In light of the recent article linking the CIA to the crash retrieval program, let’s take a look back at some of their biggest hits, (that we can prove..)
All of this is coming from Wikipedia pages, I highly suggest you look into what interests you and find the source that Wikipedia has listed as well, (Practice good media literacy lol)
Confinement of a KGB defector, Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko, that “might be regarded as a violation of the kidnapping laws” Wiretapping of two syndicated columnists, Robert Allen and Paul Scott (see also Project Mockingbird)[12]#cite_note-Memo-13) Physical surveillance of investigative journalist and muckraker Jack Anderson) and his associates, including Les Whitten of The Washington Post and future Fox News Channel anchor and managing editor Brit Hume. Jack Anderson had written two articles on CIA-backed assassination attempts on Cuban leader Fidel Castro Physical surveillance of Michael Getler, then a Washington Post reporter, who was later an ombudsman for The Washington Post and PBS Break-in at the home of a former CIA employee Break-in at the office of a former defector Warrantless entry into the apartment of a former CIA employee Opening of mail to and from the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1973 (including letters associated with actress Jane Fonda) (project SRPOINTER/HTLINGUAL at JFK airport) Opening of mail to and from the People’s Republic of China from 1969 to 1972 (project SRPOINTER/HTLINGUAL at JFK airport – see also Project SHAMROCK by the NSA) Funding of behavior modification research on unwitting US citizens, including unscientific, non-consensual human experiments[13]#cite_note-14) (see also Project MKULTRA concerning LSD experiments) Assassination plots against Cuban President Fidel Castro; DR Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba; President Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic; and René Schneider, Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army. All of these plots were said to be unsuccessful[14]#cite_note-15) Surveillance of dissident groups between 1967 and 1971 (see Project RESISTANCE, Project MERRIMAC and Operation CHAOS) Surveillance of a particular Latin American female, and of US citizens in Detroit Surveillance of former CIA officer and Agency critic Victor Marchetti, author of the book The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, published in 1974 Amassing of files on 9,900-plus US citizens related to the antiwar movement (see Project RESISTANCE, Project MERRIMAC and Operation CHAOS) Polygraph experiments with the sheriff of San Mateo County, California Fake CIA identification documents that might violate state laws Testing of electronic equipment on US telephone circuits
Project Mockingbird was a wiretapping operation initiated by United States President John F. Kennedy to identify the sources of government leaks by eavesdropping on the communications of journalists.[1][2]
Project MKUltra (or MK-Ultra)[a] was an illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and intended to develop procedures and identify drugs that could be used during interrogations to weaken people and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture.[1][2] It began in 1953 and was halted in 1973. MKUltra used numerous methods to manipulate its subjects’ mental states and brain functions, such as the covert administration of high doses of psychoactive drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals without the subjects’ consent, electroshocks,[3] hypnosis,[4][5] sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, and other forms of torture.[6][7]
During the early 1940s, Nazi scientists working in the death camps of Auschwitz and Dachau conducted interrogation experiments on human subjects. Substances such as barbiturates, morphine derivatives, and hallucinogens such as mescaline were employed in experiments conducted on Jews and Russian prisoners of war which aimed to develop a truth serum which would, in the words of one laboratory assistant to Dachau scientist Kurt Plötner, “eliminate the will of the person examined”.[21] American historian Stephen Kinzer argues that the CIA project was a “continuation” of these earlier Nazi experiments, citing the numerous German scientists who were hired to work for the U.S. as part of Operation Paperclip.[22]
n areas under American control in the early 1950s in Europe and East Asia, mostly Japan, West Germany and the Philippines), the CIA created secret detention centers so that the U.S. could avoid criminal prosecution. The CIA captured people suspected of being enemy agents and other people it deemed “expendable” to undertake various types of torture and human experimentation on them. The prisoners were interrogated while being administered psychoactive drugs, electroshocked and subjected to extremes of temperature, sensory isolation and the like to develop a better understanding of how to destroy and to control human minds.[3]
most MK-ULTRA records were deliberately destroyed in 1973 by order of then CIA director Richard Helms
Project RESISTANCE was a domestic espionage operation coordinated under the Domestic Operations Division of the CIA. Its purpose was to collect background information on groups around the U.S. that the CIA thought posed threats to their facilities and personnel.[1]
From 1967 to 1973, many local police departments, college campus staff members, and other independent informants collaborated with the CIA to keep track of student radical groups that opposed the U.S. government’s foreign policies on Vietnam.
Project RESISTANCE and its twin program, Project MERRIMAC were both coordinated by the CIA Office of Security. In addition, the twin projects were branch operations that relayed civilian information to their parent program, Operation CHAOS.
