The
War Conspiracy
GNN
In 1970,
at the height of the Vietnam War and on the heels of Nixon's announcement
that U.S. troops would invade Cambodia, a mild-mannered English professor
at UC Berkeley completed a startling book called The War Conspiracy. Yet,
despite the fact that the author's publisher was Bobbs Merrill, a major
literary brand, the book never reached the public domain. Little did the
professor know there were powerful forces working behind the scenes to prevent
its release. He would later discover that through its ties to ITT, a major
shareholder in Bobbs Merrill, the Central Intelligence Agency was able to
suppress the book.
What was it about The War Conspiracy that so frightened the CIA and prompted
them to deter its release? And who was this upstart writer who had pried
so deeply into the covert machinations of U.S. intelligence that he had
become one of the few American authors ever to have his work suppressed
by an agency of the United States government?
As you will discover, the CIA had good reason to intercept the work of Peter
Dale Scott, then a relatively unknown poet and political dissident. For
The War Conspiracy was more than an intellectual treatise on the virtues
of disarmament. It was a riveting investigation of the CIA, the oil companies
and their manipulation of U.S. foreign policy in order to escalate the Vietnam
War. In his review of the book, Noam Chomsky remarked on Scott's "meticulous
and fascinating analysis of intelligence conspiracies and the links between
the 'intelligence community' and corporate power."
Now, three decades after the sabotaged publication of the book, Guerrilla
News Network presents a beat-driven, design-enhanced video of The War Conspiracy.
In addition, we are featuring an in-depth interview with Professor Scott
regarding the new War on Terrorism and how it parallels his research in
the Vietnam era. We are also honored to present an exclusive publication
of the Introduction to The War Conspiracy, revised and re-edited on the
thirtieth anniversary of the book's conception.
Welcome to the 'deep
political' world of Peter Dale Scott...
Alternate video link:
http://http.dvlabs.com/gnn/asx/gnn/war_med.asx
