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The Central Intelligence Agency
The CIA was created in 1947, a successor to the Office of
Strategic Service (OSS) that had operated during World War |.
The CIA was tasked with intelligence gathering and covert
actions to promote the American agenda globally.
Under longtime director Allen Dulles, this agenda refined into
fighting Communism (or perceived Communism) on the world
stage. This has taken the form of supporting right wing
dictators, funding and training right wing death squads and
supporting and orchestrating coups against the leaders of other
sovereign nations.
Its important to note, the CIA isn't a law enforcement agency,
they're an espionage organization. They have no legal basis
other than what is given to them by the United States, and they
have no meaningful oversight. They operate across the globe
and their budget grows every year
The existence of the CIA has become so normalized that it's
often hard to take a step back and look at the CIA for what it
really is: An arm of the United States government unilaterally
enacting policy through extrajudicial killings across the world.
Throughout this book you will find all sorts of puzzles and brain
teasers that will teach you all about the CIA in roughly
chronological order. The answers and sources for further
reading can be found in the back, and remember, some of the
puzzles are tricks, because the game is, of course, rigged.
Who’s Who?
Some of the biggest names in US history have had ties to the CIA,
and the ClA has shaped the lives of people the world over.
I’m Allen Dulles, CIA director from 1951
to 1963. | oversaw coups in Guatemala,
Iran, Laos, North Vietnam and the
Congo, and operations like MK-Ultra. |
was ousted by JFK for failing to execute
a successful in Cuba, and that’s why |
had him killed (that’s a joke)
I’m René Schneider, Commander in Chief of
the Chilean Army. | was murdered by the CIA
to allow the Chilean military to stage a coup
against President Salvador Allende.
I’m George H.W. Bush. Yep that one. | was the CIA
director at the height of Operation Condor and as
Vice President | was involved in Iran-Contra. | died
at age 94, content, remorseless, and totally
unaccountable. Also, as President | gave you
Clarence Thomas. You're welcome.
Hi, l'm Patrice Lumumba, Prime
Minister of the Republic of the Congo.
After a military coup, | was executed by
firing squad and dissolved in a barrel of
acid. The CIA was actively plotting my
death, but they deny any involvement.
Flip to the answer key to find out what
happened to my remains.
Operation Paperclip
After World War II, the US launched a covert program to bring more
than 1,600 scientists and engineers from Nazi Germany to the United
States. These scientists included members and leaders of the Nazi
party and many went on to have decorated careers at the US Army
and NASA. Nazi war criminal Werhner Von Braun was awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 for his role in the Apollo
missions.
Can you find the Nazi among these respectable rocket scientists?
Flip to the back to find the solution!
Did you know?
In the decades after WWII the CIA also directly recruited more than
1,000 Nazis to act as spies and informants, including Aleksandras
Lileikis, who oversaw the murder of 60,000 Lithuanian Jews.
Operation AJAX
In 1953, the CIA overthrew Mohammad Mosaddegh, the
democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. Mosaddegh wanted to
nationalize Iranian oil, but the British and American governments
(and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, today BP) wanted that oil for
themselves. The coup restored power to the Shah, who was friendly
to the US and foreign oil interests.
Can you help CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt escape the
streets of Tehran and get to his waiting airplane while
avoiding the crowds he paid to protest in the streets?
Operation Gladio
After World War II, the CIA coordinated with European intelligence
agencies to train and equip a stay-behind network of anti-
communist (and often explicitly fascist) operatives who could be
activated in the event of a Soviet invasion of Europe.
The countries in white had Gladio operatives, can you draw in
defenders of freedom to oppose the red menace of the Soviets?
Draw stars in Turkey for the Gladio-backed coup and in Italy for the
Gladio-perpetrated murder of the prime minister.
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Spot the difference
Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz had plans to redistribute land
to Indigenous peasants. This threatened United Fruit Company’s
banana-based business model, so they lobbied the US government
to overthrow Arbenz. One of these CIA operations was rejected the
other was implemented.
