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(This presentation was prepared for the Sept. 1st. Ron Paul Institute’s Ron Paul Scholars Seminar)
I am accustomed to opening the New York Times and The Washington Post to find laundry list articles relating to what the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has reportedly been up to. That many of the evidence free allegations are implausible or even quite contrary to known facts about international political developments does not seem to matter as using the initials CIA appears to be enough to make one’s case that there is something either unseemly or even evil going on. And it serves as a convenient scapegoat for the liberal media – “It wasn’t Joe Biden who dunnit, it was the CIA!”
Over the Labor Day weekend I attended an antiwar conference which included remarks by some speakers who proceeded to run through a whole litany of claimed CIA crimes against humanity. It struck me at the time that they did not always know what they were talking about and I began to think about my own 21 year-long involvement with the National Security Community and, more particularly, to what extent that CIA and to a lesser extent military intelligence were quite the out-of-control demons that they have been made out to be.
Indeed, among my generation’s Agency officers who are by now retired, most I know are antiwar, as am I, though those younger officers whom I encounter on occasion that are actively serving generally are more careful about expressing their views or are outspokenly anti-Russian, which is presumably what how current CIA leadership wants them to deport themselves in public.
I spent 18 years in CIA nearly all overseas where I worked almost exclusively on counter-terrorism against groups that were initially nearly all European, starting with the Italian Red Brigades in 1976 and ending up with the Basque and Catalan separatists in Spain in 1992. I had also served 3 years in army intelligence during Vietnam and in both of those roles, contrary to what the media regularly suggests, I never killed anyone or coerced anyone and never carried a gun, not even in Afghanistan. Nor did I know of any Agency colleagues who had done so. To be sure there were CIA torture prisons in Thailand and Poland in the wake of 9/11, but they were in response to White House mandates and were small scale and moderate compared with what went on in military prisons like Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. And when the US government decided to start assassinating US citizens and “profiled” foreigners overseas using drones in 2010 it was done on the authority of President Barack Obama, not as part of operations conducted by the CIA.
I only knew one CIA officer who was behind overthrowing a government, in Chile in 1973, colluding with the Chilean military to remove elected President Salvador Allende and replace him with General Augusto Pinochet. The Santiago Chief of Station’s famous cable to a reluctant Agency HQs to participate in the operation asked “Is headquarters under control of the enemy?” which became a part of CIA lore, repeated and laughed over by entering training classes. Nevertheless, if one revisits what happened with Allende the conclusion that the White House and State Department were equally engaged in the driving of the operation and certainly had given the green light to what followed.
Before that time, one might also recall John F Kennedy’s assessment of what was quite possibly the Agency’s most egregious blunder, the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961. Kennedy stated his intention to break the CIA into 1000 pieces after the intelligence disaster, which led to the firing of its first civilian director Allen Dulles. Kennedy never quite completed the demolition job but was assassinated two years later with some investigators inevitably suggesting that CIA was involved in his death.
The congressional commission of Frank Church in 1975-6 exposed Agency engagement in multiple illegal activities, including assassination plots and domestic surveillance of Americans opposed to the Vietnam War. There was the Famous Fidel Castro poisoned cigar plot meant to kill him and the assassination of heads of state in Africa, Asia and Latin America. CIA had also tested large doses of LSD on unwitting subjects. It is hard to recall any other moment in American history when so much horrifying skulduggery was revealed.
A consensus on reforms and oversight after Church documented his findings led Congress to pass the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 1978, which for the first time imposed some limits on the government’s ability to spy on American citizens. It ended the wild days and restricted any operations inside the US. CIA is also regularly accused of leaking or controlling the message coming from the US media, but the reality is that leaks to influence the media and public generally come from the White House or State Department.
My college education was at the University of Chicago, majoring in ancient and medieval history – the university was at that time the intellectual breeding ground of the neocon movement headed by Professor Leo Strauss but students were antiwar and famously occupied the university admin building in 1968 as a protest against Vietnam. I became subject to the army draft immediately upon graduation but I signed up for an extra year for the military occupation specialty (MOS) in intelligence. I went to the training school at Ft Holabird Baltimore, now closed. I was sent to West Berlin due to my one year of Russian study in college, a rare example of the Army actually doing something in personnel assignments that made sense – my classmates mostly went to Vietnam where some were killed while serving in the 521st Military Intelligence Brigade. My army unit from Berlin continues to stay in touch and has held reunions.
I obtained a PhD in European history, was hired by a CIA recruiter at a historians’ conference in New York City in 1975 and served in Rome, Hamburg, as an instructor at the Agency training center in Virginia, Istanbul, Barcelona, and Afghanistan, with language courses in between tours.
But it was during my Army service that I first learned about corruption and lying in government. West Berlin’s detachment of the 66th Military Intelligence Brigade was a 75 officers and enlisted men unit, of which I was the operations sergeant. We were supposed to be able to provide warning of a Soviet attack and were tasked with being able to establish stay-behind reporting if such an attack were to take place, but we were, in fact, unable to do any of that. Instead, we routinely inflated monthly reports using misleading statistics to show how active and “ready” we were. I almost went to my congressman afterwards to tell him what a fraud it all was, but did not want to interfere with my impending grad school using the GI bill, so I kept silent.
After grad school my next stop was at CIA. The Agency was during my time 20,000 strong, divided into operations (spying), analysis, admin and various special staffs focused on issues like drugs, arms control, nuclear proliferation. There is also a paramilitary branch staffed mostly by former military special forces. In my experience, most mid-level employees were honest and hard working. Most lived in Washington, with 2,000 or so overseas. Those at the top became, however, increasingly political and were frequently not trained intelligence officers. Only one director since Bill Casey, former OSS, under Ronald Reagan, has been a career intelligence officer, and that was Gina Haspel in 2018-2021. Instead, they have been selected for political reasons and drawn from the ranks of ex-military like Turner, Woolsey, Petraeus and Pompeo, from retired politicians, or even from a congressional staffer like George Tenet. Currently William Burns, is a former diplomat.
As a little background, CIA was founded in 1947 through the National Security Act to correct failure to connect all the intelligence dots that preceded Pearl Harbor even though the US had broken the Japanese naval communications codes and had all the information needed to anticipate what was about to occur. Nevertheless, it is interesting to note that there was still failure to connect some of the dots preceding 9/11 – Coleen Rowley, an FBI agent in Minnesota, among others, was sounding the alarm about some specific Saudis who were learning to fly large commercial airliners and might be planning a hijacking. Richard Clarke, the controversial National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism working for the National Security Council and at the White House, was alarmed, running around with his “hair on fire” as he put it, but could not penetrate the layers of bureaucracy that surrounded George W. Bush to warn about the threat and initiate additional security measures.
The problem with US national security is that there are too many players in the game. My personal experience example of the multiple levels operating within the intelligence community comes from Iran-contra in 1986, secretly and illegally trading arms for money to go to contra-Sandinistas in Nicaragua and to free hostages in Lebanon. Iran Contra was run by the White House’s National Security Council and it was organized by Ollie North. Flights by private jets for Revolutionary Guard commanders were routed through Istanbul, where I was based, and I received a secret message to make the arrangements at the airport, which I did even though it was not a CIA operation. Planes carried cash to Washington, weapons were shipped, and the money generated was routed to the Sandinista rebels to fund the mining of Nicaraguan harbors by the Pentagon, which was also illegal.
