"The Harbinger" by Jonathan Cahn - Isaiah 9:10,
America and
Biblical Prophesy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GyZZmhE66k
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★ At great risk to life and well-being, shares light in
dark places:
►On 12-13-12,
EU Court
finds CIA Guilty as Charged for Kidnapping and Torture. "This is the first
time a court of international standing ... has made such a damning
determination as part of an official finding ... now places all CIA activities
under a microscope and clearly establishes the CIA as a criminal
organization."◄
►Ted Gunderson, the 27-year retired FBI veteran, former Los Angeles Senior
Special Agent in Charge, shares compelling evidence and keen insight into the
CIA’s involvement in Satanic ritual-abuse, drug trafficking and the
international trafficking in children.◄
►The CIA commits extremely serious crimes several hundred times per day or
easily over 100,000 per year - From IC21 Report titled "The Intelligence
Community in the 21st Century" by the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence, US House of Representatives (1996)◄
►NSA Chief General William Odom Calls the CIA 'Out of Control' (AOL News,
1-14-11)◄
►The Association for Responsible Dissent estimates that by 1987, 6 million
people had died as a result of CIA covert operations. (2) Former State
Department official William Blum correctly calls this an ‘American Holocaust.’”
This number rivals the number of Jews killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Keep in mind that this estimate was determined a quarter of a century ago (25
years ago) and does not even include CIA covert ops killings worldwide from
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The Association for Responsible Dissent
estimates that by 1987, 6 million people had died as a result of CIA
covert operations. Former State Department official William Blum correctly
calls this an ‘American Holocaust.’ This number surpasses the number of Jews
killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust. This estimate was determined for the
up to 25 years ago and does not include CIA covert ops killings worldwide from
1987 to present. ◄◄◄
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html
►►►Ted Gunderson, the 27-year retired FBI veteran, former L.A. Senior
Special Agent in Charge, shares compelling evidence and keen insight into the
CIA’s involvement in Satanic ritual-abuse, drug trafficking and the
international trafficking in children.◄◄◄
►►►The CIA commits extremely serious crimes several hundred times per day or
easily over 100,000 per year - From IC21 Report titled "The Intelligence
Community in the 21st Century" by the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence, US House of Representatives◄◄◄
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/US%20Intelligence%20Community%20Reform%20Studies%20Since%201947.pdf
►►►Former NSA Chief, General William Odom, Calls CIA 'Out of Control'◄◄◄
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/14/former-nsa-chief-william-odom-called-cia-out-of-control/
►►►European Court finds CIA Guilty as Charged for Kidnapping and Torture.
The first time a court of international standing has made such a damning
determination as part of an official finding. Clearly establishes the CIA as a
criminal organization.◄◄◄
http://news.yahoo.com/european-court-condemns-cia-landmark-ruling-171434818.html
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A Timeline of CIA Atrocities
By Steve Kangas
The following timeline describes just a few of the
hundreds of atrocities and crimes committed by the CIA. (1)
CIA operations follow the same recurring script.
First, American business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or
democratically elected leader. The people support their leader because he
intends to conduct land reform, strengthen unions, redistribute wealth,
nationalize foreign-owned industry, and regulate business to protect workers,
consumers and the environment. So, on behalf of American business, and often
with their help, the CIA mobilizes the opposition. First it identifies
right-wing groups within the country (usually the military), and offers them a
deal: "We'll put you in power if you maintain a favorable business climate
for us." The Agency then hires, trains and works with them to overthrow
the existing government (usually a democracy). It uses every trick in the book:
propaganda, stuffed ballot boxes, purchased elections, extortion, blackmail,
sexual intrigue, false stories about opponents in the local media, infiltration
and disruption of opposing political parties, kidnapping, beating, torture,
intimidation, economic sabotage, death squads and even assassination. These
efforts culminate in a military coup, which installs a right-wing
dictator. The CIA trains the dictator’s security apparatus to crack down on the
traditional enemies of big business, using interrogation, torture and murder.
The victims are said to be "communists," but almost always they are
just peasants, liberals, moderates, labor union leaders, political opponents
and advocates of free speech and democracy. Widespread human rights abuses
follow.
This scenario has been repeated so many times that
the CIA actually teaches it in a special school, the notorious "School of
the Americas."