Can you spot the differences that made the second one justifiable?
Operation PBFortune
Land reforms enacted by the Arbenz administration threaten
the holdings of the United Fruit Company. The CIA will train
and fund exiled Guatemalan army officer Carlos Castillo
Armas, who will launch a coup from his hideout in Nicaragua
and instate himself as dictator in 1952.
Status: Authorized by President Truman in 1952
Aborted by the State Department once they found out
Operation PBSuccess
Land reforms enacted by the Arbenz administration threaten
the holdings of the United Fruit Company. The CIA will train
and fund exiled Guatemalan army officer Carlos Castillo
Armas, who will launch a coup from his hideout in Honduras
and instate himself as dictator in 1954.
Status: Authorized by President Eisenhower in 1953
Arbenz deposed in 1954
Did you know?
The United Fruit Company still exists, in 1984 it became Chiquita.
The Bay of Pigs
In 1961, the CIA recruited, trained and armed Cuban exiles living in
Miami to stage an invasion of Cuba to overthrow the Castro
government. The CIA hoped that news of invasion would lead to a
national insurrection and the defeat of the communist leader. The
1,500 CIA backed forces made landfall, but quickly found themselves
outnumbered by the Cuban Army.
Below is a photo from the invasion, can you find the CIA air support?
Operation Acoustic Kitty
In the 1960s, the CIA spent $20 million (the equivalent of more
than $175 million today) on Operation Acoustic Kitty. CIA scientists
surgically embedded a wireless transmitter and microphone into
the body of a cat and planned to use the cat to listen in on covert
operations.
The project was discontinued in 1967 when the CIA decided that it
“would not be practical.”
SECRET CONVERSATION
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Reassemble the Shredded Document
The CIA is famous for burning and shredding
documents. Much of the records of CIA activities in
the 1950s, including the coups in Iran and Guyana
and covert actions in Indonesia, have been
destroyed. The CIA reports that these records were
destroyed because “their safes were too full.”
While burned documents are unrecoverable, some
shredded documents can still be decoded. After the
seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979,
Iranian intelligence was able to reassemble enough
poorly shredded CIA documents to publish a 77
volume collection entitled “Documents from the US
Espionage Den”
This is an actual document found in the training files
for Operation PBSuccess (the 1954 CIA backed
coup in Guatemala).
Cut it out along the vertical lines and reassemble the
document shreds to reveal the declassified secrets.
covering fr Magazine.
MKUltra
In 1973, the public learned of MKUltra, ongoing CIA experiments
on brainwashing and mind control that had been tested on
American citizens without their knowledge or consent. Most
MKUltra files were destroyed іп 1973 by CIA Director Richard
Helms, but several thousand were misfiled and later declassified.
Can you reveal the hidden message to see what the CIA learned
from 20 years of study (that violated the Nuremburg codes)?
Spot the Front
The CIA operates, maintains and supports a large number of front
organizations, including many airlines. Which of these airlines are
CIA fronts and which are terrible for normal airline reasons?
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Killing Castro
The CIA famously tried to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro more than
600 times. Can you decode their methods?
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Operation Mockingbird
The 1976 Church Committee report revealed that the
CIA had used the media to influence public opinion and
distribute propaganda domestically and abroad. In 1977,
reporter Carl Bernstein expanded on this revelation and
named a number of press organizations that had
relationships with the CIA.
1. Nonprofit news agency, publishes an industry
standard stylebook
2. Where you go to meet the press
3. International UK based news agency
4. Broadcasting company, home of the national spelling
bee
5. Magazine famous for its Norman Rockwell covers
6. Radio network that brought you The Shadow and the
Lone Ranger
7. Home of the Brady Bunch, Grey’s Anatomy and
Abbott Elementary
8. Weekly news magazine, made OJ darker
9. Basis for Citizen Kane and “Remembering the Maine”
10. The Grey Lady who broke the Pentagon Papers and
now hosts some of the worst op-eds you've ever read
11. Florida-based newspaper, distributed throughout the
Caribbean and Latin America
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The Secret War
Beginning in the late 50s, the CIA began recruiting, training and
arming thousands of Hmong men and boys to fight against
communists in Laos as an auxiliary to the Vietnam War. After the war
ended, the CIA abandoned the tens of thousands of Hmong soldiers
and their families to experience displacement and genocide for their
involvement with the US in the war.
