Moby Says CIA Agents Asked Him to Spread the Word About Trump and Russia | Pitchfork

[John Bailey]

There's a very, very funny podcast in which Moby's former housemate
tries to reclaim a CD that Moby stole from him 20 years ago, and which
was pivotal in his ensuing fame and fortune (ie his most famous album
is entirely built around samples from this stolen CD). What follows
would be hilarious even if it were fiction.
https://gimletmedia.com/shows/heavyweight/brholm/2-gregor

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 7:39 AM Thomas Eckhardt
<thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
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> > It's the CIA's job to seek covert information, which is fine, actually
> > needed and important, if done legally.
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> It is one part of the CIA's job. The other part of their duty is "to
> perform such other functions and duties related to intelligence
> affecting the national security as the National Security Council may
> from time to time direct." (National Security Act, 1947)
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> These "other functions and duties" were described in more detail in NSC
> 10/2:
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> "The Central Intelligence Agency is charged by the National Security
> Council with conducting espionage and counter-espionage operations
> abroad. It therefore seems desirable, for operational reasons, not to
> create a new agency for covert operations, but in time of peace to place
> the responsibility for them within the structure of the Central
> Intelligence Agency and correlate them with espionage and
> counter-espionage operations under the over-all control of the Director
> of Central Intelligence."
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> George Kennan saw covert operations as a crucial element of political
> warfare and wanted it to be controlled by the State Department. It
> wasn't to be.
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> "Plausible deniability" is of the essence:
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> "As used in this directive, 'covert operations' are understood to be all
> activities (except as noted herein) which are conducted or sponsored by
> this Government against hostile foreign states or groups or in support
> of friendly foreign states or groups but which are so planned and
> executed that any US Government responsibility for them is not evident
> to unauthorized persons and that if uncovered the US Government can
> plausibly disclaim any responsibility for them. Specifically, such
> operations shall include any covert activities related to: propaganda,
> economic warfare; preventive direct action, including sabotage,
> anti-sabotage, demolition and evacuation measures; subversion against
> hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance
> movements, guerrillas and refugee liberation groups, and support of
> indigenous anti-communist elements in threatened countries of the free
> world. Such operations shall not include armed conflict by recognized
> military forces, espionage, counter-espionage, and cover and deception
> for military operations."
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> NSC 10/2, 1948
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> And here are the Stay-Behind-Armies aka Gladio:
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> „Develop underground resistance and facilitate covert and guerrilla
> operations in strategic areas to the maximum practicable extent
> consistent with 1–a above, and ensure availability of these forces in
> the event of war for utilization in accordance with principles
> established by the National Security Council, including wherever
> practicable provision of a base upon which the military may expand these
> forces on a military basis in time of war within active theaters of
> operations.“
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> NSC 10/5, 1951
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> The rest, as they say, is history. In 1953, the long and sordid history
> of CIA regime changes began. As the NYT article forwarded by Mark Kohut
> shows in well-researched detail, it continues to this day.
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