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In reply to the discussion: If Britain leaves the EU [View all]nationalize the fed
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The European Union always was a CIA project, as Brexiteers discover
The Telegraph 27 4 2016
Brexiteers should have been prepared for the shattering intervention of the US. The European Union always was an American project.
It was Washington that drove European integration in the late 1940s, and funded it covertly under the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.
While irritated at times, the US has relied on the EU ever since as the anchor to American regional interests alongside NATO...snip
...Nor are many aware of declassified documents from the State Department archives showing that US intelligence funded the European movement secretly for decades, and worked aggressively behind the scenes to push Britain into the project.
As this newspaper first reported when the treasure became available, one memorandum dated July 26, 1950, reveals a campaign to promote a full-fledged European parliament. It is signed by Gen William J Donovan, head of the American wartime Office of Strategic Services, precursor of the Central Inteligence Agency. ...more:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/04/27/the-european-union-always-was-a-cia-project-as-brexiteers-discov/
Euro-federalists financed by US spy chiefs
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels 19 Sep 2000
DECLASSIFIED American government documents show that the US intelligence community ran a campaign in the Fifties and Sixties to build momentum for a united Europe. It funded and directed the European federalist movement...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/1356047/Euro-federalists-financed-by-US-spy-chiefs.html
The US/CIA can't keep from meddling. And the people don't care enough to stop it.
NO THANK EU
Shout OUT!
Vote BREXIT
The Telegraph 27 4 2016
Brexiteers should have been prepared for the shattering intervention of the US. The European Union always was an American project.
It was Washington that drove European integration in the late 1940s, and funded it covertly under the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.
While irritated at times, the US has relied on the EU ever since as the anchor to American regional interests alongside NATO...snip
...Nor are many aware of declassified documents from the State Department archives showing that US intelligence funded the European movement secretly for decades, and worked aggressively behind the scenes to push Britain into the project.
As this newspaper first reported when the treasure became available, one memorandum dated July 26, 1950, reveals a campaign to promote a full-fledged European parliament. It is signed by Gen William J Donovan, head of the American wartime Office of Strategic Services, precursor of the Central Inteligence Agency. ...more:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/04/27/the-european-union-always-was-a-cia-project-as-brexiteers-discov/
Euro-federalists financed by US spy chiefs
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels 19 Sep 2000
DECLASSIFIED American government documents show that the US intelligence community ran a campaign in the Fifties and Sixties to build momentum for a united Europe. It funded and directed the European federalist movement...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/1356047/Euro-federalists-financed-by-US-spy-chiefs.html
The US/CIA can't keep from meddling. And the people don't care enough to stop it.
NO THANK EU
Shout OUT!
Vote BREXIT
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I do not think we should. They want to contribute to a non-unified Europe, they can pay the price
RB TexLa
Jun 2016
#7
That's like saying a friendship is beneficial only because of how old it is. We will survive a
RB TexLa
Jun 2016
#9
"As of 2014, 790,000 people born in Poland were estimated to be resident in the UK"
uppityperson
Jun 2016
#23
UK voters chose entry in the EU which stated ever closer union in its constitution preamble
Albertoo
Jun 2016
#28
What is the existing trade agreement between the US and the EU? TTIP is under negotiation but
pampango
Jun 2016
#38
EU is corporate run to slash wages and benefits by inducing emigration/immigration nt
msongs
Jun 2016
#2
The US 'should' treat them the same but the UK will find that their negotiating clout is diminshed
pampango
Jun 2016
#39
When two good friends divorce I don't see it as my role to take sides or punish one
Lee-Lee
Jun 2016
#43
So let me get this straight. You will not trade with a country that votes to leave the EU but
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2016
#46