CIA
The Central Intelligence Agency, or CIA is a US intelligence agency. It was signed into law by US President Truman in 1947 by the National Security Act, as a successor to the Office of Strategic Services. It rapidly expanded outside its information gathering brief to include covert action and black ops. By providing funding and organisation it proved a vital step in the development of the modern US deep state, especially up to the mid 1970s.
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Official Narrative
The name of the CIA is suggestive of its original brief - as a central point of information gathering. It was derived out of problems of information collection in WW2 and replaced the Office of Strategic Services.
Problems
The CIA rapidly became a covert agent of foreign policy, for example engineering the overthrow of governments in Iran and Guatemala for the sake of what was loosely referred to as the "national interest" but was fairly transparently the profits of US corporations (the Seven Sisters and the United Fruit Company respectively).
Lacking any effective government oversight the CIA became the basis for what Mark Gorton calls "The Cabal". After Lyman Lemnitzer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff presented him with Operation Northwoods, a false flag attack which planned multiple murderous attacks on US citizens, John F. Kennedy can have been under few illusions about the Machiavellian nature of the CIA, and reportedly stated that he wished to "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds."[citation needed] In fact, the CIA's assassination team played a large role in the JFK assassination, including silencing voices who refused to go along with its cover up cement the power of the cabal which had.[1] It has instigated dozens of covert regime change actions. Later attempts to reign in the CIA failed, but were effective at making its locus of operations more international and therefore harder to detect using the limited resources available to the US government.
History
The first Director of Central Intelligence, Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, authorised the CIA to carry out covert actions in Italy in 1947 to try to hinder the Italian communists in the elections that year. A year later another directive, NSC 10/2 authorised the CIA to carry out covert actions anywhere in the world, specifically including "propaganda; economic warfare; preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition, and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance movements, guerrillas and refugee liberation groups, and support of indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world." Hillenkoetter’s successor, Walter Bedell Smith, claimed that by 1951 the CIA covert ops had already "far exceeded" even this.[citation needed] By 1953, the CIA had 7,200 people working on covert actions, activities that took 74% of the CIA’s yearly budget.[2]
1970s Offshoring of The Deep State
After some high profile assassinations during the 1960s, the CIA came under scrutiny from groups such as the House Select Committee on Assassinations and Church Committee in the early 1970s. This created a problem for the deep state, which consequently offshored its most sensitive operations to more secure bases such as the Safari Club. In 1976, lifelong spook, George H. W. Bush made himself director (supposedly as an outsider) and within a year was effective at stopping most of the leaks from the agency.[3][1][4]
2004 Restructuring
Following passage of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act of 2004 the Director of Central Intelligence was replaced as head of the US Intelligence community by a Director of National Intelligence outside the CIA. [5] The real reasons for this are unclear.
Torture
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The CIA has made extensive use of torture and continues to do so with impunity. As of July 2016, the CIA officer to have been disciplined for this was John Kiriakou - a whistleblower. The torture report by the US Senate released in December 2014 was the tip of the iceberg, but proves that after 9/11 the CIA engaged in a sophisticated program of calculated, aggressive, and egregious state-sanctioned torture, tried to cover this up and lied about how the program operated and the utility of the information obtained.
Drug trafficking
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No article on the CIA would be complete without mention of the illegal drugs trade, which at least since the Vietnam War has been the source of a large slice of the CIA's black budget.[6] This was not public knowledge until Gary Webb published the Dark Alliance series of tightly argued and extensively referenced articles in the mid 1990s. These provided very detailed evidence that the CIA was complicit in importing illegal drugs into the USA, as did corroborating evidence by other whistleblowers such as Mike Ruppert.[7] Ruppert submitted evidence but his allegations are not known to have been followed up, and remain unanswered by the CIA or other authorities such as the DEA officially tasked with investigating them.
CIA Officers' psychology
Douglas Valentine, who interviewed over 100 CIA officers, wrote that most of them "think of themselves as soldiers" and that “The CIA is set up like a military organization with a sacred chain of command. Somebody tells you what to do and you salute and do it.” [8]
Robin Ramsay remarks about Plame Wilson's autobiography, Fair Game that two things struck him: "the first is the absolute political innocence of even comparatively senior CIA officers like Plame Wilson – about the reality of US foreign policy she has no idea. The second was her comment that within the CIA most of the officers had their TVs tuned to Murdoch’s Fox channel – self-programming, their equivalent of praying five times a day to Mecca."[9] He believes the William Colby was not being ironic when he entitled his autobigraphy "Honorable Men", and explains "That's how that generation saw themselves - good men fighting a dirty but necessary war."[10]
Events carried out
| Event | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 Camarate air crash | Portugal Camarate Lisbon | A covert assassination of Adelino Amaro da Costa, to cover up the October surprise conspiracy. |
| 1993 World Trade Center bombing | New York US World Trade Center | A bomb attack on the World Trade Center which several authors have suggested was not a surprise to the FBI. A confidential CIA internal survey reportedly concluded that it was "partly culpable". |
| 2016 Turkish coup attempt | Turkey | |
| 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine/Premature death | Europe Russia France Spain US India Puerto Rico UK | Premature deaths of mostly Russian businessman during and around when the Russian invasion commenced. There may be Ukrainian and others as well. As the list grows, it appears the men are being targeted in dozens of western countries as well. |
| 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine/Preparation | A list of ways both sides prepared for the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine. | |
| Arms for Libya | Libya US | Around 20 tonnes of C-4 plastic explosive, training in bomb making, together with thousands of rifles, handguns & other weapons sold by a CIA operative to Muammar Gaddaffi's Libya in the late 1970s - early 1980s. Then "the biggest arms-dealing case in U.S. history", still lacking its own page on Wikipedia as of 2020. |
| Bolivia/1980 coup d'état | Bolivia | |
| CIA/Operations in Angola | Angola | |
| Chappaquiddick incident | Massachusetts Chappaquiddick Island | |
| Chile/1973 coup | Chile | A CIA military intelligence operation that overthrew of the democratically elected Salvador Allende. |
| Congress for Cultural Freedom/Founding Conference | Founded the Congress for Cultural Freedom. The participants had a "a culpable incuriosity about funding" of the luxurious conference, which was later exposed as CIA money. | |
| Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 | Bridgetown Barbados 8 km west of Seawell Airport | |