Can the CIA help these Hmong soldiers escape to the United States?
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Operation Cyclone: Spot the Difference
From 1979 until the fall of the Soviet Union, the CIA supplied
training and billions of dollars in weapons to Afghan Mujahideen to
fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. Some of these Mujahideen later
became the Taliban. Take a look at the two pictures below.
Left:
Jalaluddin Haqqani, an anti-Soviet warrior and prized CIA asset,
described as “goodness personified” and “a freedom fighter” by
US officials
Right:
Jalaluddin Haqqani, a terrorist warlord, Taliban ally, and close
associate of Osama Bin Laden, responsible for kidnappings,
beheadings, an ethnic cleansing against the Tajik populations
credited with introducing suicide bombings into Afghanistan.
Can you spot the differences between the two?
Coups
The CIA has been involved in overthrowing a number of
democratically elected leaders.
Can you match each leader to their country and the aftermath
to the coup?
Jacobo Arbenz British Guiana
Guatemala
Chile
Republic of
Abd al-Karim
Qasim
Ghana
Joao Goulart
Indonesia
the Congo
Mohammad
Mossadegh
Brazil
Salvador Allende |гад
Military dictatorship of
Made honorary co- Mobutu Sese Seko and
two civil wars
president of Guinea,
where he died in exile
Power restored to the
Re-elected president in Shah
1992
A series of coups
Executed after the
| The military dictatorship
Ramadan Revolution
of Suharto and 1 million
massacred by CIA
trained death squads
Executed and dissolved
in sulfuric acid Constitution suspended
by the British
Assassinated in exile Da i
A civil war lasting until
1996, 200,000 civilians
Heart attack in exile killed and a genocide
21 Years of military
dictatorship and human
rights violations
House arrest until his
death
Committed suicide as 27 years of military
dictatorship under
Augusto Pinochet
the presidential palace
was being captured
A military junta and
Also house arrest until destruction of the
his death
economy
Matching Game: Regime Change
Can you match the 20" century US president to the countries they
“changed the regime of’? Keep in mind that some countries
government were overthrown more than once!
Afghanistan
Angola
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Cambodia
Chad
Chile
Congo
Cuba
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Egypt
Ethiopia
Ghana
Grenada
Guatemala
Haiti
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Myanmar
Nicaragua
Panama
Poland
Syria
Vietnam
Disappearing Dissidents
Operation Condor was campaign of state terror and political
violence that formally began in 1975 and ran until 1989, with the
CIA funding and training the death squads of military dictators in
South America.
Estimates are that more than 50,000 were killed, 30,000 were
disappeared and 400,000 were imprisoned. Involved from the
beginning was US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Can you untangle which of these countries coordinated with
Kissinger as a part of Operation Condor?
The Hunt For Bin Laden
In 2011, the CIA staged a Hepatitis B vaccination program to
gather intelligence on the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden. The
DNA gathering may not have actually worked, but you can’t blame
the CIA for trying!
Can you you disguise this CIA agent as a doctor?
Don't forget to draw:
Stethoscope
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Decryption
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) gives a person the right to
request federal agency records. Agencies can still redact information
on requested record. Below is a declassified memo that longtime CIA
director of public affairs Herbert Hetu sent to the CIA legislative
councilor George Cary. Can you decrypt it?
