A dear friend and former CIA colleague sent me an article from the New Yorker that, on first glance, appeared to be another example of the delusion that grips America. After reading it I realized it was great satire and did an admirable job of skewering an incompetent organization that needs to be put out of its misery.
The article pretends to offer a transcript from a guided audio tour of the C.I.A. Museum in Washington, DC. Here are some of the choice selections:
Track 006: For nearly two hundred years, the U.S. had no organized way of gathering intelligence overseas, other than catty diplomatic gossip. Then, in 1947, Harry S. Truman created the official C.I.A., solidifying him as the first-ever President to make a decision with no negative consequences. The C.I.A. has had a storied seventy-five-year history, in which the agency has done the brave and unthinkable to keep our country safe from foreign adversaries, like socialism and civil rights. If you’ve heard things like “The C.I.A. has failed so many times” and “The C.I.A. is evil,” just know that whoever said that was talking about the F.B.I.
Track 033: Notice a baggie of hair belonging to the infamous Fidel Castro. If you had told us that it would be so hard to kill an old guy in an Adidas tracksuit, we would’ve told you that the nickname Coconut Castro that we made up was not racially charged. Many are critical of our work in Cuba, but I want to remind you all that it’s a terrible, dangerous, anti-American place. I mean, you should see what we’re doing at Guantánamo.
Track 387: Across the ledge here, admire the various vials of poison that we’ve used throughout the years. Poison for cigars, poison for soups—you can try them all! Museumgoers are encouraged to sample them at the J.F.K. memorial buffet within the Bay of Pigs Trough café. Don’t worry—a lot of them haven’t worked.
Track 665: Mounted here is a portrait of the former C.I.A. director Torby Gluck, who was instrumental in developing the C.I.A.’s policy of protecting U.S. corporate interests abroad through a few teeny coups in Latin America and Asia and Africa. Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about how some of those were a real snoozefest. But at least they still give me something to talk about when I guest-lecture at Harvard.
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/a-guided-audio-tour-of-the-cia-museum?utm_source=onsite-share&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker
The war in Ukraine has exposed the CIA as a fraud. When I worked there in the 1980s, I sincerely believed that my responsibility as an intelligence analyst was to tell the President the truth, based on all source intelligence (i.e., human sources, imagery, electronic intercepts, State Department cables and open sources). I was surprised to learn that Presidents (regardless of political party) were not eager to hear unwelcome news, especially if it contradicted a policy they passionately embraced.
I had a conversation with the late Ambassador Joe Wilson, who was married at the time to my Career Trainee classmate, Valerie Plame, prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003. He told me about what he had discovered after being sent to Africa to verify whether Saddam Hussein was buying yellow cake to restart his quest for a nuclear weapon. Joe told me he was worried that President Bush was being lied to and he felt an obligation to warn him. He was sincere in his concern. He naively believed that Bush was being kept in the dark.
When Joe wrote a NY Times op-ed, What I Didn’t Find in Africa, published on July 6, 2003, he became public enemy number 1 of the Deep State, which then decided to use his wife, Valerie, as a political football because he dared to expose the lies. Joe wrote:
Niger Yellowcake. “Did the Bush administration manipulate intelligence about SaddamHussein’s weapons programs to justify an invasion of Iraq?
Based on my experience with the administration in the months leading up to the war, I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq’s nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.
Joe was right and the push back from the Bush Administration was ferocious. You get in trouble in Washington, DC if you tell the truth. It culminated in exposing his wife, who was a Non Official Cover Officer at the CIA, and as the media gleefully published damnable lies that she was an unimportant clerk. Those of us who trained or worked with Valerie knew better.
What happened to Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame is relevant to what is going on now with respect to intelligence about Ukraine. There are analysts inside the CIA who know that the Biden Administration is lying. But they also know that they and their families would be destroyed if they dared to speak up and counter the propaganda that is flooding the media –i.e., print, electronic and social.
The Covert Action arm of the CIA is in control of the messaging and brokers no dissent or alternative view. While Hollywood has played a major role in perpetuating the myth that CIA covert action is effective and successful, an honest appraisal of those actions carried out over the last 60 years would show utter, abject failure. The actions in Iran, Guatemala, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and now, Ukraine, have not made the United States nor the nations of the world more secure. These actions have sowed chaos, terrorism and enormous human suffering.
The sickening truth revealed in the satirical piece in the New Yorker evokes horror and grief if one considers the millions of lives lost as a consequence of these actions. I can only pray that the current efforts underway in Ukraine will come to an inglorious end without plunging the world into a nuclear holocaust.
I am reminded of the saga of Leila Khaled the poster girl for the pflp. She was also a CIA creation with the purpose of sabotaging the palestinians. Afterwards, her boss Habbash wound up hanging out with Saddam at the request of the CIA for whom he worked and was a trusted source. If you’re wondering what prompted this comment, I recently came across and old interview featuring her and the thread above about yellow cake made me do it.
Ruhollah Khomeini, former Supreme Leader of Iran once said the US is nothing but a criminal mafia enterprise to make wall street rich.
Is he wrong? What did General Smedley Butler once say:
When he went public, he explained what he had done during his military career:
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. War is a Racket by Smedley D. Butler | Goodreads
“I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902- 1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China, in 1927, I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
Great piece, Larry.
