Stockwell

John R. Stockwell is a former CIA officer who became a critic of United States government policies after serving in the Agency for thirteen years serving seven tours of duty. After managing the Angola War as Chief of the Angola Task Force during its 1975 covert operations, he resigned and wrote In Search of Enemies which remains the only detailed, insider's account of a major CIA "covert action." Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... CIA redirects here. ... In the military, a tour of duty is a period of time spent at sea or assigned to service in a foreign country. ... Chief can refer to : Paramount chief is the highest political leader in a region or country typically administered with a chief-based system. ...

Early years

Born to a Presbyterian engineer in the Belgian Congo, Stockwell attended school in Lubondai before studying in the Plan II Honors program at The University of Texas. As a Marine, Stockwell was a CIA paramilitary/intel case officer in 3 wars: the Congo, Vietnam, and Angola. A small rural location in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lubondai is characterized by its Presbyterian and Methodist missions that have built schools, hospitals and stations. ... Plan II Honors is a major at The University of Texas at Austin, offered since 1935. ... The University of Texas at Austin, often called UT or Texas, is the flagship[3][4][5][6][7] institution of the University of Texas System. ... The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the U.S. military responsible for providing power projection from the sea,[1] utilizing the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces to global crises. ...

CIA career

Beginning his career in 1964, Stockwell spent six years in Africa, Chief of Base in the Katanga during the Bob Denard invasion in 1968 before being transferred to Vietnam to oversee intelligence operations in the Tay Ninh province and was awarded the CIA Medal of Merit for keeping his post open until the last days of the fall of Saigon in 1975. A world map showing the continent of Africa. ... Tay Ninh (in Vietnamese, Tây Ninh) is a town in southwestern Vietnam. ...

Stockwell

In December 1976, he resigned from the Agency, citing deep concerns for the methods and results of CIA paramilitary operations in Third World countries. He testified before Congress and appeared on the popular American television program 60 Minutes, claiming that CIA Director William Colby and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger had systematically lied to Congress about the CIA's operations. Two years later, he wrote the exposé In Search of Enemies, about that experience and its broader implications. He claimed that the CIA was counterproductive to national security, and that its "secret wars" provided no benefit for our country. The CIA, he stated, had singled out the MPLA to be an enemy in Angola despite the fact that the MPLA wanted relations with the United States and had not committed a single act of aggression against the United States. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... 60 Minutes is an investigative television newsmagazine on United States television, which has run on CBS News since 1968. ... William Egan Colby (January 4, 1920 – April 27, 1996) became Director of Central Intelligence on September 4, 1973, after James R. Schlesinger. ... Henry Alfred Kissinger (born Heinz Alfred Kissinger on May 27, 1923) is a German-born American diplomat, Nobel laureate and statesman. ... By the former Chief of the Angola Task Force at CIA, this book is a classic on the Keystone Kops aspects of paramilitary operations as run by the CIAs Special Operations Group within the Directorate of Operations, as well as the lack of contextual judgment that accompanies the CIA...

Writing career

Stockwell was one of the first professionals to leave the CIA to go public by writing a bestselling book. Because he did not submit the book to CIA pre-publication censorship, the CIA sued him. As a result, to this very day Stockwell receives no royalties from his exposé and anything further that he writes about CIA operations must be submitted for "review." A book of his lectures, The Praetorian Guard, was published with his permission, although he tried to get the chapter about the Kennedy assassination deleted because deeper research, while he was technical advisor in Oliver Stones film JFK, led him, and other serious researchers like Canadian-born UC Berkeley professor Peter Dale Scott, to conclude that there was no conspiracy; i.e. that Oswald acted alone.

His concerns were that, although many of his colleagues in the CIA were men and women of the highest integrity, the organization was counterproductive of United States national security and harming a lot of people in its "secret wars" overseas.

In 1980, Stockwell said that "if the Soviet Union were to disappear off the face of the map, the United States would quickly seek out new enemies to justify its own military-industrial complex." Following this perception, it was only a matter of time before the US managed itself into the current Iraq War which fuels the "Global War on Terrorism."

Stockwell was a founding member of the short-lived Association for Responsible Dissent, an organization of former CIA and Government officials who were critical of the CIA's Cold War activities. The Association for Responsible Dissent (ARDIS), is an organization made up of former CIA and government officials who are openly critical of the CIAs activities. ...

During the 1980s, Stockwell visited college campuses to speak out against CIA support for Central American death squads.

Quotes

• "It is the function of the CIA to keep the world unstable, and to propagandize and teach the American people to hate and fear, so we will let the Establishment spend any amount of money on arms."
• "Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn."
• "Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths."

External links

• John Stockwell page. Third World Traveller. Retrieved on 2006-07-11.
• John Stockwell -The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1986 lecture transcript. Retrieved on 2006-07-11.
• Excerpts from a talk by John Stockwell. Retrieved on 2006-07-11.
• Americas Third World War: How 6 million People Were killed in CIA secret wars during the beging of the CIA 1947 - 1988 against 3.rd world countries and much more after that. Countries and people, that couldn't defend for themselves against United States of America's State Terrorism and colonialism policy and War Corporatism = fascism .. Information Clearing House. Retrieved on 2006-07-11. October, 1987 [Audio]
• John Stockwell: Secrets of the CIA - War against 3.rd world countries, what you won't hear in mass media.. Die Weiße Rose, Organization. Retrieved on 2007-01-21. 1987 [Video]

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Further reading

• Stockwell, John (December 1990). The Praetorian Guard : The US Role In The New World Order. South End Press. ISBN 0-89608-395-0. 
• Stockwell, John (June 1984 (Reprint)). In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story. W W Norton & Co Inc. ISBN 0-393-00926-2.