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A federal grand jury has subpoenaed a reporter for The New York Times in an apparent attempt to force him to disclose his sources in a 2006 book on the Central Intelligence Agency, a lawyer for the reporter said.

James Risen, a veteran reporter for the New York Times, has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in an attempt to force him to reveal his confidential source for a book he authored on the CIA.

So I just finished reading the Valerie Plame Wilson memoir "Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House." And I have to say, I don't really like her now.Prior to reading the book I felt bad for her--after all top ranking members of the U.S. government played a role in outing her covert identity as a C.I.A. "operative..."

This is a book written by a former CIA/black ops operative by the name of Chip Tatum. During the 1980's, Tatum was recruited as a MEDEVAC pilot to fly medical supplies to support the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. He soon learned he was exporting cocaine from Nicaragua produced by the Contras in conjunction with the CIA, for sale on American streets.

The NYT book review section on Sunday includes a write-up of Hugh Wilford's The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America, Wilford's history of how the Central Intelligence Agency used and funded media and propaganda organizations as part of a domestic and international propaganda campaign against (and, to an extent, in emulation of) the Soviet