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<h2>secret</h2>
<p> JOHN STOCKWELL</p>
<p> THE SECRET WARS OF THE CIA</p>
<p> THE SECRET WARS OF THE <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>
</p>
<p> 10 October 1987</p>
<p> A two-part speech.</p>
<p> Copyright (C) 1987 The Other Americas Radio
John Stockwell is the highest-ranking CIA official ever to leave the
agency and go public. He ran a CIA intelligence-gathering post in
Vietnam, was the task-force commander of the CIA's secret war in
John Stockwell is the highest-ranking <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> official ever to leave the
agency and go public. He ran a <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> intelligence-gathering post in
Vietnam, was the task-force commander of the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>'s secret war in
Angola in 1975 and 1976, and was awarded the Medal of Merit before he
resigned. Stockwell's book In Search of Enemies, published by W.W.
Norton 1978, is an international best-seller. This is a transcript of
@ -63,11 +63,11 @@ the NL.CS.CMU.EDU vax. Also available as a paper manuscript, or
digitally on disk. Write to P.O.Box 81795, Pittsburgh, PA 15217.</p>
<p> PART I</p>
<p> THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL AND THE
CIA'S COVERT ACTIONS IN ANGOLA, CENTRAL AMERICA AND VIETNAM</p>
<p> "I did 13 years in the CIA altogether. I sat on a subcommittee of
<span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>'S COVERT ACTIONS IN ANGOLA, CENTRAL AMERICA AND VIETNAM</p>
<p> "I did 13 years in the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> altogether. I sat on a subcommittee of
the NSC, so I was like a chief of staff, with the GS-18s (like 3-star
generals) Henry Kissinger, Bill Colby (the CIA director), the GS-18s
and the CIA, making the important decisions and my job was to put it
generals) Henry Kissinger, Bill Colby (the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> director), the GS-18s
and the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>, making the important decisions and my job was to put it
all together and make it happen and run it, an interesting place from
which to watch a covert action being done....</p>
<p> I testified for days before the Congress, giving them chapter and
@ -81,9 +81,9 @@ for us....</p>
problem, if you will, for the world, for the U.S. is much, much, much
graver, astronomically graver, than just Angola and Vietnam. I found
that the Senate Church committee has reported, in their study of
covert actions, that the CIA ran several thousand covert actions since
covert actions, that the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> ran several thousand covert actions since
1961, and that the heyday of covert action was before 1961; that we
have run several hundred covert actions a year, and the CIA has been
have run several hundred covert actions a year, and the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> has been
in business for a total of 37 years.</p>
<p> What we're going to talk about tonight is the United States national
security syndrome. We're going to talk about how and why the U.S.
@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ about the Korean war, the Vietnam war, and the Central American war.</p>
<p> Everything I'm going to talk to you about is represented, one way or
another, already in the public records. You can dig it all out for
yourselves, without coming to hear me if you so chose. Books, based
on information gotten out of the CIA under the freedom of information
on information gotten out of the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> under the freedom of information
act, testimony before the Congress, hearings before the Senate Church
committee, research by scholars, witness of people throughout the
world who have been to these target areas that we'll be talking about.
@ -104,8 +104,8 @@ I want to emphasize that my own background is profoundly conservative.
We come from South Texas, East Texas....</p>
<p> I was conditioned by my training, my marine corps training, and my
background, to believe in everything they were saying about the cold
war, and I took the job with great enthusiasm (in the CIA) to join the
best and the brightest of the CIA, of our foreign service, to go out
war, and I took the job with great enthusiasm (in the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>) to join the
best and the brightest of the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>, of our foreign service, to go out
into the world, to join the struggle, to project American values and
save the world for our brand of democracy. And I believed this. I
went out and worked hard....</p>
@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ just couldn't see the point.</p>
<p> We were doing things it seemed because we were there, because it was
our function, we were bribing people, corrupting people, and not
protecting the U.S. in any visible way. I had a chance to go drinking
with this Larry Devlin, a famous CIA case officer who had overthrown
with this Larry Devlin, a famous <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> case officer who had overthrown
Patrice Lumumba, and had him killed in 1960, back in the Congo. He
was moving into the Africa division Chief. I talked to him in Addis
Ababa at length one night, and he was giving me an explanation - I was
@ -142,9 +142,9 @@ necessary for us to intervene.'</p>
<p> I went back to Washington, however, and I found that others shared
my concern. A formal study was done in the State Department and
published internally, highly classified, called the Macomber [sp?]
report, concluding that the CIA had no business being in Africa for
report, concluding that the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> had no business being in Africa for
anything it was known to be doing, that our presence there was not
justified, there were no national security interests that the CIA
justified, there were no national security interests that the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>
could address any better than the ambassador himself. We didn't need
to have bribery and corruption as a tool for doing business in Africa
at that time.</p>
@ -152,12 +152,12 @@ at that time.</p>
career, and my life, began to get a little bit more serious. They
assigned me a country. It was during the cease-fire, '73 to '75.
There was no cease-fire. Young men were being slaughtered. I saw a
slaughter. 300 young men that the South <span class="NORP">Vietnamese</span> army ambushed.
slaughter. 300 young men that the South <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Vietnamese</span> army ambushed.
Their bodies brought in and laid out in a lot next to my compound. I
was up-country in Tayninh. They were laid out next door, until the
families could come and claim them and take them away for burial.</p>
<p> I thought about this. I had to work with the sadistic police chief.
