AUT: [RRE]Lost History (fwd)

["Harry M. Cleaver" <hmcleave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 17:30:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Phil Agre <pagre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Red Rock Eater News Service <rre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [RRE]Lost History

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Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 13:59:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ifmagazine@xxxxxxx
Subject: Robert Parry's Lost History

How did the vaunted Watergate press corps of the 1970s become the
Monica Lewinsky press corps of the 1990s?

What's true and what's not about cocaine trafficking by Ronald
Reagan's Nicaraguan contras?

What happened to honest reporters when they tried to tell the American
people what was really going on?

Did the CIA oversee a secret plan in the 1980s to manipulate
U.S. public opinion, so-called 'Project Truth'?

The answers are part of Robert Parry's just-published 300-page book,
Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & 'Project Truth'.  Parry
is the former AP-Newsweek reporter who broke many of the stories now
known as the Iran-contra affair.  He currently edits iF Magazine and
the online publication, Consortiumnews.com

Packed with formerly secret documents, the book explains how the
Reagan administration engaged in a domestic-propaganda scheme called
"perception management".  Not only was disinformation systematically
fed to the American people on a variety of foreign policy topics, but
retaliation was exacted against journalists, political leaders and
citizen activists who wouldn't go along.

The book reveals how White House aide Oliver North sicced the FBI
on his political enemies, including Parry who North saw as a threat
to his secret operations.  Though North is now a media personality
co-hosting an MSNBC talk show, in the 1980s, North tried to destroy
the reputations and careers of reporters who got in his way.

Lost History compiles, too, the first full account of what the U.S.
government admitted during the official contra-cocaine investigations
in the late 1990s.  It pulls together the damaging admissions from the
internal reports by the Justice Department and the CIA -- confessions
that the major media effectively ignored.

The book's last chapter looks at the unsavory connections of President
George Bush both to intelligence abuses and to prominent drug-connected
figures, including some who have vowed to destroy the United States.
The family connections are relevant now because Bush's son is the
front-runner to win the White House in 2000.

Lost History is available for $19.95 with Visa/Mastercard by calling
1-800-738-1812 or 703-920-1802 or by check to The Media Consortium,
Suite 102-231, 2200 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22201.  If you order
now, shipping and handling are FREE.



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