{"product_id":"secrets-the-cias-war-at-home-9780520219557","title":"Secrets: The CIA's War at Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis eye-opening expos  the result of fifteen years of investigative work  uncovers the CIAs systematic efforts to suppress and censor information over several decades. An award-winning journalist  Angus Mackenzie waged and won a lawsuit against the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act and became a leading expert on questions concerning government censorship and domestic spying. In Secrets  he reveals how federal agencies--including the Department of Defense  the executive branch  and the CIA--have monitored and controlled public access to information. Mackenzie lays bare the behind-the-scenes evolution of a policy of suppression  repression  spying  and harassment.  Secrecy operations originated during the Cold War as the CIA instituted programs of domestic surveillance and agent provocateur activities. As antiwar newspapers flourished  the CIA set up an \"underground newspaper\" desk devoted  as Mackenzie reports  to various counterintelligence activities--from infiltrating organizations to setting up CIA-front student groups. Mackenzie also tracks the policy of requiring secrecy contracts for all federal employees who have contact with sensitive information  insuring governmental review of all their writings after leaving government employ.  Drawing from government documents and scores of interviews  many of which required intense persistence and investigative guesswork to obtain  and amassing story after story of CIA malfeasance  Mackenzie gives us the best account we have of the governments present security apparatus. This is a must-read book for anyone interested in the inside secrets of government spying  censorship  and the abrogation of First Amendment rights.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45657851527221,"sku":"ByrdShop_0520219554","price":25.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780520219557.jpg?v=1782056329","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/secrets-the-cias-war-at-home-9780520219557","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}