Defrauding America: Encyclopedia of Secret Operations by the CIA, DEA, and Other Covert Agencies (Hardcover)

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"The most explosive book on the market." -- Hollywood's John Austin'S His Features

"This extraordianry book ... is required reading for anyone concerned with national security system abuses ... a moving book by a man of integrity deeply affected by the injustice, criminality, and suffering he has seen and personally experienced over the past two decades ... it's a hell of a good read." -- Unclassified Magazine of National Security Alumni

"This is a thoroughly researched and comprehensive book...I highly recommend this book as an all-time classic in its field." -- Nexus Magazine

Product Description

Defrauding America is a detailed and documented description of various forms of criminal activities involving people in a literal secret goverrnment, operating like Trojan horses, inflicting enormous harm upon the people and the United States. It is written by a former government agent with input from many other government insiders, former drug smugglers, and former Mafia figures.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 753 pages
• Publisher: Diablo Western Press; 3rd edition (April 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0932438091
• ISBN-13: 978-0932438096
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #493,015 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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80 of 83 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reource documenting government crimes and coverups, May 22, 2001

By	"theshepherdgroup" (Harlingen, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This book is a very well documented and thorough analysis of the corruption within the U.S. system of government.

Stich details his involvement with governmental misuse of power when he tries to bring to light the serious lack of safety precautions in the airline industry and how mandatory training programs were being inadequately done, and often not done at all. He experienced stonewalling, as well as retaliation, in the FAA's management when he would try to fulfill his duties as a federal air-safety inspector/investigator and was subverted from fulfilling his responsiblities all the way through to the federal courts by the Department of Justice. Despite these problems obviously leading to airplane crashes across the country, the FAA hierarchy refused to legally prosecute any of the airlines or personnel involved and subsequently allowed the crashes to continue due to their complacency.

As a result of Stich's continuous whistleblowing, retaliation ensued when his assets were seized (to take away the funding of Stich's activist activities) through misuse of chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, and his refusal to "surrender" eventually led to him being sentenced to prison on trumped up charges. (This happens. My father had a similar experience where his assets were unlawfully seized by somone with millions of dollars behind him and a judge in his pocket.)

In a federal corrections facility he meets Gunther Russbacher, a CIA asset with a very high covert position in the agency, who relates to him, through many subsequent contacts (with Stich out of prison), the large amount of conspiracies against the American public being perpetrated by high-level political leaders and governmental agencies. Thus ensues his exposure to extreme government corruption on all levels and the huge extent of this corruption as though there is another government behind the one which we think exists.

Stich has contacts with other CIA operatives, as well as DEA officials, federal employees, and many other deep-cover intelligence operatives (almost all of whom are named, and extensive documentation is given) who want to expose the crimes being perpetrated by the U.S. government against the citizens of the U.S. and the world.

Among the many crimes, the ones elucidated on the most are:

(1)the October Surprise cover-up involving the bribing of Iranians to withhold the U.S. hostages until Regan was elected President (causing Carter to lose face before the election, and involving George Bush at the center of the bribing)

(2)the Iran-Contra scandals, which were the subsequent consequences of the October Surprise situation, where the U.S. gov. sold arms to Iranians (supposedly for hostages), and the profits were used to buy more arms which were then exchanged to the contras in South America for drugs which they provided, and the training of assassination squads by the CIA

(3)CIA and DEA drug traficking, from heroin in Vietnam to cocaine in South America, making many politiicans, gov. officials, and private corporations rich, all with the supposed intent of keeping the trade out of the hands of the left-wing radicals

(4)the seizing of many people's properties in fraudulently run bankruptcy courts

(5)the looting of Housing and Urban Developement by federal officials and the "Denver group"

(6) CIA involevement in the looting of the savings and loan, how it was done and why

(7)money laundering by the CIA and affiliates through Nugan-Hand bank and Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham and Wong

(8)the theft of Inslaw's PROMIS software by the U.S. Justice Department and subsequent sales to foreign governments and various coverup murders

