Douglas Valentine
@dougvalentine.bsky.social
Writer, investigator, author of nine books, most about the CIA, including my latest Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire at douglasvalentine.com Also there is my book of poems A Crow’s Dream.
Drawing by Rick Aller circa 1968.
November 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Drawing by Rick Aller circa 1968.
Last paragraph in the introduction to The Phoenix Program (1990) warned that Phoenix would come home to roost - and it has. Douglasvalentine.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Last paragraph in the introduction to The Phoenix Program (1990) warned that Phoenix would come home to roost - and it has. Douglasvalentine.com
Me a year ago.
October 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Me a year ago.
Trump and Melania take a victory lap.
July 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Trump and Melania take a victory lap.
Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire douglasvalentine.com explains how the US military since WW2 has been retooled to pacify civilian populations rther than fight foreign armies, and how Trump has brought the war home, Phoenix and all.
June 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire douglasvalentine.com explains how the US military since WW2 has been retooled to pacify civilian populations rther than fight foreign armies, and how Trump has brought the war home, Phoenix and all.
Anyone know what kind of little vine this is with the tiny, lavender flowers?
June 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Anyone know what kind of little vine this is with the tiny, lavender flowers?
finding purpose in life, circa 1977
June 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
finding purpose in life, circa 1977
Apple & Netflix made documentaries about the Vietnam War & neither mentioned the police Special Branch. Nguyen Mau, director of the SB 1968-71 gave me a copy of this, his book. I offered it to Texas tech Vietnam Center if they'd translate it - no response. Blackout about the CIA side of the war.
May 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Apple & Netflix made documentaries about the Vietnam War & neither mentioned the police Special Branch. Nguyen Mau, director of the SB 1968-71 gave me a copy of this, his book. I offered it to Texas tech Vietnam Center if they'd translate it - no response. Blackout about the CIA side of the war.
Oliver Stone liked TDY. You might too. See DouglasValentine.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Oliver Stone liked TDY. You might too. See DouglasValentine.com
Wonder if Gerber knew my friend Yuri Totrov, seen in photo with my older sister Kay and her husband Paul, in Moscow. As a KGB counter-intelligence colonel, Yuri certainly knew Gerber. mindmatters.ai/2018/11/how-...
January 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Wonder if Gerber knew my friend Yuri Totrov, seen in photo with my older sister Kay and her husband Paul, in Moscow. As a KGB counter-intelligence colonel, Yuri certainly knew Gerber. mindmatters.ai/2018/11/how-...