The CIA: Is It The Largest Terrorist Organization On The Planet?

1. The CIA: Is It The Largest
Terrorist Organization
On The Planet?
An Edutainment Movie
And
Two Critical Essays
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2. ICEBREAKER EDUTAINMENT MOVIE
SERIOUS READING
FOLLOWS
“…It's not that the CIA is a rogue organization, out of control. The CIA implements the
policies of the President of the United States. The CIA carries out unofficial U.S.
government policy. That the CIA is a terrorist organization implies that the United States
is a terrorist state. Considering the millions of deaths that the U.S. has caused and the
enormous suffering that its international policies produce, its hypocrisy in condemning
other countries as "terrorist states" would be ludicrous if it were not so tragic…”
Peter Meyer The Largest Terrorist Organization On The Planet?
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3. The CIA:
Is It The Largest Terrorist Organization On The Planet?
Source: http://iluvsa.blogspot.com/2010/01/cia-is-it-largest-terrorist.html
Be advised that the source of the article is a site called the Online Political Islam Portal.
An estimate by researchers put the number of people killed as a result of CIA covert operations
to 6 million. Dozens of Presidents and Prime Ministers as well as ministers, religious leaders and
revolutionary activists were also the target of the CIA. Does this not make the CIA the biggest
terrorist organization?
Portrayed as an intelligence gathering organization to protect the citizens of the USA the CIA is
also a tool used to advance the cause of capitalism to create puppet 'democracies' across the
world. In reality, the CIA is deadlier than the Mafia and the so called 'Al-Qaeda'. It is factually
the biggest and most dangerous terror organization world-wide.
The Association for Responsible Dissent estimates that by 1987, 6 million people had died as a
result of CIA covert operations. Former State Department official William Blum correctly calls
this an "American Holocaust."
Funded by public money and run as a private army, the CIA has spent 60 years of its existence
interfering in the destinies of various nations and has changed the political future of many others
with murders, executions and kidnappings on an international scale. The interference of the CIA,
its very existence as a matter of fact, has helped breed other terror organizations to counter the
CIA's activities. American observers are today stating that the CIA's removal of Premier
Mossadeq in Iran in 1953 was an act that has created the Iranian revolution and today's nuclear
threats from Iran.
One of the biggest CIA led operations in history was the overthrow of the Salvatore Allende
regime in Chile in the 1970's. The overthrow of the government culminated with the execution of
the Chilean Leftist and pro-Moscow President and the brutal killing of thousands of anti-U.S.
protesters in Santiago and other cities and villages across Chile. It was probably the bloodiest
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4. coup ever in humankind history, staged and executed by CIA and American military operatives
inside Chile itself. Bodies were seen floating in rivers and were stacked in cold houses across the
country, awaiting identification while the U.S. Embassy in Santiago celebrated the new capitalist
and pro-American regime that the CIA installed after the coup.
The CIA was most active during the Cold War engaged in counter-espionage against the Soviets
and the Chinese communist party in China. It failed in several attempts at eliminating Fidel
Castro, the long serving President of Cuba and failed to stop the rise of the Ayatollah's in Iran
when Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran to topple the Shah of Iran who was then subservient
to the U.S. In the same breath, it failed to stop the student revolt in Iran which took the American
Embassy hostage as the CIA could not predict the turn of events. This was probably one of the
biggest failures in the long deadly history of a non-military organization that has killed more
people and eliminated more presidents, prime ministers and other top officials in nations across
the globe.
The CIA has a long list of criminal activities, far too long to mention here but a few reminders
will not harm anyone and will be an eye opener to the younger generations.
Steve Kangas in Timeline of CIA Atrocities“The CIA will use the following to help overthrow a
regime which is democratically elected to install a pro-U.S. right wing government in countries
that interest the U.S. The CIA will start with propaganda, stuffed ballot boxes, purchased
elections, extortion, blackmail, sexual intrigue, false stories about opponents in the local media,
infiltration and disruption of opposing political parties, kidnapping, beating, torture, intimidation,
economic sabotage, death squads and even assassination.”