(It opened in Panama but
later moved to Fort Benning,
Georgia.)
Critics have nicknamed it the "School of the Dictators" and
"School of the Assassins." Here, the CIA trains Latin American
military officers how to conduct coups, including the use of interrogation,
torture and murder.
The Association for Responsible Dissent estimates
that by 1987, 6 million people had died as a result of CIA covert operations.
(2) Former State Department official William Blum correctly calls this an
"American Holocaust."
The CIA justifies these actions as part of its war
against communism. But most coups do not involve a communist threat.
Unlucky nations are targeted for a wide variety of reasons: not only threats to
American business interests abroad, but also liberal or even moderate social
reforms, political instability, the unwillingness of a leader to carry out Washington’s dictates,
and declarations of neutrality in the Cold War. Indeed, nothing has infuriated
CIA Directors quite like a nation’s desire to stay out of the Cold War.
The ironic thing about all this intervention is
that it frequently fails to achieve American objectives. Often the newly installed
dictator grows comfortable with the security apparatus the CIA has built for
him. He becomes an expert at running a police state. And because the dictator
knows he cannot be overthrown, he becomes independent and defiant of Washington's will. The
CIA then finds it cannot overthrow him, because the police and military are
under the dictator's control, afraid to cooperate with American spies for fear
of torture and execution. The only two options for the U.S at this point are
impotence or war. Examples of this "boomerang effect" include the
Shah of Iran, General Noriega and Saddam Hussein. The boomerang effect also
explains why the CIA has proven highly successful at overthrowing democracies,
but a wretched failure at overthrowing dictatorships.
The following timeline should confirm that the CIA
as we know it should be abolished and replaced by a true information-gathering
and analysis organization. The CIA cannot be reformed — it is institutionally
and culturally corrupt.
1929
The culture we lost —Secretary of State Henry Stimson refuses to endorse a
code-breaking operation, saying, "Gentlemen do not read each other’s
mail."
1941
COI created
— In preparation for World War II, President Roosevelt creates the Office of
Coordinator of Information (COI). General William "Wild Bill" Donovan
heads the new intelligence service.
1942
OSS created — Roosevelt restructures COI into something more suitable
for covert action, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Donovan recruits so
many of the nation’s rich and powerful that eventually people joke that "OSS" stands for
"Oh, so social!" or "Oh, such snobs!"
1943
Italy — Donovan recruits the Catholic Church in Rome to be the center of Anglo-American spy
operations in Fascist Italy. This would prove to be one of America’s most
enduring intelligence alliances in the Cold War.
1945
OSS is abolished — The
remaining American information agencies cease covert actions and return to
harmless information gathering and analysis.
Operation PAPERCLIP –While other American agencies are hunting down Nazi war
criminals for arrest, the U.S.
intelligence community is smuggling them into America, unpunished, for their use
against the Soviets. The most important of these is Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler’s
master spy who had built up an intelligence network in the Soviet
Union. With full U.S.blessing, he creates the "Gehlen
Organization," a band of refugee Nazi spies who reactivate their networks
in Russia.
These include SS intelligence officers Alfred Six and Emil Augsburg (who
massacred Jews in the Holocaust), Klaus Barbie (the "Butcher of
Lyon"), Otto von Bolschwing (the Holocaust mastermind who worked with
Eichmann) and SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny (a personal friend of Hitler’s). The
Gehlen Organization supplies the U.S.
with its only intelligence on the Soviet Union for the next ten years, serving
as a bridge between the abolishment of the OSS and the creation of the CIA. However,
much of the "intelligence" the former Nazis provide is bogus. Gehlen
inflates Soviet military capabilities at a time when Russiais still rebuilding
its devastated society, in order to inflate his own importance to the Americans
(who might otherwise punish him). In 1948, Gehlen almost convinces the
Americans that war is imminent, and the West should make a preemptive strike.
In the 50s he produces a fictitious "missile gap." To make matters
worse, the Russians have thoroughly penetrated the Gehlen Organization with
double agents, undermining the very American security that Gehlen was supposed
to protect.
1947
Greece — President Truman requests military aid to Greece to
support right-wing forces fighting communist rebels. For the rest of the Cold
War, Washington and the CIA will back notorious Greek leaders with deplorable
human rights records.
