A Timeline Of CIA Atrocities

[Jara sang]

http://home.att.net/~Resurgence/CIAtimeline.html

Interesting article by Steve Kangas

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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.


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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.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. "...crack down on the traditional enemies of big business..."

All you need to know.

[Cleita]

2. Thanks!

I've been looking for something like this.

:thumbsup:

[Kansas Wyatt]

3. Noriega despised Poppy so much, it was like he had been betrayed.

Now what could Poppy have done to make Noriega feel so betrayed?

[sasha031]

4. an excellent find

thanks, I will bookmark this...
kick:kick:

[dysfunctional press]

5. Steve Kangas-

wasn't he the journalist guy that got killed for going after the head of the "octopus"...?

[ima_sinnic]

8. that was Danny Casolaro -- but Kangas was also offed (nt)

[Orrin_73]

9. Scaife killed Steve Kangas

Officially he commited 'suicide'.

[Jara sang]

11. from wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife#Kangas_incident

No real answers there. A regular whodunit. Scaife killed Kangas, Kangas was going to kill Scaife or Kangas offed himself, take your pick.

[Orrin_73]

12. There are many unanswered questions

I dont buy the official explanation.

[ima_sinnic]

6. the author was mysteriously "suicided" in 1999 in a bathroom near

Richard Mellon Scaife's office. His "Origins of the Overclass" and Resurgent website really got on somebody's last nerves I guess.
Google <Steve Kangas death> -- this is just the first hit:
Steve Kangas: Suicide? http://www.politicalamazon.com/kangas.html

[niallmac]

7. To the best of my ability I am going to memorize

the intro of this linked piece and the general time line. This is what the CIA does. Now what the hell is the "boo hoo why did they 911 us?" about?
There are people today who sincerely believe this country is the living embodiment of all that John Wayne ever portrayed on the wide screen.
This country cares nothing about the poor or about spreading democracy. This country is as single minded now in its pursuit of global domination
as was Nazi Germany. I make no apologies because it's the god damned truth.

[hwmnbn]

10. Wow, this is an amazing read.....

The CIA is our dirty not-so-little secret. Over time we can see all the illegal actions done to preserve corporate interests.

I think all these elections in South America may be waking the CIA up. I don't doubt they will pull some more of their crimes again.

My problem is how can they be stopped?

[AntiFascist]

13. It does a great job of summarizing the intent of the CIA....

but it also avoids mentioning other issues like drug trade, connections to the mafia, and the influence of right-wing religious organizations.

[hwmnbn]

17. I'm embarrassed to admit...

I didn't know the Steven Kangas story. I stayed up late last night getting informed.

This is scary shit.

[AntiFascist]

19. This is interesting....

Apparently Kangas was "a former Army intelligence analyst who had quit his job with a betting company in Las Vegas..."

http://post-gazette.com/regionstate/19990419kangas6.asp

Kangas smeared billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife who "secretly paid more than $250,000 to two law firms and a former Mississippi law enforcement official to investigate allegations that President Clinton, while governor of Arkansas, ordered local law enforcement authorities to protect the activities of a cocaine smuggling ring operating in his state."

http://www.salon.com/news/1998/03/26news.html

and Kangas "ground out a steady flow of information <including> ... the involvement of the Vatican, the CIA, Catholic groups like the Knights of Malta and other organizations in world politics" before committing or being suicided in 1999.

http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/kangas1.htm

[hwmnbn]

21. Whoa!!.. thanks for the links....

WTF is this all about? This story is unbelievable!

[AntiFascist]

22. I guess its best not to get too closely involved with the...

CIA'S business(es).

:scared:

[DoYouEverWonder]

14. Why don't we just cut the CIA's funding

and use that money to make life better for Americans and the rest of the world? We wouldn't have to worry about terrorism so much if we did.

What a waste of time, money and lives. The CIA has done little for the citizens of this country. It all about protecting the Mega-Corps interests.

[Jara sang]

18. The CIA really is a "secret police" in this country.

They were supposed to be obsolete after WWII but the Dulles boys thought it would be a good tool. A tool to dismantle democracy.

[Gregorian]

15. What an article! Still, it's the people's will that causes this.

We want our stuff. And we want our lifestyle. From rubber to bananas to oil.

I'm sorry about my country. What a wasteland of comfortable people. Ignorance and comfort breeds what we have today.

This may be new to some, but Noam Chomsky has been talking about this for decades. I really didn't know how it worked, step by step until now. Wow. Mind blowing. All paid for by you and me. Every fourth hour you work is given to the government. It sponsors this kind of stuff. To think of what we could have had. The culture. The intelligence. The beauty. But instead we made the world hate us, and we got drug wars, dirty transportation, jail cells, and uneducated citizens. What do we do now...

[Emit]

16. Thanks for this n/t

[Kurovski]

20. kICK NT

[Emit]

23. Kick n/t