- staatsgrepen pleegde, o.a. tegen Iran (destijds Perzië), Congo, Chili en Brazilië.
- 'false flag' operaties leidde, operaties zogenaamd uitgevoerd door vijanden van de VS, zodat de VS 'acties' tegen haar onwelgevallige, veelal democratisch gekozen regimes kon beginnen....... (niet zelden door het voeren van illegale oorlogen)
- honderden (wellicht nog veel meer) verdachten martelde (en martelt), dit vooral in het buitenland en buitenlandse regimes (veelal niet democratisch gekozen) leerde 'hoe het best kan worden gemarteld.......
- drugsoperaties leidde, zodat men met de opbrengsten geheime missies in het buitenland kon bekostigen........
- oud-nazi's uit de gevangenis houden en hen zelfs naar de VS te brengen om daar hun werk voort te zetten. Voorts leidde de CIA een netwerk van 600 ex-nazi agenten in het door de Sovjet-Unie bezette deel van Duitsland, De dagelijkse leiding van deze nazi's was in handen van Reinhard Gehlen, voormalig hoofd van de nazi-inlichtingendienst voor de Sovjet-Unie......
Happy Birthday CIA: 7 Truly Terrible Things the Agency Has Done in 70 Years
September
18, 2017 at 5:26 pm
Written
by Carey
Wedler
(ANTIMEDIA) —
On
Monday, President Trump tweeted birthday
wishes to the Air Force and the CIA. Both
became official organizations
70 years ago on September 18, 1947, with the implementation of the
National Security Act of 1947.
After
spending years as a wartime intelligence agency called the Office of
Strategic Services, the agency was solidified as a key player in the
federal government’s operations with then-President Harry Truman’s
authorization.
In
the seventy years since, the CIA has committed a wide variety of
misdeeds, crimes, coups, and violence. Here are seven of the worst
programs they’ve carried out (that are known to the public):
1.
Toppling governments around the world —
The CIA is best known for its first coup, Operation Ajax, in 1953,
in which it ousted the democratically elected leader of Iran,
Mohammed Mossadegh, reinstating the autocratic Shah, who favored
western oil interests. That operation, which the CIA now admits to
waging with British intelligence, ultimately resulted in the 1979
revolution and
subsequent U.S. hostage crisis. Relations between the U.S. and Iran
remain strained to this day, aptly described by the CIA-coined term
“blowback.”
But
the CIA has had a hand in toppling a
number of other democratically elected governments, from Guatemala
(1954) and the Congo (1960) to the Dominican Republic (1961), South
Vietnam (1963), Brazil (1964), and Chile (1973). The CIA has aimed to
install leaders who appease American interests,
often empowering oppressive, violent
dictators.
This is only a partial list of countries where the CIA covertly
attempted to exploit and manipulate sovereign nations’ governments.
- Operation Paperclip — In one of the more bizarre CIA plots, the agency and other government departments employed Nazi scientists both within and outside the United States to gain an advantage over the Soviets. As summarized by NPR:
“The
aim [of Operation Paperclip] was to find and preserve German weapons,
including biological and chemical agents, but American scientific
intelligence officers quickly realized the weapons themselves were
not enough.
“They
decided the United States needed to bring the Nazi scientists
themselves to the U.S. Thus began a mission to recruit top Nazi
doctors, physicists and chemists — including Wernher von Braun, who
went on to design the rockets that took man to the moon.”
They
kept this plot secret, though they admitted to
it upon the release of Operation
Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi
Scientists To America by
Annie Jacobsen. In a book review, the CIA wrote that “Henry
Wallace, former vice president and secretary of commerce, believed
the scientists’ ideas could launch new civilian industries and
produce jobs.”
They
praised the book’s historical accuracy, noting “that the
Launch Operations Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, was headed by
Kurt Debus, an ardent Nazi.” They acknowledged that “General
Reinhard Gehlen, former head of Nazi intelligence operations against
the Soviets, was hired by the US Army and later by the CIA to operate
600 ex-Nazi agents in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany.”
