IS THE CIA FOR CITIZENS OR AGAINST THEM?
Another probing article by Jeff Dover provoking thought about the CIA, thought that could be applied to the Australian authorities. It also raises more questions about Tucker Carlson’s sacking from Fox. We now hear that Fox is majority owned by Black Rock and its associated company Vanguard. Curiouser and Curiouser as Alice said. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley PS: If these articles are helpful to you would you consider buying me a banana by clicking the icon on the landing page right hand side? Amounts start at $5, and, if you help us, we can help our contributors and others. Many thanks to those who helped so far – a big Gibber! Is the CIA For Us or Against Us? Why does the United States have a Central Intelligence Agency? We never had one prior to WWII and we were pretty secure. What changed? Communism was a worry insofar as it might have attempted to overthrow our government from within, but there was a Federal Bureau of Investigation already long-established and in place to counter any such threat if waged illegally. I suppose that during the years of the Cold War, roughly 1945 to 1989, intelligence organs outside of the US were useful in detecting and analyzing strategic military situations regarding the USSR. Even so, intelligence gained from submarine tapping of Soviet undersea communications cables revealed that whatever the makeup of the Soviet strategic nuclear forces, they had no intention of ever launching a ”first strike”. That intelligence brought us to the understanding that the USSR viewed strategic nuclear weapons as only insurance against a first strike launched against them by the USA and NATO forces. While it’s good to know what your potential enemies are up to, did it really require a separate and huge “intelligence agency”, even then, in…