(9)BCCI and its contacts with Bank of America, the CIA, other banks, and the Justice Department coverup

(10)U.S. funding of Iraq and Saddam Hussein

(11)the silencing of "whistleblowers" by threats, false prosecutions, killings, and mysterious deaths

(12)mainstream media's involvement in covering up high-level conspiracies through non-reporting and campaigns of out-right disinformation

(13)the CIA's hand-in-glove association with Israel's Mossad agency (Barry Chamish knows this)

(14)Supreme Court complicity in the coverups

(15)Clinton's associations and dealings with sex, drugs, frauds, the CIA, and other illegal dealings

and many, many other felonious activities committed by those whom you would think could be trusted.

This is a book definitely worth getting for one to understand the extent of the "beast" within our government and around the globe.

As for why this corruption hasn't been brought to the attention of most Americans, my response is that it has. Even though it is largely ignored by mainstream media...many documentaries, television specials, articles in magazines and newspapers, and books have been done exposing at least some of the frauds and crimes, but the vast majority go ignored and without reaction. I have seen many of these types of publications and broadcasts myself, even on TBS. Some of these sources are documented in Stich's book along with MANY inside informants who DO come out and try to reveal the truth to people despite retalitaions by those they are informing against.

This book is extensively documented and very well put together. The only reason I didn't give it five stars is because it is so in-depth and so many names are dropped that it can turn some people off and leave one's head spinning due to TOO MUCH detail.

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rodney Stich has ACCESS and Reports on The Real World, January 27, 1999

By A Customer

Rodney Stich, with many years of roots in intelligence and investigative services, provides a listening ear to those who have served in the most clandestine of operations world-wide. His writing is clear, his sources verified and impeccable. Rodney early on revealed October Surprise and in his role as confidant to many to open the public to the misdirected efforts of intelligence, he has tracked the CIA/DRUGS operations to their present theaters. Nothing missing. Included is organized crime, money laundering, and a great deal of intrigue. The writings had particular meaning for me -- Rodney wrote of Operation Mount Rushmore which was partially funded by a resident of my own county, according to his sources. Operation Mount Rushmore was a plan involving CIA personnel to eliminate Bill Clinton when he ran for the Presidency in July, 1992 -- a plan that had to be scrubbed due to internal leaks. Rodney found confirmation of the plan from independent sources. Upon reading that funding for Operation Mount Rushmore was coming from a Napa County source, I noted that the referenced Gene Trefethen who owned a winery in Napa, had been Henry J. Kaiser's "right-hand-man" for years, the builder of the war industrial behemoth known as Kaiser Industries ... a government funded giant in ship-building which cranked out liberty ships to lend-lease to England, with more to support the U.S. effort during World War II. Following the wars, Kaiser turned its operations to the provision of health care, to become the largest private provider of health care in California. It's lucrative, and Clinton's plan for health care reform threatened to take Kaiser down. Clearly, Gene Trefethen had intelligence associations for years, and his substantial vesting in Kaiser would have provided motive for the financing of a murder attempt. Many local press articles hailed him as one of George Bush's most significant fund raisers in California. When he passed away in 1997, he was eulogized by George Bush and California Governor Pete Wilson, among others. As recently as December, 1998, a woman who occupied the guest cottage on the Trefethen estate with her two children was bludgeoned in a baffling assault. Was this a random assault, or a warning? Rodney's book is one that many can further validate from their own associations, experience, and knowledge. I highly recommend it for its explanations of many realities most dare not address, and answers to questions that have been "out there" for years.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent account of illegal activities in the Government., August 4, 1999

By A Customer

Stich has done an excellent job at steering clear of wild conspiracy theories and sticking to the facts. This is a devastating account of government malfeasance at emanating from the highest levels of the Government; Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches. This book is not for the faint hearted. Anyone who reads this will quickly find his blood boiling and ask the obvious question, where is the media in all this? A MUST read.