CovertAction Quarterly
 CovertAction Quarterly     | |
|---|---|
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| Type | magazine |
| Founder(s) | Philip Agee, William H. Schaap, Ellen Ray |
| Founded | 1978 |
| Dissolved | 2005 |
| Author(s) | various |
| Interests | CIA, Covert operations |
| A magazine focused on US covert operations, relaunched in 2018. | |
CovertAction Quarterly is a publication focused on the CIA like its 'precursor' magazine CounterSpy. It started as CovertAction Information Bulletin in 1978, was later renamed CovertAction Quarterly and published till 2005. It relaunched in 2018 as CovertAction Magazine.
Contents
Legal change
Its 'Naming names' column inspired the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act which made it a crime to name US spooks.
Reporting
In 1998, the magazine won an award from Project Censored for a story by Lawrence Soley in the Spring 1997 issue titled "Phi Beta Capitalism", about corporate influence on universities.[1] Another article highlighted by Project Censored was Michel Chossudovsky's 2000 claim that the World Trade Organization was an "illegal institution".[2]
End of CovertAction Quarterly
In 1998 the publishers of CovertAction Quarterly decided to fire the staff which was on a day to day basis involved with the production and publication of the magazine.[3][4] After that it was published only a few more years and with less frequency.
FOIA
MuckRock asked about the magazine in 2016.[5]
Anthologies
Several articles from CovertAction Quarterly were collected in two anthologies, Covert Action: The Roots of Terrorism (ISBN 978-1876175849) and Bioterror: Manufacturing Wars The American Way (ISBN 978-1876175641), both published in 2003.
Relaunch
The project has been relaunched in 2018 as CovertAction Magazine (CAM).[6] Old issues have been made available as well.
Documents sourced from CovertAction Quarterly
| Title | Type | Subject(s) | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:George Bush and the CIA In the Company of Friends | article | CIA George H. W. Bush US/Deep state Zapata Petroleum | 1992 | Anthony Kimery | An overview of Bush's CIA work and related business activity. |
| Document:The Long Secret Alliance | article | Cambodia Khmer Rouge Pol Pot | September 1997 | John Pilger | The suppressed history of US sponsorship of the genocidal Pol Pot Khymer Rouge regime in Cambodia through the 1970-80's |
References
- ↑ http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/3-big-business-seeks-to-control-and-influence-us-universities
- ↑ Project Censored, Top 25 Censored Stories of 2001: 13. The World Trade Organization is an Illegal Institution
- ↑ https://fas.org/irp/news/1998/07/980713-caq2.htm
- ↑ https://cryptome.org/jya/caq-purge.htm
- ↑ https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/covertaction-quarterly-24737/
- ↑ https://covertactionmagazine.com/archives/
