1976 WIU Yearbook

Previous Page | Next Page | Home | VICTOR MARCHETTI & JAMES THOMPSON 156 156a-Victor Marchetti; 156b-Victor Marchetti; 156c-James Thompson (who in 1976 became the Governor of Illinois for 14 years).

[Victor worked for the CIA and wrote a book about it. From Wikipedia: "Victor Machetti's books included, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence (1973).[4] Before this book was published, the CIA demanded that Marchetti remove 399 passages, but Marchetti stood firm and only 168 passages were censored. It is the first book the federal government of the United States ever went to court to censor before its publication. The publisher (Alfred A. Knopf) chose to publish the book with blanks for censored passages and with boldface type for passages that were challenged but later uncensored. ]