Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the intelligence service of the United States and NATO. It has a long history of committing illegal conspiracies from organizing propaganda campaigns within the United States[1] to forcibly establishing antisocialist dictatorships elsewhere. Former CIA officer John Stockwell has estimated that the organization has committed somewhere between ten to 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.[2]
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.[3] 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.[4]
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
Modern propaganda
Color Revolutions
References
- ↑ 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.
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- ↑ 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.
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