In addition to being the principal source of U.S. propaganda for domestic and foreign
consumption the CIA is the covert operations division of the U.S. government and as such has
engaged in many terrorist activities.
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5. The CIA as a Terrorist Organization
By Peter Meyer
Source: http://www.serendipity.li/cia/cia_terr.html
This page is available in a Spanish translation by José Maria Martinez:
La CIA es una organización terrorista
In September 2001 President George W. Bush declared a "War on Terrorism" and vowed to
destroy all terrorist organizations "with a global reach". For the good of both America and the
rest of the world he should start with the largest international terrorist organization of them all —
his own CIA.
The concept of "terrorism" is not clear and there is no generally agreed upon definition of the
term. It is, however, a tactic, a means to a particular end. A tactic can always be used, and is
always a possible course of action for some group or other. Once this is understood it is clear that
it is ridiculous to declare a "War on Terrorism" — one cannot defeat a tactic. To declare a war on
terrorism is to declare perpetual war (which, in fact, is the intention).
"Terrorism" is here taken to mean the practice of the deliberate inflicting (either directly or
indirectly) of harm, injury, death and/or destruction upon a civilian target sufficient to cause
horror, revulsion or despair among civilian populations and/or their political leaders, with the
goal of causing those populations or political leaders to act in a way desired by the terrorists.
Terrorist action differs from military action in two respects: (1) In military action the target is
military (or provides direct support to the military), not civilian; in military action the military
forces of some organization, usually (but not necessarily) a state, target the military forces (and
supporting infrastructure) of an opposing organization, usually a state. (2) In military action the
aim is to destroy a particular military capability of the opposing side rather than to effect some
political goal (though, of course, military action is usually conducted in support of some larger
political strategy).
The distinction between terrorist and military action may not always be clear, for several reasons.
 The distinction between a military target and a civilian target may not be clear. (A police
station may be a military target or a civilian target depending on what activities its
occupants are engaged in.)
 The goal of a particular militant action may be partly military and partly political, and
although these aims may usually be distinguished when the instigator is a state, using its
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6. military forces, they may become blurred when the instigator is a non-state entity such as
a resistance group.
 The judgment as to what is terrorist activity and what is military activity may depend on
who is making the judgment. This is usually the case when there is violent opposition by
the inhabitants of some territory to the unwanted control or occupation of that territory by
some external entity, usually a state (as in the West Bank, the Basque region, Kashmir,
etc.). Militant groups among the population of the occupied territory may carry out
attacks against both military and civilian targets of the occupying power, attempting to
persuade the occupying power to cease its occupation and withdraw control. From the
point of view of the occupying power such groups are composed of "terrorists", but from
the point of view of the inhabitants of the occupied territory they are "freedom fighters"
— militant groups engaged in armed conflict with an occupying enemy state (Israel,
Spain, India, etc.). Thus arises the saying, "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom
fighter." Actually, as Noam Chomsky has pointed out, the distinction is quite simple: If
they do it, it's terrorism; if we do it then it's counter-terrorism (and so OK).
This is the excuse that Israel gives for its terrorism directed against the Palestinian people. When
Palestinians detonate explosives strapped to their bodies in the streets of Tel Aviv filled with
Israeli shoppers it is terrorism. When Israelis fire missiles from helicopter gunships into streets in
Gaza filled with frightened Palestinians it is counter-terrorism. So if acts of reprisal against
violence directed at civilians is "counter-terrorism" then acts of reprisal against those acts of
reprisal is "counter-counter-terrorism". And if counter-terrorism is OK (a reply to acts of
violence) then surely so is counter-counter-terrorism. The same excuse that the Israelis give for
their terrorism could also be used to excuse the Palestinians.
That CIA was created just after the end of World War II (from an OSS riddled with Nazis) by an
act of Congress (and Congress can eliminate it in the same way). Its official purpose is to
function primarily as an intelligence-gathering organization (at least, that's what we are supposed
to believe) but in fact it has always been something different from that.
The CIA is not now nor has it ever been a central intelligence agency. It is the covert action arm
of the President's foreign policy advisers. In that capacity it overthrows or supports foreign
governments while reporting "intelligence" justifying those activities. It shapes its intelligence,
even in such critical areas as Soviet nuclear weapons capability, to support presidential policy.