2 13-1-3-2-1-24-1 6-18-1 8-11-1-15-19-22-17
2-4-8-11-1 18-83-17 17-23-14-14-1-5-1-21
23-15-15-1-19-1-17-17-85-22 21-8-4-8-11-1 8-15-21
6-18-1 10-23-13-3-2-19 18-8-17 13-1-1-15
4-2-17-3-1-21 13-1-19-8-23-17-1 7-14 14-7-2-8
5-1-16-23-2-5-1-4-1-15-6-17 6-7 5-1-3-1-8-17-1
13-2-6-17 8-15-21 10-2-1-19-1-17 7-14
2-15-14-7-5-4-8-6-2-7-15
A=8 F=14 K=12 P=10 U=23
B=13 G=11 L=3 Q=16 V=24
C=19 H=18 M=4 R=5 W=25
D=21 |=2 М=15 S=17 Y=22
E=1 J=9 O=7 T=6 2=20
Iran-Contra
Can you solve a real life international crime? Once you have your
answers circled, flip to the end to see if you've gotten it right.
In 1979, the US began a trade embargo against Iran. In
1981, The US used the CIA to support the Contras, a
militia rebelling against the socialist Sandinista
government. The Contras biggest source of money was
the cocaine trade. In 1984, Congress passed the Boland
amendment, prohibiting the use of government funds for
the Contras.
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President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George
HW Bush, with the support of CIA director William Casey
directed Robert McFarlane and John Poindexter to sell
$30 million worth of missiles to Iran, through Israel. LTC
Oliver North funneled $18 million of this money to the
Contras, with the assistance of 4 CIA officers.
Circle the in BLUE what you think the crime was
Circle in RED the people you think are guilty
Underline the people you think were found guilty
Around The World!
The CIA really gets around! From everything you've learned in this
book, can you label the countries whose leaders the CIA has
overthrown?
“Enhanced Interrogation”
In 2002, the Bush administration granted the CIA's request to
use torture to extract information from captives. “Enhanced
interrogation” revealed no actual intelligence, and no US
government official has been held accountable for these human
rights abuses.
Can you fill in the blanks to unlock what the techniques all have
in common?
ATTEN_ION GRASP
FACIAL H_LD
COLD TEMPE_ATURE
WA_ERBOARDING
DIETARY MANIP_LATION
WALL S_ANDING
SL_EP DEPRIVATION
In Conclusion
The CIA will be the first to tell you that none of their agents
have ever been the one to kill any foreign head of state.
Regardless of whether or not this is technically true, it
obfuscates the role the CIA has played in planning, funding
and enabling extrajudicial assassinations.
The CIA is not a law enforcement agency, they have no
jurisdiction and therefore no constraints. To reiterate the
introduction to this activity book, the CIA has no legitimate
basis for their authority or actions. The entirety of their
justification rests on the fact that the United States is powerful
enough that it cannot meaningfully be held accountable on the
world stage. No other country could get away with what the
United States has done through the CIA.
From Allen Dulles to the presidents authorizing the
assassination of foreign heads of state to the CIA agents
running a brothel and dosing people with LSD in Operation
Midnight Climax, all of them have been convinced that the
actions they were taking were correct, necessary and justified.
And to me, that is the most unsettling part.
We will never know the full extent of the CIA's history or their
involvement in coups, terrorism, and repression worldwide.
This is by design. The CIA is fundamentally unaccountable to
anyone, even the security state that spawned it.
You cannot protest the CIA in any meaningful way. You cannot
even protest the CIA by being the sovereign leader of your
own independent country, that’s the sort of shit that gets you
killed. As long as the CIA exists, it is proof that on some level,
the whole world is subject to the agenda of the United States.
Did you know?
The CIA's 1947 charter prohibits it from operating in the US or
spying on US citizens, but that hasn’t stopped it!
Operation Paperclip
They're all Nazis.
This photo of the Von Braun rocket team was taken in 1959.
For more of his speech
* Marco Margaritoff 2020 "Inside Operation Paperclip"
AllThatsInteresting
• Annie Jacobsen, 2016, Operation Paperclip, the secret military
program that brought Nazi scientists to America. Little, Brown
Operation Ajax
Kermit Roosevelt was
also the grandson of
Teddy Roosevelt.
do
A
|
For more Information
• Malcolm Byrne “CIA
Confirms Role in
1953 Iran Coup”
National Security
Archive
• Bethany Allen-
Ebrahimian. 2017 &
“64 Years Later, CIA V.
