CIA in service to corporations

POSTED BY: SignyM
UPDATED: Friday, November 6, 2009 00:44
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SIGNYM

Thursday, November 5, 2009 8:40 PM

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By the mid-1970s, however, the veil was torn wide. Congress under the direction of Sen. Frank Church in 1975-76 issued a devastating series of reports on the criminality of the agency. The CIA had sponsored coups and fixed elections in Greece, Italy, Burma, Indonesia and dozens of other nations. It had smuggled Nazi war criminals out of Germany to fight communism in Eastern Europe; it worked arm in arm with narcotics traffickers in Asia, Europe, the Middle East (and always seemed to leave behind a thriving drug nexus wherever it intervened); it supplied security forces worldwide with torture equipment, torture manuals, torture training. In Vietnam, its massive Saigon Station oversaw the kidnapping and killing of tens of thousands of suspected Vietcong, many of them innocents, doing a good job of turning the peasant population against the US. The rot came out almost daily as the Church Committee dug it up. By the late 1970s, the CIA had planned or carried out the assassination of leaders in more than a dozen countries; CIA jokers called this "suicide involuntarily administered," courtesy of the Agency's "Health Alteration Committee." The agency's work disrupting governments was often in service of corporations with close ties to Congress and the White House and whose business interests were threatened by anything that smelled of socialism. The agency had been busy too on the homefront, in violation of domestic law, overseeing mind control programs in which unwitting Americans were poisoned with drugs, experimented upon, effectively tortured; opening the mail of US citizens; surveilling the political activity of Americans; infiltrating the media with disinformation; lying habitually to elected officials.

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www.alternet.org/story/143738/former_cia_agent_once_played_by_george_c
looney_explains_why_he_quit_dc_and_is_holing_up_in_the_rockies?page=entire

GINOBIFFARONI

Thursday, November 5, 2009 8:46 PM

yet CIA employees are immune to prosecution...

Obama... change beyond belief

Either your with the terrorists, or ... your with the terrorists

Lets party like its 1939

PERFESSERGEE

Thursday, November 5, 2009 10:33 PM

And let's not forget the other 9/11: in 1973. When the CIA fully aided and abetted the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile and resulted in the immediate execution of about 10,000 Chileans. They are living with that legacy to this day - there is still a major thoroughfare called 11 de Septiembre in Santiago, running through the rich part of town, of course. The well-to-do still think Pinochet was a hero. They probably still celebrate the CIA, too...............

perfessergee

GINOBIFFARONI

Thursday, November 5, 2009 11:26 PM

or the 1953 CIA overthrow of the elected government of Iran

I don't know how many the shah killed to stay in power to 1979, but you can imagine how different things could be in the middle east if this hadn't happened.

Either your with the terrorists, or ... your with the terrorists

Lets party like its 1939

FREMDFIRMA

Friday, November 6, 2009 12:40 AM

Like I say - you wanna fight terrorism, start in Langley and Quantico, not overseas.

-F

PIRATENEWS

Friday, November 6, 2009 12:44 AM

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