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To: Maple MAGA who wrote (772732)	11/26/2022 12:29:13 AM
From: didjuneau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793868

In the US, the CIA runs a parallel society on behalf of rich political elites. Doug Valentine explains in an interview with Whitney Webb. (see shorter old interview here: Message 34093203 ) mintpressnews.com MINTCAST INTERVIEWS DOUG VALENTINE, AUTHOR OF THE PHOENIX PROGRAM AND THE CIA AS ORGANIZED CRI MintCast co-host Whitney Webb interviews author, investigative journalist and poet Douglas Valentine about his extensive work on exposing the dark underbelly of the CIA and some of the agency’s most notorious covert programs. Webb and Valentine begin the interview discussing how Valentine’s journalistic work on the CIA led him to be spied on and even threatened by the agency and how being a dissident journalist in the 1990s compares to being one now. Valentine argues that, in the present, efforts to outlaw criticism of the state of Israel are like a gateway that will soon lead to the prohibition of criticism of the U.S. government and its intelligence agencies, the CIA among them. Valentine then touches on some of the themes covered in his book, The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World, including his assertion that the CIA operates as “the organized crime branch of the U.S. government” and his examination of how its activities have been influenced by its decades-long relationships with organized crime networks in the United States and throughout the world. Lastly, Webb and Valentine discuss the CIA’s long-standing interest in manipulating the media and how those efforts also extend to alternative media, not just mainstream media outlets. Valentine discusses the methods the CIA uses to target alternative, independent media and how we are seeing its efforts take place in real time. Follow Doug Valentine on Twitter or visit his website to learn more about his work.