Your courage too must be acknowledged for speaking out.
I am reminded of St Catherine of Siena’s exhortation, “Cry out with a thousand tongues. The world is rotten because of silence.”
Yes. Literally. Millions.
But, what keeps it all going is a school of thought. I only know one Company person but he has this deeply indoctrinated belief that their way is based in realism and that being humanistic or compassionate is just naive.
[CIA]…has this deeply indoctrinated belief that their way is based in realism and that being humanistic or compassionate is just naive. — Pym of Nantucket
Or, in other words, their ends justify their means…
[CIA] …actions have sowed chaos, terrorism and enormous human suffering. — Larry Johnson
And, as you note, are dragging us into war and toward nuclear catastrophe — the Mother Of All Blowbacks.
“Or, in other words, their ends justify their means…”
If one uses the methods of evil, one will become evil!
‘One ring to rule them all and in darkness bind them’.
” that their way is based in realism”
That is the labelling whilst the ingredients are primarily fear which constitutes “realism”.
Satire is about all we can keep us sane at this point. Black comedy is best when it is intolerable. There isn’t anywhere quite like Larry’s joint.
I also pray for that outcome. Biden, etc demonizing Putin & Russia is so very very wrong, when they are the “demons” for their lies, grifting, corruption, biolabs in Ukraine, blowing up the Nordstream pipelines was an act of war as well, etc etc. The global bully really needs a comeuppance and I’m hoping & looking forward to Putin delivering without us ending up in WWIII.
For several weeks now, I have been reading many articles on various subjects such as the Biden admin, corruption in Ukraine, FTX, & the covid psyop on: https://politicalmoonshine.substack.com/.
His latest from December 17:
https://politicalmoonshine.substack.com/p/war-at-all-costs
The article is lengthy, but I have pasted just a few of his points which seems to make sense to me, and hopefully others will comment on the article. This isn’t the first article he has written that mentioned Biden taking “a predetermined dive to China”. Maybe this is partly why Biden is depleting our munitions, so we can’t defend ourselves, in addition to mandating the military to take the covid shots which is now killing & maiming them? And, he wants to take away our guns, maybe so we can’t defend ourselves against the Chinese? (Sometimes Mike Adams from Natural News in his podcasts has talked about the Chinese invading us & the first few times I dismissed it, but now I’m not so sure…)
“…This illegitimate administration is desperate to maintain control as it all crumbles around them and it places us in highly dangerous times. Make no mistake about it. If it is required, they will absolutely pull the fire alarm of war…”
“…For one, it’s the emergence of a two-front war and for the second, it’s a reversal of positions as an outcome of U.S. Department of Defense war gaming exercises respective to one of those fronts that was made by a Biden White House national security advisor; thus leading to the third, which is also an exclusive position – Joe Biden is going to take a predetermined dive…”
“…This is where two new developments bear down immensely recalling that the U.S. has had boots on the ground in Ukraine as we’ve contended and evidenced but whereas it has only come to the public eye more recently. This is an imperative detail to comprehend because it’s the direct kinetic exchange between U.S. and Russian troops that stands to be the flashpoint for the entire Russia/Ukraine theater to go kinetic between the U.S. and Russia….
What is it about America, which makes it necessary that there be an enemy? If not Russia, then China. If not Islamic or domestic terrorists, then covid.
If you want to know who the real enemy of America is, look in the mirror. Bear in mind, be it Trump or Biden, Bush Clinton or Obama, a country gets the leadership it deserves.
I do not think we get the leadership we deserve. We get no such choice. No matter who gets elected, the winners do what their paymasters pay for, and that has nothing to do with what the majority of citizens wish.
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf
Luckily or unluckily for the US, there will never be a human force with human technology that can successfully pull off a military invasion of the United States mainland. Geography is a real thing, vassal states to the north and south, two oceans east and west pretty much guarantees that. Plus no one would be able to produce enough troops to fight an over armed domestic population that can’t stop shooting at any and everything. Now extra terrestrial aliens, maybe, but not a human force
I can’t remember the quote or quite who said it but a Roman suggested the deadliest enemy is the one within the gates.
Thank google for this https://quotlr.com/quotes-about-enemy-within
it was Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.”
Invasion of the US may be impossible. Maybe. Destruction, though, is doable. It was Paul Craig Roberts, I believe, who said that a few Russian Satans will suffice to turn the US East coast into a pile of smoldering trash.
Keep on dreaming if it helps. The US has been marked for Balkanisation and all the seeds to bring this about were planted long ago. All the factions are in place and all it needs is for the trigger to be pulled.
The evidence is staring you in the face , can you see it? Empires can be destroyed from without but also from within. For at least a decade you have had states wishing to leave the union. Former Mexican lands are now being populated with Mexicans, what do you think will happen to those states when their populations become 60,70, 80% Hispanic?
How many people are flooding over the border every day, do you think that has a destabilising factor on the nation? China has 4x your population and it’s manufacturing is larger than the US and growing all the time. How many Chinese products do you buy? does that help the US or China.
The west is struggling to supply arms to the Ukies and that includes the US so
tell me again how you cannot be defeated when history proves you wrong every time.