When I reported that he liked to carve people with knives in the CIA
When I reported that he liked to carve people with knives in the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>
safe-house - when I reported this to my bosses, they said, '(1). The
post was too important to close down. (2). They weren't going to get
the man transferred or fired because that would make problems,
@ -166,29 +166,29 @@ operations he worked on. (3). Therefore if I didn't have the stomach
for the job, that they could transfer me.'</p>
<p> But they hastened to point out, if I did demonstrate a lack of
'moral fiber' to handle working with the sadistic police chief, that I
wouldn't get another good job in the CIA, it would be a mark against
wouldn't get another good job in the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>, it would be a mark against
my career.</p>
<p> So I kept the job, I closed the safe-house down, I told my staff
that I didn't approve of that kind of activity, and I proceeded to
work with him for the next 2 years, pretending that I had reformed
him, and he didn't do this sort of thing anymore. The parallel is
obvious with El Salvador today, where the CIA, the state department,
obvious with El Salvador today, where the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>, the state department,
works with the death squads.</p>
<p> They don't meet the death squads on the streets where they're
actually chopping up people or laying them down on the street and
running trucks over their heads. The CIA people in San Salvador meet
running trucks over their heads. The <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> people in San Salvador meet
the police chiefs, and the people who run the death squads, and they
do liaise with them, they meet them beside the swimming pool of the
villas. And it's a sophisticated, civilized kind of relationship.
And they talk about their children, who are going to school at UCLA or
Harvard and other schools, and they don't talk about the horrors of
what's being done. They pretend like it isn't true.</p>
<p> What I ran into in addition to that was a corruption in the CIA and
<p> What I ran into in addition to that was a corruption in the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> and
the intelligence business that made me question very seriously what it
was all about, including what I was doing ... risking my life ... what
I found was that the CIA, us, the case officers, were not permitted to
report about the corruption in the South <span class="NORP">Vietnamese</span> army....</p>
<p> Now, the corruption was so bad, that the S. <span class="NORP">Vietnamese</span> army was a
I found was that the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>, us, the case officers, were not permitted to
report about the corruption in the South <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Vietnamese</span> army....</p>
<p> Now, the corruption was so bad, that the S. <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Vietnamese</span> army was a
skeleton army. Colonels would let the troops go home if they would
come in once a month and sign the pay vouchers so the colonel could
pocket the money. Then he could sell half of the uniforms and boots
@ -208,14 +208,14 @@ out was that in this job, I would sit on a sub-committee of the
National Security Council, this office that Larry Devlin has told me
about where they had access to all the information about Angola, about
the whole world, and I would finally understand national security.
And I couldn't resist the opportunity to know. I knew the CIA was not
And I couldn't resist the opportunity to know. I knew the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> was not
a worthwhile organization, I had learned that the hard way. But the
question was where did the U.S. government fit into this thing, and I
had a chance to see for myself in the next big secret war....</p>
<p> I wanted to know if wise men were making difficult decisions based
on truly important, threatening information, threatening to our
national security interests. If that had been the case, I still
planned to get out of the CIA, but I would know that the system, the
planned to get out of the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>, but I would know that the system, the
invisible government, our national security complex, was in fact
justified and worth while. And so I took the job.... Suffice it to
say I wouldn't be standing in front of you tonight if I had found
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got Nicaragua.... the basic structure, all the way through including
the mining of harbors, we addressed all of these issues. The point is
that the U.S. led the way at every step of the escalation of the
fighting. We said it was the Soviets and the <span class="NORP">Cubans</span> that were doing
fighting. We said it was the Soviets and the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Cubans</span> that were doing
it. It was the U.S. that was escalating the fighting. There would
have been no war if we hadn't gone in first. We put arms in, they put
arms in. We put advisors in, they answered with advisors. We put in
Zairian para-commando battalions, they put in <span class="NORP">Cuban</span> army troops. We
brought in the S. <span class="NORP">African</span> army, they brought in the <span class="NORP">Cuban</span> army. And
Zairian para-commando battalions, they put in <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Cuban</span> army troops. We
brought in the S. <span class="NORP" title="NORP">African</span> army, they brought in the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Cuban</span> army. And
they pushed us away. They blew us away because we were lying, we were
covering ourselves with lies, and they were telling the truth. And it
was not a war that we could fight. We didn't have interests there
that should have been defended that way.</p>
<p> There was never a study run that evaluated the MPLA, FNLA and UNITA,
the three movements in the country, to decide which one was the better
one. The assistant secretary of state for <span class="NORP">African</span> affairs, Nathaniel
one. The assistant secretary of state for <span class="NORP" title="NORP">African</span> affairs, Nathaniel
Davis, no bleeding-heart liberal (he was known by some people in the
business as the butcher of Santiago), he said we should stay out of
the conflict and work with whoever eventually won, and that was
@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ they didn't want to be pushed into the arms of the Soviet Union; they
begged us not to fight them, they wanted to work with us. We said
they wanted a cheap victory, they wanted a walk-over, they wanted to
be un-opposed, that we wouldn't give them a cheap victory, we would
make them earn it, so to speak. And we did. 10000 <span class="NORP">African</span>s died and
make them earn it, so to speak. And we did. 10000 <span class="NORP" title="NORP">African</span>s died and
they won the victory that they were winning anyway.</p>
<p> Now, the most significant thing that I got out of all of this, in
addition to the fact that our rationales were basically false, was
@ -263,13 +263,13 @@ this global operation, pulling strings all over the world to focus
pressure onto Angola, and military activities into Angola, one third
of my staff was propagandists, who were working, in every way they
could think of, to get stories into the U.S. press, the world press,
to create this picture of <span class="NORP">Cubans</span> raping Angolans, <span class="NORP">Cubans</span> and Soviets
introducing arms into the conflict, <span class="NORP">Cubans</span> and <span class="NORP">Russians</span> trying to take
to create this picture of <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Cubans</span> raping Angolans, <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Cubans</span> and Soviets
introducing arms into the conflict, <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Cubans</span> and <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Russians</span> trying to take
over the world.</p>
<p> Our ambassador to the United Nations, Patrick Moynihan, he read
continuous statements of our position to the Security Council, the
general assembly, and the press conferences, saying the <span class="NORP">Russians</span> and
<span class="NORP">Cubans</span> were responsible for the conflict, and that we were staying
general assembly, and the press conferences, saying the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Russians</span> and
<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Cubans</span> were responsible for the conflict, and that we were staying
out, and that we deplored the militarization of the conflict.</p>
<p> And every statement he made was false. And every statement he made
was originated in the sub-committee of the NSC that I sat on as we
@ -279,26 +279,26 @@ Four paragraphs. We would call him on the phone and say, 'call us 10
minutes before you go on, the situation could change overnight, we'll
tell you which paragraph to read. And all four paragraphs would be
false. Nothing to do with the truth. Designed to play on events, to
create this impression of Soviet and <span class="NORP">Cuban</span> aggression in Angola. When
create this impression of Soviet and <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Cuban</span> aggression in Angola. When
they were in fact responding to our initiatives.</p>
<p> And the CIA director was required by law to brief the Congress.
