MintCast Interviews Doug Valentine, Author of The Phoenix Program and The CIA as Organized Crime

MintCast Interviews Doug Valentine, Author of The Phoenix Program and The CIA as Organized Crime

Author: MintPress News July 29, 2019 Duration: 59:20
MintCast co-host Whitney Webb interviews author, investigative journalist and poet Doug Valentine about his extensive work on exposing the dark underbelly of the CIA and some of the agency’s most notorious covert programs. Webb and Valentine begin the interview discussing how Valentine’s journalistic work on the CIA led him to be spied on and even threatened by the agency and how being a dissident journalist in the 1990s compares to being one in the present. Valentine argues that, in th...

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