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UG#605 - The Institutionalized Shadows of Psychopaths (Histories of the CIA/FBI)

Robin Upton | 04.01.2013 21:20 | History | Policing | Sheffield | World

In our first hour this episode we hear author Tim Weiner on the FBI and the 48 year reign of its founder, J. Edgar Hoover, whom Weiner describes as 'a Machiavelli'. In our second hour, a vintage recording of Alan Francovich speaking about On Company Business, his groundbreaking 1980 film on the CIA.

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A two parter this week, first the FBI, then the CIA. What do these organizations do -- if anything -- which justifies their secret status and huge budgets? We begin with a recording of author Tim Weiner speaking in March 2012 at the London School of Economics on his new book, Enemies:- A History of The FBI. Weiner characterizes the FBI as being very much a product of its director of 48 years(!) J. Edgar Hoover, whom Weiner describes as 'a Machiavelli'. Although apparently a harsh critic of the FBI, he stops short of demanding a fundamental change of system, in fact concluding his speech with the unexpected sentiment that Americans are safer than a decade ago and just as free. "Let's keep our fingers crossed", he urges. I hope you'll find the depth of his scholarship on the FBI sufficient to overlook such a trivializing sentiment.

In our second hour, a vintage recording (1982?) of the classic cable TV show, Alternative Views. Alan Francovich speaks about his groundbreaking 1980 film, On Company Business - made after 5 years of research - which was the first to tackle the activities of the CIA in any depth.

Robin Upton
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further reading

06.01.2013 12:04

OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual
 http://cryptome.org/oss-sabotage.zip

CIA: Sabotage Materials
 http://cryptome.org/cia-creep.zip

CIA: US Domestic Intelligence Collection
 http://cryptome.org/cia-us-spy.zip

Drones in Domestic Surveillance Operations
 http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R42701.pdf

Counting Drone Strike Deaths
 http://cryptome.org/2012/10/drone-death-count.pdf

FBI Social Media and Open Sources Spying
 http://cryptome.org/2012/01/0065.pdf

Soviet Wing-in-Ground-Effect Vehicles
 http://cryptome.org/cia-88-10070.zip

fbi-ecoterrorism-tactics-2004
 http://wlstorage.net/file/fbi-ecoterrorism-tactics-2004.pdf

DHS/FBI - Suspicious Vehicle Fires
 http://cryptocomb.org/Suspicious_Vehicle_Fires.pdf

FBI files on The Anarchist Cookbook, 1971-1999
 http://www.governmentattic.org/4docs/FBI-AnarchistsCookbook_1971-1999.pdf

FBI/DHS Memo on 'Examining Lone Shooters and Small-Unit Tactics'
 http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/JIB_Use_of_Small_Arms_Examining_Lone_Shooters.pdf

FBI docs
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/investigative/documents/nsl_documents_full_011910.pdf

FBI Computer Patheticism
 http://cryptome.org/nara/fbi/fbi-04-0204.pdf

How the FBI Surveils the Net
 http://cryptome.org/fbi-cgvop.zip

FBI Quietly Forms 'Net-Surveillance' Unit
 http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57439734-83/fbi-quietly-forms-secretive-net-surveillance-unit/

TRAILBLAZER and THINTHREAD Systems
 http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/ig-thinthread.pdf

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