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"... Michael Quilligan's focus is on the weapons of mass deception which elites and states use to keep us ignorant. His book is a meticulously researched and corroborated survey of how 'intelligence' is used to hide, distort, and bury the truth of great events, and instead implant a 'version', a narrative, which reflects the requirements of the rulers of the world and serves to conceal reality. Intelligence services and their linked military, criminal, and undercover 'assets', do a lot of things, of which spying is perceived as the most exciting and glamorous. But they do more. For example, they murder. The French secret service's assassination of a Greenpeace photographer in New Zealand is an egregious example, another the almost incessant stream of doorstep killings and public executions by Israel's Mossad. And now we have daily murder by drone and missile on the orders of a former law professor who became President of the United States, carried out from secret bunkers by agents of one or other of the plethora of intelligence agencies which have been so expanded since 9/11 as to constitute a state, an unanswerable state, within a state..."
READ MORE: Irish Left Review June 13, 2014

"The readers of this book should understand that hardly any international crisis happened without the involvement of secret agencies or their shadowy contractors. A stimulating reading matter."
Ludwig Watzal, READ MORE: MCW News)

UNDERSTANDING SHADOWS   The Corrupt Use of Intelligence by Michael Quilligan BUY NOW ISBN: 978-0-9853353-9-7 EBOOK: 978-0-9853353-8-6 $21.95 2013 355 pp. Available in the US and Overseas

Michael Quilligan is a Dublin-born journalist, former European correspondent with the Paris-based Association pour de droit a I'information (ADI). Contributor to several Irish and Dutch publications, including BRES (Amsterdam), the Security and Intelligence Research Bureau (OVIB) 1999 book, "Operation Homerus: Spying for the BVD" and the ADI's "The Intelligence Files" (Clarity Press, 2005).   "From the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, to war crimes in Iraq, the plundering of South Africa, the assassination of JFK, institutional abuses and financial intrigues at the Vatican, and the Troubles in Ireland, Michael Quilligan shines a bright light into some of the most secretive and misunderstood events and issues of our times. With a keen and often literary eye, he connects the dots and reveals the hidden hand and modus operandi of the power elite. Extensively researched, Understanding Shadows is must reading for those familiar with intelligence agencies and their intrigues. For the uninitiated, it is a valuable introduction and summary." Douglas Valentine, author of The Phoenix Program and The Strength of the Wolf "Current history has its mainstream chroniclers and the corporate media to let you know what you should think has been happening, but here - based on extensive documentation and research work - you will learn what is actually behind the glossy print and public facade of these major events..". Olivier Schmidt, ADI Journal, Intelligence "Michael Quilligan has written a fascinating book on some of the most serious social and political ills of our time. Understanding Shadows penetrates the surface and takes us inside major political scandals... A cogently written, intricately researched, and thought provoking work about the abuses of government secrecy and the dirty work of intelligence agencies." James DiEugenio, author of The Assassinations and Destiny Betrayed, cofounder of Coalition on Political Assassinations View synopsis and table of contents. Available in the US from Clarity Press, amazon.com. Available from Distributors in the USA, the UK/Europe, Middle East, Malaysia/Singapore Request a review or desk copy   CLARITY PRESS, INC. http://www.claritypress.com