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mac2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 12:57 PM
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CIA Successes 20 of them!!
From democrats.com Link: http://democrats.com/

The CIA Has Deposed at Least 20 Functioning Democracies Since WWII
Kurt Nimmo writes, "As Bush was knee-deep into his invasion of Iraq, the UPI ran a story about Saddam's connection to the CIA. The story...was buried beneath a tidal wave of anti-Saddam propaganda unleashed by the Bushites and parroted by an obedient corporate media. Roger Morris, a former National Security Council staffer confirmed that the Ba'ath Party now so reviled by average Americans was essentially installed by the CIA in 1963." Add to this the numerous CIA engineered coups, assassinations, and sundry plotted incidents of mayhem in such far-flung places as Guatemala (1954), Zaire (1960), Cuba (1961), Dominican Republic (1961), Indonesia (1965), Greece (1965), Chile (1973), Angola (1975), El Salvador (1979), etc. John Stockwell, former CIA official notes: "The CIA has overthrown functioning democracies in over 20 countries." Now Haiti can be added to the list of CIA "successes."

President John Kennedy wanted to dis-ban the CIA. Might have been a good idea.

The whole article: Link; http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles7/Nimmo_Saddam-CIA.htm
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randr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 01:05 PM
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1. Any time the poor are the minority
and elect someone to represent them we take action against the democracy.
Pure and simple the CIA operates as the private army for the wealthy corporate world. Democracy is only permitted when these people control the process. Here and abroad!
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 04:48 PM
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2. CIA a Terrorist Org.
The CIA's Drug-Trafficking Activities
The CIA, Cocaine Smuggling at Mena and the Train Deaths
Mind Control and the CIA's Use of LSD
Ralph McGehee and CIABASE
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Links to Further Documents Concerning the CIA


CIA operations follow the same recurring script. First, American business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or democratically elected leader. The people support their leader because he intends to conduct land reform, strengthen unions, redistribute wealth, nationalize foreign-owned industry, and regulate business to protect workers, consumers and the environment. So, on behalf of American business, and often with their help, the CIA mobilizes the opposition. First it identifies right-wing groups within the country (usually the military), and offers them a deal: "We'll put you in power if you maintain a favorable business climate for us." The Agency then hires, trains and works with them to overthrow the existing government (usually a democracy). It uses every trick in the book: propaganda, stuffed ballot boxes, purchased elections, extortion, blackmail, sexual intrigue, false stories about opponents in the local media, infiltration and disruption of opposing political parties, kidnapping, beating, torture, intimidation, economic sabotage, death squads and even assassination. These efforts culminate in a military coup, which installs a right-wing dictator.

The CIA trains the dictator's security apparatus to crack down on the
traditional enemies of big business, using interrogation, torture and murder. The victims are said to be "communists" but almost always they are just peasants, liberals, moderates, labor union leaders, political opponents and advocates of free speech and democracy. Widespread human rights abuses follow. — Steve Kangas: Timeline of CIA Atrocities

http://www.serendipity.li/cia.html

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