Citation
Gelbspan, Ross. Break-Ins, Death Threats and the FBI: The Covert War Against the Central America Movement. South End Press, 1991. Google Books Link
Excerpts
| Page | Quote | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| x | ”his commitment to the truth-is-bad-enough school of investigative journalism” | |
| 46 | ”this disinformation [the ‘Handal trip documents’], generated by the El_Salvador security forces in collaboration with the CIA, was later used to prove that CISPES was, itself, a group set up to generate disinformation” | |
| 74 | ”World Anticommunist League members were invited to Taiwan’s Political Warfare Academy for training in counter-insurgency and police techniques, as well as to Argentina, where they were trained in brutal interrogation techniques by members of the Argentine military.” | Citation to Anderson, Inside the League (1986) |
| 88 | FBI: “the support groups that produce propaganda, disinformation, or legal assistance may be even more dangerous than those who actually throw the bombs.” | |
| 118 | Berlet (CISPES-affiliated activist): “Because you are so acutely aware of the propensity to become paranoid, you bend over backwards to be skeptical and un-paranoid” … “The battle over domestic civil liberties will never be won. It just has to keep being fought.” | |
| 123 | Walter Raymond Jr. in a memo to NSA: “Raymond referred to the need for a ‘sustained effort to garner support for our overall Centam policy, increase understanding of the issues and, in the specific case of Nicaragua, concentrate on gluing black hats on the Sandinistas and white hats on the Contras.” |
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Abstract
The core of this book, written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, documents the wide-ranging FBI assault on CISPES.
Metadata
FirstAuthor:: Gelbspan, Ross
Title:: Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI: The Covert War Against the Central America Movement ShortTitle:: Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI Year:: 1991
Citekey:: gelbspan_breakins_1991
itemType:: book
Publisher:: South End Press
ISBN:: 978-0-89608-412-4