A friend of mine was telling me about how her father was originally a supporter of the Vietnam War, but changed his mind in the 1960s and has been against all the other American wars since. She was telling me about this in the context of the CIA article I blogged about earlier today. She said her father had swallowed everything the government and press said about Vietnam. So how did he turn around?

“He stopped listening and opened his eyes.”

In his LRC review of The Betrayal of the American Right, Charles A. Burris links to a 1997 article from the Rothbard-Rockwell Report (RRR):

“Neoconservatism: a CIA Front?”

It is a chilling read. If anyone out there knows enough about these claims to deny or confirm them — with sources, preferably — please do let me know.

I have a feeling I need to look more deeply into the history of the CIA.

(But honestly, whenever I’ve begun to approach the subject, I’ve immediately felt overwhelmed by the complexity, the surreality, and the creeping sense of paranoia…)

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