Who Are The CIA?

Who are the CIA? This will tell you everything you need to know.

Here’s where things really started to go wrong: 1947, the National Security Act, which created the National Security Council and the CIA, giving the CIA sweeping, ultra-secretive, unconstitutional powers, and near limitless budget through the legalized, covert re-allocation of funds from other government agencies – and the secret recruitment of thousands of Nazis: not just Nazi scientists, to create NASA; but Nazi spies, into the new CIA.

Can you say, “Deeply corrupting influence“? That would be an understatement. No wonder the CIA became instantly ghoulish, and has remained so.

Read, The CIA’s Greatest Hits, by Mark Zepezauer, for a brief overview of one of the world’s most truly evil organizations. Then read, Blowback: America’s Secret Recruitment of Nazis and Its Disastrous Effects On Our Domestic and Foreign Policy, by Christopher Simpson and Mark Crispin Miller – to see where it all started, and how it went deeply wrong in 1947, right from the beginning.

If there are any doubts as to the nature of the organization, the next step would be to read William Blum’s, Killing Hope. Noam Chomsky and Peter Dale Scott can shed light into this dark netherworld of deep state politics, as well.

The organization should be disbanded. JFK and RFK were right. It is a dangerous criminal organization that has waged a war on democracy and freedom around the world since its creation, including at home within the United States. There are 17 other intelligence agencies in the US. This one, can and should be abolished.

JTR,
August 3, 2020

 

Post-Script:

Am I a radical leftist? Yes.

By radical, I mean the original meaning of the word, from the Latin, radus, meaning root: “to get to the root of”; “that which gets to the root of”; or, “one who gets to the root of things”.

By leftist, I mean this. The political spectrum has been driven so far to the far right over the past 50 years by the slow motion global corporate coup, that anyone who questions the new global corporate empire, including moderate conservative Republicans such as Eisenhower, are viewed as dangerous radical leftists. (“Beware the military industrial complex.”) So yes, if Eisenhower, MLK and FDR would all be viewed today as radical leftists, which they undoubtedly would, then I am proud to say I stand with them.

Am I a terrorist? No, I believe, along with Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Henry David Thoreau, in non-violent civil disobedience, as a means of making our society better, more ethical, more just, and more sane. I have always disavowed violence; and I agree with MLK: “If I was not opposed to violence for moral reasons, I would be opposed to violence for reasons of strategy.”

Am I an authoritarian? A Marxist? Neither. Not a Marxist, no. Marx was a brilliant sociologist, whose writing is important, or at least worth while to read. He was a terrible political philosopher, however – precisely because he left the door wide open to authoritarianism: which is why Bakunin, the leader of the larger, libertarian socialist wing of the First International, which fiercely opposed Marx’s centralist, statist, and elitist, distorted vision of socialism, predicted that if Marx or his followers were ever to succeed in capturing state power, they would usher in a tyranny worse than that of the Tzar. That was a prediction Bakunin made decades before the Bolshevik revolution – and he was perfectly right. Kropotkin, my favourite political philosopher, along with Spinoza, Chomsky, Bookchin, Joanna Macy and Thoreau, also summed it up, when he said, after the Bolsheviks seized power, The revolution is dead. Meaning, of course, that the faux socialists, who in reality were and are simply statists, elitists, and authoritarians, had killed it. So no, I am adamantly and passionately opposed to all forms of authoritarianism, be they right wing corporate-fascist, or (pseudo-leftist) Marxist-Leninist. I would call myself a libertarian socialist, along with Chomsky, Kropotkin, Rocker, Bookchin, Ursula Le Guin and Bertrand Russell. But in the near term, and immediately, I would be very happy simply to see basic constitutional democracy and freedom secured, restored, and renewed. In fact, I would take Thomas Jefferson’s vision over Marx any day, in a heartbeat – because Jefferson had the clearer mind and clearer vision.

Decentralize power, and do not mistrust the people – beware instead the excessive concentration of power in the hands of an elite. That was Jefferson’s view; and he was far more prescient, prudent, and sane, than Marx, or any of his followers. So yes, I will take Jefferson over Marx any day.

Am I a conspiracy theorist? Anyone who uses such a phrase is either dishonest or deeply misled. It is a red herring phrase, designed to scare people away from serious investigation of their society. As Chomsky said, “The term conspiracy theory is used to poo-poo institutional analysis.” Amen. That sums it up perfectly. As Chomsky also said, with his usual matter of fact cutting through the bullshit and fog: “If you want to understand a society, you have to look at where power lies.” That should be obvious to everyone with even a glimmering flicker of intelligence. Naturally, in less than ideal societies, that takes you into dark corners, and shadowy areas steeped in secrecy and denial. To some people, that makes you a courageous freedom fighter, a seeker of truth, and a serious researcher, thinker, scholar or investigator. To others, that just makes you scary. But I will choose to side with the courageous, and not the mousy. As MLK said, “The moral arm of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”

And if the CIA decides it has a bullet for me as well, for criticizing them or their crypto-fascist corporate masters, then I will happily take that, over silent complicity with great, on-going, systemic evils, which no good man or woman can acquiesce to, in any semblance of good conscience.

I’ve already pointed out many times that the emperor has no clothes. Somebody has to speak the truth. Thankfully, there are millions of us, who prefer truth to illusions and lies, and freedom to servitude or slavery.

I take my stand with Orwell and Huxley and Fromm, Chomsky, Thoreau and MLK. I could do far worse. It is hard to imagine a way to do much better.

JTR,
August 3, 2020