Remarkably,
they noted that Jacobsen “understandably questions the morality
of the decision to hire Nazi SS scientists,” but praise her for
pointing out that it was done to fight Soviets. They also made sure
to add that the Soviets hired Nazis, too, apparently justifying their
own questionable actions by citing their most loathed enemy.
- Operation CHAOS — The FBI is widely known for its COINTELPRO schemes to undermine communist movements in the 1950s and anti-war, civil rights, and black power movements in the 1960s, but the CIA has not been implicated nearly as deeply because, technically, the CIA cannot legally engage in domestic spying. But that was of little concern to President Lyndon B. Johnson as opposition to the Vietnam war grew. According to former New York Times journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Tim Weiner, as documented in his extensive CIA history, Legacy of Ashes, Johnson instructed then-CIA Director Richard Helms to break the law:
“In
October 1967, a handful of CIA analysts joined in the first big
Washington march against the war. The president regarded protesters
as enemies of the state. He was convinced that the peace movement was
controlled and financed by Moscow and Beijing. He wanted proof. He
ordered Richard Helms to produce it.
“Helms
reminded the president that the CIA was barred from spying on
Americans. He says Johnson told him: ‘I’m quite aware of that.
What I want for you is to pursue this matter, and to do what is
necessary to track down the foreign communists who are behind this
intolerable interference in our domestic affairs…’”
Helms
obeyed. Weiner wrote:
“In
a blatant violation of his powers under the law, the director of
central intelligence became a part-time secret police chief. The CIA
undertook a domestic surveillance operation, code-named Chaos. It
went on for almost seven years… Eleven CIA officers grew long hair,
learned the jargon of the New Left, and went off to infiltrate peace
groups in the United States and Europe.”
According
to Weiner, “the agency compiled a computer index of 300,000
names of American people and organizations, and extensive files on
7,200 citizens. It began working in secret with police departments
all over America.” Because they could not draw a “clear
distinction” between the new far left and mainstream opposition to
the war, the CIA spied on every major peace organization in the
country. President Johnson also wanted them to prove a connection
between foreign communists and the black power movement. “The
agency tried its best,” Weiner noted, ultimately noting that
“the CIA never found a shred of evidence that linked the leaders
of the American left or the black-power movement to foreign
governments.”
- Infiltrating the media — Over the years, the CIA has successfully gained influence in the news media, as well as popular media like film and television. Its influence over the news began almost immediately after the agency was formed. As Weiner explained, CIA Director Allen Dulles established firm ties with newspapers:
“Dulles
kept in close touch with the men who ran the New York Times, The
Washington Post, and the nation’s leading weekly magazines. He
could pick up the phone and edit a breaking story, make sure an
irritating foreign correspondent was yanked from the field, or hire
the services of men such as Time’s Berlin bureau chief and
Newsweek’s man in Tokyo.”
He
continued:
“It
was second nature for Dulles to plant stories in the press. American
newsrooms were dominated by veterans of the government’s wartime
propaganda branch, the Office of War Information…The men who
responded to the CIA’s call included Henry Luce and his editors at
Time, Life, and Fortune; popular magazines such as Parade, the
Saturday Review, and Reader’s Digest; and the most powerful
executives at CBS News. Dulles built a public-relations and
propaganda machine that came to include more than fifty news
organizations, a dozen publishing houses, and personal pledges of
support from men such as Axel Springer, West Germany’s most
powerful press baron.”
The
CIA’s influence had not waned by 1977 when journalist Carl
Bernstein reported on
publications with CIA agents in their employ, as well as “more
than 400 American journalists who in the past twenty five years
have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence
Agency.”
The
CIA has also successfully advised
on and influenced numerous
television shows, such
as Homeland and 24 and films like Zero
Dark Thirty and Argo,
which push narratives that ultimately favor the agency. According to
Tricia Jenkins, author of The
CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film & Television, a
concerted agency effort began in the 1990s to counteract negative
public perceptions of the CIA, but their influence reaches back
decades. In the 1950s, filmmakers produced films for the
CIA,
including the 1954 film adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal
Farm.