Finally Releases
Details of Iranian
Coup” Foreign
Policy
Operation Gladio
Gladio operatives were involved in the 1978 murder of Italian Prime
Minister Aldo Moro and the 1980 Turkish coup, among other acts of
violence and terrorism.
For more information
• Clare Pedrick. 1990. “CIA Organized Secret Army in Western
Europe” Washington Post.
e Archer S3E08 Lo Scandalo, 2012
• Well There’s Your Problem episode 34, Ustica Massacre
* Hugh Wilford. 2008. The Mighty Wurlitzer. Harvard
Spot the Difference
The difference is the Truman administration vs the Eisenhower
administration. Truman was a bastard and a war criminal in his own
right, but he seemed to not be on board with non-wartime coups.
Sources
• Kate Doyle and Peter Kornbluh. “CIA and Assassination: The
Guatemala 1954 Documents” National Security Archive.
• Pablo Neruda “La United Fruit Co”
• Stephen Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer. 2005. Bitter Fruit: The
Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and
Expanded.
Bay of Pigs
You won't be able to find them! They got confused with the time
difference coming and didn’t show up until an hour too late. The
public nature of this disaster is what led JFK to ask for the
resignation of longtime CIA director Allen Dulles.
Sources
* Lauren Harper and Thomas Blanton. 2016. "CIA released
Controversial Bay of Pigs History” National Security Archive
• Tim Weiner. 1998. “CIA Bares its Bungling in Report on Bay of
Pigs Invasion” New York Times
Operation Acoustic Kitty
As it turns out, cats make bad spies
Sources
• Alexis Madrigal, 2013. “Operation Acoustic Kitty: The CIA's
Would-Be Cat Spy” The Atlantic
• Kat Eschner. 2017. “The CIA Experimented On Animals in the
1960s Too. Just Ask ‘Acoustic Kitty” Smithsonian Magazine
Reassemble the Shredded Document
A STUDY OF ASSASSINATION
JUSTIFICATION
Murder is not morally justifiable. Self-défense may be argued if
the victim has knowledge which may destroy the resistance
organization if divulged. Assassination of persons responsible
for atrocities or reprisals may be regarded as just punishment.
Killing a political leader whose burgeoning career is a clear and
present danger to the cause of freedom may be held necessary.
But assassination can seldom be employed with a clear
conscience. Persons who are morally squeamish should not
attempt it.
TECHNIQUES
The essential point of assassination is the death of the subject.
A human being may be killed in many ways but sureness is
often overlooked by those who may be emotionally unstrung by
the seriousness of this act they intend to commit. The specific
technique employed will depend upon a large number of
variables, but should be constant in one point: Death must be
absolutely certain. The attempt on Hitler's life failed because
the conspiracy did not give this matter proper attention.
Techniques may be considered as follows:
1. Manual.
It is possible to kill a man with the bare ‘hands, but very few are
skillful enough to do it well. Even a highly trained Judo expert
will hesitate to risk killing by hand unless he has absolutely no
alternative. However, the simplest local tools are often much
the most efficient means of assassination. A hammer, axe,
wrench, screw driver, fire poker, kitchen knife, lamp stand, or
anything hard, heavy and handy will sufice.
2. Accidents.
For secret assassination, either simple cr chase, the contrived
accident is the most effective technique. When successfully
executed, it causes little excitement anc. is only casually
investigated.
The most efficient accident, in simple assassination, is a fall of
75 feet or more onto a hard surface. Elevator shafts, stair
wells, unscreened windows and bridges will serve. Bridge falls
into water are not reliable.
1
(1) Enters room quickly but quietly
(2) Stands in doorway
(2) Finishes burst. Commands "shift."
Drops back thru [sic] door. Replaces
empty magazine. Covers corridor.
(1) On comrnand "shift", opens fire on
opposite side of target, swings one burst
across group.
