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frank frankly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 07:57 PM Original message |
Mommy, what is the CIA? |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
1. Started out as intel co-ordinators. |
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frank frankly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:05 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. but surely there is a legitimate faction of this agency |
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kiahzero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:05 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. The CIA does still gather information |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 10:08 PM Response to Reply #4 |
23. President Truman was advised the OSS needed to evolve to fight the Reds. |
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Webster Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
2. Gun runners, drug smugglers, assasins, and other low lifes..... |
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kiahzero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:16 PM Response to Reply #2 |
13. Yup... that's all the CIA does, alright |
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frank frankly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:24 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. that is certainly a part of it |
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kiahzero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:28 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. No argument the CIA has done schevy things |
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frank frankly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:35 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. I know |
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kiahzero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:44 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Not too sure about that one |
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Media_Lies_Daily (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
3. This link will do for starters... |
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kiahzero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:05 PM Response to Original message |
5. Ironically, we just discussed the CIA in my American Foreign Policy class |
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mobuto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:08 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. United Fruit Company |
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bobbieinok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:15 PM Original message |
was it developed out of the OSS in WWII? |
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Kathy in Cambridge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 10:14 PM Response to Reply #5 |
24. Guatemala Coup |
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mobuto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:06 PM Response to Original message |
7. The Purpose of the CIA |
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Monkey see Monkey Do (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:15 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. lol! fantastic definition! nt |
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frank frankly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:07 PM Response to Original message |
8. Who are the agents? |
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kiahzero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:08 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Um... |
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bobbieinok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:14 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. early on many from ivy league schools, like British intelligence |
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bobbieinok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:16 PM Response to Original message |
14. AND what were the roles of Allen and George Foster Dulles |
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kiahzero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:21 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Sec. Defense and head of the CIA |
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mobuto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:53 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. Secretary of State and CIA Director |
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kiahzero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:53 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Thanks (n/t) |
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sweetheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 08:58 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. You mean the guatemala genocide? |
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joyautumn (108 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 10:43 PM Response to Original message |
25. Created by Prescott Bush's lifelong S&B buddy |
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frank frankly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 10:49 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. do you find it possible that Kerry is not beholden to them? |
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diamond14 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 11:02 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. right after the Vietnam war, Kerry wanted to dismantle the CIA |
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frank frankly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 11:04 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. I hear that! |
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joyautumn (108 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-04 01:04 AM Response to Reply #26 |
37. of course not |
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knight_of_the_star (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-04 12:03 AM Response to Reply #25 |
34. OSS wasn't like the OSP |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 11:16 PM Response to Original message |
29. President Truman's directive establishing CIG on 22 January 1946 created |
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Silverhair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 11:16 PM Response to Original message |
30. Look at all the hatred of the CIA in the responses. Now is it any... |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 11:24 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. this was an agent worging for all of us, tracking WMD |
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hang a left (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 11:35 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. Actually, the more I have been thinking about it, I think the whole |
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frank frankly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-04 02:07 AM Response to Reply #30 |
39. I don't fall into your stereotype. I don't throw baby with bathwater |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-19-04 11:29 PM Response to Original message |
32. A cancer on American democracy |
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joyautumn (108 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-04 12:20 AM Response to Original message |
35. Howard Dean's CIA connection |
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Media_Lies_Daily (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-04 12:42 AM Response to Reply #35 |
36. One correction. The famed "Flying Tigers" were definitely not a... |
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joyautumn (108 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-04 01:14 AM Response to Reply #36 |
38. thanks |
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ConsAreLiars (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-04 02:24 AM Response to Original message |
40. Essentially, understanding the CIA is understanding how things work- read |
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frank frankly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-04 02:28 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. thanks |
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ConsAreLiars (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-20-04 03:18 AM Response to Reply #41 |
42. This book is written from a single point of view, so it is a bit limited. |
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