Reality beats fantasy
I agree, empires do collapse at some point in time & have read numerous books on the topic. Outsourcing almost all of our manufacturing was one of many indicators.
This morning as I was waking up I realized if we had a non-woke military, that Biden “bending the knee” to China is treasonous (on top of most everything else he’s done since he took office illegitimately( & impeachable (on top of all the other impeachable offenses he’s done). Civil war & secession would happen pretty quickly.
LindaT,
Incompetence, CYA, and corruption are better explanations than grandiose and complex (too much Hollywood) schemes for the state of the world. Oh, and add in greed stupidity and petti-minded-ness. And institutional inertia.
I 100% agree with Mischievous Imp – what the US has tried with Russia – balkanization – is a most likely scenario – and probably due to US imposed internal policy (for reasons in para 1). Of course, US peers are likely to encourage – widespread attacks on the US power grid – in any way they can the internal dynamic.
Then put the message out – “Pull the trigger”
It’s not military invasion that should be the concern. Not when, right now, there is a massive population migration from the south happening. The US will be unrecognizable in a few short years. These people aren’t going to leave, like an army would. They are here for keeps. They aren’t going to “assimilate”. And they breed a helluva lot more prolifically than our coddled feminism-inclined self-obsessed White mamas do.
You really think this isn’t White replacement?
… and if you consider the ongoing never ending mass immigration as hostile to the long term interests of the US population?
184 years ago, on January 27, 1838 Abraham Lincoln said in his Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois …
« The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions:
In the great journal of things happening under the sun, we, the American People, find our account running, under date of the nineteenth century of the Christian era.–We find ourselves in the peaceful possession, of the fairest portion of the earth, as regards extent of territory, fertility of soil, and salubrity of climate. We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. We, when mounting the stage of existence, found ourselves the legal inheritors of these fundamental blessings. We toiled not in the acquirement or establishment of them–they are a legacy bequeathed us, by a once hardy, brave, and patriotic, but now lamented and departed race of ancestors. Their’s was the task (and nobly they performed it) to possess themselves, and through themselves, us, of this goodly land; and to uprear upon its hills and its valleys, a political edifice of liberty and equal rights; ’tis ours only, to transmit these, the former, unprofaned by the foot of an invader; the latter, undecayed by the lapse of time and untorn by usurpation, to the latest generation that fate shall permit the world to know. This task of gratitude to our fathers, justice to ourselves, duty to posterity, and love for our species in general, all imperatively require us faithfully to perform.
How then shall we perform it?–At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?– Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!–All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. » …
Read the whole thing, It’s old but worth reading.
A Chinese comrade told me that the PRC doesn’t want to control the world like the USA does because a) it’s too difficult and b) it’s too expensive. She then pointed out that her ancestors had built a Great Wall to keep the barbarians out of the Motherland!
RE: China. I think not. Most Americans (and just about everyone else in the West) doesn’t know ‘shit from shinola’ about China. It has never been an imperialistic people. As one astute commentator put it, “China wants to be like Singapore”.
That said, if America wants to try something on China then she will defend herself. And that alone should give America all the information needed. And “defending herself” does NOT mean invading California (not that I think that would be all that bad).
Project for the New American Century – destined to gather dust on a library shelf under ‘Satire’?
I wonder.
BTW: I wonder if Fellini had a moment of prescience while the neocons were still gestating as the 4th Internationale when he filmed Satyricon.
OK, it’s a satirical stretch I admit but deving deeper still, Satyricon’s sexual deviance and certain Democrat movers and shakers seem not to be such a stretch.
Project for the New American Century – destined to gather dust one day on a library shelf under ‘Satire’?
I wonder.
BTW: I wonder if Fellini had a moment of prescience while the neocons were still gestating as the 4th Internationale when he filmed Satyricon.
OK, it’s a satirical stretch I admit but delving deeper still, Satyricon’s sexual deviance and certain Democrat movers and shakers seem not to be such a stretch.
“ While Hollywood has played a major role in perpetuating the myth that CIA covert action is effective and successful, an honest appraisal of those actions carried out over the last 60 years would show utter, abject failure. The actions in Iran, Guatemala, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and now, Ukraine, have not made the United States nor the nations of the world more secure. These actions have sowed chaos, terrorism and enormous human suffering.”
That is not abject failure that is what is intended. Think Smedley Butler and his War is a Racket written in the 30s, make war for the sake of making war and turn it into a self licking ice cream cone. The people who built this knew what they were doing, but the current crop of people who inherited this show are the actual utter, and abject failure. The reason seems that they are completely detached from discernible facts. This is the end of the line for “the greatest fighting force in human history”
A fairly recent comment “Frankly, I do not know why they are doing this. . . . Are they sane? It seems that this runs completely counter to common sense and logic . . . This is simply crazy. It may seem that there is a subtle, profound plot behind this. But I think there is nothing there, no subtle thought. It is just nonsense and arrogance, nothing else. . . . Such irrational actions are rooted in arrogance and a sense of impunity” – President Vlad Putin, October 27th, 2022.
It seems this man also made another comment “those who are destined to hang will not drown” this was probably directed at the people running this.
“ That is not abject failure that is what is intended. Think Smedley Butler and his War is a Racket”.
