December 2004

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Carlo Parcelli reviews Strength of the Wolf
Review of Strength of the Wolf by Ron Jacobs at CounterPunch
My review of An Act of State by Bill Pepper
Phoenix Program Psyops Comic Book at Memory Hole
The Clash of the Icons (Ellsberg vs McCoy)
Anthrax Attacks as CIA Black Valentines
Black Ops Radio Archives for interviews with Doug
Black Lightning Review of Hotel Tacloban
Active Ingredients interviews with Doug
link to official essay
buy my books at Gibson Books
John McCain: War Hero or Go-To Collaborator?
The CIA, Narcotics & The Underworld; Suzan Mazur interviews Doug Valentine for Scoop Magazine
A Look Inside Joe The Plumber's Head
A Caracas Romance:
Wolves And Revolution In Venezuela
Memorial Day: A poem
What the World Should Know About Bush's Torture Chamber At Guantanamo
The Most Important Thing I learned In School This Year
This is a DOC file. (19.0KB)
A Literary Analysis of 50 Cent's "Ski Mask Way"
Who Let The Dogs Out: Torture, The CIA, and the Press
The Iraqi Alamo
A CNN/CIA Scenario
By GRAEME GREENBACK
Fifty-two Pick-up And The Hundred-to-One Rule
Echos of Vietnam:
Phoenix, Assassination and Blowback in Iraq
Premeptive Manhunting:
New Name, Same Assassination Program
A Nation of Assassins: How The Criminal Bush Regime Is Making Mass Murder A Popular Strategy For World Conquest
This is a DOC file. Homeland Security For Whom? (Adapted from an article in the July 2003 issue of Penthouse) (48.5KB)
Film and Book Review: The Quiet American, by Graham Greene
Book Review: An Act Of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King, by William Pepper
The Martin Luther King Trial: Why The Jury Said Our Government Was Involved In His Assassination
Sex & Drugs & The CIA: A Walk On The Wild, Perverse Side of National Security
Homeland Insecurity: The Politics Of Terror Applied in America, A Short History & Primer
From Phoenix To Homeland Security: What To Expect From A Political Police State
Fragging Bob Kerrey: CIA War Crimes In Vietnam
General Bruce Lawlor, Former Chief of Staff, Department of Homeland Security, And His Sad Phoenix Fling In Vietnam
Rob Simmons: The CIA Spook Who Went From the Phoenix Program In Vietnam To the US Congress
An Interview with Douglas Valentine: The Return of the Phoenix
The Phoenix Assassination Program has become so popular, it's now a video game! Check it out.
Read Official Phoenix Documents Doug Contibuted To Russ Kick's Memory Hole
Phoenix as the key to the My Lai Massacre And The Tiger Cages: Vietnam's Prelude To Bush's Hideous "Camp-X" in Cuba
After The War: America's Quiet Campaign To Eliminate Defectors

My new book, The Strength of the Pack: The Politics, Personalities and Espionage Intrigues that Shaped The DEA, will be published in September 2009 by TrineDay

the cover design for Strength of the Pack
The Douglas Valentine Vietnam Collection at the National Security Archive in Washington, DC, has been open and used by researchers since early 2007. The Collection contains the research material, including original handwritten interview notes and government documents obtained through FOIA requests, for my book The Phoenix Program. The Collection can only be used in the National Security Archive's Reading Room; it is not available for interlibrary loan and an appointment must be made to use it. The "resguide" link below will help anyone who wants to read the material.

Follow this link to learn how to use the Archive's Reading Room
This is a DOC file. National Security Archive Index to the Valentine Vietnam Collection (51.5KB)



Some of my poems are listed below for your entertainment






The Modern World

There is more light
In the world today
Than ever before.

In fact, there is
No dark side to
The planet anymore.


In Las Vegas I wait
In the middle of the night
For the last word on electricity.

CompleteWorks

Non-Fiction History
The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs
"Strength of the Wolf is a ground-breaking work of investigative reporting that kept me up half the night, highlighting the names and black deeds of an outlandish cast of wayward narcs, killer-spooks and globe-trotting godfathers. An expose of the never-ending lap-dance between organized crime and the national security establishment, Doug Valentine's book is a torch held high in the labyrinths of America's secret history. Casting a cold eye on the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Valentine reveals the Bureau for what it was: a parapolitical lunatic asylum, swirling with intrigue, rife with corruption, and punch-drunk with good intentions gone bad." Jim Hougan, author of Spooks and Secret Agenda
Action Adventure
TDY
"A fantastic read." -- Mike Levine, author of The New York Times bestseller, Deep Cover.
Non-Fiction Expose
The Phoenix Program
"Valentine has shined a bright light into the darkest corner of the Vietnam War, and one of the darkest in American history." -- Nicholas Proffitt, author of Gardens of Stone.
Thrillers
The Hotel Tacloban
"A soldier's fascinating story of wartime survival and betrayal...a shocking denouement." -- Paul Bach, literary critic.
Non-fiction
The Strength of the Pack: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs
Strength of the Pack picks up where Strength of the Wolf left off: with the creation of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs in 1968. It continues through the formation of the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1973, and examines its growing pains.

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