We've always loved to discuss some of the shadier
dealings of the government and the military—and no
organization provides more fodder for these discussions
than the American Central Intelligence Agency.
The CIA has a way of very publicly blowing their cover
—seeming to pop up wherever turmoil, strife, and
political unrest materialize. Despite being almost
synonymous with dirty tricks, the Agency has
essentially been given free rein, permitted to use
whatever tactics they see fit to deal with any (real or
perceived) threat to American interests.
If there's one thing we know about absolute power,
it's that it corrupts absolutely; and if there's one
thing we know about the CIA, it's that the
astoundingly unethical and criminal projects highlighted
in this list are probably just the tip of the iceberg.



10.... Operation PBSUCCESS.



PBSUCCESS was the code name for a CIA-backed coup
led against the democratically elected government of
Jacobo Arbenz, the President of Guatemala, in 1954.
It’s one of the first in a long line of suspected or
acknowledged CIA interventions in the governments of
foreign countries, and it was indeed a tremendous
success from the Agency’s point of view.—the first
indication that such a feat could be accomplished
relatively smoothly.
Elected in 1950, Arbenz set about instituting reforms
aimed at making his country self-sufficient, by giving
huge chunks of government land back to citizens. This
rubbed the US Government the wrong way, as much of
this land was “owned” by the United Fruit
Company, a truly evil corporation with which the
Eisenhower administration was snugly in bed at the
time (CIA director Allen Dulles and his brother John,
the Secretary of State, both had strong ties to the
company).
The Agency snidely referred to Arbenz policies in
internal memoranda as “an intensely nationalistic
program of progress colored by the touchy, anti-foreign
inferiority complex of the ‘Banana Republic.’ ” In
other words, non-dependence on the US and its allies
was not to be tolerated.
Four hundred and eighty CIA-trained mercenary
soldiers, led by exiled Guatemalan military officer
Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, forcibly wrested
Guatemala from Arbenz’ control. While he and his
aides were able to flee the country, CIA documents show
that “the option of assassination was still being
considered” right up until the day he resigned on June
27, 1954.


9.....Operation Mongoose





After the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the
Agency’s public image was worse than ever. President
Kennedy famously proclaimed that he would “splinter
the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the
winds” (shortly before getting shot, but we digress).
But to deal with Cuba, he turned to the only person he
knew he could trust: his brother, Robert, who organized
Operation Mongoose . This operation was conducted by
the Department of Defense in conjunction with the
CIA, under Robert Kennedy’s supervision. He told his
team at its first briefing that deposing Castro was “the
top priority of the US government—all else is
secondary—no time, money, effort, or manpower is to
be spared.”
Among the dozens of extremely silly methods of
assassination proposed: infecting Castro’s scuba gear
with tuberculosis; planting exploding seashells at a
favorite diving site; slipping him a poisoned fountain
pen; and even even poisoning or slipping a bomb into
one of his cigars. Castro’s bodyguard asserted that
there were hundreds of CIA schemes on Castro’s life—
and they all ended in failure, a gigantic waste of time
and money. Castro was Cuba’s dictator for forty-nine
years, stepping down in 2008 due to failing health, and
appointing his younger brother as his replacement.

8....CIA-Produced Pornography





President Sukarno ruled Indonesia from 1959 until
1966, when he was deposed by Suharto, one of his
generals. Sukarno had been deemed pro-Communist by
the CIA, which meant there would inevitably be an
attempt to oust him or at least make him look bad—
but the plot they actually came up with was truly
laughable.
The CIA produced a Indecency film starring a Sukarno
look-alike, titled “Happy Days”, for distribution in
Indonesia. Not that the culture generally frowns upon
such things, but as the CIA understood it, “being
tricked, deceived, or otherwise outsmarted by one of the
creatures God has provided for man’s pleasure cannot
be condoned” in Indonesian culture, and “what we
were saying was that a woman had gotten the better of
Sukarno.” The film went as far as production, and
stills were made, but for some reason (perhaps
common-sense) it was never deployed.
Bizarrely enough, this idea resurfaced shortly before the
Second Gulf War, when the CIA suggested that a fake
gay Indecency featuring Saddam Hussein or Osama Bin
Laden be produced in order to discredit these men in the
eyes of their followers. This went nowhere—at least
one official claiming that nobody would care. “Trying
to mount such a campaign would show a total
misunderstanding of the target. We always mistake our
own taboos as universal when, in fact, they are just
our taboos.”


