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The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton

Here are some highlights from this 2017 book: * The New Criticism that Angleton treasured was a powerful method, not merely for its insights into poetry but for its implicitly conservative worldview. It was not value-free. On the contrary, its … Continue reading

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The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future

Chris Whipple writes in his 2020 book: * Petraeus, Brennan’s predecessor, had suffered a precipitous fall from grace. The celebrated former commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, and architect of the Iraq War “surge,” Petraeus brought … Continue reading

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Why Do Ex-CIA Officers Such As Valerie Plame Despise Israel?

A friend says: “Regarding Giraldi, it is very rare to see or read an ex cia officer having good things to say about Israel. Whether it is Ray McGovern, Phil Giraldi, Robert Baer or Michael Scheuer, and those are just … Continue reading

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Who Killed Michael Hastings, Jorge Haider?

Steve Sailer wrote Nov. 5, 2013: People who make themselves obnoxious to the Washington-Wall Street axis of power tend to get in trouble on sex charges (Spitzer, Assange, and Strauss-Kahn). So, when investigative reporter Michael Hastings, who had brought down … Continue reading

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Everybody’s Racist

Comments to Steve Sailer: * There’s a translation of what he actually said used to describe racial differences: In Africa the so-called small r strategy prevails, which aims for as high a growth rate as possible. There the so-called dissemination … Continue reading

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