| Eventide Home fire | Jamaica | A suspicious fire. |
| Gladio 3.0 | Possible new version of Operation Gladio 2.0. | |
| Guatemala/1954 coup d'état | Guatemala | A coup organised by the CIA to protect the profit of United Fruit. |
| Iran/1953 coup d'état | Iran | The first of many large scale coups was carried out at the behest of big oil, by the CIA. The report of the inaugural Bilderberg next year termed this "firm Western action in Persia ... [that] had produced successful results." |
| Operation Crevice | London UK | A raid launched in the UK on the so-called "fertiliser bomb plotters". |
| Operation Demagnetize | "The institutional hardening of Gladio", an expansion of Gladio in the late 1940s, early 1950s. | |
| Operation Dormouse | ||
| Operation MIAS | Afghanistan | A CIA run "arms-reduction project which reportedly bough back Stinger missiles given to the Mujahideen to fight the USSR in Afghanistan |
| Operation Mockingbird | Operation Mockingbird is a CIA covert operation that began in the 1950s and is a continuing manipulation and control of the media by the CIA. | |
| Operation Mongoose | A long term effort to remove Fidel Castro from power in Cuba. | |
| Operation Washtub | Guatemala Nicaragua | |
| Operation Yellowbird | China Hong Kong | A UK/US operation to extract Chinese leadership of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. |
| Orlando Letelier/Assassination | Washington DC | |
| Project AERODYNAMIC | Ukraine | Program to provide funding and equipment for anti-Soviet resistance groups in Ukraine |
| Project ARTICHOKE | An investigation into interrogation methods using drugs and other methods: "Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature, such as self-preservation?" | |
| Project FUBELT | CIA operation aimed at creating a ‘coup-climate’ in which a coup would best take place | |
| Project MKCHICKWIT | An illegal mind control research programme. | |
| Project MKDELTA | A CIA mind control research project | |
| Project MKUltra | An illegal mind control research programme, where psychoactive drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, electroshocks, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, in addition to other forms of torture were used to gain control of individuals. | |
| Project Monarch | Experimentation research linked to and derived from MK-Ultra. | |
| The Sinking of the SS San Flaviano | British oil tanker sunk in 1958 by the CIA bombing under false flag. The purpose was make foreign companies like Shell suspend operations and in Indonesia, to weaken the Indonesian economy and destabilize the government. |
==An Office Holder on Wikispooks==
Documents by CIA
| Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:CIA Research Paper SW91-10076X - Intelligence Summary | Research paper | November 1991 | Arms-to-Iraq Gerald Bull Gerald Bull/Assassination | Transcription of the unredacted 'Intelligence Summary' (pages 22-26) of CIA Research paper SW91-10076X titled 'Project Babylon' which names two ex-SAS soldiers as having been contracted to eliminate Gerald Bull |
| Document:Countering Criticism of the Warren Report | memo | 19 July 1968 | "Conspiracy theory" "Conspiracy theorist" Warren Commission | An explanation of how the CIA added pejorative connotations to the phrase "conspiracy theory". The document instructs spooks in the use of "propaganda assets" in the commercially-controlled media to undercut any criticism of the JFK assassination official narrative, especially suggestions that Oswald may not have been the "lone nut" as the Warren Commission claimed. |
| File:CIA Research Paper SW91-100076X Redacted.pdf | Research paper | November 1991 | Arms-to-Iraq Gerald Bull Gerald Bull/Assassination | Redacted CIA Research paper SW91-10076X titled 'Project Babylon' as it appeared on the CIA web site in July 2012 |
| File:CIA Research Paper SW91-100076X summary.pdf | Research paper | November 1991 | Arms-to-Iraq Gerald Bull Gerald Bull/Assassination | Unredacted 'Intelligence Summary' (pages 22-26) of CIA Research paper SW91-10076X titled 'Project Babylon' and naming two ex-SAS soldiers as having been contracted to eliminate Gerald Bull |
| File:CIA Research Paper SW91-100076X un-redacted.pdf | Research paper | November 1991 | Arms-to-Iraq Gerald Bull Gerald Bull/Assassination | Unredacted CIA Research paper SW91-10076X titled 'Project Babylon:The Iraq Supergun' (pages 1-21) |
CIA victims on Wikispooks
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| José Alberto Albano do Amarante | Brazilian nuclear physicist and officer assassinated in 1981 by Mossad and CIA with radioactive poisoning. |
| Mehdi Ben Barka | |
| Manuel Buendía | |
| Iris Chang | Chinese-American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. Suspicious "suicide". |
| Jorge Eliécer Gaitán | Colombian presidential candidate assassinated by the CIA in 1948 |
| Phil Ochs | The most political singer/songwriter against the war in Vietnam. Survived strangulation attack by "robber" that may have been CIA operation. |
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | “A majority of U.S. intelligence agencies has so far concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic mostly likely started when SARS-CoV-2 jumped from an infected animal host into people; a wildlife market in Wuhan, China, has received intense attention from researchers as the potential source. But the Department of Energy and FBI so far have favored the so-called lab-leak hypothesis, even though none of the agencies has expressed high confidence in their conclusions on COVID-19’s origin. CIA, for example, had reportedly said it was “unable to determine” whether SARS-CoV-2 made a direct jump from animals to humans—or came from a lab. Now, Representative Brad Wenstrup (R–OH), who chairs the House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, says his panel and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have heard testimony from a whistleblower “who presents as a highly credible senior-level CIA officer.” According to the press release, the whistleblower testified that only the most senior analyst of a seven-member CIA team investigating the origin of COVID-19 supported the zoonotic transmission theory. The whistleblower alleged the other six team members supporting the lab origin then received “a significant monetary incentive to change their position,” wrote Wenstrup and Representative Mike Turner (R–OH), who chairs the intelligence panel.” | Jon Cohen | September 2023 |
| Philip Agee | “[CIA] operations help sustain favorable operating conditions for U.S.-based multi-national corporations. These conditions, together with political hegemony, were our real goals. So-called liberal democracy and pluralism were only means to those ends. "Free elections" really meant freedom for our candidates. "Free trade unions" meant freedom for us to establish our unions. "Freedom of the press" mean freedom for us to pay journalists to publish our material as if it were the journalists' own. When an elected government threatened U.S. economic and political interests, it had to go. Social and economic justice were fine concepts for public relations, but only for that.” | Philip Agee | 1987 |
| Philip Agee | “Reforms of the FBI and the CIA, even removal of the President from office, cannot remove the problem. American capitalism, based as it is on exploitation of the poor, with its fundamental motivation in personal greed, simply cannot survive without force – without a secret police force. The argument is with capitalism and it is capitalism that must be opposed, with its CIA, FBI and other security agencies understood as logical, necessary manifestations of a ruling class’s determination to retain power and privilege.” | Philip Agee | 1975 |
| Australia/1975 coup d'état | “There were a number of points of tension between Whitlam's government and the United States intelligence apparatus. Whitlam had close ties with the United States, in 1964 receiving a "Leader" travel grant from the U.S. Department of State to spend three months studying under U.S. government and military officials.
