Looks at how U.S. government officials secretly used, shielded, and supported Nazi War criminals

Blowback: The First Full Account of America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Disastrous Effect on The cold war, Our Domestic and Foreign Policy.

History

Simpson, Christopher

Americas

Collier Books/Macmillan

Science of Coercion provides the first thorough examination of the role of the CIA, the Pentagon, and other U.S. security agencies in the evolution of modern communication research, a field in the social sciences which crystallized into a distinct discipline in the early 1950s. Government-funded psychological warfare programs underwrote the academic triumph of preconceptions about communication that persist today in communication studies, advertising research, and in counterinsurgency operations. Christopher Simpson contends that it is unlikely that communication research could have emerged into its present form without regular transfusions of money from U.S military, intelligence, and propaganda agencies during the Cold War. These agencies saw mass communication as an instrument for persuading or dominating targeted groups in the United States and abroad; as a tool for improving military operations; and perhaps most fundamentally, as a means to extend the U.S. influence more widely than ever before at a relatively modest cost. Communication research, in turn, became for a time the preferred method for testing and developing such techniques. Science of Coercion uses long-classified documents to probe the contributions made by prominent mass communication researchers such as Wilbur Schramm, Ithiel de Sola Pool, and others, then details the impact of psychological warfare projects on widely held preconceptions about social science and the nature of communication itself. A fascinating case study in the history of science and the sociology of knowledge, Science of Coercion offers valuable insights into the dynamics of ideology and the social psychology of communication.

Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Blowback

Military

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

This volume on the Reagan and Bush years provides a collection of National Security Council records from the two most recent administrations. It includes 250 previously classified directives gathered through Freedom of Information Act requests, archival research, and the study of court records.

National Security Directives Of The Reagan And Bush Administrations: The Declassified History Of U.s. Political And Military Policy, 1981-1991

Politics & Government

Routledge

Random House Value Publishing

An investigation into how governments turn a blind eye to crime describes how the existing customs in international law and commerce actually encourage mass murder and the escape of war criminals. 15,000 first printing.

The Splendid Blonde Beast: Money, Law, and Genocide in the Twentieth Century

Grove Pr

Westview Press

In 1946, the Office of Military Government (U.S.) (OMGUS) reported the results of investigations into the Deutsche and Dresdner Banks' involvement with the Nazi regime during WWII. The reports concluded that both banks were directly involved in Nazi war crimes and called for their liquidation. The U

War Crimes of the Deutsche Bank and the Dresdner Bank: Office of the Military Government (U.S.) Reports

Business & Money

Economics

Holmes & Meier Pub

Looks at how U.S. government officials secretly used, shielded, and supported Nazi War criminals

Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War

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