cover-up Begins

TWO You Expose Us, We Spy on You

THREE The CIA Tries to Censor Books

FOUR Bush Perfects the Cover-up

FIVE Censor Others as You Would Have Them Censor You

SIX Did Congress Outlaw This Book

SEVEN Trying to Hush the Fuss

EIGHT Overcoming the Opposition

NINE Censorship Confusion

TEN The Pentagon Resists Censorship

ELEVEN Hiding Political Spying

TWELVE One Man Says No

THIRTEEN Control of Information

FOURTEEN The CIA Openness Task Force

EPILOGUE The Cold War Ends and Secrecy Spreads

APPENDIX TARGETS OF DOMESTIC SPYING

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jan 2024)

ISBN:

0-520-35367-6

OCLC:

1419789281