CovertAction Quarterly
 CovertAction Quarterly     | |
|---|---|
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| Type | magazine |
| Founder(s) | Philip Agee, [[..|...]] |
| 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.
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]
Controversy
In 1998 the publishers of CAQ decided to fire, without notice, the staff who was, on a day to day basis, involved with the production and publication of the magazine. The magazine was published only a few more years and with less frequency. [3][4]
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
- ↑ "Big Business Seeks to Control and Influence U.S. Universities". Project Censored. 1998. Retrieved 2010-08-10.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- ↑ 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/index.php/history/
