John Stockwell is the
highest-ranking CIA official ever to leave the
agency and
go public, working with them
13 years before going the way of
conscience. He is a former
U.S. Marine Corps major,
hired by the
CIA in
1964, who spent
six years working for the
CIA in Africa, and was
later transferred to
Vietnam.
In
1973 he received the
CIA's Medal of Merit, the
Agency's second-highest
award. In
1975,
Stockwell was
promoted to the
CIA's Chief of Station and
National Security Council coordinator, managing
covert activities during the
first years of
Angola's bloody civil war.
After
two years he
resigned,
determined to
reveal the
truth about the agency's
role in the
Third World. Since that
time, he has worked
tirelessly to
expose the
criminal activities of the
CIA. He is the
author of the
international bestseller In Search of Enemies (published in 1978), and The
Praetorian Guard: The U.S. Role in the
New World Order.