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Burns continued a long Agency tradition of playing up the threat from Russia and China along with North Korea, and said that Iran should not be allowed to get a nuclear weapon.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">Vijay Prashad’s new book Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations, details how manufactured foreign threats have historically been used by the Agency to carry on a war against the Third World—in order to extend U.S. corporate dominance.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">In a foreword, Evo Morales Ayma, the former president of Bolivia who was deposed in a 2019 U.S.-backed coup, writes that Prashad’s book is about “bullets that assassinated democratic processes, that assassinated revolutions, and that assassinated hope.” </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">Prashad is a distinguished political analyst who has authored important studies of imperial interventions, corporate capitalism, and Third World political movements.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">His latest book synthesizes his wealth of knowledge. It includes personal revelations of ex-CIA agents such as the late Charles Cogan, chief of the Near East and South Asia Division in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations (1979–1984), who told Prashad that in Afghanistan, the CIA had “funded the worst fellows right from the start, long before the Iranian revolution and long before the Soviet invasion.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="👉" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t51/1/16/1f449.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> Washington’s Bullets starts in <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🇬🇹" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t37/1/16/1f1ec_1f1f9.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> Guatemala with the 1954 coup that overthrew Jacobo Arbenz, whose moderate land reform program threatened the interests of the United Fruit Company. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles’ law firm, Sullivan & Cromwell, had represented United Fruit, and Dulles and his brother, Allen, the head of the CIA (1953-1961), were large shareholders.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">The former CIA Director Walter Bedell Smith became president of United Fruit after Arbenz’ removal, and President Dwight Eisenhower’s personal secretary, Ann Whitman, was the wife of United Fruit’s publicity director, Edmund Whitman. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">After the coup, Arbenz’ successor, Castillo Armas stated that “if it is necessary to turn the country into a cemetary in order to pacify it, I will not hesitate to do so.” </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">The CIA assisted in the bloodbath by providing Armas with lists of communists and with the gift of its assassination manual.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="👉" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t51/1/16/1f449.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> This manual was later applied in operations directed against Third World nationalists such as Patrice Lumumba of <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🇨🇩" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t2d/1/16/1f1e8_1f1e9.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> Congo (1961), Mehdi Ben Barka of <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🇲🇦" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t83/1/16/1f1f2_1f1e6.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> Morocco (1965), <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🇨🇺" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tf4/1/16/1f1e8_1f1fa.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> Che Guevara (1967) and Thomas Sankara of <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🇧🇫" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t15/1/16/1f1e7_1f1eb.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> Burkina Faso (1987). </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">Sankara was killed in a plot that was carried out through close coordination between a CIA operative at the U.S. embassy in Burkino Faso and <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🇫🇷" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t74/1/16/1f1eb_1f1f7.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> French secret service, SDECE. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">According to Prashad, while “many of the assassins’ bullets have been fired by people who had their own parochial interests, petty rivalries and small-minded gains, more often than not, these have been <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="💀" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t44/1/16/1f480.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="💀" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t44/1/16/1f480.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> ‘Washington’s bullets.’”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">Their main purpose, he says, was to “contain the tidal wave that swept from the October Revolution of 1917 and the many waves that whipped around the world to form the anti-colonial movement.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">Prashad, as these comments indicate, roots the CIA’s crimes in the larger history of colonialism and hostility of the world’s capitalist elites to the working-class empowerment bred by the Russian revolution.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">Imperialism, he reminds us, is the attempt to “subordinate people to maximize the theft of resources, labor, and wealth.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">The targets of Washington’s bullets, in turn, have been those like Sankara and many others who tried to assert their nation’s economic sovereignty.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="👉" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t51/1/16/1f449.