Schmidt, Olivier. The Intelligence Files: Today's Secrets, Tomorrow's Scandals. Atlanta GA: Clarity Press, 2005. 240 pages.

Olivier Schmidt, a citizen of both the U.S. and France, is based in Paris. He founded the Association for the Right to Information (ADI in French) in 1980, which published newsletters under the titles of Parapolitics, Intelligence/Parapolitics, Intelligence Newsletter, and Intelligence. Each chapter in this book is on a different subject.

The best (and longest) chapter has 30 pages on the secret history of the wildlife conservation movement, by British journalist Kevin Dowling. It seems that British and American intelligence elites loved nature, which dovetailed nicely with Western imperialism in Africa. Other chapters are on the FBI and Judi Bari, police surveillance in Switzerland, an American radar station in Norway, the trumped-up proof of Libyan involvement in the Lockerbie terrorism, the fight for the public's right to use encryption, the case against Augusto Pinochet, the inquiry into the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" in Northern Ireland, institutional corruption in Belgium, Gerald Bull's "supercannon" and Jonathan Moyle's "suicide," the FBI's Wen Ho Lee scandal, Executive Outcomes and Sandline International, and finally a couple of chapters on incidents too obscure to interest us. Although it's very much a mixed bag in terms of subject matter, the quality of the investigative reporting and writing is uniformly good.
ISBN 0-932863-42-6

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