The Praetorian Guard: The U.S. Role in the New World Order

by John R. Stockwell and John Stockwell

Book Overview

Ex-CIA agent John Stockwell analyzes the CIA and other institutional forces shaping U.S. domestic and foreign policy. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896083950
• ISBN13: 9780896083950
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: South End Press
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

More about John

I knew John right about the time he wrote this book and also met his family. The reviewer who suggested that he might be part of a CIA program in writing this book is way, way off. This man has put himself (and his family) in a very scary position and he deserves a lot of credit for coming out with the truths he knows. I knew him and did some work for him for about a year and I also knew someone else that had known him for decades. John Stockwell deserves many kudos for his courage and integrity in coming out with what he knows. You can believe the book. I hope he will come out with more.

THE BITTER TRUTH

This book explains the intricate, intense, and often unjustified involvement of the CIA in many parts of the world, through thousands of covert operations, which, according to the book and other sources, have ended the lifes of millions of people. It describes secret and obscure operations, some of which entailed the killing of people by the thousands at Angola, and others such as the one which overthrew the first democratic government in Guatemala, and the creation of the infamous "death squads" in that country and El Salvador, to murder civilians and seed terror among the people. All orchestrated by our CIA, apparently in the name of national interests. I will not say much about this, because I urge you to read the book, but many of these operations were bloody, bloody, bloody, and they were emphatically denied at official briefings to the Congress, which, needless to say, is a felony. Stockwell goes deep, and he surely has bases to do it. He is the highest rank CIA official ever to go public. And even though this book has been censored, you still can get pretty much information from it. You will realize that most of the time, the CIA hasn't really had fair motives to carry out the operations. The real interests behind all of it are completely different from the picture that we get from the news and the official reports from our government. Reading this one will make you end up with a sad feeling after having been shown the bitterness of reality. It will make you wonder about which has been our true government, and you will want to ask if all our "liberties" and "freedoms" have been paid at the cost of millions of innocent children, women, and men from all over the world.

Praetorian Guard is Amazing

The Praetorian guard is so good it almost defies description. John Stockwell has finally answered the question of why elements in the U.S. Government would "want" to carry out some of the covert operations which seem to make no sense other than a desire for power or perhaps simple Sadism. Why for example would the government want to destabilize a small country, throw it into civil unrest, and have a corrupt dictator take over? What possible reason could there be for that? The answer is more down to earth, and for that reason more obscene than I had imagined. This book answered so many questions, and made certain actions by agencies in the government which seemed almost insane to me, finally make terrible sense.

About John

I work with Mr. Stockwell, and he is one of the hardest working most upfront men I have ever met. He is truly an inspiration to all of us.

Chilling. Apropriate yet again... (1998)

Published about a week before the groundwar began in Bosrah and Baghdad. John's father was a Lutheran Missionworker in Africa. I met him when I was sitting in on classes at URI. While I was on the Hopi part of the Navajo Reservation I called John and told him about students at Hopi High being heavily recruited right out of their junior year to join the CIA instead of college. They can join right away and be trained while they work. I thought for central America, like Panama or so. He thought Cuba or Peru. This book's written in a style I really admire.