Full Collection
This collection features the essential works of Peter Dale Scott, the Canadian poet, former diplomat, & UC Berkeley professor emeritus who pioneered the concept of "deep politics." The study of the covert networks, intelligence agencies, & criminal enterprises that operate beneath the surface of official political life. Over five decades, Scott has produced the most rigorous & systematic body of scholarship on the hidden forces shaping American foreign policy, from the JFK assassination to the global drug trade, from the origins of the Cold War national security state to the road to 9/11.
The archive includes Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, the foundational text that introduced deep political analysis to assassination research and established Scott's framework for understanding how covert power operates, & Dallas '63: The First Deep State Revolt Against the White House, which frames Kennedy's murder as the opening act of a decades-long struggle between elected government & the permanent national security apparatus. You'll find Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America exposing the CIA's role in the drug trade during the Contra war, American War Machine tracing the CIA's global drug connection from Southeast Asia to Afghanistan & its role in shaping U.S. military interventions, & The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America connecting the deep state networks of the Cold War era to the events of September 11th. The collection also includes The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence & International Fascism, examining how intelligence agencies & organized crime collaborated to control the global heroin trade in the postwar era.
From the Dallas motorcade to the poppy fields of Afghanistan, from the Watergate networks to the origins of the war on terror, Scott's work provides the most comprehensive & meticulously documented account of how covert power has shaped postwar American history. These are essential texts for anyone seeking to understand deep politics, the intelligence-drug nexus, & the hidden continuities that connect America's most consequential political crises across six decades.