This CIA director Bill Colby - the same one that dumped our people in
<p> And the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> director was required by law to brief the Congress.
This <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> director Bill Colby - the same one that dumped our people in
Vietnam - he gave 36 briefings of the Congress, the oversight
committees, about what we were doing in Angola. And he lied. At 36
formal briefings. And such lies are perjury, and it's a felony to lie
to the Congress.</p>
<p> He lied about our relationship with South Africa. We were working
closely with the South <span class="NORP">African</span> army, giving them our arms,
closely with the South <span class="NORP" title="NORP">African</span> army, giving them our arms,
coordinating battles with them, giving them fuel for their tanks and
armored cars. He said we were staying well away from them. They were
concerned about these white mercenaries that were appearing in Angola,
a very sensitive issue, hiring whites to go into a black <span class="NORP">African</span>
country, to help you impose your will on that black <span class="NORP">African</span> country by
a very sensitive issue, hiring whites to go into a black <span class="NORP" title="NORP">African</span>
country, to help you impose your will on that black <span class="NORP" title="NORP">African</span> country by
killing the blacks, a very sensitive issue. The Congress was
concerned we might be involved in that, and he assured them we had
nothing to do with it.</p>
<p> We had in fact formed four little mercenary armies and delivered
them into Angola to do this dirty business for the CIA. And he lied
them into Angola to do this dirty business for the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>. And he lied
to them about that. They asked if we were putting arms into the
conflict, and he said no, and we were. They asked if we had advisors
inside the country, and he said 'no, we had people going in to look at
@ -311,10 +311,10 @@ would be alive that were killed in the thing. The outcome might have
been peaceful, or at least much less bloody. The MPLA was winning
when we went in, and they went ahead and won, which was, according to
our consul, the best thing for the country.</p>
<p> At the end of this thing the <span class="NORP">Cubans</span> were entrenched in Angola, seen
<p> At the end of this thing the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Cubans</span> were entrenched in Angola, seen
in the eyes of much of the world as being the heroes that saved these
people from the CIA and S. <span class="NORP">African</span> forces. We had allied the U.S.
literally and in the eyes of the world with the S. <span class="NORP">African</span> army, and
people from the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> and S. <span class="NORP" title="NORP">African</span> forces. We had allied the U.S.
literally and in the eyes of the world with the S. <span class="NORP" title="NORP">African</span> army, and
that's illegal, and it's impolitic. We had hired white mercenaries
and eventually been identified with them. And that's illegal, and
it's impolitic. And our lies had been visible lies. We were caught
@ -323,17 +323,17 @@ out on those lies. And the world saw the U.S. as liars.</p>
did the MPLA do after they had won? Were they lying when they said
they wanted to be our friends? 3 weeks after we were shut down... the
MPLA had Gulf oil back in Angola, pumping the Angolan oil from the
oilfields, with U.S. gulf technicians protected by <span class="NORP">Cuban</span> soldiers,
protecting them from CIA mercenaries who were still mucking around in
<span class="PERSON">Northern</span> Angola.</p>
oilfields, with U.S. gulf technicians protected by <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Cuban</span> soldiers,
protecting them from <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> mercenaries who were still mucking around in
<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Northern</span> Angola.</p>
<p> You can't trust a communist, can you? They proceeded to buy five
737 jets from Boeing Aircraft in Seattle. And they brought in 52 U.S.
technicians to install the radar systems to land and take-off those
planes. They didn't buy [the Soviet Union's] Aeroflot.... David
<span class="PERSON">Rockefeller</span> himself tours S. Africa and comes back and holds press
<span class="PERSON" title="PERSON">Rockefeller</span> himself tours S. Africa and comes back and holds press
conferences, in which he says that we have no problem doing business
with the so-called radical states of Southern Africa.</p>
<p> I left the CIA, I decided that the American people needed to know
<p> I left the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>, I decided that the American people needed to know
what we'd done in Angola, what we'd done in Vietnam. I wrote my book.
I was fortunate - I got it out. It was a best-seller. A lot of
people read it. I was able to take my story to the American people.
