John Stockwell - CIA's War on Humans
"Stockwell was one of the first professionals to leave CIA to go public by writing a bestselling book, In Search of Enemies.
The CIA retaliated by suing him in the 4th District Court in Washington, D.C.. Part of the suit intended to eliminate the possibility of selling the story for the purpose of making the movie and requested all future publications be submitted to the CIA for review. Unable to afford the travel necessary to contest the case, Stockwell filed for bankruptcy in Austin, Texas. After the litigation was processed through the bankruptcy, the CIA eventually dropped the suit.
A brief story in the book is about a CIA officer having Patrice Lumumba's body in the trunk of his car one night in then Elizabethville, Congo. Stockwell mentions in a footnote to the story that at the time he did not know that the CIA is documented as having repeatedly tried to arrange for Lumumba's assassination.
His concerns were that, although many of his colleagues in the CIA were men and women of the highest integrity, the organization was counterproductive of United States' national security and harming a lot of people in its "secret wars" overseas."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stockwell
There's also an interview here:
http://www.serendipity.li/cia/stock2.html
It should be noted that no one anywhere - except the CIA - had issues with his facts, as he was able to get at them at the time.
He was also a tireless advocate for the rule of law and for peace.
But he also had blood on his own hands - which he acknowledges repeatedly - and that blood - from illegal US state sponsored murder -
drove him to putting himself in the limelight and being attacked ruthlessly in the US media - though not the UK or European media.
If you read something or hear something he says, and think "that sounds like BS," google it. In almost every example you'll discover that he's telling the truth as was publicly known at the time.
You don't have to agree with his conclusion (illegal secret wars are counter-productive and will eventually lead to massive blowback) but the facts he uses in his thesis are worth being talked about, or at least acknowledged.
