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Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and English
Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is a poet, writer,
and researcher. He was born in Montreal in 1929, the only son of
the poet F.R. Scott and the painter Marian Scott. He is married to
Ronna Kabatznick; and he has three children, Cassie, Mika, and
John, by a previous marriage to Maylie Marshall.
His prose books include The War Conspiracy (1972), The
Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond (in collaboration, 1976), Crime
and Cover-Up: The CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate
Connection (1977), The Iran-Contra Connection (in collaboration,
1987), Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central
America (in collaboration, 1991, 1998), Deep Politics and the
Death of JFK (1993, 1996), and Deep Politics Two (from
JFKLancer, 1995).
His chief poetry books are two volumes of his projected trilogy
Seculum: Coming to Jakarta: A Poem About Terror (1989),
Listening to the Candle: A Poem on Impulse (1992). In addition he
has published Crossing Borders: Selected Shorter Poems (1994).
Minding the Darkness, to be published by New Directions in Fall
2000, forms the concluding volume of his poetic trilogy Seculum.
An anti-war speaker during the Vietnam and U.S.-Iraq wars, he was
a co-founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at UC
Berkeley, and of the Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA).
His poetry has dealt with both his experience and his research, the
latter of which has centered on U.S. covert operations, their impact
on democracy at home and abroad, and their relations to the John
F. Kennedy assassination and the global drug traffic. The poet-
critic Robert Hass has written (Agni, 31/32, p. 335) that "Coming to
Jakarta is the most important political poem to appear in the
English language in a very long time."
A Note to Visitors:
See my special Webpage on Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden ,
updated November 15, 2001
A Note to Visitors, July 24, 2000:
I want to thank those who have visited either the prose or the
poetry sections of my website. I would also like to invite both
groups of readers to check out what I have posted about my new
book, Minding the Darkness, which appeared in October 2000 from
New Directions.
Rightly or wrongly, I believe Minding the Darkness to be my most
important book. It is certainly the book on which I have worked the
longest, having begun it in 1990. Working on it helped me refine my
thinking about the central notions of Deep Politics, as I mention in
passing on p. 22 of that book.
If you want to check out more, go to Selected Writings: I. Poetic
Trilogy and look at the options at the end. Those interested in my
writings on drugs in particular should look at the option From IV.i
which concerns the Fed, the CIA, and the role of drug-trafficking in
diminishing balance-of-payments crises. (I read from this section in
my speech on drugs and the CIA at the June 2000 CIA Drugs
Symposium that was broadcast over Alternative Radio and NPR in
December 2000.)
Click here for a brief summary of how my poem handles the current
9/11 crisis of "secular capitalism...facing the theocratic alternative
of shariah and jihad" (p. 240).
If you have any comments or questions, I would be glad to hear
from you at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you again -- Peter Dale Scott
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