John R. Stockwell (born 1937) is an American former CIA officer who became a critic of United States government policies after serving seven tours of duty over thirteen years.

In December 1976, he resigned from the CIA, citing deep concerns for the methods and results of CIA paramilitary operations in Third World countries and testified before Congressional committees. Two years later, he wrote the exposé In Search of Enemies, about that experience and its broader implications. He claimed that the CIA was counterproductive to national security, and that its “secret wars” provided no benefit for the United States. The CIA, he stated, had singled out the MPLA to be an enemy in Angola despite the fact that the MPLA wanted relations with the United States and had not committed a single act of aggression against the United States. In 1978 he appeared on the popular American television program 60 Minutes, claiming that CIA Director William Colby and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger had systematically lied to Congress about the CIA’s operations.

Books

• The Praetorian Guard: The US Role in the New World Order. Boston: South End Press (1991). ISBN 0896083950.
• Red Sunset. New York: William Morrow & Co. (1982).
• In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. (1978). ISBN 0393009262.

• The C.I.A. Case Officer: John “Bob” Stockwell. Institute for Policy Studies (1978).
• The Secret World of the C.I.A: The Testimony of John Stockwell. Cambridge, Mass.: Insight Video (1988). OCLC 18296714

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