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  Me & Lee — Publisher's Foreword

  Kris 5:44 pm on July 30, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  Publisher’s Foreword

  Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
  Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

  ~William Shakespeare, Macbeth – Act 5, Scene 5

  Lee was a government agent.

  ~ Marguerite Oswald

  What does it take to move people to take action? How can our republic be restored when many refuse to realize the sad state of our current affairs? Cloaked in America’s Providence, our hijacked ship of state plunders the world for inbred criminal corporations leaving our collective fortunes tattered, tired and tied to exploitation, ignorance, greed, and gross injustice.

  How did this happen? Did we just lose our way; get distracted; make some wrong decisions; morph into sleeping couch potatoes; or what?

  My investigation of history tells me that something more than the simple foibles of man have led to today’s dysfunctional corruption, something more than misguided misfits, malcontents and mavericks sullying our Pilgrims’ Progress. Something more than “Lone Nuts.”

  Judyth Vary Baker’s Me & Lee – How I came to know, love and lose Lee Harvey Oswald brings that point home in spades. Born out of a desire that children should know the truth about their father, Judyth’s narrative of her meeting, and loving, Lee Oswald that humid summer of 1963 in New Orleans allows us all to know him, as we never have before.

  Me & Lee gives us a deep glimpse of the man: his private and public world. A person we knew, and someone of whom we had no idea. Judyth’s tale brings the light of understanding to bothersome breadcrumbs strewn about the dark forest of our national nightmare. Incongruent facts come out of the cold, forming a consistent detailed chronicle.

  Contrary to published accounts, Lee Harvey Oswald was a patriot who loved his country. He submersed himself in an officially-sanctioned covert arena where one’s inventive “legend” becomes entry into a netherworld of intrigue, compartmentalization, secret operations and contrived situations. Where one can be for or against something/someone, depending on whichever guise is called up by a taskmaster giving the high sign through the shadows of plausible deniability: a wilderness of chicanery, deceit and double/triple crosses.

  According to all the major polls, no more than 36% of Americans have ever believed that Lee Oswald was the lone assassian, and the number has been generally around 15%, with a low of 10% in 1992 the year after Oliver Stone’s epic JFK. The most recent polls show around 20% of the population believes Oswald  “acted alone.” This after nearly fifty years of an almost constant “Oswald=Lone Nut Assassin” media assault, including a 2003 fortieth anniversary special, where an august Peter Jennings informed the nation: Lee Harvey Oswald did the dirty deed all by his lonesome and ABC has the computer graphics to prove it!

  Spin Control, Perception Management, Reality Engineering, Operation Mockingbird, the Great Wurlitzer, whatever you call it: the strategic psychological operations designed to manipulate our media and cover up the mega-misdeeds of flagrant corruption keep us all woefully unaware of the base reality engulfing our institutions, our history and … our future. Ignorance is bliss?

  Agnotology is the “scientific study of culturally induced ignorance”: such as when intelligence agencies or other shadow players use their behind-the-scenes capabilities of media spin to conceal scurrilous activities and agendas. Gaming the system and us.

  The cost of this mercenary connivance is our heritage, our liberty, our freedom, our country and … our future. For without an honest dialogue, we become puppets of rhetoric: robotic serfs in a corporate-controlled world, mere pre-programmed economic units instead of vital sovereign human beings. As has been said, “Perfect slaves think they are free.”

  Me & Lee gives an opportunity for us to understand the depth of our “ignorance.” We all owe Judyth Baker a huge debt and much thanks for her courage, forbearance, tenacity and grit in bringing to us all her very personal and revelatory story. A journey that has been beset with the trials and tribulations of exposing unwelcome truths.

  Is America’s destiny gone? Will it return? Whither thou, O Columbia?

  I was in Mrs. Helser’s eighth-grade Spanish class when the announcement of the assassination came over the room’s loudspeaker. Soon there came a note: my work had called (I was a paperboy), and I was sent out on the streets to sell newspapers. I had never done that before and only did it one other time, two days later when Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered … as the lies and legends arose.

