CIA Holocaust Claims Twenty Million Victims

[Joanne98]

The world's number one terrorist organization, the CIA has committed heinous acts of terrorism abroad, murdering critics of US foreign and domestic policies and has done it on behalf of an increasing tiny, privileged American elite. This elite is a tiny one percent which owns more than the combined wealth the remaining 95% . On behalf of this tiny, privileged base, the CIA has placed itself above all law and supervision. The CIA's war on the world has claimed an estimated 12 million to 20 million victims, far more than the best estimates attributed to Adolph Hitler's 'Holocaust' of World War II.

A war of plunder waged by the CIA on much of the world has been called the Third World War because many of its victims are chauvinistically, imperialistically, termed "third world". Given the magnitude of these CIA atrocities, we may, indeed, consider this panoply of terrorist acts a world war waged by privilege upon those who are less privileged, a war waged by the rich on the poor, a war of aggression by those who have against those who are without.

The official history of the CIA is dull reading. But one would not expect an official document of the US government to reveal the early connections between the CIA and Yale's notorious Skull and Bones society; one would not expect the US government to reveal the nature of CIA backed coups in Chile to its role in the notorious Bay of Pigs debacle. One would not expect an official document to detail the role played by the CIA in the Iran/Contra affair. One would not expect a sanitized government version of the CIA to reveal how the CIA creates and support death squads that have resulted in a holocaust not seen since the Third Reich.

The passage of the National Security Act in July 1947 legislated the changes in the Executive branch that had been under discussion since 1945. The Act established an independent Air Force, provided for coordination by a committee of service chiefs, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), and a Secretary of Defense, and created the National Security Council (NSC). The CIG became an independent department and was renamed the Central Intelligence Agency.

Under the Act, the CIA's mission was only loosely defined, since efforts to thrash out the CIA's duties in specific terms would have contributed to the tension surrounding the unification of the services. The four general tasks assigned to the Agency were to advise the NSC on matters related to national security; to make recommendations to the NSC regarding the coordination of intelligence activities of the Departments; to correlate and evaluate intelligence and provide for its appropriate dissemination and "to perform such other functions ... as the NSC will from time to time direct...."

--CIA Organizational Development,

The numbers don't lie! At the end of a detailed statistical study, the CIA will be found, like a spider in its web, at the bump on a bell curve, at the very nexus of murder, mayhem and heinous acts of terrorism that it has exported across the globe and behind the deaths of US citizens in America.

• CIA atrocities may be categorized.
• Secret Wars
• Assassinations
• Subversions of targeted regimes
• Overt terrorism
• Support of other terrorist organizations
• Exploitation and/or creation of terrorist organizations like 'al Qaeda'.
• Drug sales, primarily cocaine and its derivative --crack.
• Domestic Assassinations and acts of terrorism

The US government, especially under the GOP regimes of Ronald Reagan, Bush Sr, and now the shrub, have given up the dream of peace. The result is an Orwellian nightmare, a state of perpetual war put into effect by the CIA, the Praetorian Guard to America's privileged elite. The nightmares --domestic and foreign --are of our own making. Worse than "mutually assured destruction", this thug government within a government may very well spell the end of humankind, at least the end of those dreams that make life worth living. It was an avoidable choice forced upon us by incompetent, cowardly and corrupt right wing inspired 'leadership'.

CIA Mission: Prop Up...
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/03/12/p24029#more24029

[enough]

1. For a history of the CIA that is anything but "dull reading:"

LEGACY of ASHES by Tim Weiner.

http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/legacyofashes/

A devastating must read book. Makes you see the entire post-WWII history of the US (and the world) in a new light. Even if you thought you were pretty knowledgeable about the CIA outrages, this takes it to a new level.

[alofarabia]

2. Why say "Holocaust" in quotes...

Don't you believe that it happened?

[Usrename]

3. I don't understand how you would make that leap.

I think the terms al Qaeda and leadership are quoted in the same manner, for no readily apparent reason. It seems more like it is intended to make the reader think about the controversial meaning of the words more than it is to cast doubt on their existance. My suspicion is that writer is a still a little bit shy about comparing the Holocaust to the CIA record, even though that's what they are doing.

[al bupp]

4. Read the link

It asserts that:

Stockwell maintains that many of these 'covert operations' were violent and led to wars. Examples include the propaganda campaign that led directly to the Korean and Viet Nam wars.

...we have so many of them in the public record that it's obviously very difficult to know exactly how many people died in Vietnam or in Korea or in Nicaragua or in the Congo — but still, working with conservative figures we come up with a minimum figure of SIX MILLION PEOPLE killed in the Secret Wars of the CIA through its de-stabilizations over these past forty years:

One million people killed in the Korean War;
Two million people killed in Vietnam;
One to two million people killed in Cambodia;
Eight hundred thousand people killed in Indonesia;
Fifty thousand people killed in Angola.

Now that began with the war that I organized as Commander of the Angola Task Force, working for a subcommittee of the National Security Council in Washington in 1975 and 1976. Fifty thousand is the number that the Sandinistas and The New York Times pretty much agreed on were killed and wounded in Nicaragua in the ONE BILLION DOLLAR Contra de-stabilization in that country that we effected in the 1980s.

--John Stockwell, The CIA and the Gulf War

Stockwell concludes that throughout what is called the 'Cold War' some twenty million people were murdered, '...the second or third bloodiest war in all of human history". Stockwell calls this the Third World War, a war waged by the CIA upon a 'third world'.

I'm not sure that I entirely agree, but that's the argument.

[Usrename]

6. I don't what there is to dispute about any of this.

The death squads continue to this day in Iraq, under executive orders from the oval office.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3002972

[Doctor_J]

5. and counting

more Iraqi citizens die each day.

[DCKit]

7. I'm waiting for the wave of Air America heroin to roll in.

Two years of bumper crops in Afghanistan and Pakistan has resulted in a glut and incredibly low prices ($0.25/dose) in Eastern Europe. It's long past time they started chasing the profit to our shores.