T. D. Allman (born 1944) is an American freelance journalist best known for his exposés of the CIA's "secret war" in Laos and for his later interviews with world figures (Yasser Arafat, Helmut Kohl, Boris Yeltsin, Manuel Antonio Noriega) as foreign correspondent for Vanity Fair. He is credited with the coining of the phrase "secret war". He rescued massacre victims in Cambodia, which led to his work being banned from The Washington Post. Later, as a contributing editor of Harper's, he aroused further controversy when he predicted that the U.S. defeat in Indochina had opened the door to a new epoch of Pacific Rim success for American values and economic systems. He also derided claims that the Earth was running out of oil (the so-called energy crisis) and predicted that U.S. cities, far from being doomed, were on the verge of a "Yuppie renaissance". His reports from Iraq and on the Colombian drug wars received wide attention, as have his profiles of figures such as Dick Cheney. 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Journalism is a discipline of collecting, verifying, analyzing and presenting information gathered regarding current events, including trends, issues and people. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... Yasser Arafat (Arabic: ياسر عرفات‎) (August 4 or August 24, 1929 – November 11, 2004), born Muhammad `Abd ar-Rauf al-Qudwa al-Husayni (محمد عبد الرؤوف القدوة الحسيني) and also known as Abu `Ammar (ابو عمّار), was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (1969–2004); President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) (1993–2004); and a co... Dr. Helmut Kohl (full name Helmut Josef Michael Kohl) (born 3 April 1930) is a German conservative politician and statesman. ... Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin listen â–¶(?) (Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин) (born February 1, 1931) was President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. ... Manuel Noriega Date of birth February 11, 1938 Place of birth Panama City, Panama Occupation Career soldier Education Military School de Chorrilos Lima, Peru School of the Americas Panama Remarks Allegedly a participant in the military coup détat to overthrow Arnulfo Arias. ... Vanity Fair is a glossy American glamour magazine monthly that offers a mixture of articles on high-brow culture, jet-set and entertainment-business personalities, politics, and current affairs. ... The Washington Post is the largest and oldest newspaper in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. ... An issue of Harpers Magazine from 1905 Another issue, from November 2004 Harpers Magazine (or simply Harpers) is a monthly magazine of politics and culture. ... Indochina, or the Indochinese Peninsula, is a large peninsula in Southeast Asia. ... Map of the Pacific Rim and List of the Pacific Rim Nations The USS Abraham Lincoln Battle Group along with ships from Australia, Chile, Japan, Canada, and Korea speed towards Honolulu in RIMPAC 2000. ... An energy crisis is any great shortfall (or price rise) in the supply of energy to an economy. ... Richard Bruce Cheney (born January 30, 1941), widely known as Dick Cheney, is an American politician and businessman affiliated with the U.S. Republican Party. ...

He is a Harvard graduate (1966) and a former Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal. His first book, Unmanifest Destiny, which grew out of his doctoral thesis at Oxford University, dealt with many of the problems of American nationalism that still affect U.S. foreign policy. Another of his books, Miami: City of the Future, is considered the definitive work on the subject. He is also the author of Rogue State and Finding Florida. He is the co-author of half a dozen other volumes, including several anthologies of war reporting. Harvard, see Harvard (disambiguation) Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... Peace Corps volunteers usually serve for two years. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... President of the United States, George W. Bush (right) at Camp David in March 2003, hosting the British Prime Minister Tony Blair. ...

Allman's writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, and National Geographic, as well as in The Guardian, Le Monde, The Economist, and many other overseas publications. The New Yorkers first cover, which is reprinted most years on the magazines anniversary. ... The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. ... Cover of an issue of Esquire magazine. ... Cover from the August 30th, 2004 issue. ... Rolling Stone is an American magazine devoted to music and popular culture. ... The National Geographic Society was founded in the USA on January 27, 1888, by 33 men interested in organizing a society for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper with a circulation in 2002 of 389,200. ... Front cover of November 4, 2005 edition. ...

Brtish film maker John Pilger on T.D. Allman: "The great American journalist T. D. Allman once defined 'genuinely objective journalism' as that which 'not only gets the facts right, it gets the meaning of events right. Objective journalism is compelling not only today. It stands the test of time. It is validated not only by "reliable sources" but by the unfolding of history. It is reporting that which not only seems right the day it is published. It is journalism that ten, twenty, fifty years after the fact still holds up a true and intelligent mirror to events.' "

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