Lies Of Our Times, 145 West 4th Street, New York NY 10012, Tel: 212-254-1061, Fax: 212-254-9598. $24/year (10 issues).

Lies Of Our Times (LOOT), with a banner set in NYT-style typeface, describes itself as "a magazine to correct the record," a counterweight to the distortions and censorship of the New York Times and other major U.S. media. The first issue appeared in January 1990. Each issue of about 28 notebook-size pages on coated stock contains a dozen or so short articles and a variety of black-and-white photos and political cartoons.

The publishers and editors, Ellen Ray and her husband William Schaap, also publish Covert Action Information Bulletin (now called Covert Action Quarterly) and have produced a number of investigative books and monographs under their Sheridan Square Press and Institute for Media Analysis labels. In 1967 Ellen Ray worked with Jim Garrison's investigation, and Ray and Schaap then began counseling antiwar GIs in Okinawa. Next they showed up at CounterSpy, but left to start CAIB in 1978 after an internal dispute. Around this time they helped edit "Dirty Work 2," which identified hundreds of CIA officers (the first "Dirty Work" was done by Louis Wolf and Philip Agee). In 1982 Ray and Schaap moved from Washington DC to New York City, while Wolf and others stayed in Washington to continue CAIB. With its shorter articles on timely topics, LOOT is an attempt to reach beyond the limited readership of CAIB, where one sometimes suspects that they are preaching to the choir.

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