(2) Leaves room. Commands "GO". Covers
rear with nearly full magazine.
(1) On command "GO", leads withdrawal,
covering front with full magazine.
For more about the CIA's record keeping
* Tim Weiner. 1997 "CIA Destroyed Files on 1953 Iran Coup" New
York Times
> —.
(2) Opens fire on first subject to
react. Swings across group toward
center of mass. Times burst tc
empty magazine at end of swing.
(1) Covers group to prevent
individual dangerous reactions, if
necessary, fires individual bursts of
3 rounds.
(1) Finishes burst. Commands "shift".
Drops back thru [sic] door. Re»laces
magazine. Covers corridor.
(2) On command, "shift", re-enters
room. Covers group: kills surv.vors
with two- round bursts. Leaves
propaganda.
• Ryan Reilly. 2011 “The CIA Saves Power By Shredding And
Burning Classified Document. Talking Points Memo
Spot the Front
The front organizations are Southern Air Transport, Evergreen, Air
America, Air Asia, Continental Air Services, Tepper Aviation and St.
Lucia Airways
The the real airlines are American, Southwest and Spirit.
For more about the front airlines
• William M. Leary. “CIA Air Operations in Laos, 1955-1974”
• Jane Mayer. 2006 “The CIA's Travel Agent” The New Yorker
• Noah Schatman. 2011. “Legendary CIA Airline Now In Danger of
Crashing” Wired
* James Whaton. 2021. "Air America: When the CIA Secretly
Bought an Airline” Forces
MKU!tra Coloring Page
Many of the surviving documents are digitized in the MKUltra
collection on archive.org
Sources
• Brainwashed:
The Secret CIA
Experiments in
Canada The
Fifth Estate
* Stephen
Kinzer. 2019.
Poisoner in
Chief: Sidney
Gottlieb and
the CIA Search
for a Mind
Control Drug.
Henry Holt and
Co.
Killing Castro
1. Planting a conch shell with an explosive at his favorite diving site
so when he picked it up it would explode.
2. Giving him a handkerchief with deadly bacteria on it
3. Convincing one of his mistresses to kill him
4. Slipping him a poisoned cigar
5. Blowing up his podium when he gave a speech
6. Poisoning his milkshake
Castro died in 2016, outliving 8 CIA directors and 6 Presidents who
tried to kill him.
More on the plots
• Fabian Escalante. 2006. Executive Action: 634 Ways to kill Fidel
Castro. Ocean Press.
How the CIA justified it
e "Intelligence- Report on CIA Assassination Plots" in the Richard B
Cheney files
Operation Mockingbird Crossword
The CIA denies the existence of Mockingbird to this day
1. Associated Press 7. American Broadcasting
2. National Broadcasting Company
Company 8. Newsweek
3. Reuters 9. Hearst Newspapers
4. Scripps 10. New York Times
5. Saturday Evening Post 11. Miami Herald
6. Mutual Broadcasting System
Sources
• Carl Bernstein. 1977. “The CIA and the Media” Rolling Stone
• The Black Vault. Operation Mockingbird
The Secret War
No, you can’t. The maze is impossible. Sorry about that. While a
few of the highest ranking Hmong generals were evacuated to the
US, many spent year if not decades in refugee camps, and
thousands were killed before even making it to the camps in the
first place. Immigration reform in the 1980s allowed some Hmong
secret war veterans and their families.
Because of the covert nature of the operation, many in the US
didn't know about the Hmong contribution to the Vietnam War
effort. For its part, the CIA considered the paramilitary operation a
success because of its “small relative dollar cost.” After his death
in 2011, the US army denied a request from the family of General
Vang Pao, the leader of the Hmong army to be buried with military
honors at Arlington.
For more:
• Joshua Kurlantzick. 2017. A Great Place to Have A War: Laos
and the Birth of a Military CIA. Simon & Schuster
• Mai Der Vang. 2015. “Heirs of the Secret War in Laos” New
York Times
• Ра Nhia Xiong. 2020. “The Secret War: The Forgotten Hmong
Heroes” California State University, Fresno.
