Best espionage true accounts books according to redditors
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My grandfather was one of the children he saved! He went on to become one of the first military pilots for the Israeli Air Force, and had an impressive military career up until 1973 when he was assassinated in Maryland while serving as a military attache.
The FBI recently reopened the murder case due to new evidence and our family is still investigating and looking for clues.
If anyone by any chance knows or has heard of anything related to Col. Joe Alon's murder on July 1, 1973 in Chevy Chase, Maryland please contact me at [email protected]. If you want to help but you're afraid for your safety, there are secure channels we can communicate through - PM me for more info.
For more info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Alon - Wiki about my grandfather
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwLkaWfwmU0 - Documentary about attempts to find his killer
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/5mxje4/my_grandfather_was_an_israeli_diplomat_who_was/ - reddit post with a lot of information
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/08/us/politics/carlos-the-jackal-yosef-alon-assassination-israel.html - why FBI opened the case
https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Shadows-Special-Lifelong-Assassin/dp/0230620558 - Book about a former FBI agent's attempt to find the killer
P.S. trying to get some visibility so i've reposted this comment.
EDIT: Glad this got the visibility I wanted. fuck the karma I'm just hoping to find leads. We believe there are still people alive in the US that know something about his murder, whether it's former government officials or rogue terrorist groups - i dont know - but the clock is ticking and soon no one directly involved in the assassination will be alive. We hope to find someone who worked in the US government (or CIA) in Washington around 1972-1976 on the Egypt-Israel relations or with Henry Kissinger and is willing to come forward with the facts they are hiding from us. So if you think you might know somebody like that, and you are willing to drop him the question "have you ever heard of colonel joe alon?" or direct him to the email address I posted I would be eternally grateful.
Regarding the Anti-(zion/semit)ism here, this is expected - this is the internet after all - but actually I regard myself as more liberal and left wing, not that it matters. I don't want this to become a political debate. I'm doing this for my mother and her sisters who lived without a father since they were 5, 14 and 19 years old, without ever getting an answer to the question 'why was he killed?'
Also, don't buy the one on Amazon with forward by Alan Dershowitz by mistake like I did.
Spends the entire forward making horrendously disingenuous remarks and attempting to spin the report into something that exonerates or proves Trump's innocence.
Egregious hit job.
And why?
Because left wing dissidents wanted to break away from US patronage and nationalize US property in their country and forge their own destiny. This would basically infringe on US corporations rights to exploit poor South American countries for their own profit. US didn’t like that much and engaged in a systematic terror campaign aimed at attacking any grassroots resistance to US backed dictators. The result was essentially a war on peasant populations not just inEl Salvador, but in several other Latin American nations.
Important to note that this is par for the course of US intervention in the third world. I encourage every American to read up on it.
Edit: a word
Edit2: A good book on US foreign intervention
Yeah. The Washington Post version is a good one. It keeps the original pagination which I think some others do not, and had extras like the indictments and a timeline as well.
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I prefer the paper version because it allows you to easily flip back and forth and mark it up with your own notes if you want to. Worth the $10 even if its free online.
More on Project MKULTRA, as well as its precursors, sub-projects and alleged continuation:
Actually, it was David Kahn's The Codebreakers that was going to reveal the UKUSA agreement when is was first published in 1967, which would have revealed the way the US and UK could spy on their domestic populations by swapping data. The NSA persuaded the publisher to strike that page from the finished product, the first time that the US ever pre-censored a civilian publication. Technically "legal" in that the publisher did it "voluntarily" rather than coerced.
In 1983 James Bamford reproduced the missing page in The Puzzle Palace. At this point it was now formally known that the US and UK could spy on anyone, anywhere in the world, and get away with it. (Each organization can spy on everything-minus-their-own-country. All it takes is two countries to agree to fill in the holes for each other and both can "legally" know everything.)
