28, August 2021 CIA’s many crimes
The CIA and America has lots of blood
on its hands. There is virtually no oversight into CIA’s clandestine activities and it enjoys an
unlimited “black box” budget. It was created by Harry Truman in 1947. Their mandate
was to collect information about foreign threats. However, within months, the CIA abandoned
this policy and begin target assassinations undermining and orchestrating coups
to depose democratically elected governments. Two examples of its many crimes: They
armed Saddam Hussein’s military during the Iran-Iraq war, allowing him to
brutally crush internal opposition. Only 15 years earlier, America had
supported Saddam's use of chemical weapons against the Iranians, and blocked
countless UN resolutions that were intended to condemn their use.
In 1953, a CIA coup overthrew the
democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, after he
made plans to nationalize the oil industry. The CIA coordinated its activities
with the British spy agency, MI6. The
British took possession of Iran’s oil and named it BP. The Shah was installed
as dictator. His rule was so oppressive and violent that it precipitated the
Iranian revolution in 1979. More recently the CIA funded war lords in
Afghanistan creating intense hostility towards the US and precipitated its
hasty exit. Finally, there has never
been an investigation into the monumental intelligence failure of non-existent
Iraqi WMD’s.
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