from the book
The CIAs Greatest Hits
by Mark Zepezauer
Odonian Press
In order to survive, nations
need strong intelligence services. But the idea that the CIA is
primarily an intelligence-gathering operation is itself one of
the agency's greatest propaganda triumphs.
Despite its name, the Central
Intelligence Agency's main purpose is, and has always been, carrying
out covert operations involving economic warfare, rigged elections,
assassinations and even genocide.
The CIA is also expert at
distorting intelligence to justify its own goals, and this "disinformation"
leads to dangerous illusions among our policymakers. But covert
operations are its life's blood.
The litany of illegal, murderous
CIA activity is enough to chill the bones of anyone who cares
about liberty and justice.
As long as the CIA exists,
our government can break any law it chooses in the name of national
security.
Anyone for whom democracy
is more than just a word should be working to abolish the CIA.
For some ideas on how to do that, send a SASE to Odonian Press
at Box 32375, Tucson AZ 85751.
Mark Zepezauer
"... what the Agency [CIA] does is ordered by the President
and the NSC [National Security Council]. The Agency neither makes
decisions on policy nor acts on its own account. It is an instrument
of the President."
Philip Agee, CIA Diary
"... Secret CIA operations
constitute the usually unseen efforts to shore up unjust, unpopular,
minority governments, always with the hope that overt military
intervention ... will not be necessary. The more successful CIA
operations are, the more remote overt intervention becomes, and
the more remote become reforms. Latin America in the 1960s is
all the proof one needs."
Philip Agee, CIA Diary
"But what counter-insurgency
really comes down to is the protection of the capitalists back
in America, their property and their privileges. US national security,
as preached by US leaders, is the security of the capitalist class
in the US, not the security of the rest of the people."
Philip Agee, CIA Diary
"A considerable proportion
of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest
possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and on
exporting high-cost capital and finished goods to those countries.
Continuation of this kind of prosperity requires continuation
of the relative gap between developed and underdeveloped countries
- it means keeping poor people poor.
Increasingly, the impoverished
masses are understanding that the prosperity of the developed
countries and of the privileged minorities in their own countries
is founded on their poverty."
Philip Agee, CIA Diary
"American capitalism,
based as it is on exploitation of the poor, with its fundamental
motivation in personal greed, simply cannot survive without force
- without a secret police force.
Now, more than ever, each
of us is forced to make a conscious choice whether to support
the system of minority comfort and privilege with all its security
apparatus and repression, or whether to struggle for real equality
of opportunity and fair distribution of benefits for all of society,
in the domestic as well as the international order. It's harder
now not to realize that there are two sides, harder not to understand
each, and harder not to recognize that like it or not we contribute
day in and day out either to the one side or to the other."
Philip Agee, CIA Diary
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