27-01-2010, 08:26 PM
Hank Albarelli, Jr., author of the seminal A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Cold War Experiments, graciously has agreed to join us at the Deep Politics Forum.
This extraordinarily important and courageous book is to be lauded not just for the breadth of its subject matters, but also for the manners in which it links them operationally and, for lack of a more precise word, philosophically.
I am starting Albarelli-related threads here and on the JFK and Books sections of our forum -- and that's just for starters.
A Terrible Mistake is published by the redoubtable TrineDay. It is not to be missed.
You devoted entire chapters of your book to "Bluebird," "Artichoke," and the intriguingly titled "Magic, Hypnosis, and High Strangeness." How would you describe "magic" and "high strangeness" in terms of their practical applications to intel ops?
This extraordinarily important and courageous book is to be lauded not just for the breadth of its subject matters, but also for the manners in which it links them operationally and, for lack of a more precise word, philosophically.
I am starting Albarelli-related threads here and on the JFK and Books sections of our forum -- and that's just for starters.
A Terrible Mistake is published by the redoubtable TrineDay. It is not to be missed.
You devoted entire chapters of your book to "Bluebird," "Artichoke," and the intriguingly titled "Magic, Hypnosis, and High Strangeness." How would you describe "magic" and "high strangeness" in terms of their practical applications to intel ops?
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene