How the New Order of Surveillance Really Works

Authors

  • Victor Peppard University of South Florida Author

Keywords:

Robert Guffey, government surveillance, military technology, drones, privacy and civil liberties, investigative nonfiction

Abstract

Victor Peppard reviews Robert Guffey’s Chameleo: A Strange But True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security (OR Books, 2015), which follows the NCIS’s high-tech surveillance of Guffey’s drug-addicted friend Dion Fuller and Guffey’s interviews with Richard Schowengerdt, head of the camouflage program Project Chameleo. Peppard finds the account credible and well researched, though he rejects Schowengerdt’s theory of controlled UFO leaks, and he links the book to contemporary press reports on FBI surveillance flights and military drones, urging readers to heed Guffey’s warnings about the erosion of privacy and liberty.

Author Biography

  • Victor Peppard, University of South Florida

    Victor Peppard is Professor of Russian at the University of South Florida in Tampa, where he has taught since 1975 and was chair of World Languages from 2000 to 2011. He received a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan in 1974 and taught Russian at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia in 1973 and 1974. Peppard has published on Russian language pedagogy and on such writers as Isaak Babel’, Gogol’, Dostoevsky, Norman Mailer, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, Yury Olesha, and Vladimir Voinovich, as well as on the history of Russian and Soviet sport. He has also published several short stories.

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Published

2015-09-30

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2015): Maestro

Section

Book Reviews

How to Cite

Peppard, Victor. “How the New Order of Surveillance Really Works”. The Mailer Review, vol. 9, no. 1, Sept. 2015, pp. 345–351, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/538.