Courtesy of The Existentialist Cowboy
The CIA. itself a ruthless, terrorist organization inspires terrorism in response. In some
cases, notably the CIA and al Qaeda, the relationship between the CIA and terrorism
is symbiotic. The CIA has perpetrated an "American Holocaust", the deaths of some
6 million people from its inception to the year 1987. As Long as the CIA Exists, the US
will never be safe from terrorism.
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 foreignowned 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 rightwing 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). --Steve Kangas, A Timeline of CIA Atrocities Pakistan is a case in point.
Since 9/11, the Bush administration has been propping up Musharraf's military regime with $3.6 billion in economic aid from the US and a USsponsored consortium, not to mention $900 million in military aid and the postponement of overdue debt repayments totaling $13.5 billion.
But now the administration is debating whether Musharraf has become too dependent on Islamic extremist political parties in Pakistan to further US interests, and whether he should be pressured to permit the return of two exiled former prime ministers, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz
Sharif, who have formed an electoral alliance to challenge him in presidential elections scheduled for next year.
--Pakistan: Friend or Foe? The US shouldn't prop up President
Musharraf's military regime, Selig S. Harrison The late Benazir Bhutto revealed the truth before she was brutally gunned down in the streets of Karachi: US policy causes world terrorism. She died before she could tell the rest of the story.
When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of itsfoundation -- namely, life, liberty and justice for all. Dictatorships such
as Musharraf's suppress individual rights and freedoms and empower
the most extreme elements of society. Oppressed citizens, unable to
represent themselves through other means, often turn to extremism
and religious fundamentalism.
Benazir Bhutto, A False Choice for Pakistan
A favorite CIA tactic is the CIA "front".
The May 12 terrorist attacks on the al Hamra, Jadawal and Vinnell
compounds in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, which killed more than
90 people, were not merely assaults on “symbols” of the imperialist
West. The bombers were also intent on weakening the rule of Saudi
royal family.
While the timing of the bombings in Saudi Arabia and in other
countries — just hours before US Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived
in Saudi Arabia — suggested a coordinated assault on US targets, the
bombings in Riyadh were targeted at key props of the reactionary
regime.
All three Saudi Arabian targets were associated with Saudi Arabia's role
as a US client state: residential compounds housing mainly expatriates
working in the country, the offices of the Vinnell Corporation and the
residences of its employees.
Vinnell, founded in California in 1931, first gained a foothold in Saudi
Arabia in 1975. An article by Matt Gaul in the June 1998 Loyola of Los
Angeles Law Review, revealed that it was the culmination of a close
relationship between the corporation, the US military and Washington's
intelligence agencies. This relationship stretched back to the end of
World War II, when the US government used the company to ship
supplies to the China's counter-revolutionary party, the Kuomintang.
During the 1950s and '60s, Vinnell constructed US military airfields in
Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan, Thailand and southern Vietnam. According to
Gaul, it was during this period that Albert Vinnell, the corporation's
founder, “offered his staff's services to the [CIA], and several CIA
agents used employment with Vinnell as cover for operations in Africa
and the Middle East”.
-- Rohan Pearce, CIA front targeted in terrorist attacks, 28 May 2003
How does the CIA do it?
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.
--Steve Kangas, A Timeline of CIA Atrocities
The CIA uses all those methods to install dictators like Musharraf, whom it
most certainly trained. The CIA is ruthless in its on-going efforts to eliminate
with torture and murder, if necessary, all opposition to the interests of
American imperialists. Saddam Hussein was among the dictators propped up
by the US, the CIA specifically. Saddam ran afoul of Bush Sr by opposing
efforts by the Bush regime to keep the price of oil high. The transcript of US Ambassador April Glaspie's interview with Hussein on the eve of his invasion
of Kuwait proves conclusively that Hussein had been set up by the master
spy --George Bush Sr. The CIAs allegiance to the US oil industry is overt and
is most certainly at the very heart of well-founded suspicions about the CIA,
Texas oil barons, and JFK. Dealy Plaza is said to have been the nexus of all
three!