@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ Bernard Cord and Phyllis Cord, to see - these were all educated
people, and experienced people - and they had a theory, they had
something they wanted to do, they had rationales and explanations -
and I went repeatedly to hear them. And then of course I saw the
U.S., the CIA mounting a covert action against them, I saw us
U.S., the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> mounting a covert action against them, I saw us
orchestrating our plan to invade the country. 19 days before he was
killed, I was in Grenada talking to Maurice Bishop about these things,
these indicators, the statements in the press by Ronald Reagan, and he
@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ leadership, to talk to the people, to look and see what happens when
you give white phosporous or grenades or bombs or bullets to people,
and they go inside a country, to go and talk to the people, who have
been shot, or hit, or blown up....</p>
<p> We're talking about 10 to 20 thousand covert actions [the CIA has
<p> We're talking about 10 to 20 thousand covert actions [the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> has
performed since 1961]. What I found was that lots and lots of people
have been killed in these things.... Some of them are very, very
bloody.</p>
@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ concluded that this was a model operation that should be copied
elsewhere in the world. Not only did it eliminate the effective
communist party (Indonesian communist party), it also eliminated the
entire segment of the population that tended to support the communist
party - the ethnic Chinese, Indonesian Chinese. And the CIA's report
party - the ethnic Chinese, Indonesian Chinese. And the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>'s report
put the number of dead at 800000 killed. And that was one covert
action. We're talking about 1 to 3 million people killed in these
things.</p>
@ -411,16 +411,16 @@ you're killing 1 to 3 million communists, that's great. President
Reagan has gone public and said he would reduce the Soviet Union to a
pile of ashes. The problem, though, is that these people killed by
our national security activities are not communists. They're not
<span class="NORP">Russians</span>, they're not KGB. In the field we used to play chess with
<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Russians</span>, they're not KGB. In the field we used to play chess with
the KGB officers, and have drinks with them. It was like professional
football players - we would knock heads on <span class="LOC">Sunday</span>, maybe in an
football players - we would knock heads on Sunday, maybe in an
operation, and then Tuesday you're at a banquet together drinking
toasts and talking.</p>
<p> The people that are dying in these things are people of the third
world. That's the common denominator that you come up with. People of
the third world. People that have the misfortune of being born in the
Metumba mountains of the Congo, in the jungles of Southeast Asia, and
now in the hills of northern Nicaragua. Far more Catholics than
now in the hills of northern Nicaragua. Far more <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholics</span> than
communists, far more Buddhists than communists. Most of them couldn't
give you an intelligent definition of communism, or of capitalism.</p>
<p> Central America has been a traditional target of U.S. dominion. If
@ -433,31 +433,31 @@ Europe, from competing with us in the area.</p>
military this has been, between 1900 and W.W. II, we had 5000 marines
in Nicaragua for a total of 28 years. We invaded the Dominican
Republic 4 times. Haiti, we occupied it for 12 years. We put our
troops into Cuba 4 times, Panama 6 times, Guatemala once, plus a CIA
troops into Cuba 4 times, Panama 6 times, Guatemala once, plus a <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>
covert action to overthrow the democratic government there once.
Honduras, 7 times. And by the way, we put 12000 troops into the
Soviet Union during that same period of time.</p>
<p> In the 1930's there was public and international pressure about our
marines in Nicaragua....</p>
<p> The next three leaders of Guatemala [after the CIA installed the
<p> The next three leaders of Guatemala [after the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> installed the
puppet, Colonel Armaz in a coup] died violent deaths, and amnesty
international tells us that the governments we've supported in power
there since then, have killed 80000 people. You can read about that
one in the book Bitter Fruit, by Schlesinger and Kinzer. [5] Kinzer's
a New York Times Journalist... or Jonathan Kwitny, the Wall Street
a <span class="ORG" title="ORG">New York Times</span> Journalist... or Jonathan Kwitny, the Wall Street
Journal reporter, his book Endless Enemies [7] - all discuss this....</p>
<p> However, the money, the millions and millions of dollars we put into
this program [helping Central America] inevitably went to the rich,
and not to the people of the countries involved. And while we were
doing this, while we were trying, at least saying we were trying, to
correct the problems of Central and Latin America, the CIA was doing
its thing, too. The CIA was in fact forming the police units that are
today the death squads in El Salvador. With the leaders on the CIA's
payroll, trained by the CIA and the United States.</p>
correct the problems of Central and Latin America, the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> was doing
its thing, too. The <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> was in fact forming the police units that are
today the death squads in El Salvador. With the leaders on the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>'s
payroll, trained by the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> and the United States.</p>
<p> We had the 'public safety program' going throughout Central and
Latin America for 26 years, in which we taught them to break up
subversion by interrogating people. Interrogation, including torture,
the way the CIA taught it. Dan Metrione, the famous exponent of these
the way the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> taught it. Dan Metrione, the famous exponent of these
things, did 7 years in Brazil and 3 in Uruguay, teaching
interrogation, teaching torture. He was supposed to be the master of
the business, how to apply the right amount of pain, at just the right
@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ bring in doctors and shoot them up with vitamin B and rest them up for
the next class. And when they would die, they would mutilate the
bodies and throw them out on the streets, to terrify the population so
they would be afraid of the police and the government.</p>
<p> And this is what the CIA was teaching them to do. And one of the
<p> And this is what the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> was teaching them to do. And one of the
women who was in this program for 2 years - tortured in Brazil for 2
years - she testified internationally when she eventually got out.
