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William Blum

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This guy's a nut case. Far out conspiracy theorist

>>By davsie (Thursday, 20 Mar 2003 19:56)

What is Mr. Blum's educational background? Where did he go to school and what did he finish with?

>>By David Orr (Thursday, 10 Apr 2003 02:13)

I've read Killing Hope. It is very well referenced and I don't doubt that a lot of it is true. Should be required reading for all US presidents.

>>By David Cameron (Thursday, 10 Apr 2003 08:53)

You know I do not think the other people who on this discussion board read his book or did any basic research on who this man is. To say he is a nut job is to basically disregard declassified gov't documents,research and analysis of an institution and its practices. Here is some info on who william blum is

About this Author

William Blum left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, because of his opposition to what the United States was doing in Vietnam.

He then became one of the founders and editors of the Washington Free Press, the first "alternative" newspaper in the capital.

In 1969, he wrote and published an exposé of the CIA in which was revealed the names and addresses of more than 200 employees of the Agency.
Mr. Blum has been a freelance journalist in the United States, Europe and South America. His stay in Chile in 1972-3, writing about the Allende government's "socialist experiment" and its tragic overthrow in a CIA-designed coup, instilled in him a personal involvement and an even more heightened interest in what his government was doing in various parts of the world.
In the mid-1970's, he worked in London with former CIA officer Philip Agee and his associates on their project of exposing CIA personnel and their misdeeds.
The late 1980s found Mr. Blum living in Los Angeles, teaching and pursuing a career as a screenwriter. Unfortunately, his screenplays all had two (if not three) strikes against them because they dealt with that thing which makes grown men run screaming in Hollywood: ideas and issues.
William Blum is currently living in Washington, DC again, using the Library of Congress and the National Archives to strike fear into the hearts of US government imperialists. Blum maintains his own Web Site and also maintains the Foreign Policy Watch section of ZNet.

>>By Dayton J (Monday, 14 Apr 2003 23:34)

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