Disinformation is a large part of its covert action responsibility, and the American people are the
primary target of its lies. — Ralph McGehee, Deadly Deceits
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7. The CIA has been a terrorist organization from its beginnings, when it included a large number
of former Nazis — former members of the Gestapo and the Nazi military intelligence (such as
Reinhard Gehlen). Unlike smaller terrorist organizations such as ETA the CIA does not normally
engage in terrorism by sending its employees to plant bombs, etc. Rather, it tends to act through
intermediaries and agents, sometimes making use of U.S. military personnel.
That the CIA is a terrorist organization is clear from its record of terrorist activities (sometimes
called "counterinsurgency" or "low intensity conflict"). Here are just a few examples:
 During the Vietnam war the CIA conducted Operation Phoenix, an assassination
program. The goal was not only to eliminate those Vietnamese who might oppose the
U.S. (which in practice meant most of the population of Vietnam) but also to terrorize the
entire population of South Vietnam and to suppress opposition to the occupying U.S.
forces. Over 20,000 Vietnamese were murdered, often at random.
 The CIA also recruited a mercenary army in Vietnam (financed by profits from the CIA's
heroin smuggling), particularly from among the Hmong villagers, which was used to
terrorize the civilian population and to prevent them from assisting the Viet Cong.
 The CIA organized and financed (with the profits from its cocaine smuggling) the
activities of the Contras in Nicaragua, who murdered tens of thousands of civilians, and
tried to disrupt the economy, in an attempt to destabilize the legitimate Sandinista
government. (For this the U.S. was condemned in the World Court for engaging in
international terrorism, and it rejected a U.N. security council resolution calling upon it to
observe international law.)
 The CIA planned and organized the military coup d'etat in 1973 in Chile which
overthrew the legitimately elected government of Salvador Allende (because he would
not implement economic policies designed in Washington to favor American
corporations doing business in Chile) and brought to power the regime of General
Augusto Pinochet; this regime abducted, tortured and killed thousands of Chilean citizens
in an attempt to suppress opposition.
 The CIA organized and supported the Turkish government's persecution of its Kurdish
minority during the 1990s, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths and millions of
refuges; the aim being the suppression of Kurdish culture and the elimination of Kurdish
demands for a separate state.
 The September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are widely
regarded as terrorist acts. There is evidence of CIA involvement. See Michael Ruppert's
Suppressed Details of Criminal Insider Trading Lead Directly into the CIA's Highest
Ranks.
Further examples could very easily be given (and may be found documented in the many books,
magazine articles and web pages about the CIA). Much relevant information will be found in
Ralph McGehee's CIA Support of Death Squads, which gives details about the CIA's terrorist
activities in over forty countries.
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8. It's not that the CIA is a rogue organization, out of control. The CIA implements the policies of
the President of the United States. The CIA carries out unofficial U.S. government policy. That
the CIA is a terrorist organization implies that the United States is a terrorist state. Considering
the millions of deaths that the U.S. has caused and the enormous suffering that its international
policies produce, its hypocrisy in condemning other countries as "terrorist states" would be
ludicrous if it were not so tragic.
 Noam Chomsky: Is the U.S. a Terrorist State?
 Chris Floyd: Into the Dark: The Pentagon Plan to Provoke Terrorist Attacks
 Ben C. Vidgen: A State of Terror
 Jim Marrs: An Overview of The War on Terrorism
 William Blum: Myth and denial in the War on Terrorism
 American State Terrorism: A Critical Review of the Objectives of U.S. Foreign Policy in
the Post-World War II Period
 Michel Chossudovsky: Bush appoints a Terrorist as US Ambassador to Iraq
 Nick Possum: The Nicholas Berg Execution
 Daniele Ganser: NATO's secret armies linked to terrorism? (Also here.)
 Dr. Sam Hamod: Was Israel or Bush Involved in the Assassination of Rafik Harriri?
 Frank Morales: The Provocateur State: Is the CIA Behind the Iraqi "Insurgents" — and
Global Terrorism?
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