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http://warandpiece.comHarpers' interviews Jeff Morley about his new CIA book, "Our Man in Mexico." Morley: " ...The book documents the previously unknown story of [Win]Scott?s friendship in the late 1940s with Philby, a genial British intelligence official who was actually a Soviet spy. Michael Scott showed me his father?s pocket calendars from 1946. ?Drinks with Kim,? his father had scrawled. They had dined out together, arranged play dates for their kids, and, at the office, organized covert operations against the Soviet Union. The book also provides the most detailed account yet of how Scott supervised the surveillance of Oswald, as Oswald was making contact with communist diplomatic officials in Mexico City in October 1963, six weeks before he allegedly killed President John F. Kennedy. When Scott died of natural causes in 1971, his longtime friend, James Angleton, the Agency?s legendary counterintelligence chief, went to Mexico City and seized the memoir and a trove of other material from Scott?s home office. (Angleton specialized in such ghoulish work. In October 1964, he had snagged the personal diary of Jack Kennedy?s favorite girlfriend, Mary Meyer, after she was murdered in Georgetown.) Angleton seized the manuscript and tapes because he wanted to make sure that Scott?s account of Oswald?s actions, before and after Kennedy was killed, never came into public view."
This interesting too:
5. The CIA?s destruction of the Oswald tape can?t help but bring to mind the recent story of the agency?s destruction of a videotape of the torture of Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubayda? Both stories reflect the same underlying reality: When a clandestine service is assigned the dirty work of a democratic power to combat a real threat (communism in 1963, Islamist terrorism today), that agency is loathe to disclose its sources and methods to those who seek real accountability. It?s worth noting that Jose Rodriguez, the covert operations chief that destroyed the torture tape, previously served as chief of station in Mexico City. Like Win Scott, he preferred to cover up material evidence in a criminal investigation rather than come clean for history. ...
Posted by Laura at 05:03 PM
[And here is the link to the article:]
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/04/hbc-90002849