Torture
In 2007, Red Cross investigators concluded in a secret report that the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation methods for high-level al Qaeda prisoners constituted torture which could make the Bush administration officials who approved them guilty of war crimes, according to the book Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals, by Jane Mayer a journalist for The New Yorker.[34]
According to the book, the report of the International Committee of the Red Cross found that the methods used on Abu Zubaydah, the first major al Qaeda figure captured by the United States, were “categorically” torture, which is illegal under both United States law and international conventions to which the U.S. is a party. A copy of the report was given to the CIA in 2007. For example, the book states that Abu Zubaydah was confined in a box “so small he said he had to double up his limbs in the fetal position” and was one of several prisoners to be “slammed against the walls,” according to the Red Cross report.[34] The CIA has admitted that Abu Zubaydah and two other prisoners were waterboarded, a practice in which water is poured on the nose and mouth to create the sensation of suffocation and drowning, and an internationally recognized technique of torture.
On 24 January 1997, two CIA manuals were declassified in response to a Freedom of Information Act) (FOIA) request filed by the Baltimore Sun in 1994. The first manual, “KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation“, dated July 1963, is the source of much of the material in the second manual. The second manual, “Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual – 1983“, was used in at least seven U.S. training courses conducted in Latin American countries, including Honduras, between 1982 and 1987. Both manuals deal exclusively with interrogation and have an entire chapter devoted to “coercive techniques.”[35][36] These manuals recommend arresting suspects early in the morning by surprise, blindfolding them, and stripping them naked. Interrogation rooms should be windowless, soundproof, dark and without toilets. Suspects should be held incommunicado and should be deprived of any kind of normal routine in eating and sleeping. The manuals describe coercive techniques to be used “to induce psychological regression in the subject by bringing a superior outside force to bear on his will to resist.”[37]
While the US manuals contained coercive measures, they did not rise to the level of what is generally defined as torture. Torture, however, has been culturally a part of authoritarian South American governments, especially in 1973–1983 (Dirty War).[citation needed]
In 2007, the chief Argentinian interrogator, Ernesto Guillermo Barreiro, was arrested in the United States.[38] It is not clear whether he will be deported, held, or extradited. The other two arrested were Peruvians, Telmo Ricardo Hurtado and Juan Manuel Rivera Rondon, accused of having participated in the massacre of 69 peasants in an Andean village in 1985, when President Alan García was trying to suppress the Maoist Shining Path guerrilla movement. Garcia was the president of Peru again from 2006 to 2011.
CIA and Nazi’s
Operation Bloodstone was a covert operation whereby the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sought out Nazis and collaborators living in Soviet-controlled areas, to work undercover for U.S. intelligence inside the Soviet Union, Latin America, and Canada, as well as domestically within the United States.[1][2] Many of those who were hired as part of Bloodstone were high-ranking Nazi intelligence agents who had committed war crimes.
Aleksandras Lileikis, a Nazi unit commander who oversaw the murder of 60,000 Jews in Lithuania, later worked for the CIA
In 2014, The New York Times reported that “In the decades after World War II, the C.I.A. and other United States agencies employed at least a thousand Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, as recently as the 1990s, concealed the government’s ties to some still living in America, newly disclosed records and interviews show.”[43]
According to Timothy Naftali, “The CIA’s central concern [in recruiting former Nazi collaborators] was not so much the extent of the criminal’s guilt as the likelihood that the agent’s criminal past could remain a secret.”
Wikipedia Editing
In 2007, the now defunct database Wikiscanner revealed that computers from the CIA had been used to edit articles on the English Wikipedia, including the Iraq War article in 2003, and the article on former CIA executive director William Colby. A spokeswoman for Wikipedia said in response that the changes may violate the encyclopedia‘s conflict-of-interest guidelines. CIA spokesman George Little said that he could not confirm if CIA computers were used to make the changes, claiming that “the agency always expects its computer systems to be used responsibly.”
This is just what is public knowledge and has been completely or somewhat confirmed. It undoubtedly does not end here, though. And, if you think for a second the CIA no longer engages in some of these activities, you’re fooling yourself.
TL;DR
The CIA is run by psychos.
EDIT: I would like to add that a lot of good people work at the CIA, my criticism is with the heads of the organization, also my claim that “The CIA is run by psychos”, is my own opinion and not based on any sort of provable fact (obviously).
EDIT 2: Spelling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Jewels_(Central_Intelligence_Agency))
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mockingbird
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_RESISTANCE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bloodstone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_by_the_CIA
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