CIA created
—President Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947, creating the Central
Intelligence Agency and National Security Council. The CIA is accountable to
the president through the NSC — there is no democratic or congressional
oversight. Its charter allows the CIA to "perform such other functions and
duties… as the National Security Council may from time to time direct."
This loophole opens the door to covert action and dirty tricks.
1948
Covert-action wing created — The CIA recreates a covert action wing, innocuously
called the Office of Policy Coordination, led by Wall Street lawyer Frank
Wisner. According to its secret charter, its responsibilities include
"propaganda, economic warfare, preventive direct action, including
sabotage, antisabotage, demolition and evacuation procedures; subversion
against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups,
and support of indigenous anti-communist elements in threatened countries of
the free world."
Italy — The CIA corrupts democratic elections in Italy, where
Italian communists threaten to win the elections. The CIA buys votes,
broadcasts propaganda, threatens and beats up opposition leaders, and
infiltrates and disrupts their organizations. It works -- the communists are
defeated.
1949
Radio Free Europe —The CIA creates its first major propaganda outlet, Radio
Free Europe. Over the next several decades, its broadcasts are so blatantly
false that for a time it is considered illegal to publish transcripts of them
in the U.S.
Late 40s
Operation MOCKINGBIRD— The CIA begins recruiting American news organizations and
journalists to become spies and disseminators of propaganda. The effort is
headed by Frank Wisner, Allan Dulles, Richard Helms and Philip Graham. Graham
is publisher of The Washington Post, which becomes a major CIA player.
Eventually, the CIA’s media assets will include ABC, NBC, CBS, Time,
Newsweek, Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst
Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Copley News Service and more. By the CIA’s own
admission, at least 25 organizations and 400 journalists will become CIA
assets.
1953
Iran – CIA overthrows the democratically elected Mohammed
Mossadegh in a military coup, after he threatened to nationalize British oil.
The CIA replaces him with a dictator, the Shah of Iran, whose secret police,
SAVAK, is as brutal as the Gestapo.
Operation MK-ULTRA —Inspired by North Korea’s brainwashing program,
the CIA begins experiments on mind control. The most notorious part of this
project involves giving LSD and other drugs to American subjects without their
knowledge or against their will, causing several to commit suicide. However,
the operation involves far more than this. Funded in part by the Rockefeller
and Ford foundations, research includes propaganda, brainwashing, public relations,
advertising, hypnosis, and other forms of suggestion.
1954
Guatemala — CIA overthrows the democratically elected Jacob Arbenz
in a military coup. Arbenz has threatened to nationalize the Rockefeller-owned
United Fruit Company, in which CIA Director Allen Dulles also owns stock.
Arbenz is replaced with a series of right-wing dictators whose bloodthirsty
policies will kill over 100,000 Guatemalans in the next 40 years.
1954-1958
North Vietnam — CIA officer Edward Lansdale spends four years trying to overthrow
the communist government of North
Vietnam, using all the usual dirty tricks.
The CIA also attempts to legitimize a tyrannical puppet regime inSouth Vietnam, headed
by Ngo Dinh Diem. These efforts fail to win the hearts and minds of the South
Vietnamese because the Diem government is opposed to true democracy, land
reform and poverty reduction measures. The CIA’s continuing failure results in
escalating American intervention, culminating in the Vietnam War.
1956
Hungary — Radio Free Europe incites Hungary to revolt by broadcasting
Khruschev’s Secret Speech, in which he denounced Stalin. It also hints that
American aid will help the Hungarians fight. This aid fails to materialize as
Hungarians launch a doomed armed revolt, which only invites a major Soviet
invasion. The conflict kills 7,000 Soviets and 30,000 Hungarians.
1957-1973
Laos — The CIA carries out approximately one coup per year
trying to nullify Laos’democratic elections. The problem is the Pathet Lao, a
leftist group with enough popular support to be a member of any coalition
government. In the late 50s, the CIA even creates an "Armee
Clandestine" of Asian mercenaries to attack the Pathet Lao. After the
CIA’s army suffers numerous defeats, the U.S.
starts bombing, dropping more bombs on Laos
than all the U.S.
bombs dropped in World War II. A quarter of all Laotians will eventually become
refugees, many living in caves.
