On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Chip Berlet wrote:
> I am a fan of the Johnson book but for many of us with gray hair the
> concept of Blowback was first popularized in Christopher Simpson's 1988
> book "Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the
> Cold War." (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, Collier Books).
And I think it was first connected to CIA actions in Afghanistan coming back to roost in the US in a series of Village Voice cover stories in 1993 by Robert I. Friedman about the first WTC bombing.
Michael