I think there is truth to that like every other scheme, Ponzi or otherwise, this one is about to collapse.
Are you get’in your nourishment in Washington DC.
The shit is so deep you now need a Cat D 11 Dozer to push.
The latest porn from the New York Times is 12 Russian Generals assassinated while reviewing the front lines…..Yep the Russians kept sending them to the April front lines because morale was so low. One dead, send another, repeat all the way up to 12 of um.
Next the Big Russian General goes to the front line …Ukis to attack, America said,” Oh no! Something may go wrong.” Ukies attacked anyway.
Missed apparently!
Half a war later the newest photos indicate the General is putting on a little weight. Still has that bored look about him. He must be the Red Button pusher Lizzy Tosser fantasies about.
Liz gone, Buff Head Boris gone, the bored General still stacking missiles and tanks. Don’t forget the artillery ammo; Global Britannia has just announced the imminent release hundreds of millions of trillions of 155 rounds. No mention of the things to fire them.
The Putin anointed General Armageddon, has whistled up 550,000 Bears with Claws. NY Times has not noticed or have they?
Meanwhile, On Cue!
In early 2023, mass riots, looting and shooting explodes across America . The Ukraine disaster quietly flushed down the memory hole. Nothing to see here.
The wobbly economy, still wobbles as the Dollar reaches honeymoon highs. Shonks are up as well and employment reaches all time high of 125%.
Happy days are here again America.
Stop press:
Musk sells Tesla, builds biggest mansion on earth in Beijing, as blue bird gets a red do over. No one notices.
I 1991 and again in 1995, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan introduced bills to abolish the CIA and assign its functions to the State Department, which is what Acheson and his predecessor, George Marshall, had advocated.
But Moynihan’s proposal was treated as evidence of his eccentricity rather than of his wisdom and never came to a vote.
https://carnegieendowment.org/2005/12/20/case-for-abolishing-cia-pub-17846
The US State Dept is worse than the CIA. It develops the policies that the CIA helps to implement.
The state department has become the public arm of the CIA, though arguably it has been since the Dulles brothers founded modern America.
I think the Pentagon leadership is also now a fundamental branch of Deep State.
During Trump’s Presidency we had a retired four-star general, James Mattis, willfully disregard, and actively subvert, the Commander-in-Chief’s order to withdraw U.S. military from Syria. Mattis not only disregarded the order but lied to the President about doing it. And later bragged about willfully subverting the President of the United States on the matter. While Mattis’ actions certainly betrayed his boss, the Commander-in-Chief, but he also betrayed the American people and the Constitution.
Btw, Mattis was on the board of directors of Theranos, the multi-billion fraud company whose founders are in prison.
It would be illuminating to revisit the post WWII debate regarding the establishment of the CIA. Plenty of voices warned what would eventually happen. They were correct.
Both the CIA and the FBI should be defunded.
Ron Unz published a deeply researched article on the killing of JFK today and likely CIA involvement. Apparently Tucker Carlson is hot on this topic.
https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-jfk-assassination-and-the-covid-cover-up/
The rule of inversion at play. NGO’s and big corporations funding BLM
which then promotes defunding the police. (soft power)
The CIA and FBI are blunt instruments of the US oligarchy.
Joe Wilson’s memoir is worth reading for sources and methods in DC, plus he seemed to be decent man. When the Plame story broke, Wilson surmised it came from the WH, and asked an old wise man why. He said that nobody knows yet, but they must be doing it to distract us from something. Later Wilson thought it was done to transform an impeachment investigation (war of aggression) into a leak-of-classified information investigation. Seems like it worked.
Nothing new. Millions of people believe that the Pope and the Catholic church is holy. Just visit Rome and think about what is written in the Bible about wealth, and who will enter heaven.
So, obvious lies exist. Whole institutions claim, by their authority, that 2+2 = 5. And people believe that they can do witchcraft.
As a German philosopher Immanuel Kant said: Date to think yourself. Please think yourself. Don’t let others do this for you. Why should the CIA be more intelligent than you or me? Why!??
Another great piece from Larry, who bravely stands up and tells the truth to counter the endless stream of lies and propaganda coming from New York and Washington DC. Intelligence and Research analysts aren’t the only ones in trouble – anybody who dares to question the official ‘narrative’ about Ukraine, or anything else for that matter, are in danger of having their assets frozen (stolen) and being ‘cancelled’ from social media and all other walks of life. We need an informed public if this Republic is going to function. How can the public ever be informed if telling the truth is banned by those in power?
A Kid in the Crowd says, It seems this man also made another comment “those who are destined to hang will not drown” this was probably directed at the people running this.”
But Putin was referring to his own fate. It was in this interview with Oliver Stone …
About 20.50 in here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mq5Sqc3GQ8&t=1237s
Thank you. I learned so much from this. Reminds me of when South Africa faced off the Soviet Union in Angola around 1982. Fortunately for us and them they backed down. As I see it today Russia finds itself where SA was back then, threatened by a Soviet America. Question. Will the American Soviets back off? A song comes to mind. Star Trekking, across the universe. Always going forward ‘cos we can’t find reverse. Hope I’m wrong. I now live near London. Probably the first target.
The series itself is an example of culture creation.
With advice from the Rand Corporation.
