Background
Sterling was born in Queens, New New York
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Italy-based investigative journalist Claire Sterling penetrates the heart of the Octopus, the Sicilian Mafia's international crime organization that has a stranglehold on the $100 billion heroin market. Excerpted in Reader's Digest.
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The Terror Network: The Secret War Of International Terrorism by Claire Sterling, published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston, First Edition, 1981. Inscribed by author on label pasted on ffep. Illustrated with 8 pages of b/w photographs. This book describes terrorism during the decade of the '70s and the relationships and interconnections between the various events. It also stresses the author's knowledge and belief that the ultimate target of these terrorist acts were Western democracies and their supporters. An insightful and prophetic book.
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Sterling was born in Queens, New New York
Columbia University; Brooklyn College.
Her theories on Soviet bloc involvement in international terrorism and the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, presented in The Terror Network and The Time of the Assassins, respectively, were politically influential and controversial. After receiving a master"s degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1945, she became the Rome correspondent of "a fly-by-night American news agency." When it folded, she joined The Reporter, which she wrote for until it ceased publication in 1968. Sterling began writing her first book after losing her job at The Reporter.
lieutenant was published in 1969.
She also wrote for various newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Washington Post and Reader"s Digest. After spending their honeymoon in Italy the two moved there, living in Rome for several decades.
They had two children. She died of cancer at age 75, in a hospital in Arezzo.
Sterling"s first book revisited the 1948 death of January Masaryk, the Czechoslovak foreign minister, which she blamed on Soviet or Czechoslovak Stalinists.
More controversial were her books and In the former book, which was translated into 22 languages, she claimed that Soviet Union was a major source of backing behind terrorist groupings around the world. The book was read and appreciated by Alexander Haig and William Casey, but its arguments were dismissed by the Central Intelligence Agency"s Soviet analysts.
According to Melvin Goodman, head of the Central Intelligence Agency"s office for Soviet analysis, "several of us met with Casey to try to tell the director that much of Sterling"s so-called evidence was in fact Central Intelligence Agency "black propaganda", anticommunist allegations planted in the European press" But, Melvin continued, "Casey contemptuously noted..that he "learned more from Sterling than from" " all of them.
Others who came under sway of Sterling"s "evidence" included Alexander Haig, Paul Wolfowitz and State Department official Robert "Bud" McFarlane. Central Intelligence Agency experts knew that the Soviets actually discouraged terrorism.
Casey, however, according to his deputy Robert Gates, had come to the Central Intelligence Agency "to wage war against the Soviet Union." Sterling was the first to claim (in a September 1982 article in Reader"s Digest) that the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John II had been ordered by the Bulgarian Secret Service, a theory that became known as the "Bulgarian Connection" but that has also been, in detail, refuted and attributed to bias by Edward South. Herman and Noam Chomsky in Manufacturing Consent. The Time of the Assassins dealt with the assassination attempt and advanced this now-discredited theory.
Her last two books dealt with the Sicilian Mafia and post-Communist globalized organized crime, respectively.
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She earned a bachelor"s degree in economics at Brooklyn College, worked as a union organizer, and was briefly a member of the Young Communist League.