1959
Haiti — The U.S.military helps "Papa Doc" Duvalier
become dictator of Haiti.
He creates his own private police force, the "Tonton Macoutes," who
terrorize the population with machetes. They will kill over 100,000 during the
Duvalier family reign. The U.S.does not protest their dismal human rights
record.
1961
The Bay of Pigs — The CIA sends 1,500 Cuban exiles to invade Castro’s Cuba. But
"Operation Mongoose" fails, due to poor planning, security and
backing. The planners had imagined that the invasion will spark a popular
uprising against Castro -–which never happens. A promised American air strike
also never occurs. This is the CIA’s first public setback, causing President
Kennedy to fire CIA Director Allen Dulles.
Dominican Republic — The CIA assassinates Rafael Trujillo, a murderous
dictator Washingtonhas supported since 1930. Trujillo’s business interests have grown so large
(about 60 percent of the economy) that they have begun competing with American
business interests.
Ecuador — The CIA-backed military forces the democratically
elected President Jose Velasco to resign. Vice President Carlos Arosemana
replaces him; the CIA fills the now vacant vice presidency with its own man.
Congo (Zaire) — The CIA assassinates the democratically elected Patrice
Lumumba. However, public support for Lumumba’s politics runs so high that the
CIA cannot clearly install his opponents in power. Four years of political
turmoil follow.
1963
Dominican Republic— The CIA overthrows the democratically elected Juan Bosch
in a military coup. The CIA installs a repressive, right-wing junta.
Ecuador — A CIA-backed military coup overthrows President Arosemana,
whose independent (not socialist) policies have become unacceptable to Washington. A military
junta assumes command, cancels the 1964 elections, and begins abusing human
rights.
1964
Brazil — A CIA-backed military coup overthrows the democratically
elected government of Joao Goulart. The junta that replaces it will, in the
next two decades, become one of the most bloodthirsty in history. General
Castelo Branco will create Latin America’s
first death squads, or bands of secret police who hunt down "communists"
for torture, interrogation and murder. Often these "communists" are
no more than Branco’s political opponents. Later it is revealed that the CIA
trains the death squads.
1965
Indonesia — The CIA overthrows the democratically elected Sukarno
with a military coup. The CIA has been trying to eliminate Sukarno since 1957,
using everything from attempted assassination to sexual intrigue, for nothing
more than his declaring neutrality in the Cold War. His successor, General
Suharto, will massacre between 500,000 to 1 million civilians accused of being
"communist." The CIA supplies the names of countless suspects.
Dominican Republic— A popular rebellion breaks out, promising to reinstall
Juan Bosch as the country’s elected leader. The revolution is crushed when U.S.
Marines land to uphold the military regime by force. The CIA directs everything
behind the scenes.
Greece — With the CIA’s backing, the king removes George
Papandreous as prime minister. Papandreous has failed to vigorously support U.S. interests in Greece.
Congo (Zaire) — A CIA-backed military coup installs Mobutu Sese Seko as
dictator. The hated and repressive Mobutu exploits his desperately poor country
for billions.
1966
The Ramparts Affair — The radical magazine Ramparts begins a series of
unprecedented anti-CIA articles. Among their scoops: the CIA has paid the University of Michigan $25 million dollars to hire
"professors" to train South Vietnamese students in covert police
methods. MIT and other universities have received similar payments. Rampartsalso
reveals that the National Students’ Association is a CIA front. Students are
sometimes recruited through blackmail and bribery, including draft deferments.
1967
Greece — A CIA-backed military coup overthrows the government two
days before the elections. The favorite to win was George Papandreous, the
liberal candidate. During the next six years, the "reign of the
colonels" — backed by the CIA — will usher in the widespread use of
torture and murder against political opponents. When a Greek ambassador objects
to President Johnson about U.S.plans for Cypress,
Johnson tells him: "Fuck your parliament and your constitution."
Operation PHEONIX —The CIA helps South Vietnamese agents identify and then
murder alleged Viet Cong leaders operating in South Vietnamese villages.
According to a 1971 congressional report, this operation killed about 20,000
"Viet Cong."