After coming to power, Whitlam quickly removed the last Australian troops from Vietnam. Whitlam government ministers criticised the US bombing of North Vietnam at the end of 1972. The US complained diplomatically about the criticism. In March 1973, US secretary of State William Rogers told Richard Nixon that "the leftists [within the Labor Party would] try to throw overboard all military alliances and eject our highly classified US defence space installations from Australia". In 1973, Whitlam ordered the Australian security organisation ASIS to close its operation in Chile, where it was working as a proxy for the CIA in opposition to Chile's president Salvador Allende. Whitlam's Attorney-General Lionel Murphy used the Australian Federal Police to conduct a raid on the headquarters of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) in March 1973. CIA Chief of Counter-Intelligence, James Angleton, later said Murphy had "barged in and tried to destroy the delicate mechanism of internal security". Australian journalist Brian Toohey said that Angleton considered then Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam a "serious threat" to the US and was concerned after the 1973 raid on ASIO headquarters. In 1974, Angleton sought to instigate the removal of Whitlam from office by having CIA station chief in Canberra, John Walker, ask the director general of ASIO, Peter Barbour, to make a false declaration that Whitlam had lied about the raid in Parliament. Barbour refused to make the statement. In 1974, Whitlam ordered the head of ASIO, Peter Barbour, to sever all ties with the CIA. Barbour ignored Whitlam's order and contact between Australian and US security agencies was driven underground. Whitlam later established a royal commission into intelligence and security. Jim Cairns became Deputy Prime Minister after the 1974 election. He was viewed by US secretary of state Henry Kissinger and defence secretary James Schlesinger as "a radical with strong anti-American and pro-Chinese sympathies". The US administration was concerned that he would have access to classified United States intelligence. Whitlam instantly dismissed ASIS chief WT Robinson in 1975 after discovering ASIS had assisted the Timorese Democratic Union in an attempted coup against the Portuguese administration in Timor, without informing Whitlam's government. Whitlam threatened to reveal the identities of CIA agents working in Australia. He also threatened not to renew the lease of the US spy base at Pine Gap, which was due to expire on 10 December 1975. The US was also concerned about Whitlam's intentions towards its spy base at Nurrungar.” | Wikipedia | 2022 |
| Black helicopter | “More than seven years ago a group of Americans traveled to Siberia to buy a pair of Russian Mi-17 helicopters for the CIA's post-9/11 clandestine operations in Afghanistan. As with many "black" programs, the contract had elements of craziness: Contracting officials paid the multimillion-dollar contract on a credit card at a local El Paso bar and then used the credit card rebate to redecorate their office; the team traveled under the guise of being private contractors; and the charter crew transporting the group abandoned the team in Russia in the middle of the night.