NSA has been doing this for over 50 years. It has been known to those who cared to look for over 30 years. Snowden really only revealed their tactics and technology, not their strategy or goals. Their goal has always been Total Information Awareness.
Thanks for joining in and all the great questions! I'm going to wrap this up now but I may respond to a few good questions over the next few days. Good luck everyone with your Thanksgiving and holiday conversations this year... should be a doozy but a chance for us all to connect with loved ones on what matters most.
Let me leave you with a few links for further reading:
Christopher Andrew's "Sword and the Shield" - using historical KGB documents
https://www.amazon.com/Sword-Shield-Mitrokhin-Archive-History/dp/0465003125
Using humor to disarm disinformation:
https://youtu.be/uuKipN1aFd0
State Dept disinformation reports: 1994 baby parts
http://pascalfroissart.online.fr/3-cache/1994-leventhal.pdf
1987 AIDS report
https://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/reports/1987/soviet-influence-activities-1987.pdf
Learn to identify the 4D's of Russian propaganda: Dismiss, Distract, Distort, and Dismay
https://www.stopfake.org/en/anatomy-of-an-info-war-how-russia-s-propaganda-machine-works-and-how-to-counter-it
Active measures and disinformation is like "water falling on a stone" it's not any one crazy story, it's the accumulation that makes the hole.
https://youtu.be/ALfDhs-_ce4?t=20m50s
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The idea that politics begins and ends at a nation's borders is ridiculous on face. The idea that the national politics of a country, hegemonic as the US is, should begin and end at a nation's borders is really fucking stupid.
Why do you think Puerto Rico is a territory?
Why do you think the Bay of Pigs happened?
Why do you think we funded the Contras in Nicaragua?
Why do you think we overthrew the queen of Hawa'ii and installed a military base?
Why do you think we "purchased" Alaska from Russia?
What do you think the Monroe doctrine was?
In the period since 1945, America has, "carried out extremely serious interventions into more than 70 nations..."
source https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II-Updated/dp/1567512526
In 1954 a US backed coup in Guatemala overthrew democratically elected liberal president Jacobo Árbenz. Though not communist, the US feared Arbenz's communist ties, as he enacted land reform and strengthened workers rights. It's notable during this time that the United Fruit Company held incredible power in Guatemala and it's a matter of debate exactly how much the US intervention in Guatemala was a response to direct pressure from the UFC on US officials. Through operation PBSUCCESS the CIA sponsored a coup putting into power a right wing military dictatorship which resulted in the deaths of over 100,000 Guatemalans. This also brought about a civil war which lasted from 1960-1996. After the war, a UN sponsored truth commission found that CIA-trained paramilitaries were responsible for over 93% of the human rights violations during the war including the torture and dissapearing of tens of thousands of people, overwhelminging rural indigenous Maya, many of whom were also displaced by the destruction of their villages.
Jeez I'm really starting to tire out despite having planned to detail several more countries. I can give more details on any of the following if you'd like but to keep it brief here are a few other examples I won't go much into otherwise, El Salvador (especially notable for the violent death squads which came out of the School of the Americas, in particular the Atlacatl Battalion which was created by the school in 1980 and responsible for the El Mozote massacre in which 800 civilians including women and children were brutally raped and murdered), the Dominican Republic, and Honduras (also notable for it's military death squads, like Battalion 3-16 commanded by Luis Alonso Discua another School of the Americas graduate). Honduras has suffered in multiple instances over the last 100 years as a result of US intervention and the overwhelming power that US fruit companies have held over their government (hence the creation of the term "Banana Republic"). Although I can't talk about it without breaking the 20 year rule, you can look into US intervention in/after the 2009 coup on your own to see how this is ongoing.