1968
Operation CHAOS — The CIA has been illegally spying on American citizens
since 1959, but with Operation CHAOS, President Johnson dramatically boosts the
effort. CIA agents go undercover as student radicals to spy on and disrupt
campus organizations protesting the Vietnam War. They are searching for Russian
instigators, which they never find. CHAOS will eventually spy on 7,000
individuals and 1,000 organizations.
Bolivia — A CIA-organized military operation captures legendary
guerilla Che Guevara. The CIA wants to keep him alive for interrogation, but
the Bolivian government executes him to prevent worldwide calls for clemency.
1969
Uruguay — The notorious CIA torturer Dan Mitrione arrives in Uruguay, a
country torn with political strife. Whereas right-wing forces previously used
torture only as a last resort, Mitrione convinces them to use it as a routine,
widespread practice. "The precise pain, in the precise place, in the
precise amount, for the desired effect," is his motto. The torture
techniques he teaches to the death squads rival the Nazis’. He eventually
becomes so feared that revolutionaries will kidnap and murder him a year later.
1970
Cambodia — The CIA overthrows Prince Sahounek, who is highly
popular among Cambodians for keeping them out of the Vietnam War. He is
replaced by CIA puppet Lon Nol, who immediately throws Cambodian troops into
battle. This unpopular move strengthens once minor opposition parties like the
Khmer Rouge, which achieves power in 1975 and massacres millions of its own
people.
1971
Bolivia — After half a decade of CIA-inspired political turmoil, a
CIA-backed military coup overthrows the leftist President Juan Torres. In the
next two years, dictator Hugo Banzer will have over 2,000 political opponents
arrested without trial, then tortured, raped and executed.
Haiti — "Papa Doc" Duvalier dies, leaving his 19-year
old son "Baby Doc" Duvalier the dictator of Haiti. His son
continues his bloody reign with full knowledge of the CIA.
1972
The Case-Zablocki Act— Congress passes an act requiring congressional review of
executive agreements. In theory, this should make CIA operations more
accountable. In fact, it is only marginally effective.
Cambodia — Congress votes to cut off CIA funds for its secret war
in Cambodia.
Wagergate Break-in —President Nixon sends in a team of burglars to wiretap
Democratic offices at Watergate. The team members have extensive CIA histories,
including James McCord, E. Howard Hunt and five of the Cuban burglars. They
work for the Committee to Reelect the President (CREEP), which does dirty work
like disrupting Democratic campaigns and laundering Nixon’s illegal campaign
contributions. CREEP’s activities are funded and organized by another CIA
front, the Mullen Company.
1973
Chile — The CIA overthrows and assassinates Salvador Allende, Latin America’s first democratically elected socialist
leader. The problems begin when Allende nationalizes American-owned firms in Chile. ITT
offers the CIA $1 million for a coup (reportedly refused). The CIA replaces
Allende with General Augusto Pinochet, who will torture and murder thousands of
his own countrymen in a crackdown on labor leaders and the political left.
CIA begins internal investigations — William Colby, the Deputy Director for Operations,
orders all CIA personnel to report any and all illegal activities they know
about. This information is later reported to Congress.
Watergate Scandal —The CIA’s main collaborating newspaper in America, The
Washington Post,reports Nixon’s crimes long before any other newspaper
takes up the subject. The two reporters, Woodward and Bernstein, make almost no
mention of the CIA’s many fingerprints all over the scandal. It is later
revealed that Woodward was a Naval intelligence briefer to the White House, and
knows many important intelligence figures, including General Alexander Haig.
His main source, "Deep Throat," is probably one of those.
CIA Director Helms Fired— President Nixon fires CIA Director Richard Helms for
failing to help cover up the Watergate scandal. Helms and Nixon have always
disliked each other. The new CIA director is William Colby, who is relatively
more open to CIA reform.
1974
CHAOS exposed —Pulitzer prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh publishes a story
about Operation CHAOS, the domestic surveillance and infiltration of anti-war
and civil rights groups in the U.S.The story sparks national outrage.
Angleton fired —Congress holds hearings on the illegal domestic spying
efforts of James Jesus Angleton, the CIA’s chief of counterintelligence. His
efforts included mail-opening campaigns and secret surveillance of war
protesters. The hearings result in his dismissal from the CIA.
