Heroes and Patriots: KMEC Radio Interview
Heroes and Patriots Show: June 19th, 2017
John Sakowicz interviews Melvin Goodman, on KMEC Radio. Discussing Goodman’s book, A Whistleblower at the CIA.
Buy at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Whistleblower-CIA-Insider%C2%92s-Politics-Intelligence/dp/0872867307
See also: https://www.c-span.org/video/?427995-3/whistleblower-cia
See: http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/whistleblower-at-the-cia
Goodman was a CIA analyst for 24 years and is now director of the National Security Project at the Center for International Policy. He is a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Goodman is the author of Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA and National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism. His latest book is titled A Whistleblower at the CIA.
Here in the Bay Area, Goodman and Daniel Ellsberg will appear together on Wednesday, June 21, at 7:30 pm, Pacific Time, at the First Presbyterian Church, 2407 Dana, Berkeley, CA.
See: https://kpfa.org/event/melvin-goodman-daniel-ellsberg/
Goodman and Ellsberg will also appear together on June 22 at 7pm at City Lights Bookstore at 261 Columbus Avenue in San Francisco,
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