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> The pattern for the CIA’s behavior was established in the immediate aftermath of World War II, when it supported political factions in Europe which collaborated with the Nazis against the communists, who had led the resistance against Nazism.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">The Agency’s work, as Prashad writes, helped “bring back to life the cadaver of Europe’s reactionary political bloc.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="👉" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t51/1/16/1f449.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> In <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🇯🇵" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t76/1/16/1f1ef_1f1f5.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> Japan, this meant creating a new party ( Liberal Democratic Party—LDP ) to defeat the socialists that absorbed old fascists ( Ichiro Hatoyama and Nobusuke Kishi ) and developed enduring ties with big business and organized crime ( Yoshio Kodama ). </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="👉" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t51/1/16/1f449.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> In 1953, the CIA succeeded in toppling <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🇮🇷" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tb7/1/16/1f1ee_1f1f7.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh who had moved to nationalize Iran’s oil industry.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="👉" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t51/1/16/1f449.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> From 1960-1965, the agency tried to assassinate <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🇨🇺" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tf4/1/16/1f1e8_1f1fa.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro at least eight times by sending mafia gangsters with poison pills, poison pens, a poisoned cigar, a tuberculosis-laced scuba suit, with botulinum toxin, and other deadly bacterial powders. In total, 638 assassination attempts were made—all of them failed. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="👉" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t51/1/16/1f449.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> The CIA also orchestrated a coup in South Vietnam in 1963 against the Diem brothers when they sought rapprochement with the left-wing National Liberation Front ( NLF ).</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="👉" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t51/1/16/1f449.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> A further coup was carried out against <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🇮🇩" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t1a/1/16/1f1ee_1f1e9.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> Indonesia’s socialist government of Achmed Sukarno, whose ouster in 1965 triggered an anticommunist bloodbath. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="👉" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t51/1/16/1f449.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> The 1965 <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🇮🇩" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t1a/1/16/1f1ee_1f1e9.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> Indonesian coup—like its Guatemalan and Iran predecessors and successor in Chile—followed a modus operandi involving 9 different steps:</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class=""> lobby public opinion</div><div dir="auto" class=""> appoint the right man on the ground</div><div dir="auto" class=""> make sure the Generals are ready</div><div dir="auto" class=""> make the economy scream</div><div dir="auto" class=""> diplomatic isolation</div><div dir="auto" class=""> organize mass protests</div><div dir="auto" class=""> green light</div><div dir="auto" class=""> assassination</div><div dir="auto" class=""> Deny</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">Perfected and refined over the years, almost all these steps have been applied most recently in the Maidan coup of 2014 in <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🇺🇦" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tf2/1/16/1f1fa_1f1e6.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> Ukraine, and right-wing coup against Evo Morales in <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🇧🇴" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t86/1/16/1f1e7_1f1f4.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> Bolivia in 2019.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="👉" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t51/1/16/1f449.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> With respect to economy, Prashad unearthed an early 1950s CIA study on how to damage <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🇬🇹" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t37/1/16/1f1ec_1f1f9.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> Guatemala’s coffee industry in order to undermine the Arbenz government.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="👉" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t51/1/16/1f449.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> This was a precursor to the better-known campaign by the Nixon administration to “make <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🇨🇱" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tc4/1/16/1f1e8_1f1f1.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> Chile’s economy scream” after Chileans had the audacity to elect a socialist, Salvador Allende, who nationalized Chile’s copper industry (the industry has been controlled by two U.S. corporations, Kennecott and Anaconda who lobbied for a coup). </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">The CIA station chief at the time of the 1973 Chilean coup, which brought the Fascist General Augusto Pinochet to power, was Henry Hecksher.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">He had worked underground as a coffee buyer in Guatemala at the time of the Arbenz coup and bribed Colonel Hernán Monzon Aguirre who became the leader of the junta that replaced Arbenz.