The Praetorian guard : the U.S. role in the new world order

Ex-CIA agent John Stockwell analyzes the CIA and other institutional forces shaping U.S. domestic and foreign policy. Since Its Publication In 1991 This Book Has Stayed In Print, Although Some Parts May Now Be Dated. Stockwell Examines Often Unjustified Involvement Of The Cia In Many Parts Of The World, Through Thousands Of Covert Operations, Which Have Ended The Lives Of Millions Of People. He Describes Secret And Obscure Operations, Some Of Which Entailed The Killing Of People By The Thousands At Angola, And Others Such As The One Which Overthrew The First Democratic Government In Guatemala, And The Creation Of The Infamous Death Squads In That Country And El Salvador, To Murder Civilians And Seed Terror Among The People. The Scope Of The Problem -- Ex-cia Director, President George Bush -- My Story -- Secret Third World Wars -- Why Secret Wars? -- Domestic Manipulations -- The Drug War: A Closer Look -- The Kennedy Assassination -- The Praetorian Guard -- Armageddon. John Stockwell. Essays Based On Earlier Lectures. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 153-194). In the spring of 1977, having just served on a subcommittee of the National Security Council as chief of the CIA's Angola Task Force, I left the CIA.