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PARAPOLITICS AND DEEP POLITICS: DEFINITIONS
(From Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, pp. 6-7:)

“…the investigation of parapolitics, which I defined (with the CIA in mind) as a `system or practice of politics in which accountability is consciously diminished.’…I still see value in this definition and mode of analysis. But parapolitics as thus defined is itself too narrowly conscious and intentional… it describes at best only an intervening layer of the irrationality under our political culture’s rational surface. Thus I now refer to parapolitics as only one manifestation of deep politics, all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or not, which are usually repressed rather than acknowledged.”