She said, 'The most horrible thing about it was in fact, that the
@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ only Gestapo maniacs, or KGB maniacs, that do inhuman things to other
people, it's people that do inhuman things to other people. And we
are responsible for doing these things, on a massive basis, to people
of the world today. And we do it in a way that gives us this
plausible denial to our own consciences; we create a CIA, a secret
plausible denial to our own consciences; we create a <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>, a secret
police, we give them a vast budget, and we let them go and run these
programs in our name, and we pretend like we don't know it's going on,
although the information is there for us to know; and we pretend like
@ -513,15 +513,15 @@ It's a classic de-stabilization program. In November 16, 1981,
President Reagan allocated 19 million dollars to form an army, a force
of contras, they're called, ex-Somoza national guards, the monsters
who were doing the torture and terror in Nicaragua that made the
<span class="NORP">Nicaraguan</span> people rise up and throw out the dictator, and throw out
<span class="NORP" title="NORP">Nicaraguan</span> people rise up and throw out the dictator, and throw out
the guard. We went back to create an army of these people. We are
killing, and killing, and terrorizing people. Not only in Nicaragua
but the Congress has leaked to the press - reported in the New York
but the Congress has leaked to the press - reported in the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">New York</span>
Times, that there are 50 covert actions going around the world today,
CIA covert actions going on around the world today.</p>
<span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> covert actions going on around the world today.</p>
<p> You have to be asking yourself, why are we destabilizing 50 corners
of the troubled world? Why are we about to go to war in Nicaragua,
the Central American war? It is the function, I suggest, of the CIA,
the Central American war? It is the function, I suggest, of the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>,
with its 50 de-stabilization programs going around the world today, to
keep the world unstable, and to propagandize the American people to
hate, so we will let the establishment spend any amount of money on
@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ the defense department.</p>
<p> They're building detention centers. There were 8 kept as mothballs
under the McLaren act after World War II, to detain aliens and
dissidents in the next war, as was done in the next war, as was done
with the <span class="NORP">Japanese</span> people during World War II. They're building 10
with the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Japanese</span> people during World War II. They're building 10
more, and army camps, and the... executive memos about these things
say it's for aliens and dissidents in the next national emergency....</p>
<p> FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, headed by Loius
@ -616,15 +616,16 @@ movie stars one day, or are we going to stand up and fight, and insist
on our freedoms?' It's up to us - you and I can watch this history
play in the next year and 2 and 3 years.</p>
<p> PART II</p>
<p> CIA COVERT OPERATIONS IN CENTRAL AMERICA, CIA MANIPULATION
OF THE PRESS, CIA EXPERIMENTATION ON THE U.S. PUBLIC</p>
<p> I just got my latest book back from the CIA censors. If I had not
<p>
<span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> COVERT OPERATIONS IN CENTRAL AMERICA, <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> MANIPULATION
OF THE PRESS, <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> EXPERIMENTATION ON THE U.S. PUBLIC</p>
<p> I just got my latest book back from the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> censors. If I had not
submitted it to them, I would have gone to jail, without trial - blow
off juries and all that sort of thing - for having violated our
censorship laws....</p>
<p> In that job [Angola] I sat on a sub-committee of the NSC, so I was
like a chief of staff, with the GS-18s (like 3-star generals) Henry
Kissinger, Bill Colby (the CIA director), the GS-18s and the CIA,
Kissinger, Bill Colby (the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> director), the GS-18s and the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>,
making important decisions and my job was to put it all together and
make it happen and run it, an interesting place from which to watch a
covert action being done....</p>
@ -634,7 +635,7 @@ they erased the board and started over has been to have big world
wars, and erase countries and bomb cities and bomb banks and then
start from scratch again. This is not an option to us now because of
all these 52000 nuclear weapons....</p>
<p> The United States CIA is running 50 covert actions, destabilizing
<p> The United States <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> is running 50 covert actions, destabilizing
further almost one third of the countries in the world today....</p>
<p> By the way, everything I'm sharing with you tonight is in the public
record. The 50 covert actions - these are secret, but that has been
@ -651,7 +652,7 @@ and excited to do things that are not in your interest to do....</p>
one. Afghanistan is, we spent several hundred million dollars in
Afghanistan. We've spent somewhat less than that, but close, in
Nicaragua....</p>
<p> [When the U.S. doesn't like a government], they send the CIA in,
<p> [When the U.S. doesn't like a government], they send the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> in,
with its resources and activists, hiring people, hiring agents, to
tear apart the social and economic fabric of the country, as a
technique for putting pressure on the government, hoping that they can
@ -682,7 +683,7 @@ government offices, schools, health centers. They ambush trucks so
the produce can't get to market. They raid farms and villages. The
farmer has to carry a gun while he tries to plow, if he can plow at
all.</p>
<p> If you want one example of hard proof of the CIA's involvement in
<p> If you want one example of hard proof of the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>'s involvement in
this, and their approach to it, dig up 'The Sabotage Manual', that
they were circulating throughout Nicaragua, a comic-book type of a
paper, with visual explanations of what you can do to bring a society
@ -714,7 +715,7 @@ contras are the people president Reagan calls 'freedom fighters'. He
says they're the moral equivalent of our founding fathers. And the
whole world gasps at this confession of his family traditions.</p>
<p> Read Contra Terror by Reed Brodie [1], former assistant Attorney
General of New York State. Read The Contras by Dieter Eich. [4] Read
General of <span class="GPE" title="GPE">New York</span> State. Read The Contras by Dieter Eich. [4] Read
With the Contras by Christopher Dickey. [2] This is a main-line
journalist, down there on a grant with the Council on Foreign
Relations, a slightly to the right of the middle of the road
@ -727,7 +728,7 @@ are many, many more documentations of details, of names, of the
incidents that have happened.</p>
<p> Part of a de-stabilization is propaganda, to dis-credit the targeted
government. This one actually began under Jimmy Carter. He
authorized the CIA to go in and try to make the Sandinistas look to be
authorized the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> to go in and try to make the Sandinistas look to be
evil. So in 1979 [when] they came in to power, immediately we were
trying to cast them as totalitarian, evil, threatening Marxists.
While they abolished the death sentence, while they released 8000
@ -771,7 +772,7 @@ witnessed in Central America in many years. We said they were
fraudulent, they were rigged, because it was a totalitarian system.