In fact, it is often noted that what used to be done by the CIA is now done by other federal agencies, often right out in the open. Recent examples of regime change are the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and State Department in Ukraine, State Department in Iraq, Pentagon in Syria, not CIA, and the war-crime destruction of the Nordstream pipeline was done quite probably by the US Navy after warnings by the president and secretary of state while the assassination of Prigozhin in Russia was probably accomplished by British MI-6. The recent ousting of Pakistani President Imran Khan was clearly a project of the White House and Pentagon and the increasing pressure on Hungary’s Viktor Orban derives from the State Department and president. The fact is that traditional espionage related “covert action” is now implemented by many components of the United States government and its foreign allies, so bleating “CIA, CIA” no longer enlightening.
So where is it all going? Most former intelligence agency employees now believe that the national security system has become so politicized that it is nearly dysfunctional, telling policymakers what they want to hear instead of what they need to know. There have been reports that frustrated CIA and Defense Department analysts have been warning that Ukraine cannot win the war against Russia but the senior managers of those organizations as well as policymakers do not want to hear what hard working analysts have concluded.
The creation of the office of the Director of National Intelligence, currently held by Avril Haines, was intended to serve as a focal point for providing policy makers with the best information from all of the US government’s eighteen intelligence agencies, but it has not really worked well in practice. The various agencies all have established constituencies and agendas that seldom fit snugly together, suggesting that the motive to create CIA in the first place, i.e. to make sure critical intelligence reaches those who “need to know” in a timely fashion, might be unattainable. To be sure, the multiple intelligence failures surrounding Afghanistan, Iraq and now Ukraine are hard to ignore.
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I realize this was before Dr. Giraldi’s time in the CIA, but it is strange to make no mention of James Jesus Angleton, who retired as head of Counter-Intelligence in 1975, having served in that post for twenty-one years, and who never sought promotion. In fact, it is odd to make no mention of the existence of the CI branch. Dr. Giraldi’s article is more interesting for what he does not mention than for what he does.
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How is being in the CIA “serving”?
This photo depicts serving. I can think of dozens like it that also fit the term. Words matter.
It was already that way in the late ‘80s. It must be insufferable now.
I’d be interested about how many of those 18 intelligence agencies have double-secret covert black ops groups, working 100% off the books, and unsupervised by anybody.
It’s rhetorical, because nobody anywhere knows the answer, but since all intelligence agencies tend to “go rogue”, you have to wonder how many things around the world are being done by “us”, but totally unbeknownst to US.
Coups, drug running, working with cartels, and god knows a million other fucked up things that almost nobody would support; Like creating terrorist organizations, so they have terrorism to fight, much the same way the FBI does domestically.
JFK was right, we should destroy them all, and start over with a group that is actually supervised. Of course, there would probably still be rogue elements, creating their own financing, working for their own ends, and creating havoc for havoc’s sake.
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Spooks are just crawling out of every crevice recently to make the outrageous claims that they had and have nothing to do with the foreign policy disasters of the U.S. since WWII and that the CIA is filled with hard-working people just doing good stuff for the country.
Those torture programs (with which the former director, Haspel, was involved)? Pay no mind to those. They were just little torture sites, and despite the CIA’s long track record of experimenting on torture techniques (you know… for no reason at all). The whole torture thing was all Bush’s idea, and those poor hard-working CIA agents were only following orders. (Please try not to remember that Bush’s daddy was, at one time, the director of the CIA). That Kennedy assassination thing? Oh… of course, all those conspiracy theorists think the CIA was involved. Please ignore the animus between Dulles and Kennedy, Eisenhower and Truman’s warnings to Kennedy about the CIA, Kennedy’s desire to fragment the agency, the Dulles-led joke of an investigation, and all the evidence pointing to CIA involvement. Speaking of Dulles, please do forget that he was a traitor to his nation and was negotiating post-war pacts to benefit his Wall Street friends with Nazis while his nation was at war with the same, without any permission or authority to do so from Roosevelt and Truman.
Those coups? Pfaw… it was a only a few: 6, 7, maybe 25. Just little trifling things, and it was mostly the State Department anyway that was behind them. Probably not important that about half the people who work the for the State Department ostensibly are actually CIA agents. All that crap intelligence (like Sadam has weapons of mass destruction and Russia’s army is weak and incompetent), that was all the fault of military intelligence. This author would know, He fabricated reports and sat around doing nothing in Germany while working for the DIA, but as soon as he went to the CIA, he straightened right up and became one of those “hard-working” CIA agents who are unfairly blamed for all drivel that all the other alphabet soup agencies in Washington produce.
I mean after all, the CIA was all over the Chinese buildup on North Korea’s border during the Korean War, right? They were well ahead of everyone else in seeing the collapse of the Soviet Union, were they not? I mean, maybe they missed that one, but it was a pretty insignificant thing. I remember too, after Powell gave that disastrous presentation, so filled with garbage, to the UN to justify the war in Iraq, I remember well all these CIA agents coming out and saying how bad that intelligence was.
I am so glad that the Church Committee ended the “wild days,” and the CIA no longer operates on American soil doing things like they did during the Operation Mockingbird days when they cultivated journalists and planted propaganda into the U.S. media. No one associated with the CIA now works for or with any American media company… none at all. In fact, I once thought that CNN or MSNBC might be nothing but Jews and CIA agents, but then I received a letter from 51 intelligence agents, including 4 former heads of the CIA, who informed me that my ideas derived from Russian disinformation.
Hmm…well, sure there are many good people working as analysts at CIA, but taking a gander at what the agency has sponsored over the decades simply blows one’s mind–more coups, assassinations, torture, drug-running–than God could shake a stick at.
Some favorites from the highlight reel include the abundant “Operations” such as Gladio, Condor, Mockingbird, etc.. I particularly like the plan, that JFK nixed, to set off bombs in Miami and shoot down a U.S. civilian airliner.
And if the world is getting you down–grab a Coke, put on some uplifting Donny and Marie Osmond tunes, and read Douglas Valentine’s books “The Phoenix Program” and “The CIA As Organized Crime.” Throw in a review of Gary Webb’s work and smile, smile, smile.
Just don’t rise through CIA ranks and go canoeing in the Maryland wetlands, like poor ol’ William Colby.
In addition to the afore-mentioned Angleton, who didn’t seek promotion because he already had all the power and was instrumental in the (((faggotty use of parentheses))) Israeli Jews getting atomic weapons there are and were:
John Deutsch and David Petraeus who could not be trusted with classified information.
George H.W. Bush who claimed he could not remember where he was on Nov. 22 1963.
Colby, dead in a canoing accident.
The guy who shot himself in the head, weighted his body and jumped off his boat in the Chesapeake Bay, I want to say his last name began with “P”. Might have been NSA.
“All the hallmarks of Soviet disinformation”? Screw that noise.
Interesting choice not to go to OCS. Didn’t carry a gun? Big deal, you had staff to carry guns for you. The President doesn’t carry a gun, that doesn’t make him any less a murderer; all Presidents are. Richard Clarke whom the author mentions claimed he kept a revolver in his desk at the White House.
CIA torture good, military torture bad. You lost me there Boss, Hoss, Chief, Slick, Slim.
