Not P but a Plist-mentioned name

[Mark Kohut]

DAILY DOUBLE for $100!!.....CIA

On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 1:11 PM, gary webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe it was Cord Meyer Jr. A lot of paranoid grumblings about him and
> his murdered ex-wife over the years, and rightly so.
>
> https://theintercept.com/2017/07/22/donald-trump-and-the-com
> ing-fall-of-american-empire/
>
> On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 5:17 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  have just started reading Alfred McCoy's new book on US foreign policy;
>> he of the major first, almost career-destroying [by the CIA], book on the
>> politics of heroin in Southeast Asia....story of Cass Canfield President of
>> Harper & Row, being visited by an old friend (probably from Yale whose name
>> I will look up later) now a policy maker and enforcer in the CIA who wanted
>> the book killed. 'will endanger soldiers'. A lie since McCoy never went
>> there in his reporting. To his credit, Canfield said No and young McCoy,
>> 26, called Sy Hersh and got the story of the attempted suppression on the
>> front page of the NY Times. .....Then Yale, the pod-bearing institution for
>> the CIA went after McCoy....he sys he was only saved because his thesis
>> advisor was a recent German scholar brought into Yale and not moved by old
>> boy pressure....
>>
>
>
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