Ultimately, a five-year investigation into the mission led to the conviction of the Army official in charge and the contractor who bought the helicopters on charges of corruption. The two men, currently in federal prison, are appealing their convictions. At first glance, it's a simple case: A few days after returning from Russia, the contractor paid off the second mortgage of the Army official in charge of the mission. Prosecutors argued that the contractor, Maverick Aviation, was unprepared for the mission, and the Army official helped cover up the problems in exchange for a payoff. The defendants at trial were barred from mentioning the CIA, Afghanistan or even 9/11. In an article for The New York Post, this author looks at what really happened in Siberia based on over two dozen interviews with people involved in the mission and trial. It's a story, that in some respects, is very different than the portrait painted by the government at trial. One interesting comparison not mentioned in the article is worth noting in light of recent purchases of Russian helicopters: In 2001, Maverick Aviation was paid $5 million for two freshly overhauled Mi-17s and spare parts, as well as travel and logistics for team of Army/CIA personnel, and got the helicopters out of Russia in under 30 days. In 2008, ARINC, a major U.S. defense contractor, was paid $322 million dollars to buy 22 Russian helicopters under a U.S. foreign military sales contract. Guess how many helicopters ARINC has delivered to Iraq after 18 months? Zero.” | Wired Sharon Weinberger | 2009 |
| Black site | “The US does not torture. I have not authorized it and I will not” | George W. Bush | 2005 |
| Boeing | “Clearly Boeing and certain agencies have the capacity to take over ‘uninterruptible control’ of commercial airliners of which MH370 B777 is one. Someone is hiding something, it is not fair that… Malaysia should take the blame. For some reason, the media will not print anything that involves Boeing or the CIA"” | Mahathir Mohamad | 2014 |
| Klaas Bruinsma | “Who is to say that Abbas, Bruinsma and "the Hakkelaar" weren't used as pawns in a game much larger than they were, much as Mink Kok seems to have been used time and again? They are allowed to flourish a little bit, receive a little protection, a little legal aid, and when their time is up some rival gang takes them out and that one gets the protection when necessary. It's entirely possible. But where would the manipulation of these mafia groups come from? Most likely CIA Gladio/"stay behind" networks, which, during the Cold War, revolved around Prince Bernhard and individuals as Bib van Lanschot and Cees van den Heuvel.” | Joël van der Reijden ISGP Klaas Bruinsma | 2014 |
| COVID-19/Origins | “A majority of U.S. intelligence agencies has so far concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic mostly likely started when SARS-CoV-2 jumped from an infected animal host into people; a wildlife market in Wuhan, China, has received intense attention from researchers as the potential source. But the Department of Energy and FBI so far have favored the so-called lab-leak hypothesis, even though none of the agencies has expressed high confidence in their conclusions on COVID-19’s origin. CIA, for example, had reportedly said it was “unable to determine” whether SARS-CoV-2 made a direct jump from animals to humans—or came from a lab. Now, Representative Brad Wenstrup (R–OH), who chairs the House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, says his panel and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have heard testimony from a whistleblower “who presents as a highly credible senior-level CIA officer.” According to the press release, the whistleblower testified that only the most senior analyst of a seven-member CIA team investigating the origin of COVID-19 supported the zoonotic transmission theory. The whistleblower alleged the other six team members supporting the lab origin then received “a significant monetary incentive to change their position,” wrote Wenstrup and Representative Mike Turner (R–OH), who chairs the intelligence panel.” | Jon Cohen | September 2023 |
| George Carlin | “Smug, greedy, well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins. It's as simple as that. The CIA doesn't kill anybody anymore, they neutralize people, or they depopulate the area. The government doesn't lie, it engages in disinformation. The Pentagon actually measures nuclear radiation in something they call sunshine units. Israeli murderers are called commandos, Arab commandos are called terrorists. Contra killers are called freedom fighters. Well, if crime fighters fight crime, and firefighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters fight?” | George Carlin | |
| Jimmy Carter | “I became more aware of what our intelligence services were doing. There was only one instance that I'll talk about now. We had a plane go down in the Central African Republic—a twinengine plane, small plane. And we couldn't find it. And so we oriented satellites that were going around the earth every ninety minutes to fly over that spot where we thought it might be and take photographs. We couldn't find it. So the director of the CIA came and told me that he had contacted a woman in California that claimed to have supernatural capabilities. And she went in a trance, and she wrote down latitudes and longitudes, and we sent our satellite over that latitude and longitude, and there was the plane.” | Jimmy Carter GQ | 2005 |
| Jimmy Carter | “"Yes the incident of Jimmy Carter crying after being briefed about classified information regarding UFO's is largely believed to be true by the serious researchers on the subject. As a forewarning, the following information is very unsettling and will explain why Cater never "kept his promise" of revealing classified UFO information to the public.
According to the story that was corroborated by more than once witness, U.S. presidents are only given a cursory overview of the subject. Apparently, the CIA runs the program, only provide information to the President on a need to know basis, and do no consider presidential curiosity as sufficient need to know. This was implemented after Kennedy, and all presidents after him have been given only summary briefings (some presidents for unknown reasons were given more than others). Okay onto your question, President Carter is a deeply religious man who had also witnessed a UFO with 6 other people. Everyone thought that he would be the one to finally release UFO info to the public but as the story goes, he was repeatedly stonewalled. Eventually, the CIA had "the talk" with him, and afterward it was reported that he sunk his head in his hands and not only began to deeply sob, but was visibly disturbed for some weeks afterward. What was he told and shown? He was told that major religions including Christianity were programs created by extraterrestrials to prevent us from destroying ourselves while they ran their experiments on us -- and that they made us. At this moment is became clear to Carter that such information could cause tremendous economic and social upheaval. I should add that I am not only a Christian, but a clergyman, so I am in no way attempting to promote atheism here. In fact, how God fits into this might be an interesting separate post. Nevertheless, these are the facts as I know them to be."” | Jimmy Carter Ed Harris | 2021 |
| Charles Cogan | “In Afghanistan, the CIA had “funded the worst fellows right from the start, long before the Iranian revolution and long before the Soviet invasion.”” | Charles Cogan | |
| Cryptome | “Cryptome raises serious questions that nobody else on the left or in the media want to talk about, including how Omidar has created a business from Snowden's cache; what exactly Snowden may have been doing while he was working for the CIA prior to his time at NSA (and what else he may have been doing at NSA itself); and why Snowden and The Intercept continue to proselytize for Tor, the anonymization tool, despite its massive funding from the U.S. government, the Pentagon and the national security state.” | Tim Shorrock | February 2016 |
| Document:Is Martin McGuinness a British Agent? | “Indeed, in 1991 journalist Richard Norton-Taylor revealed the existence of a list of something like 500 prominent Britons, including around 90 in the media, who were in the employ of the CIA, and paid through the old friend of the intelligence services, the BCCI.” | 5 May 2004 | |
| Eyewash | “Federal law makes it a criminal offense when a government employee “conceals, covers up, falsifies or makes a false entry” in an official record. Legal experts said they knew of no special exemption for the CIA, nor any attempt to prosecute agency officials for alleged violations. The CIA declined to comment.” | 31 January 2016 | |
| John Gaddis | “Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.” | John Gaddis | |
