By disclosing some of the country’s darkest and dirtiest secrets in the wake of the presidential excesses of Watergate and the Vietnam War, it was Colby who saved the CIA he loved from its own destruction. In the process, he became possibly the most important national security whistleblower in modern American history.
According to Jim Sleeper, he is the source for Horowitz’s fable about Piven and Cloward bringing New York City to its knees in the 1970s. The hysteria over the “Cloward-Piven Strategy for Orchestrated Crisis” is evident in the more than 200,000 hits for “cloward-piven” on Google.
The Society for the Study of Social Problems Demonology as Propaganda
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