The Gall!

[babylonsister]

http://thegreenautomobile.blogspot.com/2007/06/gall-cia-is-set-to-release-detailed.html

The Gall!

The CIA is set to release a detailed report on its “family jewels” this week. When I was being taught hand-to-hand combat as a young Marine, my handlers often spoke of protecting my “family jewels” or destroying or crushing or grabbing the “family jewels” of an enemy. The family jewels, in the Marine Corps, were the testicles. The CIA, however, has just revealed that the family jewels reside in a pouch (its nomenclature in the medical field is “gall bladder”) about 8 inches above and to the right of where the Marine Corps taught me. The image above is actually a photograph of the CIA’s “family jewels.” That the CIA would make jewels of hardened, bilious gallstones is disgusting. But there you have it.

In the 600+ page report, the CIA chronicles its history of criminality in what CIA director General Michael Hayden called "a glimpse of a very different time and a very different Agency." If that statement weren’t so sickening, it would be funny. In case you don’t know or remember, Hayden was director of the übersecret National Security Agency, and he oversaw the controversial warrantless surveillance of people in the United States.

So the report supposedly details the CIA’s illegal wiretapping, kidnapping, torture and murder prior to 1975. A very different time, indeed. Included are the details of:

1. Confinement of a Russian defector that "might be regarded as a violation of the kidnapping laws."

2. Wiretapping of two syndicated columnists, Robert Allen and Paul Scott.

3. Physical surveillance of muckraker Jack Anderson and his associates, including current Fox News anchor Britt Hume.

4. Physical surveillance of then Washington Post reporter Michael Getler.

5. Break-in at the home of a former CIA employee.

6. Break-in at the office of a former defector.

7. Warrantless entry into the apartment of a former CIA employee.

8. Mail opening from 1953 to 1973 of letters to and from the Soviet Union.

9. Mail opening from 1969 to 1972 of letters to and from China.

10. Behavior modification experiments on "unwitting" U.S. citizens.

11. Assassination plots against Castro, Lumumba, and Trujillo (on the latter, "no active part" but a "faint connection" to the killers).

12. Surveillance of dissident groups between 1967 and 1971.

13. Surveillance of a particular Latin American female and U.S. citizens in Detroit.

14. Surveillance of a CIA critic and former officer, Victor Marchetti.

15. Amassing of files on 9,900-plus Americans related to the antiwar movement.

16. Polygraph experiments with the San Mateo, California, sheriff.

17. Fake CIA identification documents that might violate state laws.

18. Testing of electronic equipment on US telephone circuits.

The good news is the CIA no longer kidnaps, wiretaps, breaks in or spies on people. Just ask Khalid al Masri and Senator Jay Rockefeller. Or former CIA director Porter Goss, for that matter. It makes me sick that these SOBs stash the smoking guns for 30+ years, and then, after the smoke clears, they have the nerve to say, “That was then, this is now.” Over and over and over again, and the people of this country believe it and act like it’s ancient history.

But don’t you believe it. Same spooks then as now, mate.

[glowing]

1. #10 Behavior modification experiments on "unwitting" U.S. Citizens.

That one is a bit intriguing... wonder who and what they were programing to do who knows what.. tin foil people, get your popcorn ready...

[Prophet 451]

3. Part of it's well known

Incidently, can we please stop referring to anyone looking into conspiracies as "tinfoil hat"? Firstly, if you look into it, there was actually a sort of logic to the tinfoil hat (no matter how whacked out the crazy, there's always an internal chain of logic) and secondly, it's a very good way of just dismissing real research. Conspiracies happen.

Look up MK-ULTRA, DELTA and NAOMI. They were joint CIA/Army programs run from the late fifties to the early seventies investigating behaviour modification, extra-sensory abilities and so on. ULTRA dealt dually with behaviour modification through psychological means and the investigation of extra sensorary abilities (ESP, remote viewing, clairvoyance and so on), DELTA tested behaviour modification through drugs and NAOMI was the manufacture and storage arm for both. That they existed is uncontested (although the dismissal of anything that sounds like "conspiracy theory" is such that the general public refuses to believe it), the only dispute is how much success they had (since their funding was stripped in the early seventies, I'd guess at "not much"). One of their projects involved administering LSD to patrons at a brothel and observing the results, another involved administering various drugs to US soldiers (who were not informed of this). Still another actually involved using crop duster planes to deliver low levels of various drugs to a wide area. It's widely believed (although so far unconfirmed) that experiments were also done in using subliminal messages to modify behaviour (which presumably failed since every test has shown that it doesn't work).

Really, "behaviour modification" is just a fancy name for something which people do all the time. Basic training in the military involves quite a lot of behaviour modification in the form of dehumanising the enemy.

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. I want to know! This one really caught my attention.

I bet I know what it is. I bet it involves conservative talk radio, and I bet their experiment worked!

[emilyg]

2. K&R

[Prophet 451]

4. Creating the atmosphere

You're looking in the wrong place. This isn't about what the CIA did then, interesting as that is, it's about what they're doing now.

Humanity has a tendancy to accept something if it's gone on before. Give you a story: A young soldier, fresh out of basic, is walking down a road in some war zone (Afghanistan say) when he comes across an infant impaled on a bayonet and left to die. He stops, breaks down and weeps, screams at the sky. "My God", he thinks, "war is hell" and indeed, it is but eventually, he pulls himself together and continues on his way. Ten miles down the road, same thing, same reaction only this time, he pulls himself together a little quicker. By the tenth occurance, he's not even slowing down. By the twentieth, he's not even bothering to look.

It's called "desensitising", the ability of humanity to accept and accomodate even the worst occurances. It's part of what keeps most of us sane. That's whats going on here. The CIA isn't releasing this stuff for their health. Left to their own devices, they'd probably quietly forget most of it ever happened. It's being released now to create an atmosphere where the crimes of the current administration, crimes now rapidly coming home to roost can be forgiven and accepted.

Logically, the Bush admin's spying on political dissidents shouldn't be made less of a crime by the fact that the CIA did the same thing but human nature being what it is, it will make a difference. This isn't about reassuring the public or even being able to swear that teh CIA no longer does such things (which is bollocks because they do), it's about politics. When John DiLulio quit the FBI (that's Faith-Based Initiative), he told everyone who would listen that there is no policy arm in the administration, it's all about politics and that's what this is. I think it was Goebbals who said that while he couldn't make everyone a Nazi, he could control the climate and frame the debate in the way that was most conducive to him. Same thing here. With the Bush admins crimes starting to be exposed, this release is a way of framing the debate, creating a conducive atmosphere.

[babylonsister]

8. Exactly, and the author, at the end, is trying to make that point. nt

[Sherman A1]

5. Kicked

[PADemD]

7. Leave this to the historians.

Are they trying to give us something else to talk about besides the Iraq War and our health care system? Ask yourself, "Why is this being released now?"

[Psyop Samurai]

9. The whole thing is a psyop...

...but they've really outdone themselves with the "branding".

"Family Jewels" indeed.


:grr:

[katty]

10. Family jewels..? let's see the 'disappeared' files on the bush clan