ROBERT PERRY journalist – whistleblower (24. 06. 1949/ USA)
Robert Parry(born June 24, 1949) is an American investigative journalist best known for his role in covering the Iran-Contra affair for the Associated Press (AP) and Newsweek, including breaking the Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare (CIA manual provided to the Nicaraguan contras) and the CIA and Contras cocaine trafficking in the US scandal in 1985.
PARRY JOINED THE AP IN 1974, MOVING TO ITS WASHINGTON BUREAU IN 1977. AFTER THE 1980 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HE WAS ASSIGNED TO ITS SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT (INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING) UNIT, WHERE HE BEGAN WORKING ON CENTRAL AMERICA
Parry was awarded the George Polk Award for National Reporting in 1984 for his work with the Associated Press on Iran-Contra , where he broke the story that the Central Intelligence Agency had provided an assassination manual to the Nicaraguan Contras (Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare).
Consortium for Independent Journalism Inc. (CIJ) is a non-profit US-based independent news service founded in 1995 by Robert Parry, which publishes the website Consortium News. Besides Parry, who remains its editor, contributors include Norman Solomon, David Swanson and Martin A. Lee.
Books Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, The Press & Project Truth (1992) Trick or Treason: The October Surprise Mystery (1993) The October Surprise X-Files: The Hidden Origins of the Reagan-Bush Era (1996) Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq (2004) Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush (2007) America's Stolen Narrative: From Washington and Madison to Nixon, Reagan and the Bushes to Obama (2012)
Lost History is a kind of All the President's Men in reverse. As that journalistic classic followed Woodward and Bernstein exposing Watergate, Lost History is the inside story of reporters who broke the key stories of the Irancontra scandal. But instead of basking in praise, they paid a high personal price. In a larger sense, Lost History explains how the Washington press corps of the 1980 s missed or under-reported many of the major scandals of the era, from the dirty secret of Nicaraguan contra-cocaine trafficking to the Guatemalan army's genocide against Mayan Indians. Not only does Lost History recover this important historical record from the government's secret files, but it shows how the decade of the 1980 s was the missing link in the transformation of the Washington press corps from the glory days of Watergate to the tawdry tabloid moments of Monica Lewinsky. This is a book not only about "lost history" but about a political system that has lost its way.
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