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">After earning promotion, Hecksher went on to spearhead CIA subversion operations in Laos and Indonesia in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before running a project against the Cuban revolution in Mexico.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">Hecksher was a counterpart to sinister figures like Lincoln Gordon—a ruthless anticommunist who helped orchestrate the 1964 coup in Brazil—Marshall Green, who helped trigger the 1965 coup in Indonesia, and CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt and State Department officer Loy Henderson, who helped advance the coup against Mossadegh. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="👉" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t51/1/16/1f449.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> The U.S. embassy played such a direct role in coups in so many different countries that a popular joke during the Cold War held: “Why is there never a coup in the United States? Because there is no U.S. embassy there.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">One trick of the trade was the recruitment of trade union activists who could purge communists and organize strikes against leftist governments that would help facilitate their demise.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">“Anything was acceptable,” Prashad writes,” to undermine the class struggle, both inside Europe and in the national liberation states.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="👉" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t51/1/16/1f449.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> Prashad’s attention to class divisions offers a refreshing antidote to mainstream liberal histories of the CIA — such as Tim Weiner’s book Legacy of Ashes—which present good information but fall short in analyzing what drove the Agency’s rogue activity.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">Prashad writes that “whether in Guatemala or in Indonesia, or by the 1967 Phoenix Program (or Chien dich Phung Hong) in South Vietnam, the U.S. government and its allies egged on local oligarchs and their friends in the armed forces to completely decimate the left.” </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="👉" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t51/1/16/1f449.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> In South America, the CIA-driven <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="💀" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t44/1/16/1f480.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="💀" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t44/1/16/1f480.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="💀" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t44/1/16/1f480.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> Operation Condor <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="💀" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t44/1/16/1f480.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="💀" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t44/1/16/1f480.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="💀" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t44/1/16/1f480.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> killed around 100,000 people and imprisoned about half a million.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">The CIA allied with ex-Nazi torturers like Klaus Barbie, a senior intelligence asset for General Hugo Banzer, Bolivia’s president from 1971-1978, and a key figure running Condor. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">Many of Condor’s victims were proponents of liberation theology, which sought to apply the Christian gospel in support of social justice causes. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="👉" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t51/1/16/1f449.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> The CIA helped to kill progress in Africa by supporting such acts as the 1971 coup in <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🇸🇩" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t8c/1/16/1f1f8_1f1e9.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> Sudan by Colonel Gafar Nimiery, which deposed the communist Major Hashem al-Atta and resulted in the execution of Sudan’s Communist Party founder Abdel Khaliq Mahjub.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="👉" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t51/1/16/1f449.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> In the Middle East, the CIA’s crusade against communism resulted in a preference for Islamic fundamentalist like the <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🇸🇦" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t9/1/16/1f1f8_1f1e6.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> Saudi Royal family and <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🇵🇰" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t5f/1/16/1f1f5_1f1f0.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> Pakistani General Zi-al-Huq (1978-1988), who had his predecessor Zulfaqir Ali Bhutto hanged and armed violent jihadist fundamentalists in <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🇦🇫" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t54/1/16/1f1e6_1f1eb.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> Afghanistan to carry on the holy war against the Soviet Union. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="👉" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t51/1/16/1f449.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> When a Third World project emerged in the 1970s to advance the idea of a New International Economic Order (NIEO) drawing on the principle of economic nationalism, Washington worked to undermine its advancement through the delegitimization of the United Nations General Assembly, which had endorsed the NIEO in 1974.