Researchers
Tom Secker and Matthew Alford, whose work has been published in
the American
Journal of Economics and Sociology,
say their recent Freedom of Information Act requests have shown that
the CIA — along with the military — have influenced over
1,800 films and television shows, many of which have nothing to do
with CIA or military themes.
- Drug-induced Mind control – In the 1950s, the CIA began experimenting with drugs to determine whether they might be useful in extracting information. As Smithsonian Magazine has noted of the MKUltra project:
“The
project, which continued for more than a decade, was originally
intended to make sure the United States government kept up with
presumed Soviet advances in mind-control technology. It ballooned in
scope and its ultimate result, among other things, was illegal drug
testing on thousands of Americans.”
Further:
“The
intent of the project was to study ‘the use of biological and
chemical materials in altering human behavior,’ according
to the
official testimony of CIA director Stansfield Turner in 1977. The
project was conducted in extreme secrecy, Turner said, because of
ethical and legal questions surrounding the program and the negative
public response that the CIA anticipated if MKUltra should become
public.
“Under
MKUltra, the CIA gave itself the authority to research how drugs
could:’ ‘promote the intoxicating effects of alcohol;’ ‘render
the induction of hypnosis easier;’ ‘enhance the ability of
individuals to withstand privation, torture and coercion;’ produce
amnesia, shock and confusion; and much more. Many of these questions
were investigated using unwitting test subjects, like drug-addicted
prisoners, marginalized sex workers and terminal cancer patients–
‘people who could not fight back,’ in
the words of Sidney
Gottlieb, the chemist who introduced LSD to the CIA.”
Further,
as Weiner noted:
“Under
its auspices, seven prisoners at a federal penitentiary in Kentucky
were kept high on LSD for seventy-seven consecutive days. When the
CIA slipped the same drug to an army civilian employee, Frank Olson,
he leaped out of the window of a New York Hotel.”
Weiner
added that senior CIA officers destroyed “almost all of the
records” of the programs, but that while the “evidence that
remains is fragmentary…it strongly suggests that use of secret
prisons for the forcible drug-induced questioning of suspect agents
went on throughout the 1950s.”
Years
later, the CIA would be accused of distributing crack-cocaine into
poor black communities, though this is currently less substantiated
and supported mostly
by accounts of those who claim to have been involved.
- Brutal torture tactics — More recently, the CIA was exposed for sponsoring abusive, disturbing terror tactics against detainees at prisons housing terror suspects. An extensive 2014 Senate report documented agents committing sexual abuse, forcing detainees to stand on broken legs, waterboarding them so severely it sometimes led to convulsions, and imposing forced rectal feeding, to name a few examples. Ultimately, the agency had very little actionable intelligence to show for their torture tactics but lied to suggest they did, according to the torture report. Their torture tactics led the International Criminal Court to suggest the CIA, along with the U.S. armed forces, could be guilty of war crimes for their abuses.7. Arming radicals — The CIA has a long habit of arming radical, extremist groups that view the United States as enemies. In 1979, the CIA set out to support Afghan rebels in their bid to defeat the Soviet occupation of the Middle Eastern country. As Weiner wrote, in 1979, “Prompted by Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter signed a covert-action order for the CIA to provide the Afghan rebels with medical aid, money, and propaganda.”
As
Weiner detailed later in his book:
“The
Pakistani intelligence chiefs who doled out the CIA’s guns and
money favored the Afghan factions who proved themselves most capable
in battle. Those factions also happened to be the most committed
Islamists. No one dreamed that the holy warriors could ever turn
their jihad against the United States.”
Though
some speculate the CIA directly armed Osama bin Laden, that is yet to
be fully proven or admitted. What is clear is that western
media revered him
as a valuable fighter against the Soviets, that he arrived to
fight in Afghanistan in1980, and that al-Qaeda emerged from the
mujahideen, who were beneficiaries of the CIA’s program. Stanford
University has noted that Bin
Laden and Abdullah Azzam, a prominent Palestinian cleric,
“established
Al Qaeda from the fighters, financial resources, and training and
recruiting structures left over from the anti-Soviet war.”