“It’s life Jim, but not as we know it.”
Dear Mr.Larry,evrybody lies.
https://youtu.be/RHNbkBNbrr8
“……. an honest appraisal of those actions carried out over the last 60 years would show utter, abject failure.”
Not failures abject or not, but in the short term apparent acquiescence interpreted as “missions accomplished” and continuance of “hegemony/sole agency”, obfuscating activities and resolves of those subjected to the “missionaries”, which interacted through opportunities and time facilitating the continuing lateral processes of transcendence of “the missions on the hill” gazing in mirrors.
What’s going on in B^@$!L? Last heard was on 16 Dec, GWP- “B^@$!L Federal Police Raid 80 Oranoslob Supporters: “It is Going to Get Ugly” See Aye Aye?
Failed for who? Not the deep state. “Deep State” is just people and contractors swimming in trillions of dollars keeping the status quo. From defense contractors, to think tanks e.g. war advocacy tanks, to NGOs. A lot of money gets made no questions asked and telling the truth shuts that down and steps on a lot of powerful toes will even try and kill you/your loved ones like Palme. Sucks for US tax payers and truth teller not for them. Zip Codes around DC are richest in America.
I agree with this point. Don’t confuse coherent behavior with planned behavior. Very very important.
Emergent patterns can come from aligned or resonant effects of constituent elements. For example, you can have evolution without some kind of divine plan.
Furthermore, large scale thermodynamic laws imply that the most destructive high rate of spontaneous entropy creation is the most likely path for processes to follow. This fact is a bit depressing but unavoidable (like a burnt match won’t turn into an unburnt one, even if that conserves energy).
I salute your courage, Mr Johnson.
Since I read John Stockwell’s nook, In Search of Enemies,” in the 1980s my view of the CIA and of the United States was never the same?
The question, for me, is: How can any sane people create a monster like the CIA to menace the world without any oversight on its activities?
How about the FDA? All of them are corrupted. It’s natural. Thats why founders wanted it very limited – only allowed enumerated powers – but it ignored the constitution and grew and grew and grew and corruption with it.
Edit *FDA killed more than CIA with gain of function research and subsequent rushed jabs
The great experiment ended with the war of Northern Aggression. Now they dig up our dead for their satanic pleasures.
i think you are right. this gentlemen did a great podcast on the real lincoln . very revealing
https://www.republicbroadcastingarchives.org/rebel-mad-man-radio-w-mike-gaddy-december-10-2022/
https://media.blubrry.com/rbn/ins.blubrry.com/rbn/stream_2022-12-10_150002.mp3
As Peter Theil said: Which is better: the CIA or the DMV? The DMV of course, because you can see what they are doing.
Sadly, I bought into all that Saddam propaganda. I even ignored my Naval officer friend who told me the government was lying to us. I even wrote an embarrassing paper for my Masters program suggesting the phantom WMDs had been transferred to Assad prior to our invasion. Now I know better.
You are NOT the only former insider who is worried about ‘screw ups’ and the belief the ‘US CAN win a nuclear war’.
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/putin-has-misread-the-west-and-if-he-doesnt-wake-up-soon-armageddon-is-upon-us/
The view that Reagan ‘ended’ the Cold War with the Soviet, is far better than the ‘idea’ that Biden ‘could WIN’ the war in the Ukraine!
Thanks for this piece, Larry. I always believe that adults must live in the real world to make best decisions. Sadly, it seems the adults have left the room, and the wolves are in the chicken coop.
Push pull of control in the CIA…is no different than human behavior we see exhibited in other institutions. A good example would be the internal civil war within the Catholic Church. CIA and friends is even more difficult to hold on task per the amount of money/resources commanded by an administrative agency…with little to no constitutional checks and balances. “Witch craft”
The Mess that Nuland made:
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/26/robert-parry-the-mess-that-nuland-made/
Half your country – the DayMockRatIck tribe- will unquestioningly regurgitate whatever Bidet claims, so there will be zero pushback from them even if the facts come out. The remaining half is divided against itself anyway.
Sadly, our Constitutional Republic has morphed into an Empire of Lies.
I still believe Oswald was the lone shooter. Think about it, it’s a known tactic of the Mob and government to use a “lone nut”. Frequently, this line nut will have had previous contacts with law enforcement both state and federal and lots of squirrelly details that allow just about anybody to believe anything they want about him. Oswald did it, but was part of a larger plot. I figure he expected to be helped to make a getaway. Instead he got stopped by a mobbed up cop on the way to what he thought was the extraction point. By the time he got to the police station he realized he’d been set up to take the fall all by himself as a lone nut.
Anyway, they’re still doing it. Look at the Las Vegas shooting. Look at all the school shootings. Nearly every single one of them had previous contacts with the KGB, I mean FBI, and were known to them.
All the misinformation serves a twofold purpose. First, and most obviously it conceals the truth from us. Secondly, it demoralizes us and makes us unable to realize the truth even if it’s in front of our faces. That’s why they no longer even care if they get caught in a lie or if the stories are so ridiculous as to inspire ridicule. It still works for their purposes.
“I still believe Oswald was the lone shooter”
My young niece believes in fairies; that does not make them appear.
Ballistics alone prove more than one shooter.