  Onwards to the Utmost of Futures
  Peace,
  Kris Millegan
  Publisher
  TrineDay
  July 14, 2010

   

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  King of Nepal — Publisher's Foreword

  Kris 5:41 pm on July 30, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  Publisher’s Foreword

  I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

  —Willie Nelson

  Marijuana, cannabis, hemp, weed, ganja, pakalolo, boo … it goes by many names, and has a long association with mankind. It is one of the oldest domesticated crops, so much so that there are no true wild strains, all feral plants have been found to be escapees from somebody’s garden, sometime, somewhere.

  Author Joseph Pietri takes us back to the burgeoning of the hippie counterculture, amid the energy, excitement and adventure of the times. Times when you could travel freely in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, India and other countries, where you could freely buy, smoke and consume marijuana … as had been done for millennia.

  The King of Nepal chronicles the rise, heyday and demise of the Hippie Hashish Trail. An adventure that always lead to Nepal, where the marijuana trade was regulated by the government, giving stability and income for the locals and an exciting locale for the Westerners that met, partied, and endeavoured to bring the hashish to the their friends at home — a good ol‘ boy (and girl) network soon developed. Many of these travelers embraced the local culture and a vibrant scene developed in Nepal, Goa, and other places. Then along came, Dick Nixon’s War on Drugs where Asian governments were paid millions to make marijuana illegal. Soon the hippies were replaced by heroin-selling gangsters. Imagine that!

  Prohibitions don’t work. Never have. Never will. The current strictures are not about our health, our children or our community, but in keeping in place a black-market that creates huge profits giving “hidden” forces undue influence in our lives. The unconstitutional Drug War needs to end.

  Onwards to the utmost of futures,
  Peace,
  Kris Millegan
  Publisher
  TrineDay
  4/20/10

   
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  Radical Peace — Publisher’s Foreword

  Kris 5:38 pm on July 30, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  Publisher’s Foreword

  Peace is costly but it is worth the expense.
  —African Proverb

  Abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain peace.
  —Krishna

  All we are saying is give peace a chance.
  If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.
  If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
  —John Lennon

  One cannot simultaneously prepare for war and create peace.
  —Anon

  An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

  If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

  Peace is its own reward.

  Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
  —Mohandas Gandhi

  There was never a good war or a bad peace.
  —Benjamin Franklin

  I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
  —Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
  —John Fitzgerald Kennedy

  In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

  —Croesus

  One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication to discern that while everybody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobody’s business among the power-wielders. Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
  —Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
  —Dorothy Thompson

  Naturally the common people don’t want war.… That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
  —Hermann Goering

  You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.
  —Indira Gandhi

  Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.
  —Robert Fulghum

  Peace be with you.
  —Genesis 43:23

  Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
  —Matthew 5:9

  Onward to the utmost of futures!
  Peace,
  Kris Millegan
  March 19, 2010

   
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  FRENCH QUERY U.S. STATE DEPT. ABOUT LSD ATTACK

  Kris 9:12 am on February 3, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  

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  FRENCH GOVERNMENT QUERIES U.S. STATE DEPT. ABOUT LSD ATTACK

  Washington, D.C. — According to informed sources, the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research has received a confidential inquiry from the office of Erard Corbin de Mangoux, head of the French intelligence agency, Directorate General for External Security (DGSE), concerning a recent account of American government complicity in a mysterious 1951 incident of mass insanity in France. The DGSE is the French counterpart of the CIA.

  The incident took place in the village of Pont-Saint-Esprit in southern France, and is described in a recent book about the 1953 death of an American biochemist, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments. The book, by investigative journalist H.P. Albarelli Jr., was published in late November 2009 by TrineDay, which specializes in books about “suppressed information.”

  The strange outbreak severely affected nearly five hundred people, causing the deaths of at least five. For nearly 60 years the Pont-St.-Esprit incident has been attributed either to ergot poisoning, meaning that villagers consumed bread infected with a psychedelic mold, or to organic mercury poisoning. But Albarelli reports that the outbreak resulted from a covert LSD aerosol experiment directed by the US Army’s top-secret Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick, Maryland. He notes that the scientists who produced both alternative explanations worked for the Sandoz Pharmaceutical Company, which was then secretly supplying both the Army and CIA with LSD.

