SF
Weekly, 3/14/2012: “[During the Cold War] The L-shaped [CIA] apartment
boasted sweeping waterfront views, and was just a short trip up the hill
from North Beach's rowdy saloons. Inside, prostitutes paid by the
government to lure clients to the apartment served up acid-laced [LSD]
cocktails to unsuspecting johns, while martini-swilling secret agents
observed their every move from behind a two-way mirror. Recording
devices were installed, some disguised as electrical outlets.”
The CIA comes to town.
The
Senate Committee for Public Trust held a secret hearing, to determine
whether the White House and, indeed, the Congress, had violated the
separation-of-powers principle enshrined in the Constitution.
Had the traditional walls between the states and the federal government been violated beyond repair?
Late in the afternoon, the Chairman of the Committee introduced a surprise witness, James Williams, a CIA executive.
---Mr.
Williams, you understand we’re focusing on a bill currently before the
House, which would increase federal COVID assistance and economic
stimulus. Several trillion dollars are at stake.
Yes, Mr. Chairman. I’ve read the bill.
Since the CIA plays no role in this issue, please explain why you’re here today.
I received an order from the Director to engage with this Committee.
Again, why?
Because my Agency would like a piece of the action. We feel we’re underrepresented.
Piece of the action?
Yes. This
bill before Congress is a landmark operation. It gives federal money to
the states at levels no one has ever contemplated before. Money for
COVID testing and vaccination, for education, for highway construction,
bridges, tunnels, for paying off state debts, including giant budget
deficits and pension fund shortfalls. There is money in the bill for
colleges and universities, churches, foster homes, prisons. There is
money that would allow poverty-stricken families to buy homes. There is
money for sports teams, clubs, non-profits, farmers. Money for expanding
Welfare so it applies to every citizen. Money for medical research
institutes, for libraries, animal rescue facilities, insurance
companies, data processing corporations.
We get the idea, Mr. Williams. You can stop now.
And the amounts of money are staggering. The federal government is pouring a Niagara of cash and credit into all 50 states.
Yes? And?
It’s
clearly an effort to federalize the states. To bring them into the fold
of the central government. To erase what’s left of their independence,
once and for all. It’s a gigantic bribe, a payoff, under the cover of
parading as a COVID relief and stimulus package.
Well, I wouldn’t exactly---
But
we at the CIA are getting NOTHING. You see, Mr. Chairman, we’ve
operated, since 1948, as an independent Agency. We’ve ignored subpoenas
from the Department of Justice. We’ve refused to appear in federal court
on charges. We’ve trampled and traipsed all over the world, doing
exactly what we wanted to do with no federal monitor on our
actions---and we’ve screwed up badly on dozens of occasions. Frankly,
we’re a failure. We take most of our intel from public sources, like
newspapers. Now we want to be swallowed up by the federal government
just like the states. We want you to take us over. We’re looking for
money to seal the deal.
That’s absurd.
Why?
First
of all, your budget is enormous, and most of it is secret. Congress has
no idea how you spend the money. Second, we’re not running a peace
treaty conference here. This bill is about funding for the STATES. The
CIA is not a state.
You
want to eat and digest the states with enormous forced bribes, so they
don’t exist anymore. There’s a provision in the bill that would force
the states to submit to federal control of all elections---how they’re
run, who runs them, who counts the votes, who can vote, mail-in and
Internet ballots…the whole nine yards.
We want to ensure vote integrity.
Don’t
kid a kidder, Mr. Chairman. Anyway, I’m empowered to offer the Congress
full access to the CIA’s books and records. The details of every
operation we’ve conducted since our inception. You can do anything you
want to with those records. Expose them, hide them, burn them, blackmail
people with them. The Agency SURRENDERS to the federal
government. We’re total screw-ups. We want in. We want the kind of money
you’re giving the states. We want to be Welfare recipients. Big-time.
You’re telling this Committee the CIA wants to get down on its knees and lick our boots and humiliate itself for money?
Absolutely.
How much money?
We want three trillion dollars up front and another three when our surrender is complete.
Plus you offer a full secret statement admitting the CIA has done far more harm than good for the past 80 years?
Yes. Not a problem.
Did you kill JFK?
Allen Dulles handled that individually. It was his op.
What about RFK?
We
used cutouts. They screwed up, and we covered for them. We leaned on
the LAPD, who were investigating the murder, and they cooked the
evidence.
All
right, listen. Yes, this bill before Congress IS, in fact, an effort to
erase the states. We shower them with so much money they give in and go
along with every single federal program we saddle them with. We unify
the country. Nebraska does exactly what New Hampshire does. Kansas does
exactly what New York does. Florida does exactly what California does.