Another somewhat different example to what I've described above is immigration spurred by economic harm caused by trade policies. Many Latin American economies and their workers, have suffered greatly under NAFTA which allows capital to move across borders freely, but not people. The idea behind NAFTA is that farmers in a country like Mexico would benefit from being able to sell their corn internationally, but what happened is that instead of moving into new markets, they we're merely pushed out of their own. As NAFTA flooded the Mexican corn market with much cheaper US corn, Mexican farmers couldn't compete as large US corn companies profited. As a result many have been forced to follow agricultural jobs to the US since they could no longer make a living in Mexico.
Well let me know if you'd like anymore information or want specific citations. Please keep in mind that even within the countries I talked about in detail, this is only a fraction of US intervention episodes in Latin America. Not only are there countries that I didn't get to at all, but in some countries mentioned here there are multiple instances of intervention that have occurred in the last 100 years despite me only mentioning one. Additionally there were some modern non-Latin American refugee crisis spurred by US intervention that I would have liked to discuss but had to leave out because of the 20 year rule. Killing Hope, one of the books cited below, is probably the best compilation of all of these events up until the late 90's. If you look at the chapters list in the book preview on Amazon, there are 55 different instances listed many of which are in Latin America, this gives a great place to start for further research. One last thing to keep in mind is that most all of these instances I've described are characterized by absolutely brutal torture, the likes of which a normal person probably couldn't imagine, and which I glossed over because it really is too much for me to handle and manage to present in an academic fashion. But it is important to understand the gravity of what these civilians suffered when I say "torture," the sources below and other online resources can provide more info on that, suffice to say I wish I could un-know the things I've read and accounts I've heard from survivors of these regimes.
Sources:
Fun fact:
Pizzagate's primary propagandist is Mike Cernovich, a Trump fanatic.
Lesser known is that Mike Cernovich allied with Epstein's ex-lawyer Alan Dershowitz in a legal quest to attack Epstein's victims. Both of them have been filing joint or related legal requests in a court case attempting to unseal documents on one of Epstein's accusers.
The victim of course has been defending herself in court against these attacks by highlighting to the judge how completely fucking biased Cernovich is against rape victims.
Another fun fact:
Alan Dershowitz wrote the forward to the Mueller Report published on Amazon. The credits for Alan were already on the cover before the report was even published, before he had time to actually read it. Look it up on Amazon, most people don't realize someone deeply biased towards the Trump child rape crew managed to get himself added into the report, before the report was out.
All coincidences, I'm sure.
u/packattacks if you want some examples of non-authoritarian communist and socialist attempts at government, check out William Blum's Killing Hope. It's a great book and shows many examples of democratic leftist movements that the CIA tried to destroy
From the author's own website promoting his book:
"Killing Hope: US Military & CIA Interventions since World War II" (William Blum)
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
The book is around $15 or you can get a copy from TPB.
https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II-Updated/dp/1567512526
Straight up there is a physical copy of the Mueller report for sale on Amazon with an "introduction" by Alan Dershowitz.
Is it just me or is that fucking insane?
If they simply "stopped paying attention", how would you explain the CIA's orders to the Jeddah consulate to grant Al Qaeda operatives visas into the country?
How do you explain the fact that once in the country, the alleged hijackers received training at secure military installations.
It is you, sir, who needs to read some books:
Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
Confessions of an Economic Hitman
Tragedy and Hope
Wall Street and The Bolshevik Revolution
Wall Street and The Rise of Hitler
Foundations: Their Power and Influence
Bank Control of Large Corporations in the United States
Wake up to reality my friend. These people are not, and have never been, incompetent or negligent. If they were either, they wouldn't be in the positions of power they are in today.
you can order the printed version from the Washington Post off of Amazon for less than a print job would cost.
https://www.amazon.com/Mueller-Report-Washington-Post/dp/1982129735
He's a pretty neat guy. He first became fairly well known for discovering one of the earliest cyberspying cases:
> A 75-cent discrepancy in billing for computer time led Stoll, an astrophysicist working as a systems manager at a California laboratory, on a quest that reads with the tension and excitement of a fictional thriller. Painstakingly he tracked down a hacker who was attempting to access American computer networks, in particular those involved with national security, and actually reached into an estimated 30 of the 450 systems he attacked. Initially Stroll waged a lone battle, his employers begrudging him the time spent on his search and several government agencies refused to cooperate. But his diligence paid off and in due course it was learned that the hacker, 25-year-old Markus Hess of Hanover, Germany, was involved with a spy ring. Eight members were arrested by the West German authorities but all but one were eventually released.