House clears CIA in Watergate — The House of Representatives clears the CIA of any
complicity in Nixon’s Watergate break-in.
The Hughes Ryan Act —Congress passes an amendment requiring the president to
report nonintelligence CIA operations to the relevant congressional committees
in a timely fashion.
1975
Australia — The CIA helps topple the democratically elected,
left-leaning government of Prime Minister Edward Whitlam. The CIA does this by
giving an ultimatum to its Governor-General, John Kerr. Kerr, a longtime CIA
collaborator, exercises his constitutional right to dissolve the Whitlam
government. The Governor-General is a largely ceremonial position appointed by
the Queen; the Prime Minister is democratically elected. The use of this
archaic and never-used law stuns the nation.
Angola — Eager to demonstrate American military resolve after its
defeat in Vietnam, Henry
Kissinger launches a CIA-backed war in Angola. Contrary to Kissinger’s
assertions, Angolais a country of little strategic importance and not seriously
threatened by communism. The CIA backs the brutal leader of UNITAS, Jonas
Savimbi. This polarizes Angolan politics and drives his opponents into the arms
of Cuba
and the Soviet Unionfor survival. Congress will cut off funds in 1976, but the
CIA is able to run the war off the books until 1984, when funding is legalized
again. This entirely pointless war kills over 300,000 Angolans.
"The CIA and the Cult of
Intelligence" — Victor Marchetti and
John Marks publish this whistle-blowing history of CIA crimes and abuses. Marchetti
has spent 14 years in the CIA, eventually becoming an executive assistant to
the Deputy Director of Intelligence. Marks has spent five years as an
intelligence official in the State Department.
"Inside the Company" — Philip Agee publishes a diary of his life inside the
CIA. Agee has worked in covert operations in Latin Americaduring the 60s, and
details the crimes in which he took part.
Congress investigates CIA wrong-doing — Public outrage compels Congress to hold hearings on CIA
crimes. Senator Frank Church heads the Senate investigation ("The Church
Committee"), and Representative Otis Pike heads the House investigation.
(Despite a 98 percent incumbency reelection rate, both Church and Pike are
defeated in the next elections.) The investigations lead to a number of reforms
intended to increase the CIA’s accountability to Congress, including the
creation of a standing Senate committee on intelligence. However, the reforms
prove ineffective, as the Iran/Contra scandal will show. It turns out the CIA can
control, deal with or sidestep Congress with ease.
The Rockefeller Commission — In an attempt to reduce the damage done by the Church
Committee, President Ford creates the "Rockefeller Commission"
towhitewash CIA history and propose toothless reforms. The commission’s
namesake, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, is himself a major CIA figure.
Five of the commission’s eight members are also members of the Council on
Foreign Relations, a CIA-dominated organization.
1979
Iran — The
CIA fails to predict the fall of the Shah of Iran, a longtime CIA puppet, and
the rise of Muslim fundamentalists who are furious at the CIA’s backing of
SAVAK, the Shah’s bloodthirsty secret police. In revenge, the Muslims take 52
Americans hostage in the U.S.
embassy in Tehran.
Afghanistan — The Soviets invade Afghanistan. The CIA immediately
begins supplying arms to any faction willing to fight the occupying Soviets.
Such indiscriminate arming means that when the Soviets leave Afghanistan,
civil war will erupt. Also, fanatical Muslim extremists now possess
state-of-the-art weaponry. One of these is Sheik Abdel Rahman, who will become
involved in the World Trade Centerbombing in New York.
El Salvador— An idealistic group of young military officers, repulsed
by the massacre of the poor, overthrows the right-wing government. However, the
U.S.
compels the inexperienced officers to include many of the old guard in key
positions in their new government. Soon, things are back to "normal"
— the military government is repressing and killing poor civilian protesters.
Many of the young military and civilian reformers, finding themselves
powerless, resign in disgust.
Nicaragua — Anastasios Samoza II, the CIA-backed dictator, falls.
The Marxist Sandinistas take over government, and they are initially popular
because of their commitment to land and anti-poverty reform. Samoza had a
murderous and hated personal army called the National Guard. Remnants of the
Guard will become the Contras, who fight a CIA-backed guerilla war against the
Sandinista government throughout the 1980s.
