40. Thomas Etzold and John Gaddis, Containment: Documents on American Policy and Strategy 1945–1950 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1978), 125.
41. Scott, The Road to 9/11, 15.
42. See chapter 6; see also Scott, Drugs, Oil, and War, 1–3, 59–68.
43. Schell, The Unconquerable World, 240.
44. Scott, Deep Politics, 174–78, Douglas Valentine, The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs (London: Verso, 2004), 76, 98–99, 112.
45. Norman Lewis, Naples ’44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2005), 109–10.
46. Tim Newark, “Fighting the Mafia in World War Two,” AmericanMafia.com, May 2007, http://www.americanmafia.com/Feature_Articles_388.html. Cf. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin, 35–36; Scott, Deep Politics, 8.
47. Gaia Servadio, Mafioso: A History of the Mafia from Its Origins to the Present Day (New York: Dell, 1978), 88.
48. Scott, Deep Politics, 8. In 1982 a major electrical power plant in New York City was named after him.
49. Amy B. Zegart, Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS, and NSC (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999), 189; Scott, The War Conspiracy, 260; Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (New York: Doubleday, 2007), 26–27.
50. Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, 298–300. The funds to Miceli in 1972 were allegedly ordered by Kissinger over the objections of the local CIA chief.
51. See Daniele Ganser, “Beyond Democratic Checks and Balances: The Propaganda Due Masonic Lodge and the CIA in Italy’s First Republic,” in Government of the Shadows: Parapolitics and Criminal Sovereignty, ed. Eric Wilson and Tim Lindsey (London: Pluto, 2008).
52. Leonard Weinberg and Ami Pedahzur, Political Parties and Terrorist Groups (London: Routledge, 2003), 56.
53. J. Patrice McSherry, Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), 43.
54. Dilip Hiro, The Iranian Labyrinth: Journeys through Theocratic Iran and Its Furies (New York: Nation Books/Avalon, 2005), 76.
55. Hiro, The Iranian Labyrinth, 74.
56. U.S. Congress, Senate, 102nd Cong., 2nd sess., The BCCI Affair: A Report to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from Senator John Kerry, Chairman, and from Senator Hank Brown, Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations, September 30, 1992, 1–2.
57. Scott, The Road to 9/11, 163–67.
58. Dorothy J. Samuels and James A. Goodman. “How Justice Shielded the CIA,” Inquiry, October 18, 1978), 10–11; U.S. Congress, House, Committee on Government Operations, Justice Department Handling of Cases Involving Classified Data and Claims of National Security, 96th Cong., 1st sess., House Report No. 96-280 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1979).
59. Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press (London: Verso, 1998), 391–92.
60. E.g., “Colombia: The Perils of ‘Parapolitics,’” Economist, May 22, 2007. In my own writings I once attempted to distinguish between intentional parapolitics and uncontrollable deep politics (Scott, Drugs, Oil, and War, xx; Scott, The Road to 9/11, 267–69). But as both terms have gained currency, they have also become more and more interchangeable.
61. U.S. Congress, House, Committee on Intelligence, IC21: Intelligence Community in the 21st Century, Staff Study, 104th Congress, 205.
62. America’s income disparity, as measured by its Gini coefficient, is now among the highest in the world, along with Brazil, Mexico, and China. See Phillips, Wealth and Democracy, 38, 103; Greg Palast, Armed Madhouse (New York: Dutton, 2006), 159.
63. This is the subject of my book The Road to 9/11, 4–9.
64. Anthony Cave Brown, Oil, God, and Gold (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999), 213.