His book on the incident is an outstanding read.
Bin laden never would have had a trial. He never wanted to be captured alive. While on the run in Afghanistan, after the U.S. invasion, he hired a man whose job it was to shoot him if they ever got caught.
(Source) Black Banners by Ali Soufan
First quote on the "editorial reviews"
>"Let it come out, let people see it. Let's see whether or not it's legit…I look forward to seeing the [Mueller] report."—President Donald Trump
Is that a joke?
Two book recommendations:
Killing Hope - explores the United States' covert and overt operations globally, including crimes like Colombia and Guatemala.
Kill Anything That Moves - focuses specifically on Vietnam.
> Didn't the US support the Colonels? I think I remember hearing that they were locking up communists (possibly what this guy is??) and the US supplied them with arms despite the fact that they overthrew a democratically elected gov.
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You should maybe read this. The defining factor on whether or not the US decides to overthrow a government has nothing to do with how ethical or supported the government is, just whether or not it's left of them on the economic spectrum.
I wonder if this is somehow related to the fact that the report is currently being sold as an ebook all over Amazon for $10
Go read the book The Sword and the Shield. It's part of the Mitrokhin Archive - the largest dump about the KGB in history. It's fascinating and scary.
You'll change your mind about how he isn't a genius.
the cuckoo's egg by cliff stoll -- http://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espionage/dp/0743411463
takedown by john markoff and tsutomu shimomura -- http://www.amazon.com/Takedown-Pursuit-Americas-Computer-Outlaw/dp/0786889136
nonfiction, actually--early-computer-age stuff about chasing down hackers in the dot-matrix days. I enjoyed these when I was younger.
Read my other comment. You clearly don't understand how white supremacy works. You should also read this book or at least the reviews that do a good job of summarizing it. http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II--Updated/dp/1567512526/. In list form https://i.imgur.com/OMawpLS.jpg
edit: updated link.
There are about 50 instances of such shenanigans since WW2. Overthrowing democratically elected governments -that were derided by the US as communist because those governments wanted control over their own nation's resources, and support for the US-friendly military dictatorships that replaced them- is the rule rather than the exception.
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II
http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-Military-Interventions-II-Updated/dp/1567512526
http://williamblum.org/books/killing-hope/
Interestingly, this site has been run for a good long time by Cliff Stoll, author of the Cuckoo's Egg. If you're a geek, YSK at least who this guy is. He's not a pioneer or anything, but he did do a solid bit of detective work, and ended up with a decent story out of it. If you're interested in old school security, computer forensics, or the NSA at the dawn of the internet, you ought to check his book out. A little overly dramatized, but hey, it's a decent read.
Amazon Blurb
>Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized user on his system. The hacker's code name was "Hunter" -- a mystery invader hiding inside a twisting electronic labyrinth, breaking into U.S. computer systems and stealing sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own, spying on the spy -- and plunged into an incredible international probe that finally gained the attention of top U.S. counterintelligence agents. The Cuckoo's Egg is his wild and suspenseful true story -- a year of deception, broken codes, satellites, missile bases, and the ultimate sting operation -- and how one ingenious American trapped a spy ring paid in cash and cocaine, and reporting to the KGB.
Amazon Link
EDIT: I don't know the guy or anything, I just liked his book.
Look what Susan Lindauer revealed about the prior knowledge about 9/11 and the lies leading up to the Iraq war. She was never promoted in the media like Snowden.
