Happy Birthday CIA: 7 Truly Terrible Things the Agency Has Done in 70 Years, by Carey Wedler

Posted: September 22, 2017 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
0

Robert Gore's avatarSTRAIGHT LINE LOGIC

The CIA’s 70th birthday is nothing to celebrate. From Carey Wedler at antimedia.org:

On Monday, President Trump tweeted birthday wishes to the Air Force and the CIA. Both became official organizations 70 years ago on September 18, 1947, with the implementation of the National Security Act of 1947.

After spending years as a wartime intelligence agency called the Office of Strategic Services, the agency was solidified as a key player in the federal government’s operations with then-President Harry Truman’s authorization.

In the seventy years since, the CIA has committed a wide variety of misdeeds, crimes, coups, and violence. Here are seven of the worst programs they’ve carried out (that are known to the public):
  1. Toppling governments around the world — The CIA is best known for its first coup, Operation Ajax, in 1953, in which it ousted the democratically elected leader of Iran, Mohammed Mossadegh, reinstating the autocratic Shah, who…

View original post 253 more words

Leave a comment