1980
El Salvador
— The Archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Romero, pleads with President Carter
"Christian to Christian" to stop aiding the military government
slaughtering his people. Carter refuses. Shortly afterwards, right-wing leader
Roberto D’Aubuisson has Romero shot through the heart while saying Mass. The
country soon dissolves into civil war, with the peasants in the hills fighting
against the military government. The CIA and U.S. Armed Forces supply the
government with overwhelming military and intelligence superiority. CIA-trained
death squads roam the countryside, committing atrocities like that of El Mazote
in 1982, where they massacre between 700 and 1000 men, women and children. By
1992, some 63,000 Salvadorans will be killed.
1981
Iran/Contra Begins —The CIA begins selling arms to Iranat high prices, using
the profits to arm the Contras fighting the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.
President Reagan vows that the Sandinistas will be "pressured" until
"they say ‘uncle.’" The CIA’s Freedom Fighter’s Manualdisbursed
to the Contras includes instruction on economic sabotage, propaganda,
extortion, bribery, blackmail, interrogation, torture, murder and political
assassination.
1983
Honduras — The CIA gives Honduran military officers the Human
Resource Exploitation Training Manual – 1983, which teaches how to torture
people. Honduras’notorious "Battalion 316" then uses these
techniques, with the CIA’s full knowledge, on thousands of leftist dissidents.
At least 184 are murdered.
1984
The Boland Amendment —The last of a series of Boland Amendments is passed.
These amendments have reduced CIA aid to the Contras; the last one cuts it off
completely. However, CIA Director William Casey is already prepared to
"hand off" the operation to Colonel Oliver North, who illegally
continues supplying the Contras through the CIA’s informal, secret, and
self-financing network. This includes "humanitarian aid" donated by
Adolph Coors and William Simon, and military aid funded by Iranian arms sales.
1986
Eugene Hasenfus — Nicaraguashoots down a C-123 transport plane carrying
military supplies to the Contras. The lone survivor, Eugene Hasenfus, turns out
to be a CIA employee, as are the two dead pilots. The airplane belongs to
Southern Air Transport, a CIA front. The incident makes a mockery of President
Reagan’s claims that the CIA is not illegally arming the Contras.
Iran/Contra Scandal —Although the details have long been known, the
Iran/Contra scandal finally captures the media’s attention in 1986. Congress
holds hearings, and several key figures (like Oliver North) lie under oath to
protect the intelligence community. CIA Director William Casey dies of brain
cancer before Congress can question him. All reforms enacted by Congress after the
scandal are purely cosmetic.
Haiti — Rising popular revolt in Haiti means that "Baby
Doc" Duvalier will remain "President for Life" only if he has a
short one. The U.S.,
which hates instability in a puppet country, flies the despotic Duvalier to the
South of France for a comfortable retirement. The CIA then rigs the upcoming
elections in favor of another right-wing military strongman. However, violence
keeps the country in political turmoil for another four years. The CIA tries to
strengthen the military by creating the National Intelligence Service (SIN),
which suppresses popular revolt through torture and assassination.
1989
Panama — The U.S. invades Panama to overthrow a dictator of
its own making, General Manuel Noriega. Noriega has been on the CIA’s payroll
since 1966, and has been transporting drugs with the CIA’s knowledge since
1972. By the late 80s, Noriega’s growing independence and intransigence have
angered Washington…so
out he goes.
1990
Haiti — Competing against 10 comparatively wealthy candidates,
leftist priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide captures 68 percent of the vote. After
only eight months in power, however, the CIA-backed military deposes him. More
military dictators brutalize the country, as thousands of Haitian refugees
escape the turmoil in barely seaworthy boats. As popular opinion calls for
Aristide’s return, the CIA begins a disinformation campaign painting the
courageous priest as mentally unstable.
1991
The Gulf War
— The U.S. liberates Kuwait from Iraq. But Iraq’s
dictator, Saddam Hussein, is another creature of the CIA. With U.S. encouragement, Hussein invaded Iran in 1980.
During this costly eight-year war, the CIA built up Hussein’s forces with
sophisticated arms, intelligence, training and financial backing. This cemented
Hussein’s power at home, allowing him to crush the many internal rebellions
that erupted from time to time, sometimes with poison gas. It also gave him all
the military might he needed to conduct further adventurism — in Kuwait, for
example.