They just threw her in prison under the Patriot Act called her an agent of Iraq until they could finish the 911 Commission Report without her testimony then called her crazy said she was unfit for trial and dropped the entire case against her a few years later. It couldnt go to court because discovery would prove her claims as she kept excellent records.
Snowden confirmed what most of us already knew from Alex Jones over a decade prior. Was not really any new information anyone paying attention did not already know.
https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Prejudice-Terrifying-Story-Patriot/dp/1453642757
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> Former Congressional staffer Susan Lindauer covered Iraq and Libya at the United Nations, as a U.S. Intelligence Asset and back door channel on anti-terrorism from 1993 to 2003. Most notoriously, in the summer of 2001, her team warned about a major terrorist attack involving airplane hijackings and a strike on the World Trade Center. Lindauer also campaigned heavily against the War in Iraq, and developed a comprehensive peace framework through her back-channel in the run up to War. This is the story of what happened when Lindauer tried to disclose the true facts of Iraqi Pre-War Intelligence and the 9/11 warning to Congress and the American people. It details the nightmare of her arrest on the Patriot Act and her imprisonment without a trial at the notorious prison inside Carswell Air Force Base in Texas.
>You gotta have cited for 80.
Between attempts and successes it may actually be close to 80, but here are the successes:
>Iran (1953); Guatemala(1954); Thailand (1957); Laos (1958-60); the Congo (1960); Turkey (1960, 1971 & 1980); Ecuador (1961 & 1963); South Vietnam (1963); Brazil (1964); the Dominican Republic (1963); Argentina (1963); Honduras (1963 & 2009); Iraq (1963 & 2003); Bolivia (1964, 1971 & 1980); Indonesia (1965); Ghana (1966); Greece (1967); Panama (1968 & 1989); Cambodia (1970); Chile (1973); Bangladesh (1975); Pakistan (1977); Grenada (1983); Mauritania (1984); Guinea (1984); Burkina Faso (1987); Paraguay (1989); Haiti (1991 & 2004); Russia (1993); Uganda (1996);and Libya (2011).
http://www.alternet.org/world/americas-coup-machine-destroying-democracy-1953
https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-Military-Interventions-Since/dp/1567510523/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=064GA0M04G74H2S1MMKE
I don't know about you, but that seems like a shit ton of successful coups. No one does it better than the US.
I guess you never read Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets or The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, both by David Simon, creator of The Wire.
As I say most times I hear a question about the background to The Wire and it's various characters: Homicide: A Year on The Killing Streets by David Simon holds all the answers, and is an absolutely fantastic read.
He didn't. He wrote it for a slanted take on the report: https://www.amazon.com/Mueller-Report-Special-Counsel-Collusion/dp/1510750169/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=Mueller+Report&qid=1562690437&s=gateway&sr=8-4
Read the product description there.
He wrote a book about his archive material, too. The Sword and the Shield by Christoper Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin. Been sitting on my bookshelf but I haven't gotten around to reading it.
>As a result, "the security situation in Afghanistan has worsened to its lowest point since the toppling of the Taliban a decade ago and attacks on aid workers are at unprecedented levels."
False.
I'm assuming that Chomsky hasn't been to Afghanistan. I have, multiple times. The peak of violence was in 2007. And the Afghan people agree. (PDF link, page 24)
>The people of Afghanistan, teetering on the edge of starvation in September 2001, were deprived of much of the food and medical assistance from international aid that was keeping them alive because Coalition airstrikes destroyed infrastructure and made travel unsafe for aid trucks.
False.
There are fewer babies dying now, more hospitals than since before the invasion, and the average life expectancy has risen by almost 20 years.
>Chomsky laments that the US government largely dismissed these human-rights problems in its quest to "secure our interests."
False.
