History Of CIA

Skull and Bones - requires members to commit a crime and confess to it

There was an inevitable rivalry between the two power configurations that emerged dominant at the end of the second world war. And each attempted to absorb all the "talent" it could from the fallen axis states.

The US absorbed and integrated with the Nazis at the end of WWII - and thought it was using the Nazis for the upcoming struggle with communism, or so we are told.

In fact Stalin was not an expansionist prior to WWII. This upcoming struggle with Communism was not inevitable, as we saw later with detente. I would think it was the revulsion of the elites in the West towards communism, particularly in intelligence and state and military that drove this outcome. It is disgusting that the West found more in common with fascism than with communism - and in my view at this time, our decisions at the end of the WWII, led to a more "fascism friendly" West, with some departures.

This prelude both condemns the early CIA, and lays a groundwork that the die was cast. That our unfortunate and repugnant decisions to stop some of the most competent and inspiring mass movement figures from taking office or maintaining office, in the developing world.

The Wests denazification program - i would argue was not a one way street. In Federal government, in industrial research, in espionage we absorbed information from the Nazis.

I do not believe the US had expert torturers until we brought these nazis home.

The US and the West delivered mortal blows to the flowering of something akin to democratic socialism and worker peasant governments in:

Within this context of some sort of worker peasant movement to bribng n a radical government. Virtually Every Single Country in Asia, in Africa and in Latin America at some point or another had a trend towards a rennaisance destroyed due to regime change from the West since the end of WWII.

What if the US had not allowed these enlightened forces to be split from us, why could we not develop good relations?

And here - it is important to divide things into epochs

1945-1960 CIA at full steeam

1961-1963 War between Executive JFK and CIA

1963-1974 CIA at full steam

1975-1980 Days of despair at CIA

1981-1992 Fall of the USSR Dec 25 91 Gorbachrv-Yeltsin 2nd CIA Full Steam period

1993-1997 - Clinton not a fan of CIA covert ops

1998-present - CIA came back in earnest by 1999 - and has continued unrestrained, to the present day,

The Cold War was not cold because the level of violence was lower, it meant undeclared covert ops every year in every country