To browse Academia. It circulated on several continents to investigative reporters, scholars, and independent researchers. The term "parapolitics" originated with University of California professor Peter Dale Scott, who defined it with the CIA in mind as a "system or practice of politics in which accountability is consciously diminished. The full set is available here for the first time to download. International Journal of Press and Politics, European Journal of Business and Management, Log in with Facebook Log in with Google.
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Each issue included condensed summaries of hundreds of news stories from dozens of U. I also carried original articles by several authors on subjects ranging from Vatican intrigues and the Michele Sindona affair to CIA links with Cuban exile drug traffickers and terrorists. That article in turn caught the eye of Russian diplomats in Italy and led to a subscription by the Russian consulate in San Francisco, where I was based at the time as an editor of the national political journal Inquiry.
I ceased publishing in , owing to the pressures of my new day job as a newspaper journalist. Instead, I began contributing similar but less extensive summaries of parapolitical news for two short-lived magazines, The Rebel and State Secrets. Now, four decades later, I have digitized the newsletters and made them available in a single PDF for the first time. Since the number of subscribers is at present limited more by the demands on my time than anything else, I hope readers will distribute copies as widely as they see fit.
Since copying, mailing, and other expenses for even a modest newsletter such as this are substantial, I will be charging subscription fees. The basic rate for one year ca. Those readers with institutional support should contact me about arranging even higher rates through their organization. Try to get into the habit of contributing to the newsletter. Along those lines, I hope readers will also send comments and criticisms, whether private or for publication here, to improve the newsletter.