Much of those “structures” were provided by the agency.
Intentionally or not, the CIA helped fuel the rise of the terror
group.
Weiner
noted that as the CIA failed in other countries like Libya, by the
late 1980s “Only the mujahideen, the Afghan holy warriors, were
drawing blood and scenting victory. The CIA’s Afghan operation was
now a $700-million-dollar-a-year-program” and represented 80%
of the overseas budget of the clandestine services. “The CIA’s
briefing books never answered the question of what would happen when
a militant Islamic army defeated the godless invaders of
Afghanistan,” though Tom Twetten, “the number two man in
the clandestine service in the summer of 1988,” was tasked with
figuring out what would happen with the Afghan rebels. “We don’t
have any plan,” he concluded.
Apparently
failing to learn their lesson, the CIA adopted nearly the exact same
policy in Syria decades later, arming what they called “moderate
rebels” against the Assad regime. Those groups
ultimately aligned with
al-Qaeda groups. One CIA-backed faction made headlines last year
for beheading a
child (though President Trump cut off the CIA program in June, the
military continues to
align with “moderate” groups).
Unsurprisingly,
this list is far from complete. The CIA has engaged in a wide variety
of extrajudicial
practice,
and there are likely countless transgressions we have yet to learn
about.
As
Donald Trump cheers the birthday of an agency he himself
once criticized,
it should be abundantly clear that the nation’s covert spy agency
deserves scrutiny and skepticism — not celebration.
Creative
Commons / Anti-Media / Report
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Moet u nagaan, dan durft men nog te spreken over 'fake news' en een land als Rusland de schuld voor veel internet ellende te geven en te beschuldigen van agressief gedrag.............. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Zie ook: 'CIA en 70 jaar desinformatie in Europese opiniebladen............'
en: 'VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII........'
en: 'CIA erkent dat Israël samen met Saoedi-Arabië 'vecht tegen terreur', die ze NB zelf hebben georganiseerd........'
en: 'VS centraal commando werkt in Syrië samen met IS en verklaarde Rusland de oorlog.........'
en: 'Al Qaida de bondgenoot van de VS in de strijd tegen...... terrorisme! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!' (intussen heeft de VS 'Al Qaida Syrië' van de zwarte lijst met terreurorganisaties gehaald!!)
en: 'CIA valt nogmaals door de mand als wapenleverancier van IS.......'
en: 'Van Baalen (VVD EU topgraaier) het is moeilijk te zien wie je moet steunen: Al Qaida, Al Qaida of Al Qaida....... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!'
en: 'Massamedia VS vergeven van CIA 'veteranen', alsof die media nog niet genoeg 'fake news' ofwel leugens brengen........'
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Moet u nagaan, dan durft men nog te spreken over 'fake news' en een land als Rusland de schuld voor veel internet ellende te geven en te beschuldigen van agressief gedrag.............. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Zie ook: 'CIA en 70 jaar desinformatie in Europese opiniebladen............'
en: 'VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII........'
en: 'CIA erkent dat Israël samen met Saoedi-Arabië 'vecht tegen terreur', die ze NB zelf hebben georganiseerd........'
en: 'VS centraal commando werkt in Syrië samen met IS en verklaarde Rusland de oorlog.........'
en: 'Al Qaida de bondgenoot van de VS in de strijd tegen...... terrorisme! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!' (intussen heeft de VS 'Al Qaida Syrië' van de zwarte lijst met terreurorganisaties gehaald!!)
en: 'CIA valt nogmaals door de mand als wapenleverancier van IS.......'
en: 'Van Baalen (VVD EU topgraaier) het is moeilijk te zien wie je moet steunen: Al Qaida, Al Qaida of Al Qaida....... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!'
en: 'Massamedia VS vergeven van CIA 'veteranen', alsof die media nog niet genoeg 'fake news' ofwel leugens brengen........'
