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Historical Title: “Democratic Institutions?” 10 Lessons from history that will destroy your trust in the CIA At every corner, we are urged to simply believe what we are told. Whether it is about believing Porton Down and MI6 about novichok, or believing the White Helmets about Sarin, or believing the FBI about collusion, we are presented with no facts, just assertions from authority. Those who question those assertions are deemed bots at best or traitors at worst. Well here, fellow traitors, are the Top Ten reasons to question anything and everything the CIA or any intelligence agency has ever told you. 10. OPERATION PAPERCLIP well start with an oldie but a goody. In 1945, as the allies were advancing on Berlin from both sides, American Army Intelligence (this was before the CIA was founded) were capturing (read: recruiting) over 1600 Nazi scientists and engineers. Most famous of them was Werhner von Braun
sorry, SS Sturmbannführer von Braun. Whilst Allied soldiers died in the name of defeating fascism, the CIAs predecessors were actively recruiting Nazis to come and build bombs for them. 9. OPERATION NORTHWOODS The original, and important, precedent for accusations that the CIA et al. might engage in false-flag attacks. Operation Northwoods was a joint CIA/Pentagon proposal designed around the idea of escalating a war with Cuba by stoking public anger: The proposals called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other U.S. government operatives to commit acts of terrorism against American civilians and military targets, blaming it on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba. The idea was vetoed by President Kennedy. Fifty years later, the CIA and Pentagon still very much exist, but theres no longer a Kennedy there to veto their more psychopathic ideas. Funny how that worked out. 8. ALLENDE COUP In 1970 Salvador Allende was elected to the Chilean Presidency. A Physician and dedicated socialist, Allende was the first socialist president elected in South America. The Nixon-led government of the United States immediately implemented economic warfare (as they do, to this day, against Cuba, Venezuela and others). The economic warfare did not work, and in 1973 Allendes socialist party increased their parliamentary majority. In response, the US assisted (read: instructed) the Chilean military in carrying out a coup. Allende allegedly shot himself, and Augusto Pinochet was placed in power as the first dictator in Chiles history. Pinochet was a fascist who executed Chilean subversives by the thousand
and was the darling of Western leaders. 7. MOSADDEGH COUP I could just copy-and-paste the above paragraph and the change the names for this entry. In 1953, the Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh, a democratic socialist wanted to audit the income of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company with an eye to limiting foreign control of Irans oil. Within a few months, a joint US/UK operation Operation Ajax had removed Mosaddeghs elected government and turned over full control of the state to the Shah. He was a brutal absolute monarch, but the question of Western control of Irans enormous oil reserves wasnt raised again under his leadership. 6. OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD A CIA operation that you could deduce existed, even if were not proven
and it is proven. Mockingbird was the CIA project to coerce, train, control or plant CIA-friendly journalists in major news networks all across the country and in every medium. Its existence is no longer disputed, thanks to FOIA releases of internal memos. Mockingbird was allegedly shut down in 1976 just after its existence was leaked then CIA director George HW Bush claiming:
effective immediately, CIA will not enter into any paid or contractual relationship with any full-time or part-time news correspondent accredited by any U.S. news service, newspaper, periodical, radio or television network or station. If youre willing to stake anything on the word of a Bush, well, good luck with that. Its a decision that flies in the face of historical evidence. Remember this one when you hear about the need to trust the CIA from some pundit on CNN or MSNBC. 5. MASS SURVEILLANCE Its not really talked about much these days what with the vast majority of the media and huge sections of the supposedly anti-establishment progressive left marching in step with the Deep State but the NSA spied on the whole world. The whole world. We know this to be true because an employee of the Deep State Edward Snowden leaked the information. When challenged on this issue, representatives of the NSA and CIA lied. They lied to the public, and they lied to congress. When they were proven to have lied, they carefully qualified their lies. A qualified lie is still a lie. There is no indication they have stopped this illegal surveillance, but they may have passed laws to make it legal. 