Instead we said, the elections that were held in El Salvador were
models of democracy to be copied elsewhere in the world. And then the
truth came out about that one. And we learned that the CIA had spent
truth came out about that one. And we learned that the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> had spent
2.2 million dollars to make sure that their choice of candidates -
Duarte - would win. They did everything, we're told, by one of their
spokesmen, indirectly, but stuff the ballot boxes....</p>
@ -785,23 +786,23 @@ them, we're dying to catch them getting arms from the Soviet Union,
flying things back and forth to Cuba. We have airplanes and picket
ships watching everything that flies out of that country, and into it.
How are they going to have a steady flow of drug-smuggling planes into
the U.S.? Not likely! However, there are <span class="NORP">Nicaraguan</span>s, on these bases
in Honduras, that have planes flying into CIA training camps in
the U.S.? Not likely! However, there are <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Nicaraguan</span>s, on these bases
in Honduras, that have planes flying into <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> training camps in
Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, several times a week.</p>
<p> Now, obviously i'm not going to stand in front of you and say that
the CIA might be involved in drug trafficking, am I? READ THE BOOK.
Read The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. For 20 years the CIA
the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> might be involved in drug trafficking, am I? READ THE BOOK.
Read The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. For 20 years the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>
was helping the Kuomantang to finance itself and then to get rich,
smuggling heroin. When we took over from the French in 1954 their
intelligence service had been financing itself by smuggling the heroin
out of Laos. We replaced them - we put Air America, the CIA
out of Laos. We replaced them - we put Air America, the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>
subsidiary - it would fly in with crates marked humanitarian aid,
which were arms, and it would fly back out with heroin. And the first
target, market, of this heroin was the U.S. GI's in Vietnam. If
anybody in Nicaragua is smuggling drugs, it's the contras. Now i've
been saying that since the state department started waving this red
herring around a couple of years ago, and the other day you notice
President Reagan said that the <span class="NORP">Nicaraguan</span>s, the Sandinistas, were
President Reagan said that the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Nicaraguan</span>s, the Sandinistas, were
smuggling drugs, and the DEA said, 'it ain't true, the contras are
smuggling drugs'.</p>
<p> We claim the Sandinistas are responsible for the terrorism that's
@ -827,11 +828,11 @@ Soviet bastion in this hemisphere. And that's true. They do have a
lot of arms in there now. But the question is, how did they get
invited in? You have to ask yourself, what's the purpose of this
destabilization program? For this I direct you back to the Newsweek
article in Sept. 1981, where they announce the fact that the CIA was
article in Sept. 1981, where they announce the fact that the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> was
beginning to put together this force of Somoza's ex-guard. Newsweek
described it as 'the only truly evil, totally unacceptable factor in
the <span class="NORP">Nicaraguan</span> equation'. They noted that neither the white house nor
the CIA pretended it ever could have a chance of winning. So then
the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Nicaraguan</span> equation'. They noted that neither the white house nor
the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> pretended it ever could have a chance of winning. So then
they asked, rhetorically, 'what's the point?' and they concluded that
the point is that by attacking the country, you can force the
Sandinistas into a more radical position, from which you have more
@ -844,13 +845,14 @@ plan of the Reagan Administration to have a war in Nicaragua, they
have been working on this since 1981, they have been stopped by the
will of the American people so far, but they're working harder than
ever to engineer their war there.</p>
<p> Now, CIA destabilizations are nothing new, they didn't begin with
<p> Now, <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> destabilizations are nothing new, they didn't begin with
Nicaragua. We've done it before, once or twice. Like the Church
committee, investigating CIA covert action in 1975, found that we had
committee, investigating <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> covert action in 1975, found that we had
run several hundred a year, and we'd been in the business of running
covert actions, the CIA has, for 4 decades. You're talking about 10
covert actions, the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> has, for 4 decades. You're talking about 10
to 20 thousand covert actions.</p>
<p> CIA apologists leap up and say, 'well, most of these things are not
<p>
<span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> apologists leap up and say, 'well, most of these things are not
so bloody'. And that's true. You're giving a politician some money
so he'll throw his party in this direction or that one, or make false
speeches on your behalf, or something like that. It may be
@ -860,14 +862,14 @@ world in which law, rules of behaviour, are respected, or is it going
to be a world of bullies, where the strongest can violate and
brutalize the weakest, and ignore the laws?</p>
<p> But many of these things are very bloody indeed, and we know a lot
about a lot of them. Investigations by the Congress, testimony by CIA
directors, testimony by CIA case officers, books written by CIA case
about a lot of them. Investigations by the Congress, testimony by <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>
directors, testimony by <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> case officers, books written by <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> case
officers, documents gotten out of the government under the freedom of
information act, books that are written by by pulitzer-prize-winning
journalists who've documented their cases. And you can go and read
from these things, classic CIA operations that we know about, some of
from these things, classic <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> operations that we know about, some of
them very bloody indeed. Guatemala 1954, Brazil, Guyana, Chile, the
Congo, Iran, Panama, Peru, Bolivia, Equador, Uruguay - the CIA
Congo, Iran, Panama, Peru, Bolivia, Equador, Uruguay - the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>
organized the overthrow of constitutional democracies. Read the book
Covert Action: 35 years of Deception by the journalist Godswood. [6]
Remember the Henry Kissinger quote before the Congress when he was
@ -882,26 +884,26 @@ Vietnam, very much like the one that we're running in Nicaragua today,
that tracked us directly into the Vietnam war. Read the book, The
Hidden History of the Korean War by I. F. Stone. [14] Read Deadly
Deceits by Ralph McGehee [9] for the Vietnam story. In Thailand, the
Congo, Laos, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Honduras, the CIA put together large
Congo, Laos, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Honduras, the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> put together large
standing armies. In Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, the Congo,
Iran, Nicaragua, and Sri Lanka, the CIA armed and encouraged ethnic
Iran, Nicaragua, and Sri Lanka, the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> armed and encouraged ethnic
minorities to rise up and fight. The first thing we began doing in
Nicaragua, 1981 was to fund an element of the Mesquite indians, to
give them money and training and arms, so they could rise up and fight
against the government in Managua. In El Salvador, Vietnam, Korea,
Iran, Uganda and the Congo, the CIA helped form and train the death
Iran, Uganda and the Congo, the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> helped form and train the death
squads.</p>
<p> In El Salvador specifically, under the 'Alliance for Progress' in
the early 1960's, the CIA helped put together the treasury police.
the early 1960's, the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> helped put together the treasury police.
