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Chalmers Johnson

Chalmers Johnson was a consultant to the Office of National Estimates of the CIA from 1967 to 1972. Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, is out this month.

Selected bibliography

  • Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (2007)
  • The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (2004)
  • Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (2000)

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subscriber-only content Otherwise Dealt With · 8 February 2007

  • Ghost Plane: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Secret Rendition Programme by Stephen Grey  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Big Bucks, Big Bangs · 20 July 2006

  • Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea by Jeffrey Richelson

subscriber-only content Abolish the CIA! · 21 October 2004

  • Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to 10 September 2001 by Steve Coll  Buy this book

The Looting of Asia · 20 November 2003

  • Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold by Sterling Seagrave and Peggy Seagrave

Who’s in charge? · 6 February 2003

  • Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg