America’s secret war is being waged by the CIA. In the dangerous badlands of Pakistan a super-elite team is hunting down terrorist masterminds. But as the enemy goes deep underground, CIA launches a controversial cutting-edge weapon. CIA Confidential: Inside the Drone War, PBS 2017
Unmanned armed aeroplanes called drones mounting bomb attacks from ten miles high. ibid.
Estimates of the civilian death toll of the CIA drone war vary widely. ibid.
Drone attacks also inflame an anti-US sentiment. ibid.
Recruit: Would I have to kill anyone?
Pacino: Would you like to? The Recruit 2003 starring Al Pacino & Colin Farrell & Bridget Moynahan & Gabriel Macht & Kenneth Mitchell & Mike Realba & Ron Lea & Karl Pruner & Jeanie Calleja et al, director Roger Donaldson
I recruit people, Mr Leyton. ibid. Pacino
We believe in good and evil ... Our cause is just. Our enemies everywhere. ibid.
If you are caught, you will most likely be tortured, shot and or hanged. And here’s the best part: no-one will ever hear about it. ibid. Pacino’s lecture
Tracking down the engineer of the attacks of September 11th – in a deadly game of cat and mouse the CIA will follow a chain of intelligence from the Philippines to the heart of Pakistan and attempt to capture Al Qaeda’s mastermind – the man known as KSM Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The 9/11 Mastermind
The CIA has traced Mohammed’s location to a house in northern Pakistan. ibid.
A new military role for the CIA. ibid.
John Lilly apparently refused to work for the CIA. Richplanet TV: return of Neil Sanders: Mind Control; viz Richard D Hall online
M K Ultra: Project 94: electrodes or implants to turn animals into mind-control devices. ibid.
Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency: DARPA. ibid.
‘Using tanks and planes and men to promote our policies around the world and sometimes to overthrow governments.’ The Empire Files: CIA Stories: The CIA is Born, Abby Martin online 2022, early CIA film
During the past few years the Central Intelligence Agency has embarked on a rebranding campaign to market itself as a noble, inclusive and even woke organization. This is in part to erase its dark history which was once more widely known in the United States. ibid.
A seemingly infinite list of crimes. ibid.
Douglas Valentine: CIA as Organized Crime. ibid.
They were hiring Nazis – thousands and thousands of Nazis – to fight against the Soviets. ibid.
Perhaps the most notorious piece of Central Intelligence Agency history is its creation and management of death squads … It’s an irrefutable story of CIA-directed mass murder of civilians. Abby Martin & The Empire Files: CIA Stories II: Death Squads in Afghanistan, Youtube 16.12, 2021
Handing out millions in cash, the CIA quickly had its own army in Afghanistan. ibid.
The Central Intelligence Agency manages to kill as many civilians as a force more than thirty times larger than it. ibid.
The CIA from its inception carried out assassinations, coups, torture, and illegal spying and abuse including of US civilians. The Chris Hedges Report: We Don’t Need the CIA, Youtube 33.59, 2022
The US allocates a secret black budget of about $50 billion a year to hide multiple types of clandestine projects carried out by the National Security Agency, the CIA and other intelligence agencies usually beyond the scrutiny of Congress. ibid.
We are facing an implacable enemy. There are no rules in such a game. We must learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, more effective means than those used against the United States. On Company Business I II III, 1980, Youtube 2.59.16, The Doolittle Report on the CIA 1951
In a war you conduct all sorts of operations, deception operations, behind-the-lines activity, sabotage, all the rest of it. I was involved in that, and the OSS was involved in that. ibid. William Colby
Central Intelligence Agency established by National Security Act, September 18th 1947. ibid. caption
The CIA was set up first to collect intelligence, and to analyse intelligence, to centralize intelligence … [and] to struggle at that subversive level with the subversive forces that we faced. ibid. William Colby
CIA channels $1 million to Christian Democrats in Italian election, April 1948. ibid. caption
Intelligence was asked to do what armies should have been done [sic]. ibid. David Atlee Phillips
The CIA is on company business all through Latin America. ibid.
The Federal Criminal Police Office in Wiesbaden. The man who helped establish the agency has been its president for six years, Paul Dickpopf, a top official with an apparently clean record, suggests that he had been an opponent of the Nazis. Until 1971 and in the Brandt era he is West Germany’s top criminal investigator … In 1968 he becomes head of Interpol. Nazis in the CIA, Netflix 2012
They became willing helpers, spies, because the US Intelligence Services could use their past to blackmail them. ibid.
The American Intelligence services were fighting a new enemy, communism, with the help of Nazis who worked for them as spies. ibid.
‘They were used for covert operations and this type of thing.’ ibid. man in the know
The Americans search all over Germany for the former SS officer [mass murderer] Intelligence officer, Eugen Steimle. ibid.
German industry made arrangements to keep its capital safe. ibid.
It [CIA] recruits fascists in Italy during the Cold War. They are to fight communism on behalf of the Americans. Since the 1960s, Italy is shaken by a series of bomb attacks. Hundreds of people die. These acts are first blamed on leftists, but it has been shown that they were committed by the far right. Stefano Delle Chiaie became the leader of the new right. ibid.
In 1970 the fascists and their backers want to stage a coup in Italy and eliminate the left-wing parties. ibid.
The unit is named Gladio and it is under the control of the CIA. ibid.
Many Italians believe that Moro was killed because he wanted to pursue a third way that contradicted Yalta. ibid.
‘Andreotti was the puppet of the Americans.’ ibid. man in the know
Licio Gelli was master of the influential Propaganda Due Masonic Lodge. Gelli had been an American agent since the War. ibid.
After the War, Barbie was recruited by the American Intelligence Services. ibid.
The Americans hide Barbie and other war criminals first in Germany, then in South America. ibid.