| Interpen | “Interpen (Intercontinental Penetration Force) was established in 1961 by Gerry P. Hemming. Other members included Loran Hall, Roy Hargraves, William Seymour, Lawrence Howard, Steve Wilson, Howard K. Davis, Edwin Collins, James Arthur Lewis, Dennis Harber, Bill Dempsey, Dick Whatley, Ramigo Arce, Ronald Augustinovich, Joe Garman, Edmund Kolby, Ralph Schlafter, Manuel Aguilar and Oscar Del Pinto. A recently declassified document says that in 1962, Robert Emmett Johnson was a member of Interpen. Later that year Johnson invited Robert K. Brown (USAR/CounterIntelligence Corps) to a meeting in Miami. Brown was the publisher of Alberto Bayo's 100 Questions for a Guerrilla. This book included an article written by Ulius Amoss called Leaderless Resistance which "referred to the proper strategy for conducting resistance operations against Castro and inside/outside of Cuba". The document also goes onto say: "Also included were numerous fotos of the G/W instructor cadre of InterPen which were taken by Brown at the Everglades training camp." Interpen was also involved in training members of the anti-Castro groups funded by people like Roland Masferrer, Carlos Prio and Santos Trafficante. When the government began to crack down on raids from Florida in 1962, Interpen set up a new training camp in New Orleans. The group carried out a series of raids on Cuba in an attempt to undermine the government of Fidel Castro. These stories were reported by the photo-journalist, Tom Dunkin, for Life Magazine. Roy Hargraves working closely with Felipe Vidal Santiago, carried out a series of raids on Cuba in the 1960s (23 in 1962). This involved a plan to create a war by simulating an attack on Guantanamo Naval Base. In 1963 Hargraves led a team of exiles in a successful raid on Cuba. After capturing two Cuban fishing boats Hargraves took them to the Bahamas. Some members such as William Seymour and Edwin Collins, worked with Bernardo De Torres on non-Interpen operations in 1963. Declassified FBI files show that the agency had an informer within Interpen. His code name was MM T-1. In one document dated 16th June, 1961, it said that MM T-1 had “been connected with Cuban revolutionary activities for the past three years”. One document dated 12th May, 1961, claims that Allen Lushane of Miami “had made a trip to Texas to recruit Americans for some future military action against the Government of Cuba”. The document adds that the “first training camp was established by Gerald Patrick Hemming with Dick Watley and Ed Colby running the camp.” In an interview that he gave to John M. Newman on 6th January, 1995, Hemming claims that the FBI informer was Steve Wilson. Some researchers believe that a combination of Interpen members, CIA agents and anti-Castro Cubans were involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. This included James Arthur Lewis, Roy Hargraves, Edwin Collins, Steve Wilson, Gerry P. Hemming, David Morales, Herminio Diaz Garcia, Tony Cuesta, Eugenio Martinez, Virgilio Gonzalez, Felipe Vidal Santiago, Robert Emmett Johnson, Carl E. Jenkins, Chi Chi Quintero and William Robertson.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>” | John Simkin | 20 May 2015 |
| Iran | “Two years after Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh nationalized Iran’s oil industry that had been controlled by the company now known as British Petroleum a coup happened in Iran. “If nationalisation in Iran of oil was successful, this would set a terrible example to other countries where U.S. oil interests were present,” explains Ervand Abrahamian, Iranian historian and author of Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d’Etat and The Coup: 1953, The CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations. While the CIA has historically taken credit for Mosaddegh’s overthrow, “the British have not admitted their leading role,” notes Iranian filmmaker Taghi Amirani, whose documentary film Coup 53 uncovers the influence of MI6 agents who sought to preserve their imperial-era access to Iranian oil and pulled in the Americans by promising a “slice.” Seventy years later, says Amirani, “We are still living with the ripples of this disastrous event” | Democracy Now! | 2023 |
| Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 | “This report makes no attempt or claim to prove that the large low flying jet plane seen over Kudahuvadhoo that fateful early morning was MH 370. It merely sets the record straight that the jet plane that overflew Kudahuvadhoo has not yet been identified. The Maldives government first claimed there was "no plane", then the plane was a "private jet", then fifteen months later a "domestic propeller plane flight", then back to "no plane", then finally to say it cannot be discussed due to "national security".” | Blaine Gibson | 2016 |
| Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 | “Clearly Boeing and certain agencies have the capacity to take over ‘uninterruptible control’ of commercial airliners of which MH370 B777 is one. Someone is hiding something, it is not fair that… Malaysia should take the blame. For some reason, the media will not print anything that involves Boeing or the CIA"” | Mahathir Mohamad | 2014 |
| Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 | “My own view is that probably control was taken of that aeroplane, the events that happened during the course of its tracked flight will be anybody's guess of who did what and when. I think we need to know who was on this aeroplane in the detail that obviously some people do know, we need to know what was in the hold of the aeroplane, in the detail we need to know, in a transparent manner.” | Tim Clark | November 2014 |
| Malaysia Airlines Flight 370/Blaine Alan Gibson's research | “This report makes no attempt or claim to prove that the large low flying jet plane seen over Kudahuvadhoo that fateful early morning was MH 370. It merely sets the record straight that the jet plane that overflew Kudahuvadhoo has not yet been identified. The Maldives government first claimed there was "no plane", then the plane was a "private jet", then fifteen months later a "domestic propeller plane flight", then back to "no plane", then finally to say it cannot be discussed due to "national security".” | Blaine Gibson | 2016 |
| Ralph McGehee | “The CIA is not now nor has it ever been a central intelligence agency. It is the covert action arm of the President's foreign policy advisers. In that capacity it overthrows or supports foreign governments while reporting "intelligence" justifying those activities. It shapes its intelligence, even in such critical areas as Soviet nuclear weapon capability, to support presidential policy. Disinformation is a large part of its covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target audience of its lies.” | Ralph McGehee | 1983 |
| Craig Murray | “The naive view of the world as “goodies” and “baddies”, with our own ruling class as the good guys, is for the birds. I witnessed personally in Uzbekistan the willingness of the UK and US security services to accept and validate intelligence they knew to be false in order to pursue their policy objectives.” | Craig Murray | 13 March 2018 |
| Operation Mockingbird | “there is quite an incredible spread of relationships. You don't need to manipulate Time Magazine, for example, because there are [Central Intelligence] Agency people at the management level.” | Carl Bernstein | |
| Panama Papers | “The CIA I'm sure is behind this, in my opinion... there’s something seriously sinister here behind this [the Panama Papers].” | Brad Birkenfeld | 12 April 2016 |
| Plausible deniability | “Everyone is trying to create a disjuncture between the initial order and the operation” | Scott Noble | 7 July 2014 |
| Plausible deniability | “The CIA doesn’t do anything it can’t deny. Tom Donohue, a retired senior CIA officer, told me about this.” | Douglas Valentine | 9 September 2017 |
| Mike Pompeo | “I was a cadet, what's the cadet motto at West Point? You will not lie, cheat or steal or tolerate those who do. I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment.” | Mike Pompeo | April 2019 |
| Psychic | “I became more aware of what our intelligence services were doing. There was only one instance that I'll talk about now. We had a plane go down in the Central African Republic—a twinengine plane, small plane. And we couldn't find it. And so we oriented satellites that were going around the earth every ninety minutes to fly over that spot where we thought it might be and take photographs. We couldn't find it. So the director of the CIA came and told me that he had contacted a woman in California that claimed to have supernatural capabilities. And she went in a trance, and she wrote down latitudes and longitudes, and we sent our satellite over that latitude and longitude, and there was the plane.” | Jimmy Carter GQ | 2005 |
| Vladimir Putin | “95% of the world’s terrorist attacks are orchestrated by the CIA.” | Vladimir Putin | 2017 |
| Vladimir Putin | “Western countries have been saying for centuries that they bring freedom and democracy to other nations. Nothing could be further from the truth. Instead of bringing democracy they suppressed and exploited, and instead of giving freedom they enslaved and oppressed. The unipolar world is inherently anti-democratic and unfree; it is false and hypocritical through and through.