No, they don’t. You can always tell people who actually shoot as opposed to those who don’t when talking about the Kennedy Assassination. That said, the CIA was definitely involved.
Three roads run through Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was on the middle one. He was driving straight through.
How could a lowly book stacker order a Presidential limousine to turn onto the side road to make a better target?
There were three assassinations planned that year, all with their patsies lined up. Kennedy didn’t go to Chicago, and the Mayor of Miami guarded him too closely for anyone to loose off a round.
Quite a strong case has been made that Oswald was working for Bobby Kennedy, trying to infiltrate the conspiracy.
I was surprised to learn not only that Jack Ruby’s club is still going, but also that they revere him as a far-seeing showman, quite oblivious of his other claim to fame. They’re very good. Look up the Ruby Revue on YouTube. Somehow, I think JFK would approve.
https://jfk-donahue.weebly.com/the-explosive-head-shot.html
All headshots with centerfire rifles of at least 2000 FPS velocity tend to be explosive. The AR-15 would have been using FMJ bullets as well. In fact, in November of 1963 the only .223 ammunition available was FMJ. Remington would not release the first civilian rifle chambered in that caliber and soft point ammunition for it until December 1963. And finally if someone had accidentally shot an AR-15 in the middle of the street ten feet from dozens of onlookers, I don’t think anyone would have had any doubt about it. Centerfire rifles ARE LOUD.
Kennedy’s head was inclining down and to the left when he was shot from behind. The shot scooped out the right side of his head. You can see it as clear a day on the film.
There are YouTube videos with people using the exact same model of Carcano rifle and exact same brand of ammo that Oswald used and shooting ballistics dummy heads and such – the Ballistic duty heads are made to simulate real human heads (flesh, skull, brain matter). The results of the tests are almost exactly what happened to Kennedy’s head. Also, the rifles proved more than capable of making the shot, which, in the tests are from platforms simulating the height, distance and trajectory of Oswald’s shots. Oswald was a Marine and, I believe, he qualified as sharpshooter, which between Expert and Marksman; not too bad. But really, anyone who went through that training and qualified at any of the three levels could have easily made a chip shot like that; especially w/ a scoped rifle.
Sorry, but I have looked into this with a very open mind and not married to any conclusion until I reviewed ALL evidence, facts, etc, – Oswald had the personality profile of a sociopathic loner. All evidence points to that. A slightly more grown-up version of today’s school shooters. There are photos of him with the rifle prior to the shooting (no, not debunked) and witnesses to his possession of it too. There is other evidence, like order forms. He had tried to assassinate a political retired General (?) not long before Kennedy and only barely missed when the bullet was slightly deflected by the window. That bullet was matched to the rifle recovered at the book depository. All it took back then, given security protocols, was a trained shooter and an easy shot.
Furthermore, eye witnesses and other evidence confirmed that Oswald shot officer Tibbets (sp?) afterwards.
No need for a conspiracy. Occam’s razor.
Ruby was merely a hothead gangster wannabe that was looking to become famous. Collision of two jerks at the courthouse. The rest s history.
IMO, there is info about the assassination not being released because Cuba did help work Oswald up to pulling trigger. Sources/methods + other concerns? If there is a conspiracy, it would be Cuba’s (possibility Russia’s) encouragement.
I always had a small hope that they would stop before things got too out of hand but at this point, I don’t think these guys will change course until they turn the entire West into Ukraine. Western Europe and then the US itself will soon see civil strife, de-population and de-industrialization on a near-apocalyptic scale.
Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and now Ukraine, this is what they do.
More and more countries are seeing the writing on the wall and jumping ship. Soon it will be time for anyone who can to do the same.
Joe Wilson was a hero. And whether it was Scooter Libby or Richard Armitage who leaked Valerie’s identity, we all know it was the biggest Dick of them all behind it.
Speaking of Dicks, the guy who played Joe in Fair Game – Elensky’s knob polisher Sean Penn is another one.
What a fucked up world – no wonder Vlad and Xi have had enough of the Neocons and is going to bankrupt them and leave us to sort out the mess we made amongst ourselves here in the west.
It’s going to get very interesting
Fair Game Trailer – Watts was excellent BTW
https://youtu.be/4SLn4a5W3lY
I am curious if you have watched The Recruit on Netflix. So far it is not giving the CIA a good image but rather a corrupt backstabbing playground of dangerous children.
Quite familiar with it. Still displays the CIA as a competent villain. I question the “competence.”
Would be curious to hear your list of those who benefit from the CIA actions as the results obviously delight someone. I suppose your already have enough trouble.
When the story came out about Valery it struck me that anyone who ever had any security clearance in the US would see that as an unforgivable betrayal that clearly signaled it’s dog eat dog now folks. Cover your ass cuz we ain’t gonna! Put yourself in dangers way and we’ll make sure they get you!
Had similar reaction to Hillary’s secret server. We were told ignorance was no excuse at security briefings. Hell ignorance was her only excuse! What other rules don’t apply to these criminals.
“What other rules don’t apply to these criminals.”
It depends on context and utility.
“that clearly signaled it’s dog eat dog now folks.”
Not only, dogs fucking dogs, and dogs pissing on dogs remain options to achieve diversity.
“It depends on context and utility.”
