CIA Whistleblower Talk Sponsored by FLVCS
Thursday, March 8, 2018, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Fogartyville Community Media and Arts Center
(525 Kumquat Court)
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Tickets: $15 adv/$20 door Chef Richard’s Kumquat Kitchen will be open.
Melvin A. Goodman was a soviet analyst at the CIA and Department of State for 24 years, and a professor of international relations at the National War College for 18 years. He served in the U.S. Army in Athens for 3 years, and was intelligence advisor to the SALT delegation in 1971-1972. Currently, Goodman is the Director of the National Security Project at the Center for International Policy in Washington, DC, and adjunct professor of government at John Hopkins University. He authored, co-authored and edited seven books including National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism; Gorbachev’s Retreat: The Third World; The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze; The Phantom Defense: America’s Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion and Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neoconsevatives are Putting the World at Risk.
Recent News and Latest Book
Colin Powell: Willful Victim of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Deceit
For nearly two decades, former Secretary of State Colin Powell lived with the deceitful role he played in helping the Bush administration make its dishonest case for war against Iraq.
CIA Creates a Mission Center to Counter China
You have to wonder what in the world Burns’ mediocre predecessors (John Brennan and Mike Pompeo) were thinking in creating mission centers regarding Iran and North Korea which represented little threat to the United States. But my second reaction is less facetious and more serious: why is the United States—its president, its politicians, its pundits—hell-bent on creating a Cold War environment and arms race with China? Burns told his work force last week that China is “our toughest geopolitical test in a new era of great power rivalry.”
