Jeffrey D. Sachs has recently written a short and highly informative article about the decades-long, disgustingly destructive activities of the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, in every corner of the world.
Below, we bring you here the first part of that and then direct your attention to a very well-researched article by investigative reporters of the New York Times that documents how the CIA has been playing its dirty games in Ukraine the last ten years since the US-orchestrated and -financed regime change – which is when the present NATO-Russia conflict and the war in Ukraine can be said to have started (although it can also be seen as having much older roots.
There are facts that, generally speaking, most people have probably heard very little of. One must appreciate that both authors below are Americans.
That this type of activity can continue virtually without attention from the ‘free’ Western media is both mind-boggling and very understandable. What you are told is what I characterise as FOSI: Fake + Omission + Source Ignorance. It has to be isomorphic with the US/Western narrative that seeks to justify the US Empire’s war and crimes without end.
Professor Sachs starts out with this:
12 Feb 2024 – There are three basic problems with the CIA: its objectives, methods, and unaccountability. Its operational objectives are whatever the CIA or the President of the United States defines to be in the U.S. interest at a given time, irrespective of international law or U.S. law. Its methods are secretive and duplicitous. Its unaccountability means that the CIA and president run foreign policy without any public scrutiny. Congress is a doormat, a sideshow.
As a recent CIA Director, Mike Pompeo, said of his time at the CIA: “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.”
The CIA was established in 1947 as the successor to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). The OSS had performed two distinct roles in World War II, intelligence and subversion. The CIA took over both roles. On the one hand, the CIA was to provide intelligence to the US Government. On the other, the CIA was to subvert the “enemy,” that is, whomever the president or CIA defined as the enemy, using a wide range of measures: assassinations, coups, staged unrest, arming of insurgents, and other means.
It is the latter role that has proved devastating to global stability and the U.S. rule of law. It is a role that the CIA continues to pursue today. In effect, the CIA is a secret army of the U.S., capable of creating mayhem across the world with no accountability whatsoever.
When President Dwight Eisenhower decided that Africa’s rising political star, democratically elected Patrice Lumumba of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), was the “enemy,” the CIA conspired in his 1961 assassination, thus undermining the democratic hopes for Africa. He would hardly be the last African president brought down by the CIA.
In its 77-year history, the CIA has been held to serious public account just once, in 1975. In that year, Idaho Senator Frank Church led a Senate investigation that exposed the CIA’s shocking rampage of assassinations, coups, destabilization, surveillance, and Mengele-style torture and medical “experiments”….
And here is the New York Times analysis that makes shocking evidence of what the – oh so charming – President Obama must be held accountable for. It documents the gross lie that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was ‘unprovoked.’ This does not mean that we endorse that war as the only one, as legal or as a reasonable response to NATO’s role as a serial provocateur:
“The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin”
For more than a decade, the United States has nurtured a secret intelligence partnership with Ukraine that is now critical for both countries in countering Russia.
By Adam Entous and Michael Schwirtz
It is true that virtually all other countries have some kind of CIA. But the US is the only one with this CIA – unique in its global reach and criminality throughout more than 70 years. Above you can see for yourself that CIA is the “first line of defense” of the US.
Tell me what line of defence you have, and I will tell you who you are. Simple as that! The sooner the Empire and its first line of defence fall apart, the better for the US itself and for the world.