That’s what the so-called pandemic was FOR. Right, Mr. Chairman?
Financially
speaking, yes. The country had to be brought to its knees before we
could get this bill passed. The economic picture had to be so dire, the
states would cave in and trade what was left of their independence, in
return for major money. Money the likes of which they’ve never seen
before. This bill isn’t COVID relief. It’s a mob payoff. Only in this
case, we’re the mob and we’re making the payment. No skin off our
nose. The money is invented out of thin air. As usual.
Well,
Mr. Chairman, that’s what we, at the Agency, thought. We were blown
away when we realized it. You’re pulling off the kind of operation we
could only dream of. You make us look like pikers. Amateurs.
Coming from a man like you, Mr. Williams, that’s high praise.
Not
really, sir. I could tell you lots and lots of stories about our failed
ops. Blown covers. Agents we thought were ours who turned out to be
doubling. If we had anything to recommend us, it was our enthusiasm. We
enjoyed subverting governments and staging revolutions and assassinating
enemies. It was fun. But we were always short on smarts. And after the
Cold War was over, we were screwed. All dressed up and nowhere to go.
The CIA is already part of the federal government, of course. So what would this takeover look like, Mr. Williams?
As
far as the public is concerned, nothing would change. But under the
surface, we would take our marching orders from Congress, from a special
committee that tasks us with specific operations inside the US. For
example, as you erase the 50 states, we’ll pitch in. We’ll help bring
their legislatures to heel. We’ll infiltrate the governors’ offices and
make sure they’re toeing the federal line. The money you’re laying on
them is the key, but a lot of details will have to be worked out. State
officials aren’t all going to fold up overnight.
I
don’t know, Mr. Williams. The FBI and the Justice Department aren’t
going to jump for joy when they see CIA people carrying out domestic ops
from Alaska to Florida.
That’s the thing, Mr. Chairman. We see what you’re doing as part of a larger merger.
Meaning what?
Look
at all these federal agencies. How many are there? Does anyone
know? They cooperate with each other in some ways, but they also compete
and protect their turf. They’re very inefficient. The whole federal
government should be merged, like a giant cheese glob. From the
top. From the White House and Congress.
Don’t just eradicate the states. Combine all the federal agencies as well.
Exactly. We could help there. We have dossiers on hundreds, if not thousands of federal officials. We could apply pressure.
What about the news media?
Mr.
Chairman, we’re already very well positioned inside the news
business. But with your backing, we could tighten up that sector,
too. Make their relationship with the federal government even closer.
Big,
big picture? You’re talking about something on the order of a 20-year
plan, Mr. Williams. This is a complete overhaul of the nation.
Yes, sir. That’s how we see it.
You want to climb on our bus and ride it all the way with us.
Yes.
It’s quite a vision.
Thank you.
Just out of curiosity, who at the Agency came up with this idea?
A Russian defector we’ve been keeping under lock and key for 50 years.
Really.
He has a lot of time on his hands.
There’s another way to go, Mr. Williams. We could just surrender to China. They’re much better at organizing than we are.
We
thought of that, but we don’t believe their methods would be acceptable
to the American people. They come down all at once on the population
with tremendous force. And they’ve been holding a grudge against the
West since the Opium Wars.
The first problem I see, Mr. Williams, is the Pentagon. They fancy themselves as a separate Empire.
Sure. But
you’re already making great progress there. You’ve got them installing
so many social justice programs their heads are spinning. It wouldn’t
surprise me to see them build a transgender Special Forces outfit based
in San Francisco.
We could increase their budget, with strings attached.
Absolutely,
Mr. Chairman. Double it, on the condition they merge with CIA, NSA, and
the State Department. I admit, it would be tricky, but over time, with
the right people in place, wonders can be achieved.
Now
you’ve got MY head spinning. The federal government is so large. Trying
to reconstruct it as one massive integrated unit…I don’t know. I
wouldn’t want this to degenerate into some kind of clown show.
We
believe the key is the Department of Justice, Mr. Chairman. That’s
where the overall plan would go. Into creating Justice for All. By our
definition. With the right slant on propaganda, we could bring every
social justice program under that roof.
“The federal government is all about securing real justice for every man, woman, child, and the other genders.”
Correct. All federal roads lead into and out of the Department of Justice.
A new dawn.
Fifty
years from now, Mr. Chairman, no one will be able to recognize the
America we’re experiencing right now. This America will be gone. In its
place, a much different operation. What you and I would consider the
absurd upper reaches of preposterous propaganda about WHAT PEOPLE
DESERVE AND WHAT IS RIGHT FOR THEM TO HAVE…that will be par for the
course, like having a stove or a TV set.
