The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA

Book info: The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA (Hardcover, 424 pages) – W W Norton & Co Inc, 1987. Language: English.

Show how American defense and intelligence were involved in an operation that promoted the drug trade, tax evasion, and gun running Editorial Reviews From Library Journal When the Tower Commission concluded that the Iran-contra affair was an aberration, it was wrong. Those who doubt the existence of what David Wise and Thomas Ross in 1964 called the " Invisible Government" should read Kwitny's detailed, chilling expose of the network of current and former military men and intelligence operatives who conducted a far-reaching "covert" operation behind the cover of an Australian bank. After the Nugan Hand bank collapsed in 1980, what emerged (according to this book, not the official investigation) is a web of crime, corruption, drugs, and CIA complicity in undermining a friendly nation's politics and defrauding ordinary people that makes Watergate, if not Contra-gate, look like a Sunday school picnic. Wall Street Journal correspondent Kwitny is the author of Endless Enemies . H. Steck, Political Science Dept., SUNY Coll. at Cortland
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