  The effect was devastating, as a contemporary French report made clear: “It is neither Shakespeare nor Edgar Poe. It is, alas, the sad reality all around Pont-St.-Esprit and its environs, where terrifying scenes of hallucinations are taking place. They are scenes straight out of the Middle Ages, scenes of horror and pathos, full of sinister shadows.” Even Time magazine took notice: “Among the stricken, delirium rose: patients thrashed wildly on their beds, screaming that red flowers were blossoming from their bodies, that their heads had turned to molten lead. Pont-Saint-Esprit’s hospital reported four attempts at suicide.”

  A Department of Justice website on the dangers of LSD states that in the early 1950s “the Sandoz Chemical Company went as far as promoting LSD as a potential secret chemical warfare weapon to the U.S. Government. Their main selling point in this was that a small amount in a main water supply or sprayed in the air could disorient and turn psychotic an entire company of soldiers leaving them harmless and unable to fight.” The CIA entertained a number of proposals from American scientists concerning placing a large amount of LSD into the reservoir of a medium-to-large city, but, according to former agency officials, “the experiment was never approved due to the unexpected number of deaths during the operation in France.”

  Albarelli also describes a series of small, secret chemical attacks by the CIA on the New York City subway system during the 1950s. Recently, the Army has referred to these experiments as “simulated tests,” but contemporary documents make no reference to simulation. An August 1950 FBI memorandum refers to “planned BW [biological warfare] experiments in the New York Subway System in September, 1950,” expressing concerns about “poisoning the water supply of a large metropolitan area at the source … the poisoning of food … sold to the general public.”

  In its quest to research LSD as an offensive weapon, Albarelli claims, the Army drugged over 5,700 unwitting American servicemen between the years 1953 and 1965, and, with the CIA, experimented widely with LSD and other drugs through secret contracts with over 325 colleges, universities and research institutions in the U.S., Canada and Europe, involving about 2,500 additional subjects, many of them hospital patients and college students.

  According to an official with the DGSE, who declined to be identified, “If the details of this book’s revelations prove to be true, it will be very upsetting for the people of Pont-St.-Esprit, as well as all French citizens. That agencies of the United States government would deliberately target innocent foreign citizens for such an experiment is a violation of a number of international laws and treaties.”

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  The Shadow Masters – Publisher's Foreword

  Kris 3:57 pm on January 21, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  Publisher’s Foreword

  

  We Haven’t/We Aren’t

  “A Republic if you can keep it.”
  — Ben Franklin, when queried about our form of government, 1787.

  The simple, straightforward fact is that we haven’t. Where it went and what happened are questions that snarl along the edges of our fettered complacency – while a profane oligarchy tugs us and our children along its turbulent path of economic efficiency, sacrificing quaint ideas of personal freedoms and liberties at the altar of “homeland” security, and “your papers, please.” Goodness, how did we get trapped in such a trite B-movie?

  Daniel Estulin told some of the how and why in his best-selling book, The True Story of the Bilderberg Group. With Shadow Masters he shines a light on scurrilous activity happening behind the curtains, exposing the tactics being used to enthrall us, to divide us – to rule us.

  It is sad, but true: the people no longer rule. Our republic of, by and for the people has morphed into a rampant empire run by corporate overseers using every means, some sinister, to increase their power, profit, and prestige .

  Seeking to divorce us from our heritages, our institutions, our families and our faiths, sophisticated methods of propaganda and psychological warfare plus simple bald-faced lies have been deployed, ripping our social fabric into disparate factional futility. There is honesty within each camp which soon gets debased through rhetoric, creating cogs in the machinery of control – to be called up on cue.

  Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
  — Ben Franklin, 1755

  As much as things change they stay the same. Here we are, in the formative years of the 21st century, almost 234 years since our country’s Declaration of Independence, and we are still fighting some of the same battles of liberty and freedom. Many of our fellow citizens do not seem to notice or care, unaware of our mutuality and the responsibilities that come entwined. As someone succinctly stated, “Perfect slaves think they are free.” Again, the simple, straightforward fact is negative, “we aren’t.” Our Republic has been subsumed by forces within and beyond, leaving a beholden mediocracy  built upon misery, tragedy and poverty.