7....Pakistani Vaccine/DNA
Collecting Drive





The May 2011 raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was
the result of an insane amount of intelligence collecting
and planning; regardless of his crimes, conducting a
US military operation to kill a foreign national on
Pakistani soil was bound to have myriad consequences.
A courier had been tracked to an Abbottabad
compound, where it was pretty damn certain Bin Laden
was hiding. But before conducting the raid, they had to
be absolutely sure—and one method of collecting this
proof was shady in the extreme.
The CIA recruited a respected Pakistani doctor to
organize a fake vaccination drive in the town, and in
the process collected thousands of blood samples from
children in the area children—among them, as it turned
out, Bin Laden’s children. Since theirs was a fairly
upscale section of town, the campaign began in a
poorer area to make it look more authentic, then moved
on to the neighborhood housing the Bin Laden
compound a month later—without even following up
with the required second or third doses in the poor area.
The whole thing worked—with consequences.
For one thing, Dr. Shakil Afridi—the doctor involved—
has been convicted of treason by the Pakistani
government and given a thirty-three-year prison
sentence (“Wouldn’t any country detain people for
working for a foreign spy service?” one Iranian
official helpfully pointed out). For another, the
campaign has caused irreparable damage to
organizations that carry out legitimate vaccinations.
There are deep-seated suspicions in many Middle
Eastern regions about those who provide vaccinations,
and this gambit to assist in finding Bin Laden has
only bolstered those suspicions—particularly in Nigeria,
India and of course Pakistan, where efforts to eradicate
polio are ongoing.

6....Muammar al-Qaddafi


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February 2011 saw the beginning of the Libyan
Revolution, which would culminate in the August
ousting of Libyan dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi,
followed by his capture and killing in October. There
was little mention at the time of any potential
involvement by foreign interests—but about one year
later, an incident occurred which shed a curious light
on the entire Revolution.
On September 11, 2012, an American diplomatic
mission in Benghazi came under attack by armed
militants. The response came not from within the
mission itself, but from half a dozen CIA agents
deployed from a hidden base within the city. More
reinforcements arrived from Tripoli, and diplomatic
personnel where whisked by convoy to chartered aircraft
which carried them out of the country.
This betrayed a CIA presence in the city , which had
hitherto been unknown. The Agency was forced to
admit that it had maintained a fairly strong presence in
Libya since about February 2011—right around the
time the Libyan Revolution began. The annex which
had housed the secret base was scrubbed clean and
abandoned after the incident at the mission.

5....Operation Mockingbird





Operation Mockingbird was a bit of a two-pronged
approach to dealing with the media: on the one hand,
journalists were routinely employed by the CIA to
develop intelligence and gather information, or to report
on certain events in a way that portrayed the US
favorably. On the other, there were actual plants within
the media—paid off with bribes or even directly
employed by the CIA—to feed propaganda to the
American public.
Mostly, this program was meant to convince the public
of how incredibly scary Communism was, and to make
sure that public opinion favored taking out the Red
Menace at any expense. Even scarier was the fact that
having major newspaper publishers and the heads of TV
stations bought and paid for meant that significant
overseas events could be excluded from coverage in the
media—events like the aforementioned coup in
Guatemala, which didn’t see the light of the day in
the American press at the time.
Congressional hearings in 1976 (the “Church
Committee”) revealed that the CIA had been bribing
journalists and editors for years. Following the Church
hearings, newly minted CIA director and future
President George H.W. Bush announced: “Effective
immediately, the CIA will not enter into any paid or
contract relationship with any full-time or part-time
news correspondent accredited by any U.S. news
service, newspaper, periodical, radio or television
network or station.” Yet he added that the CIA would
continue to welcome unpaid, voluntary support of said
journalists.