Hundreds of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of people have been sent to Afghanistan to rebuild the medical, telecommunications, energy, and civil infrastructures of Afghanistan. The US didn't destroy it, decades of war with the Soviet Union and its subsequent neglect by the Taliban did. The reason you didn't see "Shock n'Awe 2001!™" with the US invasion was because there was hardly any infrastructure left to destroy.
>Chomsky was one of the few people in the United States at that time to publicly talk about how deeply the Central Intelligence Agency was involved in arming and training the mujahideen in Afghanistan during the 1980s.
False.
This is, and was, common knowledge. It was widely reported in the press in the 80s.
And before anyone goes on about how the CIA created Bin Laden, let me just put out that both "The Black Book of Communism" (Courtois, ed, 1997) and "The Sword and the Shield" (Mitrokhin, 1992) note that most of the ideological underpinnings of the modern-day jihad were put into place by the Soviet Union's attempts to eradicate Islam through violence, and that any US aid (none of which went to Bin Laden) was merely a confidence-boosting side show to the main conflict.
Not to mention the fact that in addition to the US, almost all of Europe, Saudi Arabia, and China, also gave aid to the Afghan Mujahideen.
>For example, the United States recently risked a major international conflict with a nuclear-armed nation, Pakistan, by assassinating an influential figure in one of its major cities.
If you think we are not already engaged in an international conflict with parts of the Pakistan government, I have a bridge to sell you.
But I suppose I'm just pissing into the wind.
This is the glorious Chomsky, after all. He is trapped so many decades back in political reality that he is probably still writing checks to the Sandinista National Liberation Front .
https://www.amazon.com/Sword-Shield-Mitrokhin-Archive-History/dp/0465003125
https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Ashes-History-Tim-Weiner/dp/0307389006
A couple of books I've read recently about the intelligence side of things. Not sure about how their conventional forces compare to ours.
I have a book on my shelf called Killing Hope: US Military and CIA
Interventions Since World War II.
The U.S. is fucking brutal.
rPhilippines is like another rChina - a hangout for ESL sexpats and pedophiles. They are irrelevant. Duerte has high public support. The West loves whoever sells out their countries and hates anyone who fights back. This is not new. http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II--Updated/dp/1567512526/
>Am I missing much here?
Ignorance, racism, and hypocrisy. Their precious bible is sexist. Their ownership, control, and exploitation of Native Indian, Black, Asian, and even White women is sexist - during imperialism, slavery, before the civil rights movement, Native Indians in reservations, mass rapes in wars over seas, and even now at their foreign military bases. After they rape you, they blame you. Here, take a look.
 
Here's BEFORE:
"White women were encouraged to be chaste, while slave women were pictured as outlets for men's sexual desires...Despite the violent or coercive mistreatment of slave women, they were considered promiscuous. Their high birth rates and skimpy clothing--both consequences of their status as property--were used to justify the creation of negative imagery."
"This practice remained the status quo until 1967"
Gender and Legal History Paper Summary
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/collections/gender-legal-history/glh-summary.cfm?glhID=9737A959-C21A-47D3-75CF5754015C05F9
 
Here's NOW
>Racism and sexual harassment could lie behind the higher incidence of suicide attempts amongst teenagers adopted from foreign countries.
>Adopted teenagers from foreign countries are more than four times more likely to attempt suicide than other teenagers.
>The research team believe they've detected a pattern following interviews with young adopted women of Asian descent. 'People have preconceptions that [women of Asian descent] are promiscuous, prostitutes, have a strong sex drive and are considered to be exotic,' said Frank Lindblad, who believes that such sexual prejudices can be difficult for the women concerned to understand.
