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Prelude to Terror: the Rogue CIA, The Legacy of America's Private Intelligence Network Hardcover – April 29, 2005

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After decades of writing and research about American intelligence, Joseph Trento has written the most authoritative indictment of CIA splinter groups, two generations of Bush family involvement in illegal financial networks, and the funding of the agents of terror. Prelude to Terror reveals the history of a corrupt group of spymasters—led by Ted Shackley—who were fired when Jimmy Carter became president, but who maintained their intelligence portfolio and used it to create a private intelligence network. After this rogue group helped engineer Carter’s defeat in 1980 and allied with George H.W. Bush, these former CIA men planned and conducted what became the Iran–Contra scandal and, through the Saudis, allied the U.S. with extreme elements in Islam. The CIA’s number-one front man, Edwin P. Wilson, was framed by Shackley and his cohorts so that Wilson’s operations could be taken over. For the first time the story of how CIA director George H. W. Bush was recruited into this network, and brought it into the bosom of the Saudi royal family, is told in detail, as well as how this group’s manipulation of the CIA bureaucracy allowed Osama bin Laden’s fundraising to thrive as al Qaeda flourished under Saudi and CIA protection.

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April 29, 2005
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6 x 1.25 x 9 inches
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Carroll & Graf; 1st edition (April 29, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0786714646
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0786714643
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.5 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.25 x 9 inches

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This book picks up after the Dulles Bros. (Alan ...

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This book picks up after the Dulles Bros. (Alan and John Foster) of post WWII begat their version of a Shadow Government that the bankers and their politicos first birthed in the early 1900s. The C.I.A. is reeling from the exposures of the Watergate Commission, and those operatives with unfinished business and a penchant for power must find new sources of funding their clandestine activities. It's the basis for many an exciting spy novel or movie production, but it's not imaginary. Real people, perhaps in the millions, are killed, maimed and otherwise harmed by their deceit and the cover-ups by the corporate media, banks and politicians who rely on them to do their devilish deeds. Expose and Draining the Swamp, which deepens with every day.

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For conspiracy theorists with background knowledge

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This read is not for the average person and if you are familiar with that murky hinterland that comprises intelligence and politics, you will probably get enjoyment and information from this book. There are times when I have problems grappling with what is presented as fact but Mr. Trento writes with authority and this book deserves to be considered on its merits.

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L. Hunt

Great book! Trento does it again!

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Stunning! Joe Trento does it again, bringing us a terror tale of CIA misconduct. Like his other great books, this investigative reporter delves deep into the CIA's secrets and comes out with one heck of a story.

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This book I simply could not put down. There is information within this book that everybody should know !! Wish there were more books like this - I would read them all !!

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Philip J. Passero III

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Cheri Montagu

GEORGE H.W. BUSH: PRIME SUSPECT IN THE CASE OF 9/11

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There is one overwhelming problem with Joseph J. Trento's PRELUDE TO TERROR. After a number of fascinating chapters showing how the CIA has become an increasingly criminal institution, he stops short of drawing the obvious conclusion. In his final chapter he says that today's CIA has become "at best irrelevant and at worst a joke." Try telling that to the poor wretches it is torturing in prisons all over the world! In fact the CIA has had the most profound influence upon American political life, corrupting our entire government to the point where it is by now beyond hope of reform.

Trento's focus upon George H.W. Bush is appropriate, for no one has had a greater influence on this process. The Bush presidency-- the first ever in which a former Director of the CIA held that office-- represents the "Rubicon moment" in American history, when the road to totalitarianism which is now reaching its climax was set in a manner which made it impossible to turn back. Bush moved quickly to end a Cold War which was becoming useless to the American intelligence elite, and initiate a confrontation with the Muslim Middle East. Yes, initiate, for it is abundantly clear that Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait was no surprise to the Bush Administration but rather a set-up. After all, the Iraqi dictator had gone to Bush's ambassador to Iraq to sound her out on the possible reaction of the United States to such an invasion, and she had given him a green light. Saddam's response could not have been better suited to the interests of a military-industrial complex which was trembling at the prospect of peace breaking out.

Most telling of all was something I heard a policy analyst say on what was then the MacNeil Lehrer News Hour: He said that Aemricans should expect terrorist attacks on their own soil. This scared the hell out of me, not because I thought that there was any prospect of such attacks occurring, but because I knew then that the Big Lie was being born, and that its purpose could only be to deprive us of our civil liberties. The first war against Iraq ended without any such incidents, but then, it takes a long time to get such things rolling, and maybe Bush was having a hard time convincing his friend Osama bin Laden to take the rap. Besides, he had a son who was very likely to run for president in his turn. What better legacy to pass on to him than 9/11?

It is time for Americans to realize that they are being manipulated. Trento's title, "Prelude to Terror" is a good one, but the terror about to be unleashed on our society is the product of our own government.

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This is a man who has inside knowledge not easily available elsewhere

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This is a man who has inside knowledge not easily available elsewhere. In that sense very informative. But as with his co-authored book about KGB penetration of US intelligence where it was even more pronounced to the point of actual disinformation, there remains a whiff of an author who is not entirely free to write everything he knows.

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