These are the people that haul people out at night today, and run
trucks over their heads. These are the people that the Catholic
trucks over their heads. These are the people that the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholic</span>
church tells us, have killed something over 50000 civilians in the
last 5 years. And we have testimony before our Congress that as late
as 1982, leaders of the treasury police were still on the CIA payroll.</p>
as 1982, leaders of the treasury police were still on the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> payroll.</p>
<p> Then you have the 'Public Safety Program.' I have to take just a
minute on this one because it's a very important principle involved
that we must understand, if we're to understand ourselves and the
world that we live in. In this one, the CIA was working with police
world that we live in. In this one, the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> was working with police
forces throughout Latin America for about 26 years, teaching them how
to wrap up subversive networks by capturing someone and interrogating
them, torturing them, and then getting names and arresting the others
@ -913,7 +915,7 @@ investigate it, and they found the horror that was being done, and by
law they forced it to stop. You can read these reports -- the Amnesty
International findings, and our own Congressional hearings.</p>
<p> These things kill people. 800000 in Indonesia alone according to
CIA's estimate, 12000 in Nicaragua, 10000 in the Angolan operation
<span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>'s estimate, 12000 in Nicaragua, 10000 in the Angolan operation
that I was sitting on in Washington, managing the task force. They
add up. We'll never know how many people have been killed in them.
Obviously a lot. Obviously at least a million. 800000 in Indonesia
@ -933,12 +935,12 @@ wars, they're people of the third world, they're citizens of countries
that are too small to defend them from United States brutality and
aggression. They're people of the Metumba mountains of the Congo, and
the jungles of Southeast Asia, and now the hills of northern Nicaragua
- 12000 peasants. We have not killed KGB or <span class="NORP">Russian</span> army advisors in
Nicaragua. We are not killing <span class="NORP">Cuban</span> advisors. We're not killing very
- 12000 peasants. We have not killed KGB or <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Russian</span> army advisors in
Nicaragua. We are not killing <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Cuban</span> advisors. We're not killing very
many Sandinistas. The 12000 that we have killed in Nicaragua are
peasants, who have the misfortune of living in a CIA's chosen
peasants, who have the misfortune of living in a <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>'s chosen
battlefield. Mostly women and children. Communists? Far, far, far
more Catholics than anything else.</p>
more <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Catholics</span> than anything else.</p>
<p> Now case officers that do these things in places in Nicaragua, they
do not come back to the U.S. and click their heels and suddenly become
responsible citizens. They see themselves - they have been
@ -969,9 +971,9 @@ were destabilizing Cuba for 7 years - we launched the swine fever
epidemic, in the hog population, trying to kill out all of the pigs -
a virus. We experimented in Haiti on the people with viruses.</p>
<p> I'm not saying, I do not have the slightest shred of evidence, that
there is any truth or indication to the rumor that the CIA and its
there is any truth or indication to the rumor that the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> and its
experimentations were responsible for AIDS. But we do have it
documented that the CIA has been experimenting on people, with
documented that the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> has been experimenting on people, with
viruses. And now we have some deadly, killer viruses running around
in society. And it has to make you wonder, and it has to make you
worry.</p>
@ -986,45 +988,45 @@ dig up the Congressional record and read it for yourself.</p>
<p> There's one book called 'In Search of the Manchurian Candidate'.
It's written by John Marks, based on 14000 documents gotten out of
the government under the Freedom of Information Act. Read for
yourselves. The thing was shut down but not one CIA case officer who
yourselves. The thing was shut down but not one <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> case officer who
was involved was in any way punished. Not one case officer involved
in these experimentations on the American public, lost a single
paycheck for what they had done.</p>
<p> The Church committee found that the CIA had co-opted several hundred
<p> The Church committee found that the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> had co-opted several hundred
journalists, including some of the biggest names in the business, to
pump its propaganda stories into our media, to teach us to hate Fidel
Castro, and Ho Chi Minh, and the Chinese, and whomever. The latest
flap or scandal we had about that was a year and a half ago. Lesley
Gelp, the heavyweight with the New York Times, was exposed for having
been working covertly with the CIA in 1978 to recruit journalists in
Gelp, the heavyweight with the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">New York Times</span>, was exposed for having
been working covertly with the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> in 1978 to recruit journalists in
Europe, who would introduce stories, print stories that would create
sympathy for the neutron bomb.</p>
<p> The Church committee found that they had published over 1000 books,
paying someone to write a book, the CIA puts its propaganda lines in
paying someone to write a book, the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> puts its propaganda lines in
it, the professor or the scholar gets credit for the book and gets the
royalties. The latest flap we had about that was last year. A
professor at Harvard was exposed for accepting 105000 dollars from
the CIA to write a book about the Middle East. Several thousand
professors and graduate students co-opted by the CIA to run its
the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> to write a book about the Middle East. Several thousand
professors and graduate students co-opted by the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> to run its
operations on campuses and build files on students.</p>
<p> And then we have evidence - now, which has been hard to collect in
the past but we knew it was happening - of CIA agents participating,
the past but we knew it was happening - of <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> agents participating,
trying to manipulate, our elections. FDN, Contra commanders,
traveling this country on CIA plane tickets, going on television and
