Joseph J. Trento
Author of The Secret History of the CIA
About the Author
Joseph J. Trento has been an investigative reporter since 1968, when he joined the staff of the legendary journalist Jack Anderson. He is the author of the best-selling book Widows and has worked for CNN's investigative unit; consulted for 60 Minutes, Nightline, and PrimeTime Live; and appeared on show more Meet the Press, CBS Morning News, Good Morning America, and NPR. Currently, Mr. Trento is president of the Public Education Center He lives in Virginia show less
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- Joseph J. Trento is the author of six nonfiction books and an internationally known investigative reporter for over thirty-five years, and he has been a correspondent for CNN’s investigative unit. He now serves as the president of the Public Education Center, a nonpartisan and nonprofit foundation that conducts investigative reporting on environmental and national security matters. He is the author or co-author of numerous books on national security and intelligence issues, including Prescription for Disaster, Widows, The Secret History of the CIA, and Prelude to Terror.
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Daniel Sheehan and the Christic Institute came close to looking at this but went off on a tangent trying to expand this corruption into a grand unified conspiracy theory responsible for every ill deed.
The first part of the book is about Wilson who was the lynch pin for this graft, but it loses focus and sprawls just like Sheehan with only a tangential connection in the general cultural tendency among the powerful to mix personal business with government policy. The events and anecdotes recounted later in the book about intelligence provided to Iraq and dodgy uniform sales and events from the 1990s onwards are interesting and speak of further corruption but they appear to be entirely independent and parallel to the original thrust of the book at its beginning, Edwin Wilson and his trial. And because of this distraction the central thrust becomes completely lost - it doesn't even cover his 2012 retrial and acquittal thanks to evidence eventually being uncovered that confirmed his claims that he was following orders and not a rogue.… (more)