4. NAYIRAH A classic of atrocity propaganda, Nayirah should be required reading material for anybody looking to hop on a pro-war bandwagon. Nayirah who originally gave only her first name was a fifteen year old girl who testified in front of the United States Congress. She claimed to be a volunteer from a Kuwaiti hospital, and to be an eye-witness to Iraqi soldiers throwing Kuwaiti babies out of incubators and leaving them to die: I volunteered at the al-Addan hospital with twelve other women who wanted to help as well. I was the youngest volunteer. The other women were from twenty to thirty years old. While I was there I saw the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns. They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators and left the children to die on the cold floor. It was horrifying. It was later revealed, not only that her full name was Nayirah al-Sabah and she was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador, but that she had never volunteered at a hospital and had seen no babies, soldiers or incubators. The whole thing was a fiction. A fiction paid for by the Citizens of Free Kuwait, an NGO (and obvious CIA front) set up to lobby the US to intervene in the Iraq-Kuwait war. By the time this fiction was revealed it was too late, and the US had launched Operation Desert Storm
which was, of course, the entire point of the exercise Remember this, when you hear about Assad gassing children or bombing cats. 3. COINTELPRO The FBIs long running (and sometimes illegal) COunter INTELligence PROgram, COINTELPRO was a series of domestic projects carried out by the FBI (with cooperation from other agencies), over decades, with the aim of surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations. These political organizations included anti-Vietnam protestors, civil rights groups (including both MLK and Malcolm X), socialists, Communist Party USA, environmental groups and feminist organizations. The brief for these disruptions came straight from J. Edgar Hoover who wanted the FBI to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise Neutralize people he perceived to be enemies of the state. The capital N in neutralise is no accident, as the FBI was implicated in the deaths of several Black Panther leaders, including Fred Hampton. COINTELPRO didnt just involve undermining left-wing groups, but also creating right-wing groups: The FBI also financed, armed, and controlled an extreme right-wing group of former Minutemen, transforming it into a group called the Secret Army Organization that targeted groups, activists, and leaders involved in the Anti-War Movement, using both intimidation and violent acts. Whether this was done to actually push a right-wing agenda, create a fake threat to step up police powers, or just sow division and chaos, is unclear. But it definitely happened. Much like MKUltra (below), COINTELPRO was officially shut down, not long after the public found out it existed. However, the accidental outing of an undercover policeman at a rally in Oakland, and recent relaxation of the laws limiting the FBIs powers, means that COINTELPRO or a modern successor is very likely still a thing. The aim of COINTELPRO was to Neutralize anti-establishment political figures the vast majority of targets were left wingers through smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting false reports in the media. Remember that when you see Rand Paul called a traitor on twitter, or read about Russian collusion, or see Jeremy Corbyn branded an anti-Semite. Remember that it is proven that the Deep State our trusted intelligence agencies pay people to plant false stories and discredit political opponents. 2. PROJECT MKULTRA It might sound like something from a 70s sci-fi TV series, but it is unfortunately real. MKUltra was a series of (illegal) experiments carried out by the CIA from 1953 until it was *cough* officially halted in 1973 (just after its existence was leaked). The experiments were wide-ranging, achieved varied levels of success, but pretty uniformly brutal and unethical. They included, but were not limited too: Giving LSD to unsuspecting soldiers to see what happened. Well never know the full range of studies, or how they were carried out, because in 1973 Richard Helms, then director of the CIA, ordered all MKUltra files destroyed. Only a fraction of them survive, thanks to FOIA requests, but its reasonable to assume they destroyed the worst parts and kept the more innocent files. The CIA were not unique in this regard either, MKUltra was their baby but there were parallel projects in other quarters of the deep state. Army Intelligence had Edgewood Arsenal, whilst the Department of Defense had Project 112. All these projects were officially halted in the early 70s
just around the time the public found out they existed. The CIA (et al.) have strongly denied that these experiments and projects have ever been continued in any way, shape or form
