Thursday, September 20, 2007

Tour Continues in Cali, Thoughts of Santa Fe

The American Torture tour, sponsored by Citizens for Global Solutions and Amnesty International, has now rolled into San Diego, where I will talk today at the San Diego Public Library. Santa Fe was a definite highlight so far. Crisp blue skies, red crumbling Adobe, and a strong activist population deeply concerned about the troubled path this country has taken in the name of 'national security'. In the morning of our visit, I was interviewed on KSFR in the funky Sante Fe Baking Company. We then had two great events-- one at the College of Santa Fe and the other at the excellent Collected Works Bookstore. The daughter of Allen Dulles-- the CIA director that initiated the bulk of 1950's era CIA mind control research-- came to my talk at Collected Works and we chatted afterwards. She's wonderfully down-to-earth, in her 70s now, and said that she is trying to understand her father and hopes that my book could help her. I hope it will too.