CIA
whistleblower John Kiriakou briefly explains:
The CIA
told us that there was no torture program. We know that, that was a
lie. The CIA told us that there was no program for extraordinary
rendition and kidnapping. That was a lie. The CIA told us that there
was no archipelago of secret prisons around the world. We know that,
that was a lie. The CIA said that it had not hacked into the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence's computer system. That was a lie.
Well,
now they tell us that the Russians hacked into the Democratic
National Committee email system, they offer no evidence and they tell
us to take their word for it. Over the last decade and a half, the
CIA has consistently lied to the American people. So, why in the
world would we believe them on this?
Of
course, it's not only the last decade. The whole history of CIA is
basically a history of lies, deception, propaganda. Only one example,
is the 1954
CIA-orchestrated coup in Guatemala:
Robert
White, former US ambassador to El Salvador reveals that “If you
had to pick one date where US foreign policy towards Latin America
went wrong, the date would be 1954 and the place: Guatemala. That was
the beginning of this terrible, terrible attitude that the United
States developed towards Latin America and, particularly, towards
Central America, where change became our enemy.”
Guatemala
was one of the few countries in Latin America that, after World War
ll, actually experienced a period of democratic rule. President
Jacobo Arbenz was determined to reduce widespread poverty by
effecting major land reform in Guatemala. Only 2% of the owners
controlled 75% of the arable land. Out of all of those, the United
Fruit Company was the largest, with some 600,000 acres of property.
In the
US Government, John Foster Dulles, who was the Secretary of State
under president Eisenhower; his brother Allen Dulles, who was the
head of the CIA - had both been law partners in the main law firm
that represented United Fruit Company. Melvin Goodman, former CIA
division chief says that “The feeling was we could very easily
overthrow this progressive government and make it a lot easier for
the United Fruit Company and other American businesses to operate in
Central America.”
The
CIA got heavily involved in managing public opinion. It created the
image of Arbenz as a crazy radical. And it was a systematic effort,
mobilization and financing of opposition forces, until the Arbenz
government was overthrown.
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