The idea that Pearl Harbor was an intelligence failure is ludicrous. It was the result of FDR’s machinations. The desired effect is what you get when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship.
and on a related matter, about which Giraldi frequently writes:
there no longer is, or needs 2B, an “Israel lobby”:
9/11, our Reichstag fire, was a Zionist coup d’etat,
and the so-called “Patriot Act” the new regime’s Enabling Act.
we now live in the tightening grip of an all pervasive
Zionist Occupation Government, in a larger ZOG Imperium:
which includes all of North America, all of Europe (except Hungary and Russia),
and much of the Middle East.
no lookie:
no lookie here:
“Silos” is a word that is used at Theconservativetreehouse.com. There is apparently a silo within the DOJ that is very partisan Democrat that is adept at being chosen to investigate Republicans they want to convict and Democrats they want to protect. The FBI is said to have a similar politically-oriented silo also that always gets the assignments it wants.
The think tank symposiums are places members of these organizations can meet others of like-mind and get to cooperating towards their political ends.
Russia doesn’t consider the US agreement-capable. They are right. Even if peace was desired by a popular President and polled well, these little dens of Washington-for-life FedGov employees might have other ideas. WaPo, NPR, and NYT are obviously around to help run P.R. cover. Trumps appointees were badly undermined by the careerists.
One should mention that the Special Operations command was established during the Reagan years to provide the CIA and White House with their own military forces. These units are not under the command of the Pentagon, service chiefs, nor local unified commander. So if some nut in the White House wants a hospital in Afghanistan destroyed, he can order that directly and not tell US Army Generals there.
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As the CIA officer mentions at the end of this video, the problem has never been what the CIA does, but the Presidents and corporations who control our national security policies who direct the CIA to do unlawful things. For example, the CIA now has its own bioweapons labs.
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May I please become a CIA consultant? I knew from day one that Ukraine could not win a war against Russia, so I am obviously more prescient than the CIA and the other government spooks. I’m a bargain too. Following my advice would have saved the gov >$100 billion for a measly salary of a few million.
Dr Giraldi:
Before that time, one might also recall John F Kennedy’s assessment of what was quite possibly the Agency’s most egregious blunder, the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961.
The CIA’s most egregious blunder was helping install Castro in power in the first power. Earl Smith, the American ambassador to Cuba, certainly felt so.
http://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2022/8/2/how-the-us-misjudged-fidel-castro-part-2-fidel-takes-power
Based on his experiences and observations, Smith developed firm views on Castro and the anti-Batista movements, which views were not completely in accord with the CIA. The ambassador did not omit to inform Kirkpatrick that in his view, the CIA mission had allowed itself to fall under the sway of the July 26 movement. Smith urged the CIA to stop giving any encouragement to them. He furthermore accused the CIA of greatly underestimating the strength of the Communist party and its influence in Cuba. The CIA official responded by basically denying Smith’s charges with a bland recital of recent CIA operations, which he characterized as above reproach.
As far as is known, no CIA official ever faced punishment for this fiasco. Indeed, some think it wasn’t a blunder at all. They claim that the CIA intended to install a Communist regime close to America to generate more funding for themselves. This certainly chimes with what followed; the Bay of Pigs flop and the later, comic opera “assassination attempts” on Castro. ( The exploding cigar routine sounds like something out of a Groucho Marx sketch ! )
The CIA milked Cuba for all its worth, indeed right up to the present day. It was a gift that kept on giving. Few Americans, or others, are aware of the CIA’s involvement in installing Castro.
Not a word about CIA drug running?
I was still in the navy when Air America was recruiting naval aviators to fly out of thr Golden Triangle. Most said no because they knew damn well who they’d be flying for and what the cargo was.
All the alphabet agencies need to be dumped and their leadership tried for high crimes and imprisoned.
The criminal behavior of America’s intelligence communities is epic and well-known worldwide. Why a whitewash in 2023? Are we preparing “new facts” for the new generation?
You are correct. Angleton actively did not want promotion as he would go from “the depths of espionage to the shallows of administration”, as David C. Martin wrote in Wilderness of Mirrors. Martin also touches on Angleton’s Israeli connections, which no doubt were of absolutely essential importance in Angleton’s acquisition and use of power.
Mr. Giraldi worked Europe and probably didn’t “need to know” about the Golden Triangle heroin business. Here is a short overview.
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And may also have been of absolutely essential importance in JFK’s assassination
I think Avril Haines is a Jew. So what do you expect when you have a parasetic dual- nationality blood sucker who is working for Israel ???
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/14/ukraine-war-live-updates-latest-news-on-russia-and-the-war-in-ukraine.html
https://kbin.social/m/Ukraine_UA/t/454545/Ukraine-says-it-wrecked-Russian-submarine-with-British-cruise-missiles
Ukraine says it wrecked Russian submarine with British cruise missiles (politico.eu)
Modern cia is just a small part of a much larger mossad conglomerate controlled by jews. The big pieces are the NSA, google, microsoft, bloomberg, reuters, etc etc…
Mossad monitors and has comtrolling back doors to all our national systems. Once upon a time they squirreled away wmd (bio weapons) hidden in American cities to use against us if we ever found out about 911 and decided to take revenge, but these days they can just shut us down completely with a “die hard” type fire sale and starve millions of americans into submission.
Get bill gates, sergey brin and the lot onto a polygraph and i guarantee you would learn the truth of it. Dont take my word
Interesting talk from today with Judge Napolitano and Karen Kwiatkowski fmr USAF
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And this has all grown up around it –
https://original.antiwar.com/jwhitehead/2023/09/13/how-the-government-weaponizes-surveillance-to-silence-its-critics/
Leading, at some point, to this –
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/09/doug-casey/making-the-chicken-run/
This is a super interesting point and needs to be explored further. Is it because liberals now back the coups? Is it also because university students in target countries are friendly to liberals in America?
On a similar note –
https://www.securityweek.com/nsa-shares-raw-data-about-us-citizens-israel-report/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-personal-data-israel-documents
I hope Giraldi has been gone to the Sacrament of Reconciliation for being an accessory to such evil.
I always read Philip Giraldi’s columns and most of the time they strike me as being right on-target. But once in a while they seem “off,” this is one of those.
I guess you should, if you want to spew more BS.
It’s easy to say the CIA wasn’t involved, rather than say there was an element of the CIA involved in…whatever. But it’s hard to believe you speak for the CIA, or against it for that matter. So many things happen within the CIA that even you would have no idea emanated from within. So, yeah, most people understand the CIA, but not the entirety of the CIA as a matter of policy, was involved in the coup de tat during which President Kennedy was murdered in full view of the entire world to see. But, yeah, the CIA was involved, and as a CIA apologists, so are you.
As she tells it, she was a dissenting voice in Doug Feith’s Office of Special Plans. Her maiden name is Unger in case one fails to clock the quirky but charming mild overbite along with the big blue eyes and high IQ.
I remember years back when she first came out and spoke about “The office of special plans” which was an illegal office The Zionists set up in the Pentagon and run by Doug Feith. She talked about how Israeli military people would simply barge right in bypassing security etc. From everything I’ve heard from her over the years she seems legit to me.
Who knows? Does it really pass the smell test? MI-6 taking him out over Russian airspace?
Really, there are many who will sleep better, knowing he took a knee. Including Putin, for whom Prigozhin had obviously worn his welcome, and was causing more problems than he was helping with. Read Putin’s ‘eulogy,’ and then consider.
But your guess is as good as mine.
It always amazes me how human beings can promote and or commit to evil intentions as they claim that they never did or condoned anything evil!! Everyone is innocent-just ask them!! Our species is amazing!!
Thank you for highlighting this:
(Failure to observe or acknowledge this leads to the consistent misidentification of the “Deep State.”)
