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Left-wing propaganda view on what CIA does.

posted 4 years ago by lolkatz (495)
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This film portrays CIA and US involvement in Cold War the way Chomsky, Oliver Stone, Bernie and other radicals would want people believe it to have been like.
You know, USSR not being a real threat, just an excuse for US to build up its military industrial complex. And throwing locusts from an airplane on cofee plantations? Seriously? LOL, every commmunist failure seesCIA as culprit. Even the current Venezuelan disaster they'd pin on CIA rather than the wreck that is the Venezuelan economic policies.

[–] BourbonKing (5778) 4 years ago

except the CIA does actively work to undermine Venezuela, for its oil of course not to bring democracy.

The CIA was also behind many coups to dismantle and remove leaders from countries that warmed up to the Soviet Union. It's what they're set up to do, just like Mossad taking out Anti-Israeli organizations or the MI-6 taking out adversaries who oppose British interests.

[–] lolkatz (495) 4 years ago

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[–] BeaSouth (3357) 4 years ago

Or the Russian FSB’s smuggling radioactive isotopes and nerve agents into the UK in assassination efforts on Alexander Litvinenko and Sergei & Yulia Skripal. Or the Guoanbu‘s wholesale theft of military, industrial, commercial, and even individual private information in the U.S. along with cyber terrorism and assassinations well detailed in any Google search. The clandestine activities of western intelligence agencies pale in comparison to the violence and destruction being wrought by the intelligence services of the world’s increasingly repressive dictatorships – not just Russia and China, but North Korea, Saudi Arabia and others – where murder and personal destruction of their own citizens has also become central to the playbook.

[–] Ace_Spade (9577) 4 years ago

Left, right, US, Russia, whoever - it's a nasty world.

[–] KutWrite (1317) 3 years ago

Well... Since "we" sent shiploads of grain to the USSR in the 60s, so they could feed their people and have leftover money for weapons so we could be mad at them... I'd say Bernie et al. wouldn't be wrong, at least on this subject.

[–] ProFromDover (286) 3 years ago

If you understand the success/failure rate at CIA from the mid 50's onward they have not done well at all. If there's a book out there praising CIA for the institution's great achievements, I haven't read it yet.
When Kennedy had got fed up and thinking about spreading the remains to scatter in the winds after letting Dulles go, we saw what happened with that.