The CIAs Greatest Hits by Mark
Zepezauer
2002
a book by Mark Zepezauer
In order to survive, nations
need strong intelligence services. But the idea that the CIA is primarily an
intelligence-gathering operation is itself one of the agency's greatest
propaganda triumphs.
Despite its name, the Central
Intelligence Agency's main purpose is, and has always been, carrying out covert
operations involving economic warfare, rigged elections, assassinations and even
genocide.
The CIA is also expert at
distorting intelligence to justify its own goals, and this "disinformation"
leads to dangerous illusions among our policymakers. But covert operations are
its life's blood.
The litany of illegal, murderous
CIA activity is enough to chill the bones of anyone who cares about liberty and
justice.
As long as the CIA exists, our government can break any law it chooses in the
name of national security.
Anyone for whom democracy is more
than just a word should be working to abolish the CIA. For some ideas on how to
do that, send a SASE to Odonian Press at Box 32375, Tucson AZ 85751.
Mark Zepezauer
External
The Gehlen Org
Operation Gladio
MK-ULTRA
Operation CHAOS
Crooked Banks
Drug Trafficking
The Mighty Wurlitzer -- the CIA's propaganda machine
Iran
Guatemala
Zaire
Bay
of Pigs
Vietnam 1945 - 1963
Dominican Republic
Indonesia
Greece
Chile
Vietnam 1964-1975
Laos
Cambodia
Angola
Orlando Letelier
Grenada
El Salvador
Nicaragua
Afghanistan
South Pacific
Panama
Iraq
Haiti
Yugoslavia
"American capitalism, based as it is on exploitation of the poor, with its fundamental motivation in personal greed, simply cannot survive without force - without a secret police force.
Now, more than ever, each of us is forced to make a conscious choice whether to support the system of minority comfort and privilege with all its security apparatus and repression, or whether to struggle for real equality of opportunity and fair distribution of benefits for all of society, in the domestic as well as the international order. It's harder now not to realize that there are two sides, harder not to understand each, and harder not to recognize that like it or not we contribute day in and day out either to the one side or to the other."
Philip Agee, CIA Diary
"But what counter-insurgency really comes down to is the protection of the capitalists back in America, their property and their privileges. US national security, as preached by US leaders, is the security of the capitalist class in the US, not the security of the rest of the people."
Philip Agee, CIA Diary
"... Secret CIA operations constitute the usually unseen efforts to shore up unjust, unpopular, minority governments, always with the hope that overt military intervention ... will not be necessary. The more successful CIA operations are, the more remote overt intervention becomes, and the more remote become reforms. Latin America in the 1960s is all the proof one needs."
Philip Agee, CIA Diary
"... what the Agency [CIA] does is ordered by the President and the NSC [National Security Council]. The Agency neither makes decisions on policy nor acts on its own account. It is an instrument of the President."
Philip Agee, CIA Diary
"A considerable proportion of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and on exporting high-cost capital and finished goods to those countries. Continuation of this kind of prosperity requires continuation of the relative gap between developed and underdeveloped countries - it means keeping poor people poor.
Increasingly, the impoverished masses are understanding that the prosperity of the developed countries and of the privileged minorities in their own countries is founded on their poverty."
Philip Agee, CIA Diary