I’m a little bothered that Mr. Giraldi separates Haspel from the CIA torturers, for she most definitely was one of those swine. In fact, the low-key approach here on the subject of torture overlooks the fact that “somebody” funded an enormous torture research program in the US and other places. The excuse was that the evil Chinese brainwashed innocent American Military Men into inventing stories of biowar in Korea.
Speaking of excuses, the necessity for the creation of the CIA given here has a bit of a stench.
According to all the reliable books I’ve examined, that just wasn’t the case. The US code-breaking efforts in the years preceeding WW2 had one significant success – the breaking of the Japanese Diplomatic codes. Also, Mr. Giraldi leaves out a hell of a lot of years of CIA activity during the Eisenhower era. During that time the Agency always had plenty of money for all its hell-raising mischief everywhere in the world. That has caused me to embrace the “conspiracy theory” that the OSS had been tracking Japan’s accumulation of Asian gold and other treasures to be used after the war ended and the dust settled. It’s likely they (US Intelligence) located and stole most of that gold.
Gold warriors by Seagrave, Sterling
https://archive.org/details/goldwarriors0000seag
At some point this massive and secret slush fund ran out. We know of the money-raising involved with Saint Reagan’s Iran-Contra gun running, and the later creation of the US Drug Market. It’s really strange how some backward peasants in Afganistan were able to halt the farming of opium poppies before the US invasion, and again after the US left with its tail between its legs. But somehow the US of A just couldn’t seem to make a dent in the drug output from Afghanistan.
From this I’d deduce that the Zionists of the Apartheid state have taken over US Intelligence – or enough of it to always get their way. The club-footed failures with 9/11 may not have been entirely accidental, for the main beneficiary of that event was the pissant state of “holy israel”.
I worry Israel would have the ability to amplify another police shooting (in a nation of 320 million people, there will be a questionable death-by-cop at least once a month) into a George Floyd color-revolution 2.0 if they ever really want to press us on an issue. I know Mossad has a bunch of spies and honeypot operations here. Our media response to a Floyd 2.0 might be different from what CIA expects if all the blackmailed journalists get a call from Mossad agents telling them what to say. Eric Margolis, a Canadian journalist who used to have pieces here at at Unz, had a visit to Jeffrey Epsteins Manhattan 7-story townhouse in which Epstein offered to have a pretty young woman in a skimpy outfit give Margolis a massage (I guess walking in NewYork must be stressful) to help Eric unwind a bit. Margolis left immediately identifying this ploy as an obvious blackmail trap. Epstein was attempting to ensnare him. How many other journos and teleprompter readers, directors, and editors have been successfully compromised and don’t even know it yet? There are assuredly several other operators like Epstein who work for Mossad, but keep a much lower profile, and target smaller fish who simply work lesser gears in our media apparatus.
I’d be surprised if Israel reverted to releasing a virus, bacteria, or detonating a bomb we could straight up accuse them of that could be a causus belli. A couple of direct nuke hits would literally obliterate Israel and we have submarines near enough to them to do that. Their style would be more to create a situation where they could deny it was them.
You’d think the Feds would realize media ownership being so ridiculously in Jewish hands to be a security issue and push for laws insisting that 2 or 3 big outlets were owned by Gentiles, be they white, black, Latin, or Asian. Our media predicament is straight-up loony. We’d be astounded, for instance, if all of China’s media was owned by Arabian Muslims, and marvel that they didn’t pass laws restricting that.
“…CIA was founded in 1947 through the National Security Act to correct failure to connect all the intelligence dots that preceded Pearl Harbor even though the US had broken the Japanese naval communications codes and had all the information needed to anticipate what was about to occur. Nevertheless, it is interesting to note that there was still failure to connect some of the dots preceding 9/11…”
Remarkable, but consistent! Of course, the Pearl Harbor attack succeeded not necessarily through any intelligence failure, but because the chief executive – FDR – was playing for the other side. Then those alleged intelligence failures were used as a pretext to set up the CIA, which ever since 1947 has done a lot more of what FDR did. And on 9/11 they were still doing it, in spades. At Pearl Harbor, it was the President who was responsible for the catastrophic attack. Are we to believe things were any different on 9/11?
I must say I’m disappointed that this quite sorry example of a limited hangout has NOT been met with howls of laughter by the normally skeptical below the line commentariat.
Do ya’ll give Giraldi a break because he regularly criticizes the Israelis and the Zionist lobby in the USA? Do you not see what he’s doing? It’s an age old CIA exercise: clean up the reputation of a criminal organization.
Here are just a few of the howlers:
As if the New York Times and the Washington Post are going to TELL us what the CIA has been up to? Does anybody on this site think the Times and Post are in any meaningful way INDEPENDENT of the CIA?
Antiwar are you and all your pals? Well then where is the exposure? Expose the workings of the criminal enterprise, don’t play these limited hangout whitewashing games. Otherwise it’s just words, and who knows the intentions? To clear your conscience? To clean up the CIA’s reputation? Both?
What, and no mention of Operation Gladio? Exposed by the Italian government itself? No mention of the CIA’s Phoenix assassination program in Vietnam? Are we all just going to ignore this self serving pablum?
What exactly, by the way, is the purpose of the USA spending money spying on all these groups in Europe? What business is it of the USA? Note that Giraldi, the good soldier, doesn’t even raise this question.
Look what Giraldi is doing here: pretending that the Church commission was NOT a limited hangout, taking it at ‘face value’ as an ‘real exposure’. No, anybody who has looked into the Church commission knows Giraldi is being dishonest here. Note he doesn’t mention that, despite the exposure of crimes: Nobody was arrested and put on trial from crimes against the American people.
What a howler. Anybody on this site REALLY believe this?
Operation Mockingbird? No mention of that Mr. Giraldi?
I could go on. This article is a travesty, really, especially on this site where many of the readers seem to have knowledge of the activities of the CIA. This in fact is one of the WORST articles, in terms of its insidious purpose, of any that have appeared on this site.
Finally let’s keep in mind that the CIA has an opaque budget, that it is 99.9% non-transparent, that one of its main jobs is to convince you that the CIA is NOT a grotesque criminal operation.
What “intelligent” people in the CIA never seem to realize when conducting their fuckery in “secret” are two things.
The first is: If your assassination is so righteous, why do it in secret. If torture works and is justified then show it on TV.
The second is: every evil will meet its match in another evil. It is called “blowback” or for us unintelligent people it goes by the name Karma, and she’s a real bitch.
Did the CIA ever conduct a post “operation” study on how much human misery resulted from such an operation. Yes, drones killed 95 innocent adults and children for every five intended targets. What is the difference between this and a coward who sends a kid into a market to blow up himself, just to get a handful of people while destroying so many lives.
Will the Karma ever bring a regime change operation in the US? It has already happened with the Kennedy assassination. Yet, we are deceived to believe that the CIA had nothing to do with it, while photos show George Bush senior present at the Lee Harvey execution.
The moment someone begins to deceive you, understand they are about to exploit you and they justify their exploitation by believing they are superior to you in life.
Every war, every assassination, was done for those elite who produced nothing, created nothing except metered, piped or instituted a toll on everything. They are the ones that keep nice things from reaching the rest of us. Those have always been the ones behind secrecy, because if we knew, we would be so angry, we just might feed them to the dogs.
Incidentally the best kept secret at the CIA is that the Heads of the CIA are always first and foremost, servants of the British Crown.
