From: pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce)
Subject: Victor Marchetti (Was: Fletcher Prouty's New Zealand Story)
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 20:30:30 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.183300.27213@cas.org> jac54@cas.org () writes:

>	I have no opinion on Marchetti and McGehee because I am not
>	familiar with their corpus.  What I have seen of Marchetti's
>	work seems to be sound.

Excerpted without permission from:

Copyright (c) 1991 by Chip Berlet. All rights reserved.

RIGHT WOOS LEFT:

Populist Party, LaRouchian, and Other Neo-fascist Overtures To
Progressives, And Why They Must Be Rejected

by Chip Berlet

Political Research Associates

December 16, 1991

...

Liberty Lobby and the <Spotlight> took the Prouty thesis and combined
it with its bigoted conspiracy theory about Jewish control of U.S.
foreign policy. Since writing the book, Prouty has drifted far to
the right, as has another CIA critic, Victor Marchetti, and both
now have allied themselves with the Liberty Lobby network.  Prouty's
<The Secret Team> was recently republished by Noontide Press, the
publishing arm of the historical revisionist Institute for Historical
Review (IHR). IHR promotes the theory that the accepted history of
the Holocaust is a hoax perpetrated by Jews.

In 1974, Marchetti, a former executive assistant to the deputy
director of the CIA, co-authored <The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence>,
a well-received best-seller and the first book the CIA tried to
suppress through court action. By 1989, however, Marchetti had been
recruited into a close alliance with Carto's Liberty Lobby network.
In 1989, Marchetti presented a paper at the Ninth International
Revisionist Conference held by the Institute for Historical Review.
The title of Marchetti's paper, published in IHR's <Journal of
Historical Review>, was "Propaganda and Disinformation: How the
CIA Manufactures History." Marchetti edits the <New American View>
newsletter, which as one promotional flyer explained, was designed
to "document for patriotic Americans like yourself the excess of
pro-Israelism, which warps the news we see and hear from our media,
cows our Congress into submission, and has already cost us hundreds
of innocent, young Americans in Lebanon and elsewhere."

Marchetti describes himself as a person whose "intelligence expertise
and well-placed contacts have provided me with a unique insight
into the subversion of our democratic process and foreign policy
by those who would put the interests of Israel <above> those of
America and Americans." Marchetti is also the publisher of a
Japanese-language book <ADL and Zionism>, written by LaRouche
followers Paul Goldstein and Jeffrey Steinberg.

Marchetti was co-publisher of the <Zionist Watch> newsletter when
it was endorsed in direct mail appeals on Liberty Lobby stationery
by the now deceased Lois Petersen, who for many years was the
influential secretary of the Liberty Lobby board of directors. The
October 5, 1987 <Spotlight> reported that Mark Lane had been named
associate editor of <Zionist Watch>, which is housed in the same
small converted Capitol Hill townhouse as Liberty Lobby/<Spotlight>.

While concern over Reagan Administration participation in joint
intelligence operations with Mossad is legitimate, the use of
anti-Zionism as a cover for conspiracist anti-Jewish bigotry can
be seen in an article in the August 24, 1981 issue of <Spotlight>:

"A brazen attempt by influential "Israel-firsters" in the policy
echelons of the Reagan administration to extend their control to
the day-to-day espionage and covert-action operations of the CIA
was the hidden source of the controversy and scandals that shook
the U.S.  intelligence establishment this summer. "

"The dual loyalists, whose domination over the federal executive's
high planning and strategy-making resources is now just about total,
have long wanted to grab a hand in the on-the-spot "field control"
of the CIA's worldwide clandestine services. They want this control,
not just for themselves, but on behalf of the Mossad, Israel's
terrorist secret police. "

...

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