The United States is the only country in the world that has used nuclear weapons twice, destroying the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. And they created a precedent. Recall that during WWII the United States and Britain reduced Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne and many other German cities to rubble, without the least military necessity. It was done ostentatiously and, to repeat, without any military necessity. They had only one goal, as with the nuclear bombing of Japanese cities: to intimidate our country and the rest of the world. The United States left a deep scar in the memory of the people of Korea and Vietnam with their carpet bombings and use of napalm and chemical weapons. It actually continues to occupy Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea and other countries, which they cynically refer to as equals and allies. Look now, what kind of alliance is that? The whole world knows that the top officials in these countries are being spied on and that their offices and homes are bugged. It is a disgrace, a disgrace for those who do this and for those who, like slaves, silently and meekly swallow this arrogant behaviour. They call the orders and threats they make to their vassals Euro-Atlantic solidarity, and the creation of biological weapons and the use of human test subjects, including in Ukraine, noble medical research. It is their destructive policies, wars and plunder that have unleashed today’s massive wave of migrants. Millions of people endure hardships and humiliation or die by the thousands trying to reach Europe.” | Vladimir Putin | 2022 |
| Gloria Steinem | “The CIA's big mistake was not supplanting itself with private funds fast enough” | Gloria Steinem | 1967 |
| Time Magazine | “You don't need to manipulate Time magazine, for example, because there are [Central Intelligence] Agency people at the management level” | William Bader | 1976 |
| Harry S. Truman | “For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the government.... I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations.” | Harry S. Truman | |
| Donald Trump | “Break with tradition, or so it seems. Vilified by the entire Rockefeller and liberal media establishment, but strong evidence he himself is "conservative CIA". Brought to power by "conservative CIA" CNP financiers/members as the Mercers, Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway. Trump himself has many long-standing, curious security state and establishment ties, among them: in December 2000 Trump was part of a 94-guest dinner organized by Bilderberg steering committee-, Pilgrims Society-, and 1001 Club-member Conrad Black, where Trump was seen chatting with Henry Kissinger at a table. Happy Rockefeller, the widow of Nelson Rockefeller; Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Richard Perle, Vernon Jordan and later exposed serial pedophiles Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell all were part of this dinner.” | Joël van der Reijden ISGP Donald Trump | 2020 |
| Underwear bombing | “Well, what I saw specifically was the two men go to the ticket agent counter together. Only the Indian man spoke and what the Indian man said was this man needs to board the plane and he doesn't have a passport. And the ticket agent then responded, well, you need a passport to board the plane. And the Indian man said, well, he's from Sudan and we do this all the time.” | ||
| Whitney Webb | “Bitcoiners should pay close attention to these developments as the DOJ in particular has attempted to paint bitcoin as the payment of choice for well-known terror groups like ISIS and al-Qaida, signaling that the working group proposed by this bill will likely seek to specifically target bitcoin. Adding to this concern is the fact that a slew of recent mainstream media reports — which cite Treasury and FinCEN officials, DOJ officials and CIA analysts — have claimed specifically that “terrorists are turning to bitcoin, and they’re learning fast”, that bitcoin is the “new frontier in terror financing”, and that “bitcoin is helping terrorists secretly fund their deadly attacks”. Even the prominent military think tank RAND Corporation has argued that “bitcoin and the dark web” are the newest terrorist threat.” | Whitney Webb | September 2023 |
| Wikipedia | “We do have evidence that the CIA, even as early as 2008, that the CIA and FBI computers were used to edit Wikipedia,” | Larry Sanger | 1 August 2023 |
Employees on Wikispooks
Events Planned
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine | 24 February 2022 | Europe Russia Ukraine Moscow Kiev Black Sea Donbas | In a new episode of Cold War 2.0 Russia forcefully halted NATO expansion by invading Ukraine, with financial support of China. Although the EU and US denounced the "war crimes" as multiple cities were bombed, several countries opted less severe sanctions to keep importing diamonds and luxury goods and gas (and their loaned money) from Russia, seemingly creating a new iron curtain in Eastern Europe. | |
| Australia/1975 coup d'état | 15 October 1975 | 11 November 1975 | Australia Canberra | A UK/US deep state-backed covert "constitutional coup" to remove Gough Whitlam whom they saw as a loose cannon. |
| Operation Midnight Climax | 1953 | 1966 | New York Semantic Objects San Francisco Marin | A "free-wheeling illicit criminal" CIA project which filmed the effects of prostitutes dosing up victims with drugs such as LSD. |
| Project MKNAOMI | MKDELTA focused on including biological warfare agents to store and diffuse materials that could either incapacitate or kill a test subject. | |||
| Thomas Merton/Assassination | 10 December 1968 | 10 December 1968 | Thailand Bangkok |
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s Afghan war | 24 December 1979 | 15 February 1989 | Afghanistan | Another episode of the Soviet Union and US imploding a third world country from inside by fuelling a civil war with weapon smuggling. Afghanistan has yet to recover. |
