Obama's Early CIA Connection Excerpts from Global Research article by M Blum "In his autobiography, Dreams From My Fathers, Barack Obama writes of taking a job....after graduating from Columbia University in 1983...   [with]  “a consulting house to multinational corporations” in New York City... as a “research assistant” and “financial writer”. Oddly, Obama doesn’t mention the name of his employer...[but] a  New York Times story of October 30, 2007 identifies the company as Business International Corporation. Equally odd, the Times did not remind its readers that the newspaper itself had disclosed in 1977 that Business International had provided cover for four CIA employees in various countries between 1955 and 1960. The British [intelligence] journal, Lobster,   has reported that Business International was active in the 1980s promoting the candidacy of Washington-favored candidates in Australia and Fiji . In 1987, the CIA overthrew the Fiji government after but one month in office because of its policy [of excluding nuclear powered submarines from Fji].  After the Fiji coup, the candidate supported by Business International...was reinstated to power — R.S.K. Mara was Prime Minister or President of Fiji from 1970 to 2000, except for the one-month break in 1987. In his book, not only doesn’t Obama mention his employer’s name; he fails to say exactly when he worked there, or why he left the job.   There may well be no significance to these omissions, but inasmuch as Business International has a long association with the world of intelligence, covert actions, and attempts to penetrate the radical left — including Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) — it’s reasonable to wonder if...Mr. Obama is concealing something about his own association [with the CIA]..." I have not verified any of the assertions in the article but note that the NYT also conveniently forgot that less than a year before they disparaged Q as a fringe conspiracy theory (!), they had accidentally reported that Q Group was the counter-intelligence division of the CIA. It seems that nowadays,  the NYT does better reporting by accident, than they do on purpose.   Maybe they should research their own archives for information.