From: Marilyn Mockus
Subject: angus mckenzie
Date: Friday, September 14, 2001 01:38 PM

After looking over (again) the list of ND people, I
would like to contribute the following to Angus
McKenzie: 

from the cover of his book "The Cia's War at Home".
This eye-opening expose, the result of 15 years
of investigative work, uncovers the CIA's systematic
efforts to suppress and censor information.  Angus
Mckenzie, an award-winning journalist, filed and won a
lawsuit against the CIA under the Freedom of
Information Act, and in the process became an expert
on government censorship and domestic spying...more

Angus MacKenzie (1950-1994) was affiliated with the
Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco
and taught at the School of Journalism at the
Universit of California at Berkeley.

(from the Foreword)  This book is the final work and
legacy of Angus Mackenzie, a fierce advocate and
practitioner of freedom of speech, of the press, and
of the spirit.  Since his untimely death in 1994, a
determind group of people has worked to ensure that
this book, which he almost completed before he died,
would find its way to print....more

(editor's preface)  After a decade of work and at
least two drafts, Secrets was headed for publication
when, on Christmas Eve 1992, Angus Mackenzie had a
grand mal seizure.  A few days later he learned he had
brain cancer.  Despite the diagnosis he continued to
work on the manuscript until the progress of the tumor
dictated brain surgery in April 1993 at the Stanford
University Medical Center. Although he was never able
to work again, Mackenzie's spirits received a
tremendous boost when the University of California
Press committed to the book's publication that
November.  MacKenzie died at the age of 43 at his home
in the Mission district of San Francisco on Friday,
May 13, 1994...more

(Angus' dedication)  To the great journalists of my
generation whose writings were discouraged by the
secret efforts of the U.S. government to put their
publications out of business, with hopes that they
pick up their pens again.  And to my daughter, Kate,
with wishes that her generation may have the
unfettered First Amendment to enjoy.