Douglas Valentine

standard covert action program is buried in layers of cover stories. As Winston Churchill (and later Joe Pesci) famously said, “it’s a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma.” Churchill also said that, “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”

It has been this way since slave owner and serial rapist Thomas Jefferson declared “all men are created equal,” except Africans, women, and, as he wrote in the Declaration of Independence, the “merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”