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EdwardBernays

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17. It's not a new role for us
Mon Jan 11, 2016, 08:51 AM
Jan 2016

It dates back, depending on your criteria, for at least decades - many would say centuries...



And that was in the 1980s...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stockwell

The CIA targeted him and bankrupted him... after he wrote a book exposing a lot of really nasty stuff the CIA did in South America, which led to - as he says - millions of civilian deaths.

If you're sceptical about his claims about the Korean War and drugs, don't be:

"In 1949, two of Chiang Kai-shek's defeated generals, Li Wen Huan and Tuan Shi Wen, marched their Third and Fifth Route armies, with families and livestock, across the mountains to northern Burma. Once installed, the peasant soldiers began cultivating the crop they knew best, the opium poppy.

When China entered the Korean War, the CIA had a desperate need for intelligence on that nation. The agency turned to the warlord generals, who agreed to slip some soldiers back into China. In return, the agency offered arms. Officially, the arms were intended to equip the warlords for a return to China. In fact, the Chinese wanted them to repel any attack by the Burmese.

Soon intelligence began to flow to Washington from the area, which became known as the Golden Triangle. So, too, did heroin, en route to Southeast Asia and often to the United States.

If the agency never condoned the traffic, it never tried to stop it, either. The CIA did, however, lobby the Eisenhower administration to prevent the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, the DEA's predecessor, from establishing monitoring posts in the area to study the traffic. Today, the Golden Triangle accounts for about half the heroin in circulation in the world."

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/03/opinion/03iht-edlarry.html
It seems we no longer care. tecelote Jan 2016 #1
we haven't cared since the 1950s EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #4
Did we care in the 1940s when we bombed Japan with nuclear weapons? oberliner Jan 2016 #24
well... EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #26
That was kind of my point oberliner Jan 2016 #27
Can't arms sales be stopped with executive order? JonathanRackham Jan 2016 #2
you got it all wrong EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #3
Our government loves cheap oil and LuvNewcastle Jan 2016 #5
It's a headscratcher EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #7
International law and the laws of war have long been malaise Jan 2016 #6
Laws are for the poor EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #8
Laws are for the poor, the weak malaise Jan 2016 #9
Or EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #10
Where is the UN? RandiFan1290 Jan 2016 #11
The UN is being blocked by the US EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #12
kick Liberal_in_LA Jan 2016 #13
I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times-- FUCK Saudi Arabia, and fuck the evil assholes Fast Walker 52 Jan 2016 #14
ehhh.. be careful EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #15
Thanks for that... it's such a horrible disgrace Fast Walker 52 Jan 2016 #18
Absolutely EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #20
The Great Satan Martin Eden Jan 2016 #16
It's not a new role for us EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #17
thanks-- hadn't heard of him but will check that out Fast Walker 52 Jan 2016 #19
It's also worth noting EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #21
gee, that sounds like a conspiracy Fast Walker 52 Jan 2016 #22
K & R for whole thread Duppers Jan 2016 #23
thanks! EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #25
Excellent thread, EdwardBernays. Thanks for posting it. nt. polly7 Jan 2016 #28
Thank you EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #30
Kick Fast Walker 52 Jan 2016 #29
Thanks! EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #31
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