Great Youtube-channel you have, Mr. Meyer; it is criminally under-subscribed and I forward your videos at the drop of a hat.
Thanks for your contributions.
I find this piece significant and compelling,
there is nothing wrong with the CIA in principal, but in reality it is twisted to serve an agenda beyond the scope of authentic American interests,
no politician really wants to reform the CIA because they want to use it for their nefarious ends,
it’s like books such as Orwells 1984 and Hitlers Mein Kampf,
1984 was supposed to serve as a warning but seems to be being used as a guide,
Mein Kampf is a fascinating document because it is like the diary of a madman, it offers insights into why a civilised country went completely off the rails, but again, reading it you rather get the impression that scurrulous politicians use it as a ‘how to’ book,
the CIA as a concept is neutral, it can either be used to do good or to do harm,
what I’d really like to hear is veteran intelligence professionals brainstorming on how to put the CIA’s house back in order and set it on an even keel,
what form oversight ought to take that both respects confidentiality but also keeps a firm grip on the reins,
again, the State Dept. is conceptually neutral, it’s how people wield the State Dept. that causes good or bad outcomes,
the NED as and educational grant system ought to be benign, it’s the way that it’s been peverted for political gain that has tarnished it’s reputation,
USAID again ought to be a force for good, soft power winning hearts and minds and improving peoples lives, but it’s been used as a front for nefarious activities,
at the centre of this is Washington DC, established on solid and decent principles it has become a sewer of corruption, dishonesty and pathalogical contempt for the nation and humanity at large,
it isn’t the institutions, it’s the calibre of people who elbow their way to the levers of power, no matter how many times you recreate institutions you still have to face up to the problem of people,
some people are decent, moral, honorable and sincere, and then there are modern politicians,
A kakistocracy (/kækɪˈstɒkrəsi/, /kækɪsˈtɒ-/) is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.
PG: “The various agencies all have established constituencies and agendas that seldom fit snugly together, suggesting that the motive to create CIA in the first place, i.e. to make sure critical intelligence reaches those who “need to know” in a timely fashion, might be unattainable. “
This “just” in:
It was always, right from the “git go”, “unattainable” 🙂 .
Why? Because government “solutions” never work:
Book: “Why Government Doesn’t Work” https://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Why_Government_Doesn%27t_Work
No different from all other government agencies, the CIA is a scam, a fraud. Always was, always will be. “Government — The Biggest Scam in History” Etienne de la Boetie²:
https://government-scam.com/
On top of that, just like 99% of all other government agencies, it is entirely unconstitutional, and even if it were, by some perverted logic deemed “constitutional” , its actions at home and abroad were/are entirely unconstitutional.
Like 1000’s of other agencies, the CIA needs to be abolished, and replaced with _nothing_, not “reformed” .
You cannot reform these agencies, and simply making them smaller will not make them any less unconstitutional, or less criminal.
“We’ve got to start us a new revolution
And get back to the old constitution
We’ve got to stand up and fight for the whole Bill of Rights
Its time to start over again””
Song “New Revolution”:
https://onebornfree-mythbusters.blogspot.com/2023/01/some-of-my-songs.html
Regards, onebornfree
Agreed, and no mention of the JFK assassination or the many others. Guilty conscience, I guess.
Speaking approvingly of a Jew on this blog may get you some shit.
Allen Dulles was one who set the pace for the CIA and a nasty, corrupt bastard he was.
With all due respect to Mr Giraldi the fictional tale below is a bit hard to justify. Surely one must ponder why he included it in his writing:
Airliners? Come on. So it’s true – once a spook, always a spook?
The answer to that is a resounding hell, yes; this site is overwhelmed with all Jews are evil and are the only ones responsible for all the bad things the United States is involved in.
This is amazing. Every commentator so far has ignored the article’s most important point:
US INTEL AGENCIES HAVE NOT PRESERVED US DOMINANCE SINCE WW II. THEY ARE AT BEST USELESS, AT WORST COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.
and so is the rest of the Federal Government. Nor is there any way to make it useful. The US depends on its dominance to borrow almost unlimited amounts of money. If it cannot borrow, it cannot continue to exist.
And before you say “Whoopeee!”, remember that the efficiency of world trade feeds the world, and that world trade will vanish should the US cease to exist in its present dominant form. You would be cheering mass starvation, quite possibly that of your own family and you personally.
I don’t know if there was lack of awareness at the CIA that China might get involved in Korea. The Chinese actually warned they would get involved. For example they told Indian ambassador Panikkar, and he passed the warning on. The US response was to label Panikkar a “fellow traveller”. MacArthur thought that if they crossed the Yalu there would be “the greatest slaughter” but he was not worried about it – the Chinese armed forces were rather poorly regarded. MacArthur’s intelligence chief, Charles Willoughby, was an incompetent.
I go back to my ‘famous’ quote, “17, that’s s-e-v-e-n-t-eee-n intelligence agencies swore there was Russian interference in the 2016 election, but not 1, NOT ONE, could tell Trump the extent of Yung Fat Kim’s missile and nuclear program in Korea”.
Saying “the CIA did it” may not always be accurate but nevertheless that accusation has been well earned. The State Department et al should be jealous of such a reputation.
Adding the word “intelligence” to anything governmental makes that term an oxymoron. With at least 17 “intelligence” agencies there is nothing “central” about this one.
It is the same with law enforcement, there should only be one federal agency with armed officers. The guy auditing your taxes does not need to be armed, nor does the milk inspector. And insofar as I know America is the only country where you have to guess who the police are as they are different in EVERY locality. Any other country, Germany, France Russia, Japan, Turkey et al the police are all recognizable where ever you go.
It is all related to our dysfunctional system of government, we have created a monster wherein only anti-citizens are hired or elected and so we have this giant mess with all agencies.
Thank you.
You have articulated my thoughts far better than I could have.
Unfortunately, the higher-profile “alternative” media pundits are almost certainly even more tightly controlled than their “mainstream” counterparts – they kind of have to be as the intelligence level of their average reader is proportionately higher.
Ever since Jews took control of the nation from the WASPS, the corruptibility index has increased and the alphabet soup of government agencies are not immune, including the CIA.
When I say, for example, that the CIA was “involved” in some nefarious scheme I use it as shorthand for the US Deep State which is not dominated by any one agency but, rather, a series of organizations and contractors. I’ve known CIA officers over the years and they are, like most people in Washington who do awful things. The Deep State has tiers and levels. Their are multiple unofficial organizations that stretch from the CIA to State to DOD and many other agencies most of which have paramilitary compartments. The nasty stuff is really about that phrase “public/private partnership” the private parts are centered on consultants including using assets and connections provided by what most of us would consider criminal gangs.
Networks rule the modern capital of the Empire not the any individual agency, department or the WH. So you might see in a team a series of networks as was clearly shown in the Iran/Contra scandal. Networks compete with each other, change alliances, focused on particular policies. So the policy of the United States Government is to control every square millimeter of the earth–that’s policy. So you’re not going to use people sitting in front of screens to provide the muscle for that policy and that means violence and intimidation and various forms of blackmail. The Deep State uses those methods to force leaders and countries into doing things that go completely contrary to their interests. Germany is the perfect example–they are pursuing willingly and almost enthusiastically the diktats of Washington because they know you cannot, like Trump, oppose the Deep State without serious consequences. When your kids are followed by large vehicles and there are phone calls with heavy breathing you get the message. The US Deep State does not fool around. No White House has control of this edifice. Ordinary CIA or State Department or Pentagon officers have nothing to do with these threats but, rather, they are carried out by a system developed and emerging over time out of the old OSS types and grew around rivers of covert cash coming from a variety of budgets in government and by the illegal trade in drugs, arms, and human beings. No single person or cabal has control over this s system–rather it is a kind of virtual organism that already, in my view, has a mind of its own. People use this system to further their careers, make money on the side, and do what they have to do whether they are Pentagon procurement officers or editors at the NY Times or Congresspersons. The US policy of coercion cannot be stopped by anyone–it has its own life. Reform is impossible–everyone of consequence must kneel before the virtual Emperor, as the Iranians have said, the Great Satan.
