Parakal,P. Secret Wars of CIA. 1984
Parakal, Pauly V. Secret Wars of CIA. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers,
1984. 132 pages.
This slim book is typical of the Third World and Soviet press on the
subject of the CIA, a half-dozen of which are in NameBase. It's the sort
of broad anti-CIA polemic that would be considered propagandistic and
anti-intellectual by "sophisticated" Western publishers. The facts
presented in these books can rarely be disputed, since they are frequently
compiled from accepted U.S. sources, but the shotgun approach preferred by
the authors leaves no doubt as to where the real evil empire can be found.
Occasional tidbits on CIA activities that appeared only in the foreign
press make these volumes worthwhile. One criticism might be that the term
"CIA" is sometimes used too loosely, and thereby understates the pluralism
that may exist among U.S. foreign policy elites.
Pauly Parakal is the assistant editor of the New Delhi weekly New Age.
His chapters on the CIA in Afghanistan and Poland during the late 1970s
and early 1980s, and in India generally, contain information not readily
available. One story claims that the Pakistani Medical Research Center in
Lahore was breeding infected mosquitoes in 1981, paying over 300 Pakistanis
for use as guinea pigs. PMRC was a University of Maryland project with
funding from AID and allegedly from the CIA, which was presumably
interested in developing new capabilities for covert biological warfare.
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