Unfortunately, too many Americans want to believe in the mythology that the US (CIA) goals (Reply #21)

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Wed Nov 24, 2021, 12:35 PM

jalan48 (13,692 posts)

21. Unfortunately, too many Americans want to believe in the mythology that the US (CIA) goals

in other countries is always a noble one (spreading democracy in the Middle East according to George Jr.). I think the reality is that powerful corporate interests use the CIA to work to make other countries "corporate friendly". It's about power and who has it in our country. Too many Americans are indeed children when it comes to politics, hero worship is substituted for political reality. Thanks for your post!

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After JFK assassination, President Truman put his concerns about CIA in print. [View all]	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	OP
I certainly worry about all the intelligence agencies with the secret budgets	captain queeg	Nov 2021	#1
It really is complicated. We need secrecy, but we also need oversight.	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#2
i can't say it was actually the CIA/Oswald	CatWoman	Nov 2021	#3
With so many suspects, it's possible there was cooperation.	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#4
insofar as there was a plot beyond Oswald, it was probably some combination of both	Volaris	Nov 2021	#13
The Mafia and the CIA has/had a long history of cooperation	dflprincess	Nov 2021	#15
Had not seen this before. Thanks. nt	Hekate	Nov 2021	#5
You are welcome! Truman added...	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#18
Dulles and United Fruit	jalan48	Nov 2021	#6
What's good for UFCO is good for America.	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#19
Unfortunately, too many Americans want to believe in the mythology that the US (CIA) goals	jalan48	Nov 2021	#21
There is no doubt in my mind	kellytore	Nov 2021	#7
+1	moondust	Nov 2021	#11
Seven months before Oswald killed JFK he shot at, and missed, General Edwin Walker.	Saboburns	Nov 2021	#17
Just the Magic Bullet by itself is evidence for conspiracy.	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#20
Oswald was not a "trained sharpshooter"	former9thward	Nov 2021	#39
Give 'em hell, Harry!	calimary	Nov 2021	#8
You are welcome! What Truman said...	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#22
Indeed!	calimary	Nov 2021	#26
Read David Talbot's "The Devil's Chessboard"	LymphocyteLover	Nov 2021	#9
Dulles being on the Warren Commission	dflprincess	Nov 2021	#16
Oh, I didn't know that, but I was a...	electric_blue68	Nov 2021	#36
I was there when Talbot first spoke in public about that book.	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#23
Thanks... and there was seriously a media blackout on that book	LymphocyteLover	Nov 2021	#25
'Breach of Trust' by Gerald D. McKnight also is an important read.	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#35
Thanks!	LymphocyteLover	Nov 2021	#41
From what I've read of Allen Dulles, he was the impetus for the permanent classified secrecy that	ancianita	Nov 2021	#10
One secret: the NAZI touch on the Warren Commission.	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#30
Thanks! Yes, indeed, we have to keep our fascist Nazi war connection in mind as we deal with	ancianita	Nov 2021	#40
Here's good book about the shenanigans of the CIA under Allen Dulles.	Lonestarblue	Nov 2021	#12
That's a GREAT book.	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#31
Really interesting articles - thank you for posting!	lagomorph777	Nov 2021	#14
MOST interesting reading. "The Devil's Chessboard."	calimary	Nov 2021	#27
from 'Leave it to Beaver' to Frontline	LessAspin	Nov 2021	#28
"Dulles had even less respect for Jack Kennedy's authority than he did for FDR's."	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#32
Kick for later reading	Poiuyt	Nov 2021	#24
CIA Admitted To Lying About JFK's Assassination, But No One Really Noticed	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#33
Bookmarking. A fascinating thread. The Dulles brothers	Boomerproud	Nov 2021	#29
Talbot "traces the pathology of Dulles and his appalling cabal..."	Kid Berwyn	Nov 2021	#34
Seems to me that in order to have a better...	electric_blue68	Nov 2021	#37
K & R Bookmarked	FakeNoose	Nov 2021	#38

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