Operation Cyclone: Spot the Difference
You can't spot the difference? You must not be CIA material.
Haqqani joined the Taliban in 1995, and he wasnt the only
Mujahideen leader to later join the Taliban. The CIA has never
admitted to arming or training Osama Bin Laden during this era
(and why would they?) it remains, in my opinion, very likely that
Bin Laden was in the right place at the right time to benefit from
the CIA anti-Soviet funding.
Sources
* Steve Galster. 2001 “Afghanistan, Lessons from the Last War”
National Security Archive
• Krishnadev Calamur. 2018. “How Jalaluddin Haqqani Went
From U.S. Ally to Foe” Atlantic.
Coups
Arbenz- Guatemala- Heart attack- military dictatorship
• Jason Clingerman. 2012. “The CIA in Guatemala.” National
Archives Blog
• Jacobo Arbenz, Spartacus Educational
Lumumba- Republic of the Congo- Executed- Mobutu
e Martin Kettle. 2000. “President ‘ordered тигдег of Congo
leader" The Guardian
* Tim Weiner. 2008. Legacy of Ashes. Anchor Books.
Jagan- British Guiana- Re-elected- Constitution suspended
* John Prados and Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi. 2020. “CIA Covert
Operations: The 1964 Overthrow of Cheddi Jagan in British
Guiana" National Security Archive
Sukarno- Indonesia- House arrest until his death- Suharto
* Vincent Bevins. 2020. The Jakarta Method.
Abd al-Karim Qasim- |гад- Series of coups
* Patrick Cockburn. 2002. "Regime Change: How the CIA put
Saddam's Party in Power, 1963"
Goulart- Brazil- Assassinated- 21 years of dictatorship
• Peter Kornbluh. 2004. “Brazil marks 40" Anniversary of Military
Coup Declassified Document Shed Light on US Role”
Mossadegh- Iran- house arrest- The Shah
* Stephen Kinzer. 2003. All the Shah’s Men
Allende- Chile- suicide - Pinochet
• Peter Kornbluh and Savannah Bock. 2020. “Allende and Chile
‘Bring Him Down.” National Security Archive.
Nkrumah- Ghana- junta- honorary co-president of Guinea
e Seymour Hirsh. 1978. “C.I.A. Said to Have Aided Plotters Who
Overthrew Nkrumah in Ghana” New York Times
• “Today in history: The CIA masterminded 1966 coup to
overthrow Nkrumah” The Ghana Report.
Matching Game: Regime Change
Truman Johnson Reagan
• Syria • Brazil • Afghanistan
• Myanmar • Ghana • Angola
• Indonesia • Chad
Eisenhower * Vietnam * Grenada
* Congo * Nicaragua
* Egypt Nixon * Panama
* Guatemala * Angola * Poland
* Indonesia * Bolivia * |гад
* |гап * Cambodia
* Syria * Chile Bush
* Ethiopia * iraq
Kennedy * Haiti
* Cuba Ford
* Dominican * Argentina Clinton
Republic * East Timor * Congo
* |гад * Haiti
* Vietnam Carter
Sources for regime changes not elsewhere cited
Syria
* Andy Warner. 2013. "A Secret Plot in Syria" Slate
* Douglas Little. 1990. *Cold War and Covert Action: The United
States and Syria, 1945-1958" Middle East Journal
Myanmar
* Peter Dale Scott 2010 "Operation Paper: The United States and
Drugs in Thailand and Burma" The Asia-Pacific Journal
Egypt
* Laila Amin Morsy. 1995. “American Support for the 1952
Egyptian Coup: Why?" Middle Eastern Studies
Chad
* Human Rights Watch 2016 "Enabling a Dictator The United
States and Chad's Hisséne Habré 1982-1990“
Disappearing Dissidents
All of these countries (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and
Bolivia) were a part of Condor, as well as Chile and Paraguay.
