Covert Action Quarterly, Number 65

Washington DC. 1998. Fall 1998. Covert Action Publications. Magazine. Very Good in Wrappers. 67 pages. magazine. keywords: Politics. DESCRIPTION - Twentieth Anniversary Issue - TURNING TWENTY, LOOKING BACK by Philip Agee - We launched Covert Action Quarterly twenty years ago in the belief that the world, not just the United States, needed a publication dedicated to exposing and analyzing the secret side of U.S. foreign policy; PRIVILEGE OF EMPIRE by Mumia Abu-Jamal - With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, there is only one superpower left in the world, and superpowers make their own rules. Who’s to stop them?; THE CORRUPTION OF COVERT ACTIONS by Ramsey Clark - The U.S. is not nearly so concerned that its acts be kept secret from their intended victims as it is that the American people not know of them; SEEING YUGOSLAVIA THROUGH A DARK GLASS by Diana Johnstone - The terrible paradox is that very many people, in the sincere desire to oppose racism and aggression, have in fact contributed to demonizing an entire people, the Serbs. This has legitimized both ethnic separatism and the new role of NATO as occupying. power in the Balkans on behalf of a theoretical international community ; IMPERIALISM AND NGOS IN LATIN AMERICA by James Petras - The limits Of NGOs as part of the progressive camp among the left and liberals were evident in Latin America as early as the 1980s. While attacking human rights violations, they rarely denounced the right wing regimes' links to their U.S. and European patrons; RUSSIAN REFORM IS THE PROBLEM, NOT THE SOLUTION by Edward S. Herman; VISIT TO CIA HEADQUARTERS ON THEIR ANNIVERSARY by Louis Wolf; ON VISITING A HAVANA MUSEUM by Philip Agee; THE WAR AGAINST CUBA by Jane Franklin - As soon as it became evident that revolutionary Cuba planned to control its own resources, Washington initiated a state of siege that has continued for almost 40 years, In the summer of 1997, there was a bombing campaign engineered by Cuban-American terrorist Luis Clemente Posada Carriles, trained by the CIA; ASSATA SHAKUR: THE LIFE OF A REVOLUTIONARY Edited by Rosemari Mealy - After being convicted in 1977 by an all-white jury and sentenced to life plus 33 years in prison, Assata Shakur, escaped from a New Jersey prison and years later emerged in Cuba where she was accorded the status of political refugee; IMMORAL BOUNTY FOR ASSATA by Michael Ratner; CUBA, THE U.S., AND THIS THING CALLED DEMOCRACY by William Blum; WHY DO THEY HATE US? by Edward S. Herman; MEDIA EVASIONS by Michael Parenti - MISINFORMATION: TV COVERAGE OF A BOSNIAN CAMP by Thomas Deichmann - The image of the refugee Fikret Alic behind barbed wire, which was reproduced worldwide, was used as proof' of the existence of concentration camps in Bosnia, and became one of the justifications for the NATO bombing of the Serbs; RON RIDENHOUR: A TRUE JOURNALIST by Geoffrey F. X. O'Connell - From March 1969, when Ron Ridenhour typed his first letter to Congress detailing the atrocities that came to be known as the My Lai Massacre, until his death this year on May 10 at age 52, he never failed to wield his words in the cause of justice; EYES ONLY: CIA VERSUS DANIEL C. TSANG by Daniel C. Tsang - Stansfield Turner had compiled information about the funding of Covert Action magazine. Bob Woodward wrote that when the Deputy Director of Operations found out, he blew up: Stupid sons of bitches. spying on Americans. If anyone got hold of this. Don't you see? The perception.; A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITIES by William Preston, Jr. - The Intelligence Identities Protection Act would serve as an official secrets act to eliminate investigative journalism about covert operations. inventory #44619.…