  Daniel Estulin shows that the Shadow Masters, in their quest for total control, construct sleight-of-hand misdirections, attracting our attention here and there, while the underlying actions subvert nations, their people and their commonwealth. From crisis to crisis, from one “Hitler” to the next, we have all been strung along, led to choose sides, which then shape our roles in this “drama of history.”

  The consolidation of the corporate press and its infiltration by intelligence agencies brings us a world where the frauds and fabrications of spooks become daily fare for us mere mortal fish-wrapper readers, leaving us susceptible to what they are selling.

  Little strokes fell great oaks.
  — Ben Franklin, 1757

  They say knowledge is power; it is also said that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Learning of the duplicity of the world, are we willing to step out of the comfortable cocoon of our reality when we find that the truth of the matter presents us with revelations beyond our ken and lays at our feet responsibilities we care not to fathom or shoulder? Lately, we have run away, diverted our eyes from what is done in our name. Tyrants and tyranny have always been with us. Will we stand up and do what needs doing, or succumb to the vulgarities of the age?

  God helps them that help themselves.
  — Ben Franklin, 1757

  Shadow Masters shows us the tricks of the trade, how “they” will play the ends against the middle and back again. How the world stage is set to beguile our sensibilities, provoke the desired reaction and send us on our merry way. It isn’t whether you will be amazed, astonished, disgusted or whatever, but whether you will use these reactions to question authority, act in our own best interests and revitalize our Republic … and then see if we can keep it.

  Onwards to the utmost of futures!

  Peace,
  Kris Millegan
  Publisher
  TrineDay
  January 21, 2010

   
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  Kris 8:37 am on December 16, 2009 | 3 Permalink | Reply
  

  

  CIA Requests Its Own Documents From Author

  WALTERVILLE, Ore. — In a bizarre about-face, the secretive Central Intelligence Agency has requested documents from an investigative journalist, even though the writer had earlier obtained them from the CIA itself under the Freedom of Information Act.

  

  The strange request was made last week to author H.P. Albarelli Jr., whose recently published book A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments, details a myriad of CIA drug experiments and exposes a large number of previously anonymous physicians and business officials who contracted with the agency. The experiments resulted in the deaths of a number of people and sent hundreds more seeking medical help.

  “The caller, an agency official, who identified himself by a name I was quite familiar with from past requests,” explained Albarelli, “asked if I would be so kind as to send by fax two documents my book referenced in its narrative and footnotes. I suppose I should have been bowled over by the request, but I wasn’t. It happened once before.”

  “The crazy thing,” added Albarelli, “is that all of the requested documents came from my FOI requests to the agency in the early 1990s.”

  The documents requested from Albarelli centered on two subjects. The first top-secret CIA document details a meeting between an official of the Sandoz Chemical Company and an undercover CIA operator. The document reveals a close relationship between the firm and the agency, and provides stunning details about a mysterious 1951 outbreak of “insanity” in a small French town, Pont St. Esprit. In a covert experiment, the village was surreptitiously administered the powerful hallucinogen LSD in an attempt to see if there was a viable method of waging war without killing people or destroying property. A related document appears to reveal that famed LSD inventor, Albert Hoffmann, maintained a close relationship with the CIA.

  The second document requested reveals intelligence links between one of the criminals who murdered Frank Olson and the assassination of JFK, including a possible working relationship with suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. About seven years ago, after an Internet article by Albarelli, an agency official requested that Albarelli send the CIA a copy of a top-secret report from the CIA’s Robert Lashbrook to Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, director of its Chemical Division. The document concerned a Pentagon and CIA cover-up of the 1953 death of a patient at the New York Psychiatric Institute. That patient, Harold Blauer, was killed by an injection of drugs administered under a covert CIA contract.

  A Terrible Mistake is published by TrineDay, an Oregon-based company that specializes in books that are shunned by mainstream publishers due to their controversial nature.