| Operation Cyclone | 1979 | 1992 | Afghanistan | The first time the CIA officially met Osama Bin Laden, they deemed him part of the hero movement to protect the world against Soviet influence. In Operation Cyclone, the CIA funded him and allowed entire cities to become death traps with the narrative of giving Soviets their own Vietnam. |
| Operation Rosewood | One of the greatest coups of Cold War espionage: the CIA secreting away in 1989 of the complete original files from East Germany's foreign spy operations, including the true identities of its thousands of agents, most in West Germany and other NATO countries. |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Cuba 1959 to 1980's | book extract | 2003 | William Blum | |
| Document:A Brief History of the CIA’s Dirty War in South Sudan | Article | 31 July 2019 | Ryan Dawson | The CIA are now almost completely out of the picture in South Sudan though one should never underestimate the Agency’s capacity for evil. It's in the US national interest to deny China access to African oil so it will always continue to be US vs China in South Sudan, as part of Pax Americana’s designs for Africa as a whole. |
| Document:Abolish Terrorist Agencies | essay | 29 July 2019 | David Swanson | Swanson characterises Annie Jacobsen's Surprise Kill Vanish as an apology for intelligence agencies. He deconstructs their the official narratives of defending "democracy", claiming that they have "decades of engaging in and provoking terrorism". Citing blowback from their operations as major factors in the growth of the MICC and its climate paranoia and permanent war, he calls for an end to the intelligence agencies. |
| Document:CIA Killings Spell Defeat In Afghanistan | article | 8 January 2010 | Douglas Valentine | |
| Document:CIA Planned Coup | article | 2 September 1963 | Ngo Dinh Nhu | |
| Document:CIA wanted to kill Lockerbie bomber before trial | article | 5 July 2013 | Gareth Rose Bob Smyth | A report of William Chasey's allegation (after being diagnosed with incurable cancer) that CIA agents tried to convince him to plant homing devices on Megrahi and Fhimah as part of the plot to assassinate them before the Lockerbie trial. |
| Document:CIA-MI6 Intel Ops and Sabotage | article | 7 February 2012 | Felicity Arbuthnot | In 1957, joint plans by the CIA and MI6 to destabilize Syria by means of staged border incidents and special forces assassinations of key political figures were approved by UK PM Harold Macmillan and US President Eisenhower. |
| Document:Counter-Intelligence: Spying Deters Democracy | interview | 7 July 2014 | Scott Noble Kim Petersen | |
| Document:Covert Action in Chile, 1963-73 | report | 1976 | Church Committee | A Church committee report of the hearings before them to study governmental operations with respect to intelligence activities of the United States Senate. A very thorough, but lengthy, investigation into CIA activity in Chile. Includes numerous instances of media manipulation and propaganda in the millions of dollars. |
| Document:Did SA spies bomb UN boss’ plane? | Article | 17 August 2015 | De Wet Potgieter | Susan Williams writes that in this set of documents – headed ‘Top Secret’ and ‘Your Eyes Only’ – Allen Dulles, the then director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, had promised full cooperation with Operation Celeste, which had also been agreed with British intelligence agency MI6. |
| Document:Ecuador 1960 to 1963 | book extract | 2003 | William Blum | |
| Document:Ed Wilson's Revenge | report | January 2000 | Michael Ruppert | An example of how plausible deniability worked for the CIA - their 3rd most senior CIA official produces an affidavit that they had had no dealings with Edwin Wilson since 1971. Although legions of insiders knew this was a lie, the court accepted it. Finally exposed as a lie almost 20 years later, all those who lied in court are given immunity. |
| Document:False Flags for Israel | webpage | 11 September 2012 | Deanna Spingola | An overview of Israel's long history of False Flag attacks. |
| Document:Fifty Years of the Deep State | book | 22 November 2013 | Mark Gorton | A detailed overview of the modern US deep state which names names, the most prominent of which, George H. W. Bush, is exposed as the kingpin of the US Deep state and probable a key mover behind the 9/11 plot. |
| Document:George Bush and the CIA In the Company of Friends | article | 1992 | Anthony Kimery | An overview of Bush's CIA work and related business activity. |
| Document:Guatemala 1962 to 1980's | book extract | 2003 | William Blum | |
| Document:How CIA Money Took the Teeth Out of Socialism | book extract | May 1988 | Richard Fletcher (Author) | |
| Document:Is Oil Behind Washington’s Venezuela Coup Madness | Article | 3 February 2019 | William Engdahl | Leaving aside whether or not Maduro is a saint, the decision by President Trump to back the Bolton-Pence call for a US intervention in Venezuela may prove a fatal error for the Trump presidency. |
| Document:Julian Assange Tortured with Psychotropic Drug | Article | 8 May 2019 | Kurt Nimmo | The FBI, Pentagon, and CIA are “interviewing” Julian Assange in Belmarsh Prison. The CIA Director Gina Haspel (aka Chemical Gina) has her hands in this one, and we are being told that Assange is being “treated” with BZ (a powerful drug that produces hallucinations). |
| Document:Limit CIA Role To Intelligence | letter | 22 December 1963 | Harry S. Truman | A letter just after the assassination of JFK which was published once and then vanished down the memory hole. |
| Document:Masters of Persuasion | article | 2005 | David Guyatt | |
| Document:Operation Two-Fold | article | 25 January 2008 | Douglas Valentine | |
| Document:Reflection on the Role of the U.S. Vice Presidency | Article | 25 September 2024 | Ludwig De Braeckeleer | On 12 April 1945, Vice President Truman was preparing to have a drink in House Speaker Sam Rayburn’s office when he received an urgent message to go immediately to the White House, where Eleanor Roosevelt told him that her husband had died after a massive cerebral hemorrhage. Suddenly, the ‘piano player’ was responsible for overseeing the final phase of World War II and shaping the postwar global order: Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, and the UN. |
