L.A. Secret Police: Inside the LAPD Elite Spy Network by Mike RothmillerMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I read about the OCID in The Last Mafioso: The Treacherous World of Jimmy Frantianno and it prompted me to read this book to learn more. It is really a bit after the Frantianno years, however. In this book, former OCID detective Mike Rothmiller discusses how, during the 1970s and '80s, argely by design, OCID activities rarely came to public attention. LAPD officials long insisted that the unit remain spying on celebrities and politicians building up index card files without executing attention-getting arrests. The story is not really told in a coherent fashion, just a collage of corruption and . Bookending this unit history is how running into CIA-backed Contra funding flights nearly got Rothmiller killed, which is about the most interesting part of this book.
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