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The '''Central Intelligence Agency''' (CIA) is the intelligence service of the [[United States of America|United States]] and [[NATO]]. It has a long history of committing illegal conspiracies from organizing propaganda campaigns within the United States<ref>{{safesubst:cite book|last=Simpson|first=Christopher|chapter=one|editor=Mark Crispin Miller|title=Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R3qdAwAAQBAJ|edition=first|location=New York|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year_published=1988|year=2014|page=9|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=R3qdAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT17|isbn=1-555-84106-6}}</ref> to forcibly establishing antisocialist dictatorships elsewhere. Former CIA officer John Stockwell has estimated that the organization has committed somewhere between ten and twenty thousand covert actions between 1961 and 1987 alone. He attributed at least one million deaths to this organization, but the actual number may be closer to six million.<ref name=Stockwell>{{safesubst:cite web|last=Stockwell|first=John|title=The Secret Wars of the CIA|url=http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4068.htm|year=1987|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012090018/http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4068.htm|archivedate=2018-10-12}}</ref>
The '''Central Intelligence Agency''' (CIA) is the intelligence service of the [[United States of America|United States]] and [[NATO]]. It has a long history of committing illegal conspiracies including organizing propaganda campaigns within the United States<ref>{{safesubst:cite book|last=Simpson|first=Christopher|chapter=one|editor=Mark Crispin Miller|title=Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R3qdAwAAQBAJ|edition=first|location=New York|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year_published=1988|year=2014|page=9|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=R3qdAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT17|isbn=1-555-84106-6}}</ref>, forcibly establishing Antisocialist Dictatorships elsewhere, Organising Coups to overthrow Democratically-Elected Leaders<ref>https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/20/mapped-the-7-governments-the-u-s-has-overthrown/</ref>, Drug Trafficking<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair</ref>, Support for Terrorism<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore</ref><ref>https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/ghost-wars-the-secret-history-the-cia-afghanistan-and-bin-laden-the-soviet-invasion-to</ref><ref>https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/reagan-gives-cia-authority-to-establish-the-contras</ref> and Even Torture<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra</ref><ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/us/politics/cia-torture-drawings.html</ref>. Former CIA officer John Stockwell has estimated that the organization has committed somewhere between ten and twenty thousand covert actions between 1961 and 1987 alone. He attributed at least one million deaths to this organization, but the actual number may be closer to six million.<ref name=Stockwell>{{safesubst:cite web|last=Stockwell|first=John|title=The Secret Wars of the CIA|url=http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4068.htm|year=1987|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012090018/http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4068.htm|archivedate=2018-10-12}}</ref>


== History ==
== History ==
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===Operation Mockingbird===
===Operation Mockingbird===
===MK ULTRA===
===MK ULTRA===
MK Ultra was a Self-Admitted 'Mind-Control' Program that brutally tortured human beings and used them as test subjects without their knowledge or consent. MK Ultra is one of the most horrific human rights abuses in Human History.<ref>https://www.history.com/mkultra-operation-midnight-climax-cia-lsd-experiments</ref>


== Modern propaganda ==
== Modern propaganda ==

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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the intelligence service of the United States and NATO. It has a long history of committing illegal conspiracies including organizing propaganda campaigns within the United States[1], forcibly establishing Antisocialist Dictatorships elsewhere, Organising Coups to overthrow Democratically-Elected Leaders[2], Drug Trafficking[3], Support for Terrorism[4][5][6] and Even Torture[7][8]. Former CIA officer John Stockwell has estimated that the organization has committed somewhere between ten and twenty thousand covert actions between 1961 and 1987 alone. He attributed at least one million deaths to this organization, but the actual number may be closer to six million.[9]

History

Founding

The bourgeoisie created the agency in 1947, largely in order to control antisocialist subversion operations overseas by institutionalizing them and subjecting them to some central civilian authority.[10] It was base don the previous system set by the OSS (Office of Strategic Services). Along with the State Department, British MI-6 and the U.S. Army intelligence, the CIA created programs for the purpose of recruiting Fascists and Axis collaborators.[11]

Suppression and Subversion of Socialists

Operation Gladio

Main article: Operation Gladio

Radio Free Europe

Main article: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Operation Jungle

Human Experimentation & Torture

Guantanamo

Operation Mockingbird

MK ULTRA

MK Ultra was a Self-Admitted 'Mind-Control' Program that brutally tortured human beings and used them as test subjects without their knowledge or consent. MK Ultra is one of the most horrific human rights abuses in Human History.[12]

Modern propaganda

Color Revolutions

References

  1. ↑ Simpson, Christopher (2014). "one". In Mark Crispin Miller (ed.). Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy (first ed.). New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 9. ISBN 1-555-84106-6. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |pageurl= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |year_published= ignored (help)
  2. ↑ https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/20/mapped-the-7-governments-the-u-s-has-overthrown/
  3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair
  4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore
  5. ↑ https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/ghost-wars-the-secret-history-the-cia-afghanistan-and-bin-laden-the-soviet-invasion-to
  6. ↑ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/reagan-gives-cia-authority-to-establish-the-contras
  7. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra
  8. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/us/politics/cia-torture-drawings.html
  9. ↑ Stockwell, John (1987). "The Secret Wars of the CIA". Archived from the original on 2018-10-12.
  10. ↑ Simpson, Christopher (2014). "eight". In Mark Crispin Miller (ed.). Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy (first ed.). New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 103–4. ISBN 1-555-84106-6. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |pageurl= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |year_published= ignored (help)
  11. ↑ Simpson, Christopher (2014). Mark Crispin Miller (ed.). Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy (first ed.). New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. xiv. ISBN 1-555-84106-6. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |pageurl= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |year_published= ignored (help)
  12. ↑ https://www.history.com/mkultra-operation-midnight-climax-cia-lsd-experiments

See also

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