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
Russia is 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
I recommend to click on the little picture to the left.
You can download this photo as a PDF in good resolution. This is
necessary, because that will allow you understand what I am describing
here. The facts speak clear and loud and are beyond the realm of
speculation: The cockpit shows traces of shelling! You can see the
entry and exit holes. The edge of a portion of the holes is bent
inwards. These are the smaller holes, round and clean, showing the entry
points most likely that of a 30 millimeter caliber projectile.
The edge of the other, the larger and slightly frayed exit holes
showing shreds of metal pointing produced by the same caliber
projectiles. Moreover, it is evident that at these exit holes of the
outer layer of the double aluminum reinforced structure are shredded or
bent – outwardly! Furthermore, minor cuts can be seen, all bent outward,
which indicate that shrapnel had forcefully exited through the outer
skin from the inside of the cockpit. The open rivets are are also bent
outward.
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Twitter Bombed: Pyatt’s tweeting turned out to be a bad joke. It’s a wonder he still has a job.
With the first outcome set firmly in place, the second desired outcome was set into motion by ‘Lawyer-n- Chief’, President Barrack Obama, who has accused Russia of Violating a 1980′s international missile treaty:
There
are more reasons to be wary of this administration’s claims about
rejecting torture and upholding human rights. The president has openly
justified killing American citizens without charge or trial and he has
done so on at least three occasions. There is not much of a gap between
torture and extrajudicial murder when it comes to human rights abuses.
