15. Bob Woodward, Veil: The CIA’s Secret Wars, 1981-87 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), p. 49.
16. Johnson, America’s Secret Power, p. 62.
17. Robert M. Gates, “The CIA and American Foreign Policy,” Foreign Affairs 66 (Winter 1987-88), p. 227.
18. Johnson, America’s Secret Power, p. 62. See also Harold P. Ford, CIA and Vietnam Policymakers: Three Episodes, 1962-1968 (Washington: Central Intelligence Agency, 1998), pp. 86-104.
19. Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (Church Committee), Final Report, 94th Cong. 2nd sess. (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1976), 1:78; Johnson, Americas Secret Power, p. 64.
20. See Federation of American Scientists, Weapons of Mass Destruction, R-36/ SS-9 SCARP, http://wvvw.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/icbm/r-36.htm; and Fred Kaplan, “The Rumsfeld Intelligence Agency,” Slate, October 28, 2002, http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action-print8dd- 2073238.
21. Coll, Ghost Wars, p. 562.
22. McGovern, “Cheney’s Cat’s Paw.”
23. See Clarke, Against All Enemies; Anonymous (Michael Scheuer), Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror (Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 2004); and Scheuer, “How Not to Catch a Terrorist,” Atlantic Monthly, December 2004, pp. 50-52. See also Scheuer, “Why I Resigned from the CIA,” Los Angeles Times, December 5, 2004.
24. Karen Kwiatkowski, “The New Pentagon Papers,” March 10, 2004, http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/03/10/osp_moveon/; “Karen Kwiatkowski: Archives,” http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski-arch.html; Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest, “The Lie Factory,” Mother Jones, January-February 2004, pp. 34-41; Marc Cooper, “Soldier for the Truth: Exposing Bush’s Talking-points War,” LA Weekly, February 20-26, 2004. Colonel Kwiatkowski also made an important contribution to Eugene Jarecki’s documentary film Why We Fight, which won the gold medal at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.
25. Joseph C. Wilson, “What I Didn’t Find in Africa,” New York Times, July 6, 2003, http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0706-02.htm; Wilson, “A Right-Wing Smear Is Gathering Steam,” Los Angeles Times, July 21, 2004; Wilson, “Our 27 Months of Hell,” Los Angeles Times, October 29, 2005; Neil Mackay, “Niger and Iraq: The War’s Biggest Lie,” Sunday Herald, July 13, 2003, http://www.sundayherald.com/print35264; Edward Alden, “Naming of Agent was Aimed at Discrediting CIA,” Financial Times, October 25, 2003; James Risen, “How Niger Uranium Story Defied Wide Skepticism,” New York Times, July 14, 2004; Ian Masters, “Who Forged the Niger Documents?” AlterNet, April 7, 2005, http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/21704; Frank Rich, “Follow the Uranium,” New York Times, July 17, 2005; Tom Hamburger and Peter Wrallsten, “Top Aides Reportedly Set Sights on Wilson,” Los Angeles Times, July 18, 2005; Matthew Yglesias, “Follow the Documents,” American Prospect Online, July 19, 2005, http://www.prospect.org/web/printfriendly-view.ww?id=10015.
26. Gary C. Schroen, First In: An Insider’s Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan (Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 2005).
27. Melissa Boyle Mahle, Denial and Deception: An Insider’s View of the CIA from Iran-Contra to 9/11 (New York: Nation Books, 2005).
28. Quoted by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., “The Imperial Presidency Redux,” Washington Post, June 28, 2003. Also see Mark Hubbard and Stephen Fidler, “No Smoking Gun: How Intelligence May Have Been Exaggerated, Misinterpreted, and Manipulated,” Financial Times, June 4, 2003.
29. Douglas Jehl, “Ex-CIA Chief Nets $500,000 on Talk Circuit,” New York Times, November 11, 2004.
30. Greg Miller, “Goss Isn’t Done with Housecleaning at CIA,” Los Angeles Times, November 18, 2004; Douglas Jehl, “Director of Analysis at CIA Is the Latest to Be Forced Out,” New York Times, December 29, 2004.
31. Spencer Ackerman, “Killing the Messenger,” Salon, November 16, 2004.
32. Walter Pincus and Dana Priest, “Bush Orders the CIA to Hire More Spies,” Washington Post, November 24, 2004.
33. Johnson, America’s Secret Power, p. 106.
34. Thomas Powers, “Inside the Department of Dirty Tricks,” Atlantic Monthly, August 1979, pp. 33-64.
35. Johnson, America’s Secret Power, p. 107.
36. Powers, “Department of Dirty Tricks.”
37. Peter Kornbluh, The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability (New York: New Press, 2003, A National Security Archive Book), p. xvi.
38. The most important source is Kornbluh, Pinochet File. See also Peter Kornbluh, “The Chile Coup—The U.S. Hand,” iF Magazine.com, October 25, 1998; John Dinges, “Pulling Back the Veil on Condor,” Nation, July 24-31, 2000; Peter Kornbluh, “CIA Outrages in Chile,” Nation, October 16, 2000; Diana Jean Schemo, “Kissinger Cool to Criticizing Junta in ’76,” New York Times, October 1, 2004; Associated Press, “Chile Torture Victims to Get Compensation,” New York Times, November 29, 2004. On Kissinger’s attempts to hide his role in the overthrow of Salvador Allende and the promotion of the Pinochet dictatorship, see Scott Sherman, “The Maxwell Affair,” Nation, June 21, 2004; Sherman, “Kissinger’s Shadow Over the Council on Foreign Relations,” Nation, December 27, 2004; and Kenneth Maxwell, “The Case of
