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FBI, CIA, the Mob, and Treachery

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this book should shake lethargic Americans right out of their lethargy, from coast to coast. Hey, we have a drug problem -- here is evidence that it's the CIA that's been importing the drugs and/or covering it all up for decades. Our police and government agencies are going after the little guys -- dealing in hundreds of dollars. Meanwhile, the real drug abusers, sellers, and launderers are making millions and going scot free. One man, Richard Taus, learned about it and attempted to get something done. They have stashed him away in Dannemora Prison for eighty years to keep his story away from YOU... PLEASE -- read this book!

I noticed that both the book cover and product description fail to mention the name of the source, Richard Taus, or that he is a convicted child molester. I will not purchase this book so that his "story" can be told.

No comment about writer Rodney Stich; his biased and slanted approach to all things government and political is easily characterized and identified, and in this instance he found a broken and disgraced former FBI agent to parrot an endless stream of conspiratorial nonsense. It would appear that former agent Taus was involved in every major FBI investigation by painting himself as a U.S. Army "Colonel," war hero, James Bond, Melvin Purvis and Oliver North, all rolled into one. But it's nearly impossible to distinguish where Taus's skewed jailhouse reveries begin and Stich's bias ends; they seem to blend together almost seamlessly.

I tried desperately to search the narrative for some meaningful factual reporting, to no avail. I even started what turned into a very long and unwieldy letter to Taus ...checking personal diaries, calendars and log books as far back as 1978...to ask him for clarifications of many of the things he claimed happened, but it became much too long and was set aside.

If the reader has personal knowledge (and in this instance he does) of Taus and some of the events he presents and knows that they are not just factually inaccurate but blatantly false or fabricated in too many instances, then everything else he alleges is suspect as well.

This is a pathetically sad book (and a wonder it was even published) with no social, intellectual or political relevance.

Save the time, save the money; it's not worth the effort.