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Official Narrative
For reasons of "national security", nation states need "intelligence services" to gather secrets from other countries (or from indiviudals or groups inside their own host nation) while preventing other intelligence agencies from discovering such secrets. Members of these groups must not be publicly indentified as such and they should not constrained by laws that apply to other people. Since governments oversee their activies, the general public should does not need to have such oversight. As US President Barack Obama asserted in 2014: "Our intelligence professionals are patriots, and we are safer because of their heroic service and sacrifices."[1]
Problems
The justification for national intelligence agencies has a somewhat circular logic to it. In the climate of fear and suspicion generated by the cold war and the secrecy surrounding terrifying new weapons such as the nuclear bomb, the public were fairly easily persuaded need for the "services" they claim to provide. The 21st century "war on terror" is however failing to galvanise people in quite the same way. Whilst intelligence agencies have a long history of carrying out false flag attacks, awareness of this fact in the 20th century was limited. The widespread understanding of 9/11 as a plan devised by deep state insiders has perpetrated increasing questions to be asked about intelligence agencies. Many people are now asking what justification there can be for organisations that claim the right to break laws, and carry out murder, torture or mass surveillance amidst an "ends justifies the means" culture. In practice, many, perhaps most, intelligence agencies lack effective oversight, leading to concerns about their unaccountability and the seemingly ever increasing secrecy surrounding their operations.
Deep state control
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The culture of secrecy, the large, often undisclosed, budgets of intelligence agencies, together with their freedom to operate outside the restrictions of national laws makes them ideal for carrying out deep events such as assassinations or false flag terror attacks. This has made them a core component of deep states, with probably no more than a token loyalty to the "national interest".
Activities
The "intelligence" (i.e. information gathering, nowadays in large part by mass surveillance) is one part of the activities of intelligence agencies. Another major strand is covert operations, including assassination, drug trafficking (most notably by the CIA) and associated money laundering, cyberterrorism (probably most notably by the NSA and the Mossad) and a spectrum of clandestine regime change" efforts.
Intelligence agencies on Wikispooks
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Examples
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Counter-Intelligence: Spying Deters Democracy | interview | 7 July 2014 | Kim Petersen Scott Noble | |
| It’s Identity, Stupid | article | 1 March 2013 | Richard Thieme | Insights into the real, counter-intuitive purposes and functioning of intelligence and security services. As a consequence of their determination of developments in surveillance, computing and related esoteric military technologies, their role of service to democratically determined policy has morphed into hidden, unaccountable shapers and arbiters of all policy that matters. |
| 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." |
| UK Intelligence And Security Report, 2003 | report | June 2003 | Richard M. Bennett Katie Bennett | A compendious summary of the UK Intelligence And Security agencies, including people, events and places. |
Related Quotation
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| Malcolm Muggeridge | “In the eyes of posterity it will inevitably seem that, in safeguarding our freedom, we destroyed it. The vast clandestine apparatus we built up to prove our enemies' resources and intentions only served in the end to confuse our own purposes; that practice of deceiving others for the good of the state led infallibly to our deceiving ourselves; and that vast army of clandestine personnel built up to execute these purposes were soon caught up in the web of their own sick fantasies, with disastrous consequences for them and us.” | Malcolm Muggeridge | May 1966 |
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