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="👉" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t51/1/16/1f449.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> It was in this period that the U.S. began to pressure the <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="💰" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t5a/1/16/1f4b0.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="💰" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t5a/1/16/1f4b0.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="💰" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t5a/1/16/1f4b0.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> International Monetary Fund (IMF) <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="💰" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t5a/1/16/1f4b0.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="💰" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t5a/1/16/1f4b0.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="💰" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t5a/1/16/1f4b0.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> to tie loans to structural adjustment programs that cut state services and were beneficial to multi-national corporations.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="👉" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t51/1/16/1f449.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> In the 21st century, Washington has brazenly used sanctions to try and undermine defiant governments. It has also helped manufacture corruption scandals, such as those that brought down leftists Lula and Dilma Rousseff in Brazil, whose policies had lifted almost 30 million <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🇧🇷" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t9/1/16/1f1e7_1f1f7.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🇧🇷" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t9/1/16/1f1e7_1f1f7.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span><span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🇧🇷" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t9/1/16/1f1e7_1f1f7.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> Brazilians out of poverty. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">Prashad ends his book with a quote from Otto René Castillo (1936-1967), a poet who took his notebooks with him into Guatemala’s jungles in the 1960s to fight against the U.S. imposed dictatorship. Castillo wrote:</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class=""> “The most beautiful thing</div><div dir="auto" class=""> For those who have fought a whole life</div><div dir="auto" class=""> Is to come to the end and say;</div><div dir="auto" class=""> We believed in people and life,</div><div dir="auto" class=""> And life and the people</div><div dir="auto" class=""> Never let us down.” </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">These words ought to haunt every person who has worked for the CIA; an agency on the wrong side of humanity from its inception.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">In today’s increasingly authoritarian political landscape, critiques of the CIA are few and far between. Many liberals have bought into the CIA’s disinformation about Russia—particularly when Donald Trump was being accused of being a Russian agent—and lionize a President, Barack Obama, who was a major supporter of the agency. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">Obama and CIA Director John O. Brennan (2013-2017) in the Oval Office during Tuesday meetings in which they selected targets to be killed in drone strikes. The two are revered figures in some liberal circles, with Brennan now serving as a commentator on MSNBC. 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With hope, it will provoke the reemergence of a movement to abolish the CIA and offshoots like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which is long overdue. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">[ ... always click through to the original article, and please consider a donation to Covert Action Magazine. <span class="oygrvhab gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu tbxw36s4 kvgmc6g5 sf5mxxl7 pq6dq46d knj5qynh ditlmg2l nvdbi5me"><img alt="🙏" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t80/1/16/1f64f.png" width="16" height="16" class=""></span> ... ] </div><div dir="auto" class=""><a class="esr5mh6w nhd2j8a9 kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 p7hjln8o r7d6kgcz rq0escxv f1sip0of e9989ue4 oygrvhab qu0x051f i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr py34i1dx gpro0wi8 a8nywdso lzcic4wl nc684nl6 jb3vyjys hcukyx3x oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1" href="https://www.amazon.com/Washington-Bullets-History-Coups-Assassinations/dp/1583679065?fbclid=IwAR0P9JNHMrz-IsiElebevYLqEQMYj2CJxJeP8no0_6rKDekDvX3PtiUbuS8" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Washington-Bullets.../dp/1583679065</a></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class=""><a class="esr5mh6w nhd2j8a9 kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 p7hjln8o r7d6kgcz rq0escxv f1sip0of e9989ue4 oygrvhab qu0x051f i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr py34i1dx gpro0wi8 a8nywdso lzcic4wl nc684nl6 jb3vyjys hcukyx3x oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcovertactionmagazine.com%2F2021%2F05%2F21%2Fmanufacturing-consent-for-war-70-years-of-cia-coups-assassinations-false-flag-operations-and-mass-murder%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3oEv079kRQNMCCasDD6fhD8-g_dwRTTOj03Q9WtsevZhYvb9--mZjyZk4&h=AT0ZuBlxF0yyFgNRY-iRqSm4J6l_pntgZkZbEo09-Sj5IobLw2axV-ZI94iuVPQZIx5CvzCSj2p_gHH0e5sURWNj0yyb_miY-HEMNAmuSQGocdYLCh0VAPUVYhqIncYWlRJS8A8&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT38YrtOsNH7k8DPzr0Tl326VapMnmR-mxlkld4puc6yduzc4VXPiab8ar-_gqAjOsGDFgCP5VKCVcApjOTb36rKsVKyTnD1fEjX3jhD65DlJeJeny9VLNkRSVT4bg6Cy722uPBdcIlIvB7QAJf7tkVTU0aJMJVkgb-DlK13O1ws-MdtxoHXAR-h" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://covertactionmagazine.com/.../manufacturing...</a></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></body></html>