Binding: Paperback
Description: Distinguished investigative reporter Joseph Trento has written the most authoritative indictment of CI a splinter groups two generations of Bush family involvement in illegal financial networks and the funding of the agents of terror. Prelude to Terror reveals the history of a corrupt group of spymasters led by Ted Shackley who were fired when Jimmy Carter became president but who maintained their intelligence portfolio and used it to create a private intelligence network. After this rogue group helped engineer Carter's defeat in 1980 and allied with George H. W. Bush these former CI a men planned and conducted what became the Iran - Contra scandal and through the Saudis allied the U. S. with extreme elements in Islam. The CI a's number - one front man Edwin P. Wilson was framed by Shackley and his cohorts so that Wilson's operations could be taken over. For the first time the story of how CI a director George H. W. Bush was recruited into this network and brought it into the bosom of the Saudi royal family is told in detail as well as how this group's manipulation of the CI a bureaucracy allowed Osama bin Laden's fundraising to thrive as al Qaeda flourished under Saudi and CI a protection.
Title: Prelude To Terror Edwin P. Wilson And The Legacy Of America's Private Intelligence Network
Author(s): Trento Joseph
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780786717668
Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Date: 3/22/2006
Category: Cultural Studies