  

  H.P. Albarelli Jr. has written a number of groundbreaking newspaper, magazine and Internet articles, including several on the Olson case, as well as topics such as anthrax, Cuba, child abuse and intelligence matters. His novel The Heap was published in 2005. More information on A Terrible Mistake can be found at: http://www.aterriblemistake.com

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  For interviews and/or review copies, please contact:

  Kent Goodman – publicity@trineday.net - 1.541.954.8142 – 1.800.556.2012

   
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  Kris 8:32 am on December 16, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  

  

  Explosive New Book Exposes the CIA, LSD Experiments and Murder

  Most Americans remember vague details of a person who had been given LSD and subsequently jumped out a window of a New York hotel back in the Fifties. They might also recall that it had something to do with the CIA. It certainly did. It was murder.

  In a new explosive and staggeringly researched book, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments, author H.P. Albarelli Jr. details once highly-classified accounts of the CIA’s experiments with LSD and other drugs in a series of biochemical experiments. These covert actions on unsuspecting individuals resulted in at least five deaths and three hundred people seeking medical care.

  For decades, the seemingly unrelated mysteries of Dr. Frank Olson’s strange suicide in 1953 and the bizarre hallucinogenic breakout in the French village of Pont St. Esprit in August 1951 have independently perplexed serious investigators. The subjects have been rehashed in countless accounts on the Internet and in many television news features and documentaries over the years. However, using secret and never-before revealed CIA reports obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, the author has tied together these two events, along with many others. His startling conclusion is that the CIA had high hopes of using LSD to develop a truth serum and perhaps even to create a person who would unwittingly murder on command. Those ends became the rationale to study the drug being administered surreptitiously, including the dosing of an entire French village plus hundreds of unknowing civilians, hospital patients, prisoners and military personnel.

  The 900-page book exposes the reasons behind Dr. Olson’s murder, and also identifies the men responsible for the crime, including their ties with Lee Harvey Oswald, the murder of JFK and their role in the infamous French Connection heroin case. In addition, the book provides a tremendous amount of detail about CIA-sponsored mind control and assassination programs like the Artichoke Project, MK/ULTRA, MK/NAOMI and QK/HILLTOP. Some of the interrogation techniques begun by these programs are still in use today.

  A Terrible Mistake is published by TrineDay, an Oregon-based company that specializes in releasing books that are shunned by mainstream publishers due to their controversial nature.

  H.P. Albarelli Jr. has written a number of groundbreaking newspaper, magazine and Internet articles, including several on the Olson case, as well as topics such as anthrax, Cuba, child abuse and intelligence matters. His novel The Heap was published in 2005. He works in the legal profession and was a member of the Carter administration. More information on A Terrible Mistake can be found at: http://www.aterriblemistake.com

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  For interviews and/or review copies, please contact:

  Kent Goodman – publicity@trineday.net - 1.541.954.8142 – 1.800.556.2012

   
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  A Terrible Mistake -- Publisher’s Foreword

  Kris 8:13 am on December 16, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  Publisher’s Foreword

  Because something is happening here
  But you don’t know what it is
  Do you, Mister Jones?
  —Bob Dylan

  The week after high school graduation, I “ran-away” from home. It was 1967, and I was 17 and had barely made the pomp walk, not because of grades, but hair. Late in my senior year my “Modern Problems” teacher kicked me out of his class. I thought, “Great … don’t have to come to school till third period.” Soon I was in the principal’s office watching my mother cry. I wasn’t going to be allowed to graduate because my hair was over my ears. I cut my hair.

  A few days after tossing the tassel, I wrote a note to the folks, said I was taking off for some time on my own, and hitchhiked down to Southern California to see an old grade school buddy.

  Whoa, what a culture shock, small-town Oregon versus Los Angeles. Now, I had been in the big city before as a visitor, but never to run with the locals. My friend’s school was still in session, so I went along with him for several days, celebrated his graduation, and went out on the town. California kids were wild, betting hundreds of dollars on street races in their cars, sneaking into strip clubs and on to private beaches, drinking and carousing, heck they even had their own drunk tank at their high school’s graduation dance.