| Document:The CIA and Mountbatten | article | Stephen Dorril | ||
| Document:The CIA plot to kidnap or kill Julian Assange in London is a story that is being mistakenly ignored | Article | 1 October 2021 | Patrick Cockburn | Julian Assange and Jamal Khashoggi were targeted because they fulfilled the primary duty of journalists – telling the public what governments want to keep secret |
| Document:The Hammarskjöld Commission – Witness Statement of Lisa Pease | Statement | 9 December 2012 | Lisa Pease | Bud Culligan claims that he intercepted and shot down Hammarskjöld’s plane on orders from his CIA case officer. From my own study of the Hammarskjöld case, I believed then and continue to believe, especially in the light of the new evidence reported by Susan Williams in her excellent volume "Who Killed Hammarskjöld?", that the best evidence indicates Hammarskjöld’s plane was indeed shot out of the sky. |
| Document:The Octopus | article | 1999 | David Guyatt | An introduction to the involvement of senior US politicians, bureaucrats and the CIA in globalised criminal activities, the investigation of which cost investigative reported Danny Casolaro his life |
| Document:The Rise of the National Security State | article | 21 February 2012 | Mark Gaffney | |
| Document:The Shadow Factory | Book | 2008 | James Bamford | The workings and scope of the US Military-Intelligence complex focussing particularly on the NSA. Introduction. |
| Document:The Taking Of America, 1-2-3 | book | 1985 | Richard E. Sprague | An authoritative description of the JFK assassination and succeeding crimes from the photographic expert advisor to Jim Garrison. |
| Document:Their Will Be Done | article | 1 August 1983 | Martin A Lee | How the CIA targets powerful hierarchies for infiltration and influence. The Roman Catholic Church's claim to be the one and only authentic 'Church of Christ on Earth' does not exempt them from exploitation by deep politicians. This article powerfully demonstrates both the Catholic Church's power and its susceptibility to the machinations of Mammon. As they say in South America, "When the CIA goes to church, it doesn't go to pray." |
| Document:Torture, Assassination and the American Way of Life | commentary | 17 February 2012 | Jacob G. Hornberger | |
| Document:UN to Probe Whether Iconic Secretary-General Was Assassinated | Article | 1 August 2016 | Colum Lynch | Susan Williams, who has studied SAIMR’s activities for years, said it would be a mistake to dismiss the papers’ authenticity out of hand. “I certainly would not discount the documents, which is why I went to so much trouble to find them,” she said. “Some of them may be what they are purported to be and some of them may not be what they are purported to be.” |
| Document:Uruguay 1964 to 1970 | book extract | 2003 | William Blum | |
| Document:Whitehall Farce | book review | 12 October 1989 | Paul Foot | James Rusbridger: "Secrecy turns otherwise rational people into fascistic nutters; secrecy allows untold billions of pounds and endless energies to be wasted in unnecessary intelligence; secrecy pollutes the political process, muzzles what is left of the independent press and makes a mockery of Parliament and elections." |
| Document:Why the military-industrial complex went woke | Article | 5 March 2021 | Paddy Hannam | What is the Military industrial complex doing? They are engaged in a woke propaganda campaign as part of a rebranding of the war industry for the new generation. |
| Document:Wikileaks and the Mighty Wurlitzer | article | 7 August 2010 | Zahir Ebrahim | An in-depth discussion of how dissident organisations are co-opted and or otherwise used, abused, controlled or discredited and destroyed by the secret information services. |
| Document:Wirt Walker, Russell and Co, CIA, and 911 | article | 3 September 2010 | Kevin Ryan | |
| File:CIA Shannon Report 9 2 09.pdf | report | 9 February 2008 | Edward Horgan | |
| File:Gestapo-Chief - The CIA & Heinrich Muller (1998).pdf | book | 1998 | Gregory Douglas | |
| File:The CIA in Western Europe and the Abuse of Human Rights.pdf | paper | October 2006 | Daniele Ganser | A paper addressing assertions from the US State Department that US Field Manual FM30-31B was a Soviet forgery. |
| File:The Secret Team.pdf | book | 1973 | Fletcher Prouty | An unauthorised history of the CIA from its origins to the Kennedy assassination. Prouty suggested that the assassination was a coup d'état to stop the President from taking control of the CIA after the Bay of Pigs disaster. He also points out that the movement of Kennedy after a bullet struck his head was consistent with a shot from the grassy knoll. He also drew attention to the suspicious actions of the "Umbrella Man". |
| File:Wikithreat.pdf | Wikispooks Page | 15 March 2010 | ||
| Document:Indonesia 1957-58 | book extract | 2003 | William Blum | |
| On Company Business | Film | 1980 | Allan Francovich |
References
- ↑ a b Document:Fifty Years of the Deep State by Mark Gorton
- ↑ The Origins of the Overclass, by Steve Kangas, http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-overclass.html
- ↑ Document:The State, the Deep State, and the Wall Street Overworld
- ↑ http://unwelcomeguests.net/697
- ↑ From Director of Central Intelligence to Director of National Intelligence, National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 144, edited by Jeffrey T. Richelson, December 17, 2004, accessed 27 February 2008.
- ↑ http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/23
- ↑ http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/095
- ↑ https://www.sott.net/article/338651-How-I-Came-to-Understand-the-CIA Sott.net
- ↑ Lobster Magazine, Issue #62, Robin Ramsay
- ↑ Document:Our Secret Servants - The Shayler Affair