Resorting to playbooks are often prejudicial in many interpretations of prejudicial.
The prejudicial nature of perestroika first, glasnost later was not facilitated by scheduling, but by which phenomena were subjected to perestroika first, glasnost later.
Whenever i dont turn off my phone or computer in days, it starts to go haywire…..its like an anthill that keeps working behind the scenes, processes running without guidance or reason until it makes the whole system unusable….the only solution: a reset….turning it off and on again…..
That starts the whole system all over again and it works fine…..for awhile…..that’s the climax of all the world powers in the end….
If I had a magical lamp, and the Genie gave me 3 wishes regarding the current state of affairs….i would not hesitate in asking for Russia to pummel into dust this whole edifice of neocon world poison.
Then, as number 2…. that the US part of the population that still has some semblance of logic and reason….the 50% that haven’t drunk the Kool-Aid, and want to live in peace with each other…..can stay in the country, while the Woke, Democrat, Silicon Valley Moguls, 3 letter agencies, the federal government, pedophiles, etc, etc, etc, as I know I’m forgetting some….get beamed up by Scotty and whooshed away to another class M uninhabited planet, where they can play out their fantasies of controlling others…and destroy themselves….
Then, as a last wish….that this all happens before these nuts push the button and start Armageddon, which I dont doubt for a second that they will……were probably approaching that moment sooner than we think….
In the end, there’s 2 kinds of people….the first type are like Howard Roark said: I neither rule nor submit, I deal with people in a free exchange.
The second type, is the one that wants to control others, and usually uses the power of government to force their agenda by force on others….its the only way they can, as their product has no takers, except the Kool-Aid drinkers, their ideas are not sellable to normal, logical persons.
Unfortunately, those 2 types of people cannot occupy the same space, it makes life a living hell….so one half has to either be converted to reason, and to leave others alone, to be moved or one half has to be destroyed….as co-habitation is impossible.
Sorry for the long metal jerkoff….had to do something while having my coffee….have a nice day.
I Meant Mental Jerkoff….a nice little tidbit of coloquial language from my country ….
It’s one thing to be deeply immoral but, at least successful;
quite another…to be deeply immoral and..an abject failure.
The 3LAs have proven themselves to be immoral failures..again and again. They can’t tell US-Citizens about their “successes”, because that would reveal their depravity. But that does beg the question, is JFK’s liquidation and the subsequent cover-up fall under a “success” that can’t be claimed? LBJ stated, these folks are murderers and if anybody would know first hand it would be JFK’s successor.
Remove all operational aspects from intelligence agencies. Plausible deniability? To hell with that BS, let’s have some plausible responsibility instead and see if that doesn’t bring the USA back into God’s good graces.
Mr. Johnson- great article- i did not know you felt this way about your former employer. I agree the jack ryan tom clancy books and movies which i have all read and watched most of the movies are not the real story of what really goes on.
i watched this movie- the good shepherd about the cia starring matt damon and never forgot it. the part about the involvment of usa intell in britian in 1940 before the cia was ever formed i found quite interesting since this is based on historical facts. the hitler having syphillis psyop mr. damons character dreamed up reminds me of putins weekly illnesses we are told of. the part of the movie showing how counter-intell operates at from the 47.5 to the 53 minute mark of the movie is fasinating. I think the brits have been the masters of this going back to queen elizabeth and was a major factor in how they maintained their empire.
The Good Shepherd (2006)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343737/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/CE6decSPO2w1/
https://www.bitchute.com/embed/CE6decSPO2w1/
Tucker carlson came out with this below about the CIA involvement with kennedys demise
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1603570509588955137/pu/vid/640×336/g26DI-439ae1RS5B.mp4?tag=12
https://theconservativenews.org/tucker-carlson-exposes-cias-involvement-in-the-jfk-assassination/
there seems to be a pattern going here. this is the latest twitter dump.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twitter-files-how-fbi-moved-quash-hunter-laptop-story-and-after-ny-post-bombshell
then you have trump , kanye and fuentes debacle
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-dinner-kanye-west-nick-005851422.html
this makes me wonder what is really going on here. you have tucker who is an establishment member i think and musk with his all seeing eye satellites and neural link. Trump who launched warpspeed, kanye with his hollyweird ties and fuentes with his over the top antics i do not really trust any of them.
Am wondering if this is just another big psyop on us or are there 2 factions fighting for control of the USA and lets say the trump one is better than the other one which qanon seems to insintate. Is this a byproduct of the ukraine project gone wrong . »Or is there something else i have not considered here. Like most of us regular folk out there am in the dark on what is really going on. In the bible it does say that before his coming back all would be revealed.
regards,
ralph
President Kennedy was Absolutely Correct in wanting to Destroy the
CIA. It was and is the most Vile Cesspool of Traitors to the Republic ever allowed to Exist. Unfortunately, the Traitors got to Him first.
Glad to see so many Americans interested in cleaning up one of the organizations that has done the most harm to the world. Especially for recognizing it. And the US does not need organizations like the CIA to become a great Democracy and a great Nation again! Which won’t be easy. Because we realize today hated in much of the world. Because that’s basically what the CIA’s operations, scams and intimidation accomplished for the US and the American people around the world!
