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[David Morris]

I have no love for the CIA.  Notice I inserted the limp caveat concept
called "legal."  A new CIA history take Moby doesn't deserve.

David Morris

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 4:38 PM 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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