  My folks had contacted my friend’s parents before I even got there — it was decided I was simply taking a “vacation.” After a week or so, it was time to start heading home. Light My Fire by the Doors was all over the radio, and the DJs were talking about an event, with a bunch of bands, up the road. I said goodbye to my friend and stuck out my thumb.

  There’s something happening here
  What it is ain’t exactly clear
  —Buffalo Springfield

  I had stumbled upon the Monterey International Pop Music Festival. My friend had jokingly told me about some of his old drinking buddies who wore nothing but white sheets and hung out at an esoteric bookstore. I didn’t visit, but Monterey more than introduced me to a new phenomenon then booming through my generation.

  By the time I got to the Monterey County Fairgrounds, I was broke and hungry, and began searching the ground for a dime to buy an orange or an apple (the cheapest food I could see for sale). My eyes spied a white envelope, I picked it up, written on the envelope was “Jones,” inside was a ticket to get into the arena, and in I went. Blues Project started the show, Mammas & Papas closed the night, with Hendrix, Joplin, the Who, the Grateful Dead, and others sprinkled in between.

  It may have been the music, or maybe the fact that I never found that dime, no matter, I got a “contact” high. Something was definitely happening here … LSD. Published reports have Augustus Owsley Stanley III giving out 14,000 tabs, free.

  And they thought it couldn’t happen here
  They knew it couldn’t happen here
  They were so sure it couldn’t happen here
  But …
  —Mothers of Invention

  A Terrible Mistake, presents the hidden history of government activity with LSD, and of other covert initiatives that were coordinated by a small secretive cadre. Their actions have affected many, many people … dramatically. “They” even lost lives — some cry “murder!” — and covered up the deeds. Bureaucracies are like that.

  In the Machiavellian hubris of our day, power is dealt from the shadows, laying waste to our Constitution, while tricks and games enthrall an increasingly scratching populace. People are forced to the ground, allowed only to raise their heads to squabble on cue. Ours is a debased dysfunctional Republic, where our people are obese, our prisons are full, our schoolchildren do with less (some even homeless), our coins have slugs in them, our wars fought more and more by mercenaries, and our free press isn’t — all while asking our children and those yet to be born … to foot the bill.

  Is this just the way of the world? Or are we seeing consequences from dark actions taken by a few — in secret, beyond supervision and reproach?

  My father, a repentent “spook,” in a 1979 interview, said: “It’s a far more constructive experience to work for the church than to work for the Central Intelligence Agency. When you work for the CIA, the end justifies the means.”

  LSD was seen as a means to an end. Operations Bluebird, MKULTRA and all the other secret projects were seen as means to an end. The shattered and dead people were means to an end. The lies, secrecy and cover-ups were means to an end. Have we arrived at the “ends” desired?

  TrineDay is amazed and pleased to be publishing A Terrible Mistake, a work while examining the veiled forecasted ends, exposes many of the wayward shoddy means, and at last — through the author’s perseverance plus a little kismet — puts to rest an old official lie with the simple, mundane … truth.

  Oh, what’s going on
  What’s going on
  Ya, what’s going on
  Ah, what’s going on
  —Marvin Gaye

  Onwards to the utmost of futures,

  Peace,
  Kris Millegan
  Publisher
  TrineDay

  September 22, 2009

   
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  The Strength of the Pack: The Personalities, Politics and Espionage Intrigues that Shaped the DEA

  Kris 3:42 pm on October 13, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

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  The Strength of the Pack: The Personalities, Politics and Espionage Intrigues that Shaped the DEA

  Through interviews with former narcotics agents, politicians, and bureaucrats, this exposé documents previously unknown aspects of the history of federal drug law enforcement, from the formation of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and the creation of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) up until the present day. Written in an easily accessible style, the narrative examines how successive administrations expanded federal enforcement operations at home and abroad; investigates how the CIA compromised the war on drugs; analyzes the Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and second Bush administrations’ failed attempts to alter the DEA’s course; and traces the agency’s evolution into its current stage of “narco-terrorism.”