Problem is .gov does not shrink. Never has never will so CIA won’t shrank. Only way out is reboot and USA will just like all empires who fail. It’s getting closer every year…no soft power…debt. Losing world reserve currency, most countries hate us…our own ppl hate .gov… “eites” “experts” etc cant say when exactly but I’d be very surprised if the union lasts another 30 years before falling into anarchy.
Well said, Larry. It’s a great tragedy that Mr Wilson and Ms Plane, as well as your good self, are not in senior positions at the CIA right now.
Ukraine has also proven that the CIA failed to discover Russia’s hypersonic weapons program. The program seems to have started in the mid 2000s, accelerating from 2010. Putin revealed the existence of these fearsome weapons in 2018.
There were rumours of the Kinzhal being used in Syria, but final confirmation was provided in March 2022 with the strike on Delyatin.
Even now, the US appears to not know much about these weapons. What a shambles. It must be one of the worst failures by the CIA in its history.
I note that the loathsome John Brennan was CIA Director from 2013. While the Russians were successfully developing their hypersonic program, Brennan and his apparatchiks spent much of their time illegally spying on innocent Americans, and of course committing sedition vis as vis the Obama/Biden crimes against Trump and the Republic.
” … the CIA failed to discover Russia’s hypersonic weapons program.”
An shocking oversight if ever there was one, considering I knew about Russian hpersonic technology back in the 1950s, long before I was born.
Russian hypersonic weapons have taken no intelligence agency in the world, by surprise. It was always just a matter of doing it. Do you want to spend the time, energy and resources to develop an intercontinental nuclear delivery system that travels faster in the latter part of its boost phase, than the average ICBM? Well if that’s what floats you boat, go for it.
One of the reasons, over the course of 60 years, neither side bothered to develop them. After all, ICMBs in their midcourse correction phase, and the multiple warheads they carry in their terminal phase, all travel at speeds that make the Kinzhal blush.
I’ll point out again, once American sub-lauched Trident missiles break the surface of the ocean, within two minutes they hit Mach 18. Then they traveling really fast.
Do Kinzhal’s and similar technologies now have a place in the heirarchal pecking order of weapons that will prove most effective in a thermonuclear exchange? Probably, although I would submit there is so much redundany carefully infused into seven decade old Overkill Model, that it won’t make a dam bit difference.
Putin made it clear time and again in his international press conferences over the years, it was absolutely one of his favorite subjects. Hypersonic technology was hardly anything new, he would say, the Americans could develop it tomorrow, but what really matters, is you cannot allow for one side or the other to have this “extra” fast technology, or any nuclear first strike technology for that matter, on the opponent’s borders, because such a insane development would reduce Nuclear Response Times, which are already at critically low thresholds, to the Zero Bound.
And we all know adequate Nuclear Response Times are why we are all still here, and able to share this unvetted and freewheeling question and answer session together.
But no on listened to him, perhaps the reason he started calling everyone in the West, and many in north and south and east as well, “Deaf, dumb, and dyslexic.”
Note: As for hypersonics role in a local conventional kerfuffle, like say, this proxie war to the death in Ukraine we have going on at the moment, then yeah, they are special, particularly due to the kenitic energy they bring at impact. Went through that old Soviet bunker in western Ukraine, the most impentrable one on the planet by some accounts, like a hot knife through butter!
So my advice the Russian General Staff, since before this war started, has been to by all means, use them. But, after using only two so far, they have apparently … done run out.
Kidding. I think the real reason the Russian Federation refuses to defeat this enemy, by using 21st century weapons is either a) they like being involved in a long, grinding old timey battle of attrition, because it builds character, or b), everyone in the Kremlin is a now practicing Buddhist, and they will all go to any lengths to not cause others pain, even if that other is their sworn mortal enemy and using every trick in the book to kill them dead.
Particularly amused by the comment in the article:
“If you’ve heard things like “The C.I.A. has failed so many times” and “The C.I.A. is evil,” just know that whoever said that was talking about the F.B.I.”
Skewers both corrupt, anti-democratic and extremely damaging organizations.
Lots of interesting comments. Just what is it we are safe from? Ostensibly that is all these agencies duty, to protect US citizens.
Do you feel safe? Hell I walk a dog in an area where a gal got mauled by a bear last year, but sign up for an annual checkup at the local clinic, no thanks I’m not that lucky! The dog
I value my life enough not to trust an agency that does gain of function on bio-weapons, miraculously has patents for all they invented and in the last decade paid the largest fine ever for, yeah fraud. Unrelated to topic? Check RFK’s book and catch up on Military funding of bio research. Lets not even touch on legal immunity for all the gangsters.
So we pay for all this protection and some researchers claim overall death is up 40%. Well so what? A ten percent increase is considered a once in 200 year event. Still feel safe?
One has no credibility if they are still in the clutches of authority. Cancelled and Censored mean you are speaking the truth. Quit watching the brain washing. If the only army they have are bots in a data base or bio induced zombies we truly have nothing to fear but ignorance of that.
This one was especially excellent. I would very much like to believe at least some of the people in govt are trying to do their jobs, rather than attempting to find enough gently used lead aprons to cover my house. Eventually, repeatedly triggering provisions in Russian nuclear doctrine will end badly.