Racism behind suicide attempts - The Local
https://web.archive.org/web/20121006195710/http://www.thelocal.se/2942/20060126/
 
But, because white people tell the world they're great and egalitarian and simultaneously spread lies about Asian men (who are far less criminal across the board), the world ignores these inconvenient facts and goes along with their story - kinda like how "America is spreading freedom" even though they're the world's #1 terrorist group http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II--Updated/dp/1567512526/ and http://www.amazon.com/Rogue-State-Guide-Worlds-Superpower/dp/1567513743/, and #1 drug traffickers http://www.amazon.com/The-Politics-Heroin-Complicity-Global/dp/1556524838
 
Here are some more areas where they are the world leaders in.
● World leaders in murdering their own families
>In almost all of these cases, the killer is a white, non Hispanic man. n most cases, the man exhibits *possessive, obsessive and jealous behavior.
Murder-Suicide in Families | National Institute of Justice http://www.nij.gov/topics/crime/intimate-partner-violence/pages/murder-suicide.aspx
 
● Pedophile profile: Young, WHITE, wealthy | ZDNet
http://www.zdnet.com/article/pedophile-profile-young-white-wealthy/
https://www.amazon.com/Sword-Shield-Mitrokhin-Archive-History/dp/0465003125
https://www.amazon.com/World-Was-Going-Our-Way/dp/0465003133
Read these. I'm fascinated with Russian political history, especially in regards to the KGB, and these books are the best of the best when you want to learn more. They get into the deep specifics on why things are done the way they are done. Since Putin was the head of the KGB, you really get an idea on why and how he does specific things.
Note that kleinbottle.com is run by Cliff Stoll -- the guy of the Cuckoo's Nest fame, probably the most exciting book involving real-life computer hacking:
http://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espionage/dp/0743411463
Also, an amusing except from the "positions offered" page:
PENTIUM PROCESSOR. Must know all pentium processes, including preprocessing, postprocessing, and past-pluperfect processing. Ideal candidate pent up at the Pentagon, penthouse, or penitentiary. Pays pennies. Penurious benefits include Pension, Pencil. Pentel, Pentax, and Pentaflex. Write to [email protected]
(did Stanislaw Lem write that job advert?)
I'm just a netsec tourist, but I've found that SANS is a good resource. You can watch trending issues with good analysis at isc.sans.edu
I would also recommend The Cuckoo's Egg It's not very relevant technically to what you will be doing, but it's worth the read because it is a fascinating story, and you might garner some hints in terms of methodology.
>who submitted a four page summary that deliberately left out much of Mueller's findings
Well... DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
The summary is intended to give a SUMERIZATION of the RESULTS of the investigation. it was never intended to be the be all end all report and the Muller report is released. So what are you whining about? That the 4 page summary he released didnt have the information YOU were specifically seeking? Probably because it wasnt intented to confirm your bias. It was intended to summarize the investigations ultimate findings and give the country the short hand version as quick as possible. Why are you pretending like hes currently sitting back there in his AG office clutching the rest of the Muller report as if I cant LITERALLY buy it on Amazon RIGHT NOW and have it delivered to my house, same day. Stop conflating the summary which is dead news with current events.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/The-Mueller-Report-Paperback/459479691?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&adid=22222222228278011730&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=336277855171&wl4=pla-652099434885&wl5=9016103&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=459479691&wl13=&veh=sem&gclid=Cj0KCQjwzunmBRDsARIsAGrt4muYXhmQEzV0v4XKbaEfk56dLEAmkHfjpQf3dD84QTkMh2SNPn1xVI8aAq6_EALw_wcB
https://www.amazon.com/Mueller-Report-Special-Counsel-Collusion/dp/1510750169
It's amazing. I'm very interested in Cold War espionage history and recently read this book:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Sword-Shield-Mitrokhin-Archive/dp/0465003125
Basically, the writers take the most outrageous and intriguing stories and background details from that book and put them into the show. I love it.
How about the book The Wire is based on?
Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets by David Simon (creator of The Wire). Non fiction account of him following around the Baltimore Homicide Unit for 1 year.
My go to reading list,
Killing Hope, by William Blum
America's Deadliest Export Democracy, by William Blum
Who is William Blum?
