Peter Dale Scott is a professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also a former Canadian diplomat. His published works include numerous articles on United States involvement in Central America and Southeast Asia, including Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America. His assassination books include Crime and Cover-up: the CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate Connection, and Deep Politics and the Death of JFK.
Dr. Scott coined the term "deep politics" to mean "all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or not, which are usually repressed rather than acknowledged." To this he adds, "Dishonesty, manipulation, and even self-deception are widespread in our nominal political democracy. So little of what really goes on is acknowledged that the notion of deep politics as [just] defined ... needs to be defined more fully. I will henceforth use deep political analysis to refer to the progress in research ... looking beneath public formulations of policy issues to the bureaucratic, economic, and ultimately covert and criminal activities which underlie them."*
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