Wise,D. The American Police State. 1978
Wise, David. The American Police State: The Government Against the People.
New York: Vintage Books, 1978. 437 pages.
This contribution to the spate of books to emerge out of Watergate was
one of the better efforts. Two chapters concern the CIA -- one on domestic
surveillance and the other on CIA involvement in Watergate. Additional
chapters include the FBI and IRS and their role in suppressing domestic
dissent, and the machinations of the CREEP plumbers, Kissinger, and black-
bag jobs in general. His final chapter is an editorial against the official
methods: "If we accept the values of the enemy as our own, we will become
the enemy."
With all of the literature about the CIA over the past two decades, it
is easy to forget that for the first half of the Agency's history, almost
nothing was in the public domain. Washington journalist David Wise changed
all of that with "The Invisible Government" in 1964. CIA director John
McCone called in Wise and co-author Thomas Ross to demand deletions on the
basis of galleys the CIA had secretly obtained. When that didn't work, the
CIA formed a special group to deal with the book and tried to secure bad
reviews, even though the CIA's legal counsel had found the book "uncannily
accurate." As the unofficial dean of intelligence journalists, Wise is
still working on future books from his Washington office.
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