Thank you to Filter Free Amerika podcast contributor Comedian John Tole, for posting this. PAUSE FOR THOUGHT. Miles Copeland: But even with the help of the Israelis-especially with the help of the Israelis!-we couldnt defeat the Iranians, the Arabs, the world of Islam or the whole Third World if it should turn against us. We [the CIA] have reason to believe that Soviet strategists well understand this, and that the Third World War that they envision will be one of ourselves against shapeless forces of the Third World, with Soviet Russia ostensibly aloof from it...The U.S Government was sinking into exactly the dilemma that best suited the purposes of Moscows Leninists as theyve begun to blossom under Gorbachev. In materials easily available to the U.S government without recourse to espionage, they had made it clear enough that in their version of the Third World War the United States would be forced into a variety of situations in which it would feel compelled to play the role of a powerful nation but, for all the world to see on it television sets, it would in fact, be powerless. The Game Player: Confessions of the CIAs Original Political Operative, London: Aurum Press, 1989
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