The origins of Bush's war in Iraq may be found in the Arab Oil embargo of the
1970s.
Three decades ago, in the throes of the energy crisis, Washington's
hawks conceived of a strategy for US control of the Persian Gulf's oil.
Now, with the same strategists firmly in control of the White House, the
Bush administration is playing out their script for global dominance.
In the geopolitical vision driving current US policy toward Iraq, the key
to national security is global hegemony -- dominance over any and all
potential rivals. To that end, the United States must not only be able to
project its military forces anywhere, at any time. It must also control
key resources, chief among them oil -- and especially Gulf oil.
--Robert Dreyfuss, Mother Jones
JFK promised to "smash the CIA into a thousand pieces". Bill Clinton, on the
50th anniversary of "the company", defended it with an absurdity that one
might have expected from the GOP! Americans, Clinton said, don't know or
understand what the CIA does and should, therefore, lay off!
Our not knowing what the CIA is up to is precisely the problem. Bill Clinton is
as dead wrong on this issue as Barack Obama is dead wrong about Ronald
Reagan. Both positions are premised upon the idea that the American people
are stupid and those that are not ought to be! The fact is: the CIA is out of
control and they will continue to get away with it as long as the American
people are either ignorant, kept in the dark, or both! Because the CIA is
unaccountable. it remains a cancerous source of unchecked corruption and
most certainly the inspiration for generations of American hating terrorists
who will fight back in kind!
Much has been written about the CIA’s operations, [The Modus Operandi of
the CIA] by insiders and outsiders. One insider who has chronicled what he
witnessed in the CIA is Ralph McGehee. He worked for the CIA from 1952 until
1977 and now writes about intelligence matters, notably the book Deadly
Deceits -- My 25 years in the CIA (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1983).
He has compiled a computer data base on CIA activities. Persons interested
may write to him at: 422 Arkansas Ave., Herndon, VA 22070. (See
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/CIA_SOP.html .) Here are some
excerpts of what he has written:
“...it is essential to provide background on the scope and nature of its
worldwide operations. Between 1961 and 1975 the Agency conducted
900 major or sensitive operations, and thousands of lesser covert
actions. The majority of its operations were propaganda, election or
paramilitary. Countries of major concern, such as Indonesia in the early
1960s, were usually subjected to the CIA's most concerted attention.
Critics of the CIA have aptly described the mainstays of such
attention: "discrediting political groups... by forged documents that may
be attributed to them. . . ," faking "communist weapon shipments,''
capturing communist documents and then inserting forgeries prepared
by the Agency's Technical Services Division.
--Ralph McGehee
Much of the rest of the world knows the truth about the CIA; Americans are
kept in the dark. The media dare not tell the truth about the CIA and the Bush
administration, in particular, is complicit. Rare media outlets that dare tell thetruth are demonized. "Liberal" activist Steve Kangas, for example, turned up
dead just outside the office of Richard Mellon Scaife, the multi-billionaire
about whom it is no stretch to say he coordinated and bankrolled the "vast
right wing conspiracy" to impeach, remove and, in other ways, smear Bill
Clinton.
As more documents are declassified and the hidden history is made painfully
clear, the CIA’s predictable response is compared to the Medieval Church’s
oppressive response to the Scientific Revolution. Indeed, there are many
things about the CIAs relationship to the world around it that are medieval:
intolerance, fear, repression, secrecy and torture. Initially, the CIA would
merely harass American writers but foreign writers were tortured and/or
murdered. With the death of Steve Kangas, one wonders if the CIA now
operates against the domestic media. What's next? An inquisition?
The CIA, whose very is name is enough to inspire generations of "terrorists",
has outlived its usefulness. The time has come to abolish the CIA --to smash
it into a thousand pieces! Its leadership should be dismissed and investigated.
Where there is probable cause, CIA members should be investigated and tried
for crimes against humanity.
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