  Doug Valentine belongs to that precious remnant of journalists and historians with the wisdom to see our time, the integrity and courage to write about it, and the literary grace to bring it all chillingly alive.  This indispensable book may quite well be the best yet in the author’s already singular body of work.  He takes us again into that dark inner reality of policy and politics that Americans so tragically deny and evade, and gives us back a reflection there is no denying, no escaping.  If there is hope for America at this moment of so many reckonings, it is out of pages like these.

  — Roger Morris, a member of the National Security Council under Presidents Johnson and Nixon, who resigned in protest over the invasion of Cambodia, is the author of bestselling biographies of Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and the Clintons

  The Strength of the Pack is an indispensible resource for those who wish to understand the politics of drug enforcement in America; and for those with any sense of the subject’s real importance it is a gripping read as well.

  — Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and English Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of The War Conspiracy; Cocaine Politics (co-author); Deep Politics and the Death of JFK; Drugs Oil and War

  (Bookflap)

  Many books have focused on the public policy aspects of federal drug law enforcement. But no book to date has plumbed as deeply into the secret policies, or taken as comprehensive a view of them, as this one.

  With complete objectivity, author Douglas Valentine maps out in documented detail the secret history of federal drug enforcement from 1968 until the present. More than that, he shows how that secret history dovetails into a myriad of seemingly unrelated national security matters around the world.

  With the declaration of a War on Drugs in 1971, the Nixon administration set the stage for the massive projection of American drug enforcement overseas. But the drug agencies involved were, from the start, deflected from their law enforcement mission by over-arching political and espionage intrigues.

  Valentine explains how a small handful of American drug enforcement agents and their operatives, under the direction of top CIA officials and politicians, have helped further the secret agenda of the national security state: from the Bay of Pigs, to Vietnam, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and Afghanistan.

  In many important legal and extra-legal respects, the techniques of the current War on Terror are seen to have their origins in the War on Drugs. Indeed, the modern technique of “rendition” was ripped right out of the drug war’s playbook.

  Time after time, as honest DEA agents were about to pounce on a large-scale dealer, higher authorities told them to walk away, explaining that the culprit was an “asset” in their clandestine operations.

  In other cases, in the name of “controlled delivery”, DEA agents were made to “look the other way” as shipments flowed into the US, supposedly to follow them up the food chain and hook the Big Fish.

  And so the streets of the world are still flooded with a sea of misery.

  In the words of a former agent, “I used to think we were fighting the drug business, but after they formed the BNDD [the DEA’s predecessor], I realized we were feeding it.”

  Valentine traces the CIA’s hi-jacking of federal drug law enforcement back to the early ’50s, when a handful of Federal Bureau of Narcotics agents, at the behest of the CIA, through its MKULTRA Program, set up safe houses for illegal drug-testing experiments on unwitting US civilians in San Francisco and New York City. Equipped with two-way mirrors, the drug agents were used to observe unsuspecting dupes, including US congressmen, under the influence of LSD. Over the next decade, federal drug agents helped sprinkle so much acid in the Bay Area “that it spawned the psychedelic generation.”

  The cast of The Strength Of The Pack includes many colorful characters, such as George Belk, a hard-drinking, bible thumping New York City district supervisor in the mid-’60s. A participant in the MKULTRA Program, Belk later became the DEA’s first chief of intelligence. Known for his dry sense of humor, Belk once asked the New York agent at a group meeting: “Don’t you ever think of giving these people a chance to surrender?”

  After 40 years, the War On Drugs is about to become the longest continuous war in history. Between the outright mayhem and the wasted lives, it may also be one of the most deadly.

  If you subscribe to the notion that peace is preferable, all wars must have a resolution.

  However, in The Strength of the Pack, Douglas Valentine explains why dismantling the $44 billion a year DEA behemoth is unlikely to happen, as long as America strives to maintain a world empire.

   
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  The Strength of the Pack

  Kris 6:40 pm on August 25, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  

  Publisher’s Foreword

  The small size of the room had me sitting on my little brother’s bed, while my dad and his friend sat on dining room chairs. It was September 1969, I had a 5-month-old daughter, was a partner in a thriving record store in Portland, had just helped pull off a successful rock festival headlining the Grateful Dead … and it was the day before my twentieth birthday. So, I had a few other things on my mind when my dad said, “It’s time to have that talk.”