Mr. Williams, something in me rebels against what we’re envisioning. It DOES seem as if we’re clowns describing our new circus.
Believe
me, at the CIA we know all about clowns. We’ve cooked up and launched
operations you couldn’t imagine. From a distance they were so crazy,
you’d think we were living and working in an insane asylum. And yet…some
of those operations succeeded. And when they did, they transformed
governments and people’s states of mind. That’s the key. CAN YOU CHANGE
PEOPLE’S MINDS SO THEY ACCEPT LUNACY AS NORMAL?
Well, can you?
Look
at America these days. It’s happening under our noses. Government
officials and news outlets are saying and doing things that, 15 years
ago, would have been laughed at and ignored, as the ravings and
psychotic outbreaks of madmen.
I
guess that’s reassuring. Or very disturbing. I’m not sure which. Just
the other day, I read an article about a court backing a six-year-old
child’s “reasoned decision” to take puberty blockers…
Actually,
Mr. Chairman, you could trace that all the way back to the 1960s. We
had an op we called CK. Crazy Kid. It was a long-term program based on
the premise that children were wisdom creatures, the most intelligent
members of society. What kids saw and wanted was what adults should
follow and provide. Let me lay out the general pattern for you. You get
various groups to believe they need all sorts of rights and
rewards---the weirder and more outrageous, the better. It’s clear that
only one entity can provide these rewards---which are characterized as
necessities. And that entity is the government. The government is
positioned as the leading edge of a multi-front social revolution. And
we’re back at JUSTICE. That’s what everyone wants and demands. So you
give it to them. But you convince them that the specifics of Justice are
completely foreign and bizarre, contrasted against traditional
norms. This is how you create a new society. And it IS a clown
show. It’s designed that way.
That’s frightening, Mr. Williams.
It
looks frightening until you’re in the middle of it for a while. Then it
seems normal, like the latest fashion, or form of music. Which takes us
into another old propaganda op called Cultural Relativity: There is no
single standard. Every culture or group has its own practices, and we
must respect them. That was one of the first modern clown shows. People
call it Marxist, but it’s really TAKEOVER. That’s all. Doesn’t matter
what you call it. Somebody’s got to run things, Mr. Chairman. May as
well be us.
Now
I’m suddenly feeling confused. Listening to you, Mr. Williams…I don’t
know…I’m torn…maybe we should vote DOWN the bill before Congress, and
instead preserve what’s left of the independence of the states.
Why would you want to do that, Mr. Chairman?
I’m not sure I want my children and grandchildren to have a president who says he’s three different genders at once.
But, as I say, your grandchildren will believe that’s NORMAL.
Then I have an obligation, now, to try to protect them.
That
would be a losing proposition, Mr. Chairman. You’d be fighting against
the tide of history. And by history I mean propaganda.
This vision of yours, Mr. Williams. Remind me? Why would we follow it?
For the same reason you’re trying to erase independent states. CONTROL. Control over the population.
And we achieve that by---
By
controlling minds. By planting in minds the idea that all sorts of
rights and all sorts of forms of justice are absolutely
essential. Bizarre forms, to be sure. Group A has the right to bring
their miniature genetically engineered pet zebras to work every day,
because in their native country, zebras are sacred. Group B has the
right to obtain, free of charge, a surgical procedure that places an
ornamental third eye in the middle of their forehead---because they came
to America from a country where the third eye is the religious symbol
of wisdom and the god Ooblahdee.
Mr.
Williams, I’m leaning the other way. I think you’re arguing against
yourself. You’ve gone over the edge. We should reject your offer of CIA
surrender. You’re terrifying. Controlling people and their minds---there
must be a limit on that.
Me. Chairman, I think you’re too late.
Why do you say that?
Because,
if the world is to be made over into a New Normal, you can’t have one
highly visible nation that still has significant freedoms and values
which elevate THE INDEPENDENT INDIVIDUAL. Especially not America. We
have to drive all Americans crazy.
And who is this WE?
The
CIA. And its associated partners. That’s why I’m here today, Mr.
Chairman. To tell you that you should go along with our plan…
A plan to produce sheer widespread insanity.
Insanity that, in time, will look entirely average.
Mr.
Williams, if Congress erases the 50 states and brings them under total
federal control, and if people like you are the leading edge of federal
government, then I would want to leave all the states to their own
devices---in the hope that they will somehow preserve the America
envisioned in the Constitution.
Well,
Mr. Chairman, in that case, this is a war. A culture war. So my
question to you is: how much money---or other inducement---is it going
to take to bring you over to our side?
(The link to this article posted on my blog is here.)
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