INSIDE THE COMPANY - A CIA DIARY by Phillip Agee When I joined the CIA, I believed in the need for its existence. After twelve years with the Agency, I finally understood how much suffering it was causing, that millions of people all over the world were killed or had their lives destroyed by the CIA and the institutions it supports. The CIA, after all, is nothing more than the secret police of American Capitalism, plugging up leaks in the political dam night and day so that shareholders of U.S companies operating in poorer countries can continue enjoying the rip-off. The key to CIAs success is the 2 or 3% of the population in the poor countries that gets most of the cream. A book on the CIA could also illustrate how the interests of the privileged minorities in poor countries lead back to , and are identified with the interests of the rich and powerful who control the US Counter-insurgency doctrine, tries to blur the international class-lines by appeals to NATIONALISM and PATRIOTISM and by falsely relating movements against the Capitalist minorities to Soviet Expansioism ( Chinese Expansionism now?). But where counter-insurgency really comes down to is the protection of Capitalists in the USA, their properties and their privileges. U.S 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 - certainly not the security of the poor except by way of reinforcing poverty.It is from the class-interests in the U.S that our Counter-Insurgency programmes flow, together with the most fundamental of U.S foreign policy principles : that any government, no matter how bad, is better than a Communist one - that a government of workers, peasants, ordinary people. Our governments support corruption and injustice in Latin America flows directly from the determination of the rich and powerful in the U.S, the Capitalists, to retain and expand these riches and power. In the past 25 years ( till 1975), the CIA has been involved in plots to overthrow governments in Iran,the Sudan, Syria, Guatemala, Ecuador, Guyana, Zaire and Ghana. In Greece, the CIA participated in bringing in the repressive regime of the colonels. In Chile, the Company ( as the employees call the CIA) spent millions to destabilize the Allende government and set up the military junta, which has since massacred tens of thousands of workers, students, liberals and Leftists. In Indonesia, in 1965, the CIA was behind an even bloodier coup, the one that got rid of Sukarno and led to the slaughter of at least 500,000 and possibly 10,00,000 people. In the Dominican Republic the CIA arranged the assassination of Rafael Trujillo and later participated in the invasion that prevented the return to power of the liberal ex-President Juan Bosch. In Cuba, the CIA paid for and directed the invasion that failed at the Bay of Pigs. Sometime later it was involved in the attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro. THE KILLINGS at Kent and Jackson show clearly enough that sooner or later our Counter-Insurgency methods would be applied at home......... ( Phillip Agee was a CIA carrier-officer who resigned after 200 demonstrators were killed on the eve of the Mexico Olympics in firing ordered from the US Embassy)
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 09:13:20 +0000
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