  He was referring to a question he had asked me months earlier about the Vietnam War. I was young, and had given him a flip answer. He said we would have to have a “talk.”

  My dad had been waiting for a visit from Dr. D.F. Flemming, a Vanderbilt University professor and author of The Cold War and its Origins. We had met before when my family lived in Nashville in the late ’50s, but I had little recollection because at that time I was more concerned with baseball cards and bicycles.

  I felt strange as we three sat there, then my dad spoke right up saying, “The Vietnam War is about drugs.” He said other things: about secret societies, playing out a lose-scenario, sway pieces in the news, and more. My head was swimming. I didn’t understand what my dad was talking about. Early on in the discussion I thought my dad was having a parental “drug talk” with me, and I kept waiting for him to tell me not to smoke pot, etc. But dad kept on talking about his work in the intelligence field.

  He told me he had first been approached in 1936, when he was an exchange student to China. He had served in the Office of Strategic Services and was “placed” into the army in 1943, to report back on the doings around General MacArthur, among other duties. Later on in the Philippines, towards the end of WWII, my father worked with Colonel Edward Lansdale. This relationship continued while both were employed by the Central Intelligence Agency, where my dad’s last overt job was serving as Branch Chief, Head of East Asia Analysis Office. Lansdale would occasionally stop by the family home in rural Virginia, and a 1956 meeting with Lansdale in Tay Ninh Vietnam would play a big part in my father’s decision to leave the agency in 1959.

  Now my dad had never uttered a word to me alone, or in a family setting, about his “secret” work. So I was fascinated, but was also on the automatic pilot of a child being “talked to” by a parent. Dr. Flemming didn’t speak much, simply reinforcing some of my dad’s points. It quickly became apparent that I had no frame of reference for what was being said, and the talk soon ended.

  Further conservations, some rather heated, with my father continued my education into something I call CIA-drugs, a subject that officially doesn’t exist. There was a bit of reportage in the alternative press and some of the men’s magazines about possible involvement of our intelligence agencies with the drug trade. Then in late 1972 came Alfred McCoy’s ground-breaking exposé, Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, which seemed to validate my Dad’s words.

  During the ensuing years some light would shine now and then into this deep nether realm of quasi-official drug trafficking, generally to be blotted out by ceremonious denials and, when needed, the full force of a pliant media.

  That The Strength of the Pack a superb investigative work of history by a noted and respected author is being published by us, a small and relatively insignificant press, illustrates the power of officialdom … and money.

  This flimflammery is nothing new; the smuggling of narcotics has been an integral part of foreign policy decisions and the world’s “legitimate” economy for centuries. Indeed, as Professor Carl Trocki says in Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy, “The trade in such drugs usually results in some form of monopoly which not only centralizes the drug traffic, but also restructures much of the affiliated social and economic terrain in the process. In particular two major effects are the creation of mass markets and the generation of enormous, in fact unprecedented, cash flows. The existence of monopoly results in the accumulations of vast pools of wealth. The accumulations of wealth created by a succession of historic drug trades have been among the primary foundations of global capitalism.” He also realizes that, “drug economies have the power to destroy or seriously undermine an existing political order.” How true.

  My studies have concluded that our long-running Drug War has nothing to do with temperance, the health of our community, our children or ourselves, but simply serves to keep in place drug prohibitions that create a gigantic black market. A black market that allows “weeds” to be sold for, sometimes, even more than gold. An underground economy that may allow faceless forces to exert political and financial pressure from the shadows, creating situations where who knows whose eldritch hand one may be grasping.

  History shows that a state-regulated open market operates with less harm to civil institutions, and engenders less personal tragedy and social misery. The Strength of the Pack shows that America’s valiant federal drug law enforcement agents have been used as pawns in a rigged game, played in the dark … with their hands tied behind their backs.

  Onwards to the utmost of futures!
  Peace,
  Kris Millegan
  Publisher
  TrineDay
  August 18, 2009