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Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA
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Found 1 comment on Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA:

u/sukagambar ยท 2 pointsr/indonesia

I'm working tonight. Reddit is my entertainment. I like reading books, partciularly non-fiction. Recently I finished 2 book:

  • Company Man by John Rizzo who worked as a lawyer in the CIA for 30 year plus!

  • Good Hunting by Jack Devine who worked for the CIA for 30 year plus. Unlike Rizzo Devine was an operative.

    The interesting thing I learn from the 2 books is that the CIA at least since the 70's until recently DO NOT perform/condone political assassination. They also did not perform torture. If you read Rizzo book they HAVE to get approval from the Justice Department before performing their enhanced interrogation techniques on their prisoners. The Justice Department has to review case-by-case before they will allow the CIA to proceed. Note that Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo DO NOT belong to the CIA but to the US Army.

    Another thing I learn from Devine book: The CIA did not plot to overthrow Salvador Allende in Chile 1973. The CIA did not run Operation Condor (ie assassination) in Latin America in the 70's. They did received infofrmation that local Latin American inteliigence were doing assassination.

    Having said all of the above these 2 gentlemens are still part of the CIA family. You can never really retire from organization like that. So take whatever they said with a pinch of salt!

    More interesting topic from Devine's book. In the 80's the CIA was supporting the Afghan against the Soviet. They bought weapons from Egypt/China/etc then smuggled it to Afghanistan. They bought 9000 mules from China and have them driven by the rancher all the way to Afghan border! Mules are very important for logistics since Afghanistan doesn't really have roads outside big cities. The Chinese knew that the Americans bought their weapons to hurt the Soviet! So clearly China and Russia IS NOT natural allies despite what the US media tell you.

    Another interesting topic from Devine's book. The French Intelligence apparently had(have?) been conducting industrial espionage particularly against American aerospace industry. They spy and steal from American aerospace executive. Lesson to be learned from this: American aerospace industry still leads the world!

    By contrast to the French John Rizzo in his book claims that the CIA never provide any benefit to US private sectors. Despite this US private sectors are quite willing to help the CIA! One Hollywood star said to his CIA handler that he is willing to be CIA asset for free with just 1 condition: that the CIA provide the highest quality cocaine that worth 50,000 dollars. I think at the highest quality you could only get several grams of that! Rizzo rejected this because the CIA is not allowed to break the American law. Rizzo also mentioned how he went to meet a CEO of a US multinational and the guy simply said: "Look son, you don't have to tell me of all the risks. I'm a rich sumbitch and I want to help the CIA!" Lesson to be learned from all this: Americans are patriotic!