"The CIA admitted in 1998 that guerilla armies it actively supported in Nicaragua
were smuggling illegal drugs into the United States - drugs that were making
their way onto the streets of inner-city black neighborhoods in the form of
crack cocaine. The CIA also admitted that, in the midst of the War on Drugs, it
blocked law enforcement efforts to investigate illegal drug networks that were
helping to fund its covert war in Nicaragua." Michelle Alexander in The New Jim Crow pg 6
Down the decades the CIA has approached perfection in one particular
art, which we might term the "uncover-up."
This is a process whereby, with all due delay, the Agency first denies
with passion, then concedes in profoundly muffled tones,
charges leveled against it. Such charges have included the Agency's
recruitment of Nazi scientists and SS officers;
experiments on unwitting American citizens; efforts to assassinate
Fidel Castro; alliances with opium lords in Burma, Thailand and Laos;
an assassination program in Vietnam; complicity in the toppling of
Salvador Allende in Chile; the arming of opium traffickers and
religious fanatics in Afghanistan; the training of murderous police in
Guatemala and El Salvador; and involvement in drugs-and-arms shuttles
between Latin America and the US. Whiteout by Alexander Cockburn and
Jeffrey St. Clair. pg 385.
Just as one should reject the idea of a "rogue CIA",
perverting or betraying the intentions of an honorable government, so
one should banish illusions of a "rogue press" fulfilling its watchdog
role by barking
furiously at the crimes of government. Loyal and obedient in its
function, just as the CIA has been, the US corporate papers behave, in
the main and with a few exceptions,
like most well-fed and prosperous watchdogs, fast asleep in their
kennels, eyes firmly closed. Whiteout by Alexander Cockburn and
Jeffrey St. Clair. pg 279.
The CIA, over the years, has not had effective oversight, and it has
repeatedly betrayed the public trust by engaging in activities that would not
be approved by anyone of good will. It is closely connected to the
vast right-wing conspiracy.
It trained Central Americans to torture at the "School
of the Americas", funded right-wing death squads, engaged in 'regime
change' that put strong-man dictatorships in place, and precipitated wars in
almost every part of the world. See
Lou Wolf Testimony.
Covert agencies are secret, unaccountable and should be considered unconstitutional. They not only have budgets that are
large and hidden, they have been responsible for all US wars since WWII (every
one unsuccessful) and
many illegal activities. We know that the CIA has run
drugs into Los
Angeles, that Afghanistan under the Taliban produced almost no narcotics but
now it produces a large part of the worlds drugs, the agency has engaged in
renditions, torture,
assassinations, regime changes...and it has supported
dictatorships in many parts of the world. If good US citizens were fully
informed, there would be an even more massive change of politicians.
Secrecy is one of many enemies of
democracy and the
Constitution. If we want the kind of government the framers intended,
there should be no black budget...and no CIA.
"Do you remember the right-wing execution squads in El Salvador?' the former
high-level intelligence official asked me, referring to the military-led gangs
that committed atrocities in the early nineteen-eighties. 'We founded them and
we financed them.'" (Seymour Hersh, January 2005 New Yorker.)
Mind Control
Former governor Jesse Ventura's recent episode on
mind control, though somewhat sensational, is actually quite well
researched. Watch it at this
link<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVGt-JC8a-A>.
Death squad leader 'was top CIA agent' 23 Mar 2009 The late President
Milosevic's secret police chief and organizer of Serb death squads during the
genocidal ethnic cleansing of disintegrating Yugoslavia was the United States'
top CIA agent in Belgrade, according to the independent Belgrade Radio B92. The
claim that from 1992 until the end of the decade, Jovica Stanisic, head of
Serbia's murderous DB Secret Police, was regularly informing his CIA handlers of
the thinking in Milosevic's inner circle has shocked the region. Stanisic is
said to have loyally served his two masters for eight years. He is facing war
crimes charges at the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
Gary Webb reported on CIA complicit drug smuggling into Los Angeles and
he was for all practical purposes fired from the San Jose Mercury News for
doing it. Not only was this a branch of the Iran-Contra illegal war, but it
had the effect of making a large number of (mostly democratic voting) minorities
ineligible to vote. A win-wing for the
vast right-wing conspiracy.
"Anyhow, one part has
E. Howard Hunt drooling over this
wonderful coup, and he says that the JESUITS were great help. I think he says that the Archbishop in
NYC or Italy contacted the Jesuit top guy in Guatemala, and they provided both
Intelligence and Propaganda against the government of Jacobo Arbenz --- who was only
trying to get the dirt farmers a little more bling -- or food."
Catholics in the CIA
The CIA was also closely in league with the Vatican, itself still embroiled in
its wartime alliance with the Nazis. The Vatican was smuggling to the West war
criminals such as Father Andrija Artukovic, the Franciscan who had helped
exterminate hundreds of thousands of Serbs in Croatia. Hiding in the Vatican was
one Walter Rauff, a German Nazi who had spent the last months of the war leading
an extermination unit of SS men across Italy, gassing to death some 250,000
victims, mainly Jewish women and children. Rauff's protector was Allen Dulles's
old friend Monsignor Don Giusseppe Bicchierai, who assembled a terror gang
charged with the task of beating up left-wing candidates, smashing political
gatherings and intimidating voters. Their money, guns, and jeeps were furnished
by the CIA.
Whiteout: Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair pg 138