Interesting read. When people hear the term CIA, as evidenced in the comments, they think of a mysterious spook agency, often engaged in immoral work. As Dr. Giraldi noted, the ranks of the CIA are just filled with people doing rather mundane jobs, without the James Bond girls, guns, and attitude. Like most work environments, its cohesive environment is easily destroyed by politicians and social climbers who really aren’t interested in the work itself.
That’s true in nearly all work environments. My daughter spent a year working at Starbucks, as a barista, while in high school. She just loved the work, often volunteering to do others’ work when they decided not to show up, without notice (their lack of a work ethic is why so many retail stores close early, or offer limited service). Many of her coworkers were not focused on their work, instead focused on petty quarrels with each other or with management, or even worse on conflicts with themselves.
That’s the biggest change in work, over the past decades. The work ethic has changed significantly. As a result, public and non-public organizations lose their focus and cohesion.
I also have a great deal of respect for Mr. Giraldi. I understand his attempt at salvaging the reputation of those honorable employees of the CIA that had to put up with the shit flowing downward from above.
There was a bizarre episode on Dark Journalist last night. He reported on the recent (undoubtedly spook directed) story in the mainstream media by the JFK secret service agent who claimed to plant the magic bullet. DJ read from a nearly identical report in the press from ten years ago with a different agent telling the exact same story.
It most reminds me of Hollywood gossip rags from a couple generations ago reporting on who is having sex with who. Except now the hero cult objects are government miscreants and they are too decrepit to have sex.
Anybody know of a good sociology or psychology monograph on the dynamics of cult behavior? Could be useful.
Oops, you guys fucked up again!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/armed-man-posing-federal-agent-arrested-rfk-jr-event-la-after-secret-service-protection
In the Abraham Bolden Neuroleptic Center of Saint Elizabeth’s, Sidney Gottlieb Jr. is swinging a watch in front of Sirhan Sirhan Jr., going “You are getting sleee-py…”
Because the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard aren’t enough for the White House.
LOL
I understand, it cuts through the bureaucracy, red tape, and insubordination.
Before a couple of Dulles’ acquaintances wrapped him in a blanket and drove him to the hospital to die, he laid in his bed, laiden with his own excrement. His wife couldn’t bear the sight of him and wouldn’t lift a finger to help him. She finally found out what an evil monster she had slept with all these years.
Judge not that ye be not judged.
Sock it to em, dude.
Wondering though, if the American people as a general grouping, are aware of the depths of degradation and out and out horror which those perps have perpetuated…and get by with it with pensions awaiting them and the quiet thanks of those bank$ters who give them their orders.
Let us bear in mind that these creeps frequently go rogue and never pay the consequences for their anti-human behavior. However, all in all, the Agency has no true agency. They are merely pitbull attack dogs for the financier elite. Hell. The average agent probably is not personally aware of that undergirding fact.
They are simply bad-boy bureaucraps on long and loose leashes.
The guv’mint is so big that you should be able to say confidently that it should be cut ✂️ by half. But there’s the rub. It’s so big that if you had a 50% across the board cut, including the CIA and all its variants, the economy would be destroyed, riots would occur in the inner cities, etcetera, etcetera. On top of that you’d have quite a few more deranged people with time on their hands ready to kill themselves or more likely, others i.e., ‘Going postal’.
But that’s what it might take to clean this mess up, the 50% cut that is.😉
So what you are implying is let’s send all the Supreme Court, Federal and local judges home?
Judgement is discernment.
“Don’t judge others” is intendent to prevent us from being self righteous and encourages one to be merciful.
However, punishment is deterence and when deterence is absent, mischief becomes prevalent.
A typo that should be corrected
should be ‘the anti-Sandinista rebels’ or ‘the contra-Sandinista rebels’, whether or not ‘rebels’ is accurate, don’t think so. Russell Means, of the American Indian Movement, played a role on the ground in that, and was later rewarded with quite major Hollywood roles.
Also mainly before Doc. Giraldi’s time, the CIA’s weird kulturkampf, all of the Trotskyite and other magazines they funded in many places, the support for crappy Jewish-American abstract expressionism (the European version, Cobra, Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam and later South Korean works, worth viewing, but Rothko, Pollock etc., no way, just crap) to shift the perceived cultural centre to N.Y., Dr. Gottlieb and MK Ultra in general, LSD distribution, all may have been tactical wins in the Cold War context, but the overall results have been a disaster for the target populations .
Thanks, ruralguy, for the very helpful and exact analogy. Starbucks is pretty much exactly like CIA. Why, just last week, I went to Starbucks and they indefinitely detained me, cut slits in my dick, drowned me, froze me, gouged my eyeballs, stuffed socks down my throat, shot soup up my ass, buried me alive, and totally got away with it.
If perhaps some happy accident of fate gives us a genuine president, one who is not “accountable” to his ZOG handlers and who has the courage of an outraged lion; his first act of office would be to issue an Executive Order which would disestablish ALL the umpteen intel agencies and create a new one comprised of genuine Constitutionalists only.
Second step would be to deplatform the Civil “Service” alleged “laws” and to establish a special court to interview ALL administrative bureaucraps and to solicit every possible complaint regarding their anti-Constitutional…basically Bill of Rights…antics. It is not impossible that perhaps one out of ten of them would emerge with clean slates.
Of course all of this is but a pipe-dream and will never happen in our lifetimes. Somehow, the entire regime will need to collapse for us to recover our ruptured republic.
However, such policies happen to be how in an allegedly free country, not controlled by the ruling Bank$ters, things SHOULD BE.
This article is either deliberate ‘mis-information’ or the man is a Putz.
Every organisation has its’ Putzes. People who clock in and out and have no clue what is going on. They move memos from one pile to another, write voluminous reports which no one will ever read and yet they think that they are achieving something.
I remember the ‘Testing’ of new employees in the film “Men in Black” half a dozen of america’s “Best of the Best of the Best” who had no idea what or why they were there but were really gung-ho at being involved.
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Greece’s Yunker said recently, ‘When it becomes serious—you have to lie’. These guys are never going to tell you the truth, because they can’t tell you the truth. Their job is to promote confidence, not to tell you the truth.
Yunker
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“Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you’re stupid. Did you hear that? — stupid.”
The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
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So Giraldo is either lying per policy or is really stupid, a useful idiot.
Good observation. Keep up the good work, Verymuchalive.
It would seem that similar to the FBI existing in order to CREATE criminals as a means of keeping their little racket with a “raison d’ etre” (reason for existence); the Agency exists in order to create enemies of the state, so they can not only keep their little racket in $hekels and additional support mechanisms…but also to protect the PRIMARY shareholders and investors in the WarDefense Industry.