4....Operation CHAOS




Protests against US involvement in Vietnam were
proving to be a giant pain in the backside for the
government’s plans in the mid 1960s. While
Mockingbird was busily using the mainstream to try to
shove the necessity of the war down the throat of the
public, the “counter-culture” couldn’t be controlled
so easily. Ever-mindful of the KGB’s propensity for
their own style of dirty tricks, the CIA attempted to
weed out any foreign influence on the American anti-
war movement by launching Operation CHAOS—and
they didn’t even bother to come up with an
innocuous-sounding code name.
Since the FBI’s COINTELPRO program of domestic
surveillance wasn’t quite producing the desired results,
President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized the CIA to
undertake its own program of spying on US citizens.
Their main task was to infiltrate student organizations
—both radical and otherwise—in order to gather
intelligence on potential foreign influences, and to
subvert such groups from within. Famous groups such
as “Students For a Democratic Society” and the Black
Panthers were targeted; eventually, the program for
some reason expanded to include women’s liberation
and certain Jewish groups.
There is strong evidence that this type of activity has
never ceased, though CHAOS itself was shuttered after
the Watergate scandal. In 2011, the Agency came under
fire for allegedly working with the New York Police
Department to conduct surveillance of Muslim groups
in the area, who had not done anything wrong and
who are now suing in Federal court .

3....Phoenix Program






Phoenix was a program headed by the CIA, in
conjunction with US Special Forces and Australian and
South Vietnamese commandos, during the Vietnam
War. Its purpose was simple: assassination. And
although this was a military unit, their targets
weren’t military, but civilian.
From 1965 to 1972, Phoenix was involved in the
kidnapping, torture, and murder of thousands upon
thousands of citizens. People deemed critical to the
infrastructure of the Viet Cong, or thought to have
knowledge of VC activities, were rounded up and taken
to regional interrogation centers, were they were
subjected to: “rape, gang rape, rape using eels, snakes,
or hard objects, and rape followed by murder; electric
shock . . . rendered by attaching wires to the genitals or
other sensitive parts of the body, like the tongue; the
‘water treatment’; the ‘airplane’ in which the
prisoner’s arms were tied behind the back, and the
rope looped over a hook on the ceiling, suspending the
prisoner in midair, after which he or she was beaten;
beatings with rubber hoses and whips; the use of police
dogs to maul prisoners…”
Phoenix was the subject of 1971 Congressional hearings
on abuse. Former members described it as a “sterile
depersonalized murder program”, and it was phased
out after negative publicity, though the replacement
program F-6 was quietly phased in to take its place.


2...Operation Ajax





The success of Operation Ajax paved the way for all
future CIA operations of a similar nature. It resulted in
the return to power of the Shah in 1953, after a
military coup planned by American and British
intelligence.
The first democratically-elected leader of Iran, Prime
Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, was seen as a
potential liability because of his plans to nationalize the
oil industry. Fearful of having to compete with the
Soviet Union for Iranian oil, the decision was made to
install a leader who was partial to US interests. You
can probably see a theme developing here.
CIA agents Donald Wilber and Kermit Roosevelt Jr.
(the grandson of Theodore Roosevelt) carried out the
campaign by bribing everybody who could be bribed in
Iran: government officials, business leaders, and even
street criminals. These recruits were asked to support the
Shah, in various ways, and to oppose Mossadegh.
It worked: an uprising was instigated, Mosaddegh was
jailed, and pro-Western Iranian Army General Fazlollah
Zahedi was installed in his place. Zahedi had been
arrested by the British during World War Two for
attempting to establish a Nazi government, and he lived
up to that legacy by appointing Bahram Shahrokh—a
protege of Joseph Goebbels—as his director of
propaganda.

