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<p>Covers such controversial topics as American political assassinations, nuclear safety, Secret Service protection of the presidents, and CIA covert operations and alleged involvement in the sale of crack cocaine</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>Since the passage of the Freedom of Information Act in 1966, the U.S. government has had an official policy of providing public access to its internal files. But as Melanson argues in this scathing indictment of Washington's culture of secrecy, this official policy rarely matches reality; the FBI, CIA and other agencies have fought the FOIA tooth and nail since its inception. Claiming national security, they've successfully kept millions of documents, on subjects ranging from the Martin Luther King assassination to the CIA's coup against Allende in Chile, hidden from public view. Melanson, who has previously written books on Lee Harvey Oswald and the RFK assassination, believes that the national security claims are largely intended to cover up embarrassing or illegal activities, such as the FBI's COINTELPRO project against civil rights and antiwar groups in the 1960s and '70s. Furthermore, Melanson alleges, documents have been known to tu

Author

INC.

Publisher

Potomac Books, Incorporated

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781574883244

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences