[Larry Hancock]

Thanks Ben, I try not to promote the books too strongly but for practical purposes basically all I've learned goes into them - which is why I write them - and after some 25 years at this they are a far better resource for detail than I am. The other comment I would make is that covering a much broader historical time frame in regard to studying agencies, operations, and practices has given me a much more realistic view of things. Many things that seemed unique and mysterious when looking at only one subject - such as the JFK assassination - become less so with a longer baseline. However what does not change is that government agencies have a very difficult time investigating themselves, much less their sources, assets or surrogates. Its part actual legal entanglement, part operational security and compartmentalization and part CYA, the proportion of each changes instance by instance. In my view that is just a fact of life and we have to accept that it comes with the territory.