1...The Mujahideen





In 1978, Afghanistan became mired in civil war as two
Communist parties seized control of the country. When
it began to look like anti-Communist rebels were
gaining a foothold, the Soviet Union invaded the
country to lend support. And that’s when the US, of
course, decided to get involved.
The CIA set up camps to train the rebels , known as
Mujahideen, in the necessary tactics for beating back the
Soviets. Advanced weaponry was also part of the deal,
including—importantly—Stinger surface-to-air anti-
aircraft missiles. Soviet airstrikes had driven hundreds of
guerrillas out of the cities and into the surrounding
hills, and mitigating the effectiveness of those strikes
proved to be essential in prolonging the conflict, placing
a great strain on Soviet resources.
The Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan almost until its
collapse in the early 1990s, but the legacy of the
Mujahideen lives on. The CIA are finding their own
tactics and training turned against them by Mujahideen
veterans who have begun their own training programs,
producing highly trained and skilled terrorists who now
make up the backbone of Al-Qaeda and other radical
groups. The US discovered these ramifications the hard
way after invading Afghanistan in 2001. The invasion
led to a quagmire of an occupation, which—as of this
writing—has dragged on for just as long as that of the
Soviets.

http://listverse.com/2013/05/25/10-dirty-secret-cia-operations/

Cc:HopeAtHand

Wow..im impressed..

Thumbs up,op.

HopeAtHand:
Wow..im impressed..
Thumbs up,op.

Lol, thanks man.

The one that Mostly interest me was Cuba, In the sense that during the American embargo and crisis, the man Fidel Castro gave a prophecy that today came to pass.

“Richard Nixon had been sworn in for his second term as
president of the United States, the Vietnam War was
coming to an end and, following his return from Southeast
Asia, Fidel offered a press conference with foreign
correspondents. “The British journalist Brian Davis asked him: “When do you believe relations between Cuba and the United States, countries that are quite distant despite their geographical proximity, could be re-established?’ ” “Castro answered in a very loud tone of voice, so that
everyone could hear him:

‘The United States will sit down and talk with us when it has a black president and the world has a Latin American Pope.’ ” “

Prophecy fulfilled!

Argentinean journalist and writer Pedro Jorge Solans
picked up the anecdote during a recent trip to Cuba, while
doing a report about the re-established relations between
the United States and Cuba. Solans’ source was taxi-
driver Eduardo de la Torre, who was in university in 1973. “De la Torre told Solas he was certain of the veracity of
the anecdote. He also recalled the many times they
announced the Comandante’s death, inviting Solas to
count the number of times the international press
reported his death and the many times he came back to
life.” Of course, it would have been impossible at the time to foresee that the humorous phrase would become reality.
If such a prediction was unlikely, even less realistic were
the words spoken 17 years before at Cinco Palmas, at the
foot of the Sierra Maestra Mountains, when the handful of
survivors of the Granma yacht landing gathered to continue the fight against Batista. Faced with the sorry remnants of his troops, made up of a dozen inexperienced combatants and less rifles, Fidel exclaimed:
“Now we can be certain we’ll win this war,” leaving the rebel’s brother [today’s president]
dumbstruck.
The most recent prediction that came true is perhaps the
one regarding the Cuban Five. Shortly after the trial they were subjected to more than 15 years ago, Castro said “They will return.” It’s true that two (Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez) served out their sentences, but, back then, any kind of negotiation leading to their and the other three Cubans release seemed impossible. The worldwide campaign calling for their release, which
saw the support of personalities from the arts, sciences,
parliaments, governments, political parties and religious
leaders helped bring this about, but none of that existed
when Fidel said: “Have no doubts, they will return.” Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Eduardo Galeano said that Fidel
travels to the future and comes back to tell us how events
will unfold. I could mention other predictions, having to do with climate change (pronounced at the Rio Summit in 1992), the aid to development that an end to the arms race
would spell, and others…but those have not come true yet…


see www.havanatimes.org


The Cosmic order rules the world.

the CIA - the killer squad of America. major aim is to cause chaos and bring down unfriendly govt.

"ISIS" IS TODAY'S PROTOTYPE OF THE MUJAHIDEEN OPERATIONS TO DESTABILIZE THE MIDDLE EAST.

ISIS IS A COVERT CIA OPERATION.