Most posters here will already know that those investors include the likes of the Rottenchild and Rottenfeller crime clans and nowadays, also their front operations such as Blackrock, Vanguard and $tate $treet.
It’s ALL a racket, gang. We are dealing with some of the most successful criminals on planet earth.
Early 80s too. There were exceptions, however. I knew one well, but he was micturating against the tide.
That’s why we call it the Deep State.
THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY MUST BE TERMINATED WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE
The nation-state dissolution oufit called the Central Intelligence Agency must be immediately disbanded and obliterated. The CIA pushes globalization and financialization and transnationalism and multiculturalism and sovereignty-sapping open borders mass legal immigration and mass illegal immigration.
The weasel boy nation-wreckers in the CIA must be dislodged from power immediately. The whole purpose of the CIA is to kill the USA as a European Christian nation-state. The evil and immoral scum in the CIA are Communists and Globalizers and Financializers and Transnationalists and other kinds of treasonous filth.
George Washington and Andrew Jackson, if they were alive today, would arrest and convict and forcibly exile every damn sonofabitch connected in any way with the treasonous scoundrels in the CIA.
The horrible treasonites in the JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire — which controls the CIA — have been pushing nation-killing mass immigration and multicultural mayhem for 60 years or more.
The JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire has been using mass legal immigration and mass illegal immigration as demographic weapons to attack and destroy cultural cohesion in the USA.
CIA treasonites such as John Brennan are evil and immoral and they must be removed from the USA. I have some Irish ancestry — from colonial America — and it riles me up something fierce to see a Leprechaun CIA bastard such as Brennan do all these treasonous damn things!
Former CIA Head Boob John “Leprechaun Baby Boomer” Brennan went to Fordham, supported the Communist Party in the presidential election of 1976, supports open borders mass immigration, wants to flood the United States with Muslims and most likely hates people who have English ancestry. It wouldn’t bother me if John Brennan enjoyed a beer or twelve every now and again, it does bother me that Mormon Mammonite money-grubber drinkwater Romney-types infest the CIA.
Trump made IMMIGRATION the defining issue in the 2016 GOP presidential primaries and in the general election against Hillary Clinton. That is why the treasonous scum in the CIA and the Deep State are out to destroy Trump.
The CIA should be immediately eliminated. The NSA and the military intelligence outfits can provide all the intelligence agency tasks currently done by the treasonous scum at the CIA.
The guys with the brains are in signals intelligence. ELECTRONICS. The CIA arseholes are the ones causing problems which to them are opportunities for overseas profit.
The Leprechaun boob Brennan and the egghead McMullin and Willy CIA Sutton Burns are all you need to know about the moron twats who infest the CIA. Eliminate the CIA immediately. The NSA and the military intelligence gentlemen will provide all the overseas intelligence we need without causing trouble just for the sake of causing trouble.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/sep/16/armed-man-posing-us-marshal-arrested-robert-f-kenn/
The CIA and all of the 17 so called intel agencies are chain attack dogs to keep the people in their prison without bars, as this is what the zionists have turned America into, with their chain dogs and their Patriot Act which was based on Hitlers Enabling Act and which was placed on the American people with the Israeli and neocon traitors at the highest levels of the ZUS governments attack on the WTC on 911 and blamed on the muslims to give the excuse to destroy the middle east for Israels greater Israel agenda.
The real terrorists live in NYC and DC and Tel Aviv and London, but none dare say it, as telling the truth is a way to become an enemy of the zionist terrorist state.
McMullin is a Mormon, the CIA trots him out in Utah as a vote dividing spoiler in election years.
You never hear from him in between.
He probably believes he is devotedly serving God and country.
McMullin is a moron.
Swirling down the toilet!!
Flash Mob Robberies Are Changing the Way America Does Business by Robert Bridge!
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2023/09/15/flash-mob-robberies-are-changing-the-way-america-does-business/
Many people have probably heard about the viral epidemic that is sweeping the United States of America, bringing mask-wearing back into fashion once again. No, it is not Covid-19, at least not yet, but rather organized retail theft that is wreaking havoc on the nations heartland!!
Back in the Soviet days, before mega malls and hyper-stores became prominent features across Russias 11 time zones, communist shoppers were forced to choose merchandise that was locked away behind display cases. A clerk would write down the price of each desired item and the shopper would take the piece of paper to the cashier, pay for the merchandise and then return to the salesperson with proof of purchase. Only then would the beetroot, bread and vodka be handed over. Times they are a changing. Incredibly, and not a little ironically, the United States seems to be heading for such a grim, dystopian shopping experience!!
Com-part-mental-👁z-ation and deniability of any and all “illegal” activity (ideally).
The CIA is the See Eye A.
They are on the ONE dollar bill, inside the Great Seal.
Right under In God We Trust and wrapped in the mottos: Favor Our Undertakings: a New Order of the Ages.
Sure, the CIA formation came after Brother FDR (Mason) designed the bill with other Masons. But it was Brother Truman who signed the National Security Act into law in 1947 which gave us all “Big Brother” (the See 👁 A).
In one way or another, they’ve always been with us. But now. Well. Hell.
Jews are running over each other on Rothschild Av. in Tel Aviv over pro/anti-Likud partisanship, and Mr. CIA here would have you believe they’re in actual control of the US after the US selflessly defeated the Nazis and professed the Holohoax gospel for the greater good of the world.
As an offshoot of the conglomerate, the Rothschild neocolony is not going to have any issue Kent-Stating Israeli Jews like Palestinians when they need to.
AUG 9, 2023 All the News the CIA Sees Fit to Print
“We like to think there’s a Chinese wall between the CIA, especially senior CIA officials, and the American media,” Kiriakou recently told the London Real podcast. “In fact, they’re in bed together.”
https://thekennedybeacon.substack.com/p/all-the-news-the-cia-sees-fit-to
I find Catholic laity assuming the role of Priests to be annoying.
When brown-nosing white men decided to cuck to Jewish Power, white women just became whores of Zion.
White men and white women, total dogs of the Sorosian future.
Interesting. I have never heard that story before. Thanks.
In the sway of history, here’s what we see evolving:
The CIA remains a relevant asset for US hegemony, but it’s being eclipsed to a certain extent by the State Dept/Secretary of State offices because they are closely linked to what has happened to America:
The US has morphed into a Financial Hegemon. Wars and immense destruction of the world have been instigated by the Multi-Billionaires who are beginning to struggle in maintaining their exorbitant wealth and power.
It’s easy to find the warning signals that’s struggling to remain just that, the Sole Financial Source called The US DOLLAR.
So let’s put in charge the Neo-Cons in the US State Dept and the Secretary of State. After all, many of them have a visceral hatred against Russia.
Along w/that animous, the Big Moneyed Powers are beginning to eviscerate EU/UK industry; public institutions, All to the detriment of multiple millions of those nation. Of course, we don’t see the US hand behind these changes. All blame over there is pinned on the UK/EU politicians, with the public blaming their politicians for this destruction when, in fact, it’s the US Financiers and their smaller cronies in the UK/EU that will fully incorporate a new source of US Financialization there.
In similar fashion, the US Financial Hegemon is scared to death of China and its huge rise as a productive nation that the US once was before the end of WWII. So let’s put the Neo-Cons in charge of that: hammer away at China via Taiwan/others. Squeeze Russia in the meantime.
What we have here is an Empire lashing out, trying to maintain the only thing left: The US Financial Hegemony.