but if youd asked them in 1969, they would have denied they had ever taken place at all. 1. THE IRAQ WAR This might not be the most callous, the most dangerous, the most recent, the most secret or the most insidious of the items on this list, nevertheless it is must be number one
because it is the most brazen. The war was started in the name of weapons of mass destruction that everyone everyone knew never existed. They all knew the truth, but they lied. The President lied, the vice-president lied, the secretary of defence lied, the secretary of state lied. The Prime Minister lied, the defence minister lied, the foreign minister lied. They lied to the press, the people and the UN. The CIA, the NSA, the FBI then headed by the heroic marine Robert Mueller they lied too. The press repeated these lies, without question (see: Operation Mockingbird). They werent misinformed, they werent mistaken. They lied, they lied repeatedly and provably and they did it in order to start a war, make money, take control, spread influence. One million Iraqis died. Our ruling class is peopled with psychopaths and war criminals, who have so little regard for the people they lie to they recycle the same childishly simple falsehoods to further their evil agenda again and again and again. They tried the same in Libya
it worked again. They tried again in Syria
luckily, it didnt work there. Our democratic institutions lie to start wars. Theres no reason to think they arent doing or wouldnt do the same thing about Iran, North Korea
or Russia. Thats our list, and theres really only one lesson you can take away from it: These people, agencies and institutions deserve no trust, have earned no trust and have abused every micron of trust ever placed in them. To suggest we have a duty to believe them or that they have ever done anything to serve the public good is to live in a dream world. Never trust the CIA, they have proved they dont deserve it. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Operation Paperclip: a remarkably good use of captured enemy resources. Operation Northwood: A pity we didn't take out Castro at the beginning. Think how many lives we would have saved had we crushed the serpent young. Allende was seeking alliance with the USSR. After the Cuban experience, the answer to the USSR trying to gain another foothold in the Americas was, properly, a resolute NO. Every leader of every country who decided to go that way incurred the wrath of the USA and was stopped. Moral: whatever your ideology, DO NOT attempt to bring into the Americas the enemy of the USA in the middle of a Cold War. If you do, you will be overthrown. We learned from Cuba to crush the serpent in the nest and not let it grow. Iran as another socialist ally of the USSR during the Cold War was not an option. Sorry. The shah was preferable. Letting the jihadis overthrow him was stupid. Mockingbird: the media was full of Soviet allies. Today we see, too, how very biased they are. Back then, there were no alternative news sources. Because we lost the media, we lost Vietnam. Very good idea to keep the media on-side. MASS SURVEILLANCE -there's a choice, surveil, and discover people's sexual pecadilloes (that's what everybody is REALLY scared that surveillance will discover), or don't surveil and let Communist conspiracies and jihadi terrorist plots grow like mushrooms in the dark, to kill us all. Answer: somebody has a record of your port habits, but you're not in the Gulag, and you're not dead from a bomb. A tradeoff that needs to be made. Sorry 'bout that. Control of the oil is control of your enemies. We learned that in World War II. Lack of oil brought down Germany and Japan. Kuwaiti oil was not Iraq's to take. The country had to be mobilised for war. Iraq's oil became ours to take when Saddam kept shooting at our planes and housing Abu Nidal. Sorry, you don't get to hide behind national sovereignty to wage war on the USA. COINTELPRO Well, we see with the Trump impeachment what happens when domestic political groups AREN'T kept under control. And when the domestic groups are allies of the USSR, you know the drill. MKULTRA I have talked to God and experienced real physical miracles. The supernatural is real, and if it could be harnessed, it would give dominant power to the side that harnessed it. The USSR was working on it, and so were we. The alternative is what happened in 1945, when only one side had a Manhattan Project. Want that to be the USSR? No? Then you had better study the supernatural. IRAQ WAR - absolutely necessary - a strategic master stroke. Sorry - the CIA and NSA are the good guys in a bad, nasty world. Just like Catholics, or Republicans, or me myself, they are not perfect. They fuck up sometime. But their goal is good, and the people they are containing are our worst enemies. Every one of those programs you listed was, and to the extent that still go on, still is, wholly justified. Russia, China, the Jihadis, and other radicals are still out there, and they still hate us. We need to be first and best. That's just the way it is. If you can't stand it, then avert your eyes.
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