Henry Kissinger is responsible for an estimated 3 million deaths.
At this point, there is no meaningful way to hold Kissinger
responsible for his crimes.
For more about Condor
• Peter Kornbluh. 2004 “Lifting of Pinochet’s Immunity Renews
Focus on Operation Condor” National Security Archive
• Branko Marcetic, 2020“The CIA’s Secret War Against the
Global Left” Jacobin
* Giles Tremlett. 2020. “Operation Condor” The Guardian
For more about Kissinger's various crimes against humanity
• Ben Burgis. 2023 “Henry Kissinger Is a Disgusting War
Criminal. And the Rot Goes Deeper Than Him.” Jacobin
• Joshua Keating. 2018. “Anthony Bourdain Really Really
Hated Henry Kissinger.” Slate.
The Hunt for Bin Laden
After Bin Laden’s killing in 2011, the Taliban issued a fatwa
against vaccination, and began killing polio workers,
undermining a decades long anti polio campaign. Dr. Shakil
Afridi, who assisted the CIA in the intelligence gathering
operation, is currently serving a 33 year prison sentence in
Pakistan. The CIA announced that they would end fake
vaccination campaigns as an intelligence strategy in 2014.
Sources
• Donald McNeil Jr. 2012. “C.I.A. Vaccine Ruse May Have
Harmed the War on Polio” New York Times
• Jackie Northam. 2021. “How The CIA's Hunt For Bin Laden
Impacted Public Health Campaigns In Pakistan” NPR
• Saeed Shah. 2011. “CIA organised fake vaccination drive to
get Osama bin Laden's family DNA” The Guardian
Iran-Contra
In 1979, the US began a trade embargo against Iran. In 1981, The
US used the CIA to support the Contras, a militia rebelling against
the socialist Sandinista government. The Contras biggest source of
money was the cocaine trade. In 1984, Congress passed the
Boland amendment, prohibiting the use of government funds for the
Contras.
President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George HW Bush,
with the support of CIA director William Case directed Robert
McFarlane and John Poindexter to sell $30 million worth of
missiles to Iran, through Israel. LTC Oliver North funneled $18
million of this money to the Contras, with the assistance of 4 CIA
officers.
Everybody got pardoned by President George HW Bush
Sources
* Malcolm Byrne, et al 2006. “The Iran-Contra Affair 20 Years on.”
National Security Archive
e “Portraits in Oversight: The Iran-Contra Affair" The Levin Center.
Decryption FOIA
"| believe the Agency's image has suffered unnecessary damage
and the public has been misled because of FOIA requirements to
release bits and pieces of information.”
Sources
• “Amendments to the Freedom of Information Act,” National
Security Archive
• JPat Brown. 2018. “CIA employees called for “abolishing FOIA”
as one of Agency’s goals for 1984” Muckrock.
The Family Jewels
e Thomas Blanton, ed. 2007 “The CIA’s Family Jewels." National
Security Archive.
CIA Around the World
This is not an exhaustive list, and does not contain all the countries the
US has overthrown, just the ones with CIA involvement.
1.Guatemala 13. Iran
2. Nicaragua 14. Afghanistan
3. Panama 15. Myanmar
4. Brazil 16. Laos
5. Bolivia 17. Egypt
6. Chile 18. Chad
7. Haiti 19. Congo
8. Dominican Republic 20. Angola
9. Guyana 21. Vietnam
10. Poland 22. Cambodia
11. Syria 23. Indonesia
12. |гад
Sources
• “Overthrow: 100 Years of US Meddling & Regime Change” 2018
Democracy Now
* William Blum “Overthrowing Other People's Governments: The
Master List”
Enhanced Interrogation
They’re all TORTURE
Sources
• Ed Pilkington, 2022 “The CIA tortured him after 9/11. Then they
lied. Will the truth ever come out?” The Guardian
• Report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Study on
the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation
Program
• “No More Excuses: A Roadmap to Justice for CIA torture”
Human Rights Watch
* "What the CIA did to its Detainees” Frontline
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