Western history tells us, every empire created in the West has died and it’s all because of entitites that have whittled away at that currency power until nothing is left.
Very well put, Thank You!!
When you put up with the shit flowing downward from above, that makes you complicit.
There’s right and there’s wrong. When you choose to do wrong, or even look the other way, you are part of the problem. There is no middle ground.
Yes the writer tossed away some of his credibility in this piece. Just a few little ol torture sites ya know. And the incredible con job of Iraq 2. Apparently the CIA found it impossible to counter the neocons around Bush
That’s why I go to Caffe Nero instead…
same thing I thought
I’ll confess my heart sank when I read that
also this
well, if the Dubya White House was ordering them to torture innocent people, then that sort of makes it okay, right?
We just had the anniversary of 9/11 a few days ago. I honestly, (having read Mr. Giraldi for many years now) do not believe he buys the idiocy of the Arabs flying the jets for two seconds.
He knows better.
So it saddens me to read these paeans to the official lies about 9/11, where the CIA no-doubt (at the top) was certainly involved.
Is it a desire to maintain good relations with the “respectable” community?
Or, does Mr. Giraldi know better than us, the true nature of the CIA, and it boils down to a desire to stay alive?
I don’t know.
But I do know Building 7 was a controlled demolition, and that knowing that, means that it wasn’t Arabs who did it. And the CIA knows it.
Which means that suggesting that the CIA was so worried about some guy in Venice, FL, who couldn’t fly a Cessna, is preposterous. Which means Mr. Giraldi must have his own reasons for writing what he did.
Phil, fill us in on your perspective, pertaining to the 2012 Reauthorization of the SMITH MUNDT ACT. Thank You!
Dr Giraldi
Thank you.
I didn’t realise that the CIA was so innocent of, well, everything.
Umm, some torture in one of those places that nobody really cares about anyhow. And very minor operation, too, as you rightly point out.
Quickly wound up, too, once you all had saved the world from WMDs.
All those grateful souls in Iraq, Afghan etc etc.
And what’s a bit of Heroin between friends after all ?
It is not that all Jews are the only ones responsible for the problems in the west.
It is Jewish control of all levels of power in the west that is the problem.
One ethnic group should not have such power. It is destroying the human spirit that is yearning to be free.
This one ethnic group uses the power of policing all talk about its control and its misuse. It is rare to find any place to speak about this abuse of power. Unz is one of the very few sites that allows people to study this abuse of power.
Good call on Obama.
Thanks for that absolutely excellent comment.
I would add one point however. Col. Fletcher Prouty pointed out that the three-letter agencies are designed to carry out policies, not originate them. They are designed to be tools of somebody.
So people who hypothesize that the CIA is masterminding all these coups and related crimes are mistaken. The buck does not stop at the CIA.
In theory it should stop at the President. But we know presidents have struggled with the CIA, most notably JFK. And we know that longtime CIA director Allen Dulles worked in his previous career for war profiteering international bankers. One of his specialties was hiding lots of money using networks of shell and front companies.
So who can afford to install key leaders of the CIA? Well, who can afford to own the entire corporate media to cover up 9/11 and the assassinations of RFK and JFK? Who can afford to install their own people in almost every seat in Congress, using overwhelming campaign “donations” and a controlled press?
That all takes a lot of money. Such a fortune takes time to accumulate. And the consolidation of ownership also takes time, across the government, big media, big war, big pharma, big tech, and of course big banking.
The criminal insanity of the US’s foreign policies are widely attributed by most knowledgeable observers to the Neocons, exemplified by such people as Blinken, Nuland, Kagan, Sullivan, and Wolfowitz. And while it is yet to be voiced by public professional voices, the Neocons are known to be a fifth column of Israeli Jewish supremacists. Their policies look like they are trying to enact the Talmudic principles of treating non-Jews as animals, and ruling the world from Jerusalem. As insane as that seems in the modern world.
An excellent picture of our current reality, and the larger historical context (fascinating), and the insanely absurd disconnect of the Neocons, is given by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs in today’s episode of The Duran.
US efforts to strangle China & reassert hegemony – Jeffrey Sachs, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen
https://rumble.com/v3i6luo-us-efforts-to-strangle-china-and-reassert-hegemony-jeffrey-sachs-alexander-.html
Then why did you and the Gentiles allow it?
Col. L. Fletcher Prouty was the military liaison for the CIA in the 1960’s. When the CIA needed materials or men from the military they went through Prouty. So he knew a lot about their clandestine operations. In his book on the CIA he describes how the CIA operations were often unknown even to the Joint Chiefs – who were providing the military resources!
The Secret Team
http://www.bilderberg.org/st/
Good points. And having all those major institutional entities acting in such a coordinated way costs a lot of money. Who has that much money, how did they get it, and how did they take control of all these institutions? War Profiteers and Israel’s Bank
https://warprofiteerstory.blogspot.com/p/war-profiteers-and-israels-bank.html
A truly competent American Government would have held an inquiry into how the CIA installed Castro and then abolished the agency.
Setec Astronomy?
I think of things in layers. Each new Spook Service is watched over jealously by the older ones, indeed there are conflicts between them sometimes.
Not easy to see the perps, but it’s pretty clear that Naval Intelligence was targeted on 9/11 with the NCIS budget analysts being the only casualties in a closed-off renovating wing of the Pentagram.
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Contra death-squads is the correct usage.
Or in installing Gaddafi; or Saddam Hussein; or the role of the French secret service in bringing Ayatollah Khomeini into Iran after the fall of Shaw.
Yes.
The “deep state” is not a bunch of petty bureaucrats in Washington striking out at Donald Trump because they believe he is a racist. Petty bureaucrats in Washington are nothing more than petty bureaucrats who did not like their boss, and did the things that little-minded employees do to bosses that they do no like.
The “deep state” is the nexus of Wall Street and Washington, and this center of the deep state is the CIA. The architects of the “deep state” were the Dulles brothers: Allen and John Foster, whom Eisenhower appointed as CIA director and Secretary of State. The CIA and the State Department have been indistinguishable since these two psychopathic brothers took the helm of both
Prior to running U.S. foreign policy and the bulk of the U.S. intelligence apparatus, these brothers worked for Sullivan and Cromwell representing all the major Wall Street firms as well as businesses from other countries (such as Krupp Arms in Germany) that sought to be multinational. Long before Kermit Roosevelt helped launch the coup to install the Shah in Iran, the Dulles brothers, Sullivan and Cromwell, and Teddy Roosevelt were busy changing governments in South America in order to promote the interests of their clients, such as the Dole Fruit Company. In fact, Smedley Butler’s famous “War is a Racket” speech and book come from his adventures as a U.S. marine protecting the interests of U.S. fruit companies in Honduras.
In the years since there has been a revolving door between the CIA and Wall Street, and no major Wall Street firm is without some sort of former CIA agent on its board or in its executive offices. When Dulles took over the CIA, it was made up of mostly ex-military guys, OSS officers from WWII. When he left, the entire staff had turned over and it had become an arm of his Wall Street clients from his time at Sullivan and Cromwell. The “deep state” is actually Wall Street control over Washington, and the CIA is the means by which Wall Street exercises control over Washington. To state that the CIA only recently began “molding intelligence” to agree with policy is absurd and demonstrates and willful ignorance of the history of that institution. Since Dulles, the purpose of the CIA has been to bend Washington to the whims of Wall Street.
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Well, that article’s destroyed my faith in Giraldi’s credibility. What a liar, at least about the CIA.