traveling this country on <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> plane tickets, going on television and
pin-pointing a Congressional and saying, 'That man is soft on
Communism. That man is a Sandinista lover.' A CIA agent going on
Communism. That man is a Sandinista lover.' A <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> agent going on
television, trying to manipulate our elections.</p>
<p> All of this, to keep America safe for freedom and democracy.</p>
<p> In Nicaragua the objective is to stop the <span class="NORP">Cuban</span> and Soviet
<p> In Nicaragua the objective is to stop the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Cuban</span> and Soviet
take-over, we say. Another big operation in which we said the same
thing was Angola, 1975, my little war. We were saying exactly the
same thing - <span class="NORP">Cubans</span> and Soviets.</p>
same thing - <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Cubans</span> and Soviets.</p>
<p> Now I will not going into great detail about this one tonight
because I wrote a book about it, I detailed it. And you can get a
copy of that book and read it for yourselves. I have to urge you,
however - please do not rush out and buy a copy of that book because
the CIA sued me. All of my profits go to the CIA, so if you buy a
copy of the book you'll be donating 65 cents to the CIA. So check it
the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> sued me. All of my profits go to the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>, so if you buy a
copy of the book you'll be donating 65 cents to the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>. So check it
out from your library!</p>
<p> If you have to buy a copy, well buy one copy and share it with all
your friends. If your bookstore is doing real well and you want to
@ -1032,10 +1034,10 @@ just sort of put a copy down in your belt...</p>
<p> I don't know what the solution is when a society gets into
censorship, government censorship, but that's what we're in now. Do
the rules change? I just got my book back, my latest book back from
the CIA censors. If I had not submitted it to them, I would have gone
the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> censors. If I had not submitted it to them, I would have gone
to jail, without trial - blow off juries and all that sort of thing -
for having violated our censorship laws....</p>
<p> So now we have the CIA running the operation in Nicaragua, lying to
<p> So now we have the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> running the operation in Nicaragua, lying to
us, running 50 covert actions, and gearing us up for our next war, the
Central American war. Let there be no doubt about it, President
Reagan has a fixation on Nicaragua. He came into office saying that
@ -1077,8 +1079,8 @@ have over 200 incidents in which we put our troops into other
countries to force them to our will. Now we're being prepared to hate
the Sandinistas. The leaders are doing exactly what they have done
time and again throughout history. In the past we were taught to hate
and fight the Seminole <span class="NORP">Indians</span>, after the leaders decided to annex
Florida. To hate and fight the Cherokee <span class="NORP">Indians</span> after they found gold
and fight the Seminole <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Indians</span>, after the leaders decided to annex
Florida. To hate and fight the Cherokee <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Indians</span> after they found gold
in Georgia. To hate and fight Mexico twice. We annexed Texas, New
Mexico, Arizona, part of Colorado, and California.</p>
<p> In each of these wars the leaders have worked to organize, to
@ -1093,7 +1095,7 @@ army, to be made into fertilizer'. She was jailed for 5 years for
anti-war talk.</p>
<p> The lessons of the Vietnam war for the American people is that it
was a tragic mistake.... 58000 of our own young people were killed, 2
million <span class="NORP">Vietnamese</span> were killed. We withdrew, and our position wound
million <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Vietnamese</span> were killed. We withdrew, and our position wound
up actually stronger in the Pacific basin.</p>
<p> You look around this society today to see if there's any evidence of
our preparations for war, and it hits you in the face....</p>
@ -1134,8 +1136,8 @@ people that we're serious people. This is the man who likens the
Contras to the moral equivalents of our own founding fathers. This is
the man who says South Africa is making progress on racial equality.
This is the man who says that the Sandinistas are hunting down and
hounding and persecuting Jews in Nicaragua. And the Jewish leaders go
on TV the next day in this country and say there are 5 Jewish families
hounding and persecuting <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Jews</span> in Nicaragua. And the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Jewish</span> leaders go
on TV the next day in this country and say there are 5 <span class="NORP" title="NORP">Jewish</span> families
in Nicaragua, and they're not having any problems at all. This is the
man who says that they're financing their revolution by smuggling
drugs into the U.S. And the DEA says, 'It ain't true, it's president
@ -1159,7 +1161,7 @@ high and all the other people can burn in hell's fires on earth.
President Reagan sees himself as playing the role of the greatest
leader of all times forever. Leading us into Armageddon. As he goes
out at the end of his long life, we'll all go out with him....</p>
<p> Why does the CIA run 10000 brutal covert actions? Why are we
<p> Why does the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> run 10000 brutal covert actions? Why are we
destabilizing a third of the countries in the world today when there's
so much instability and misery already? Why are our leaders now
taking us into another war? Why are we systematically taught to hate
@ -1172,7 +1174,7 @@ they don't think. It's the pep-rally, the football pep-rally factor.
When you get people worked up to hate, they'll let you spend huge
amounts of money on arms.</p>
<p> Read The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills. [11] Read The Permanent War
Complex by Seymour Melman. [10] CIA covert actions have the function
Complex by Seymour Melman. [10] <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span> covert actions have the function
of keeping the world hostile and unstable....</p>
<p> We can't take care of the poor, we can't take care of the old, but
we can spend millions, hundreds of millions of dollars to destabilize
@ -1229,7 +1231,7 @@ Congdon and Weed, 1984.</p>
Inevitable Revolutions; The United States in Central America.
Norton, 1984.</p>
<p>[9] McGehee, Ralph.
Deadly Deceits: My Twenty-Five Years in the CIA.
Deadly Deceits: My Twenty-Five Years in the <span class="ORG" title="ORG">CIA</span>.
Sheridan Square, 1983.</p>
<p>[10] Melman, Seymour.
The Permanent War Complex.