Books by Tim Shorrock
Spies For Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing
SIMON & SCHUSTER/2008
This book is the first and only history of the privatization of US intelligence. Starting during the Clinton administration, budgets for these agencies were cut drastically, and privatization of government services became national policy. Outsourcing expanded dramatically in the wake of 9/11, when the CIA, the NSA, and other agencies were frantically looking to hire soldiers of fortune, analysts and linguists. Since then, the intelligence “community” has been relying more and more on corporations to perform sensitive tasks heretofore considered to be exclusively the work of federal employees. This outsourcing of intelligence eventually became a $50+ billion-a-year business that consumes up to 70 percent of the U.S. intelligence budget.
The Political Economy of the Pacific Rim
SELF-PUBLISHED BY THE PACIFIC RIM ECONOMIC PROJECT/1980
I wrote this book in 1980 while I was living in Oregon and trying to organize a coalition that would focus on the economic and political ties between the U.S. Pacific Northwest and the Pacific Rim. It provided a quick and succint history of globalization (long before the term came into vogue) and offered a roadmap for U.S.-based organizers trying to build relationships with East Asia. It is available now for the first time since 1980, in PDF format.
Next: DMZ Empire: Southern Korea and Japan in America’s Pacific Strategy – An Investigative Memoir
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