The Fall of the Soviet Union — The CIA fails to predict this most important event of
the Cold War. This suggests that it has been so busy undermining governments
that it hasn’t been doing its primary job: gathering and analyzing information.
The fall of the Soviet Union also robs the CIA
of its reason for existence: fighting communism. This leads some to accuse the
CIA of intentionally failing to predict the downfall of the Soviet
Union. Curiously, the intelligence community’s budget is not
significantly reduced after the demise of communism.
1992
Economic Espionage —In the years following the end of the Cold War, the CIA
is increasingly used for economic espionage. This involves stealing the
technological secrets of competing foreign companies and giving them to
American ones. Given the CIA’s clear preference for dirty tricks over mere
information gathering, the possibility of serious criminal behavior is very
great indeed.
1993
Haiti —
The chaos in Haitigrows so bad that President Clinton has no choice but to
remove the Haitian military dictator, Raoul Cedras, on threat of U.S. invasion.
The U.S. occupiers do not
arrest Haiti’s
military leaders for crimes against humanity, but instead ensure their safety
and rich retirements. Aristide is returned to power only after being forced to
accept an agenda favorable to the country’s ruling class.
EPILOGUE
In a speech before the CIA celebrating its 50th
anniversary, President Clinton said: "By necessity, the American people
will never know the full story of your courage."
Clinton’s is a common defense of the CIA: namely, the American
people should stop criticizing the CIA because they don’t know what it reallydoes.
This, of course, is the heart of the problem in the first place. An agency that
is above criticism is also above moral behavior and reform. Its secrecy and
lack of accountability allows its corruption to grow unchecked.
Furthermore, Clinton’s
statement is simply untrue. The history of the agency is growing painfully
clear, especially with the declassification of historical CIA documents. We may
not know the details of specific operations, but we do know, quite well,
the general behavior of the CIA. These facts began emerging nearly two
decades ago at an ever-quickening pace. Today we have a remarkably accurate and
consistent picture, repeated in country after country, and verified from
countless different directions.
The CIA’s response to this growing knowledge and
criticism follows a typical historical pattern. (Indeed, there are remarkable
parallels to the Medieval
Church’s fight against
the Scientific Revolution.) The first journalists and writers to reveal the
CIA’s criminal behavior were harassed and censored if they were American writers,
and tortured and murdered if they were foreigners. (See Philip Agee’s On the
Run for an example of early harassment.) However, over the last two decades
the tide of evidence has become overwhelming, and the CIA has found that it
does not have enough fingers to plug every hole in the dike. This is especially
true in the age of the Internet, where information flows freely among millions
of people. Since censorship is impossible, the Agency must now defend itself
with apologetics. Clinton’s
"Americans will never know" defense is a prime example.
Another common apologetic is that "the world
is filled with unsavory characters, and we must deal with them if we are to
protect American interests at all." There are two things wrong with this.
First, it ignores the fact that the CIA has regularly spurned alliances with
defenders of democracy, free speech and human rights, preferring the company of
military dictators and tyrants. The CIA had moral options available to them,
but did not take them.
Second, this argument begs several questions. The
first is: "Which American interests?" The CIA has courted
right-wing dictators because they allow wealthy Americans to exploit the
country’s cheap labor and resources. But poor and middle-class Americans pay
the price whenever they fight the wars that stem from CIA actions, from Vietnam to the Gulf War to Panama. The
second begged question is: "Why should American interests come at the
expense of other peoples’ human rights?"
The CIA should be abolished, its leadership dismissed
and its relevant members tried for crimes against humanity. Our intelligence
community should be rebuilt from the ground up, with the goal of collecting and
analyzing information. As for covert action, there are two moral options. The
first one is to eliminate covert action completely. But this gives jitters to
people worried about the Adolf Hitlers of the world. So a second option is that
we can place covert action under extensive and true democratic oversight. For
example, a bipartisan Congressional Committee of 40 members could review and
veto all aspects of CIA operations upon a majority or super-majority vote.
Which of these two options is best may be the subject of debate, but one thing
is clear: like dictatorship, like monarchy, unaccountable covert operations
should die like the dinosaurs they are.
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