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, by Tim Weiner
Enemies: The History of the FBI, by Tim Wiener
Who is Tim Weiner?
The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth about Economic Hitmen, Jackals, and How to Change the World by John Perkins
Confessions of an Economic Hitman, by John Perkins
Who is John Perkins?
We assassinated leaders. We supported the overthrow of a number of democratically elected leaders financially and militarily. We installed despots who sold their peoples' birthrights. Some of those despots received IMF loans which went straight into their Swiss bank accounts. Some of those countries continue to carry the burden of this debts to this day! We built alliances with drug lords and armed and trained their protectors. The CIA was caught flooding inner cities in Californa with drugs from our 'friends' in Latin America. This is all well known and here Obama acknowledges at least some of it and apologizes. He must if we hope to do business with the emerging nations. China is encumbered with no such legacy. Hillary says she will look to Kissinger for advice! This is why Hillarys glorification of Kissinger is so apalling to Bernie. He was objecting to these criminal policies vigorously back in the day. The books below are a must read. It will help you understand the Hillary Hate.
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II--Updated/dp/1567512526/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458068896&sr=1-2&keywords=killing+hope+u.s.+military+and+cia+interventions+since+world+war+ii+by+william+blum
And Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire http://www.amazon.com/Blowback-Consequences-American-Empire-Project/dp/0805075593/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458841254&sr=1-1&keywords=Blow+back+Chalmers+Johnson
And The New Confessions of an Economic Hitman http://www.amazon.com/New-Confessions-Economic-Hit-Man/dp/1626566747/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1458841994&sr=1-1&keywords=confessions+of+an+economic+hitman+by+john+perkins
Am going to take a 30 minute break to load tonights Open Source Everything Highlights (twitter hash #openall short URL to the stack is http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ALL
I would be very grateful if folks would go to Amazon and buy the book that inspired this AMA, I propose to return around 2230 eastern and to be on this all day tomorrow. Here is the book link at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1583944435/ossnet-20
Buy Amazon out (less than 190 books) and I will ask Evolver Editions to load the book free online, not sure if we can make it a free Kindle but I can certainly post it at Phi Beta Iota and publisher will post it on their site.
The US let the Japanese go with such minimal sanctions to minimize international condemnation for its inhumane use of the atomic bombs and for secret deals involving tributary payments of the loot of the Japanese Empire supposedly lost in the war that have come out gradually over the years.
Read this book if you want to know more about how the US got the gold Japan stole from other Asian countries and used it to support their overseas empire.
I'm not sure that it ever really existed (Monarch, that is). Quite frankly, the whole thing sounds pretty loony tunes to me.
MKUltra, on the other hand, was VERY real, and I'm convinced that it continued long past the 70's. Read The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate": The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences by John Marks - it's a mind-blower.
Empathy goes a long way to understanding why we're experiencing so much violence.
Recommended reading by David Simon: http://www.amazon.com/Homicide-A-Year-Killing-Streets/dp/0805080759
Or just watch The Wire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH_6_8NOfwI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjtz-w0Xouo
Mafia State by Luke Harding is a great personal experience read on the matter. It's a journal by a Guardian journalist living in Moscow and finding how unpopular he gets by asking the wrong questions.
I think the only reason he's still alive is his British passport and the fact that burying an investigation into anything that might have happened to him would have been much more difficult to do than for a Russian citizen like Politkovskaya.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mafia-State-Reporter-Became-Brutal/dp/0852652496
Lol, Dershowitz is selling it on Amazon
She showed up on the radar about 1 year ago at an event sponsored by the 9/11 Truth Alliance. I haven't read her 2010 book, "Extreme Prejudice", but the reviews are mostly good. I supoose it's easy for the Feds to disavow an ex-CIA asset if there is no other agents willing to corroborate her story. I hope to hear more from her in the future...if she survives.
Amazon & Barnes & Nobel have pre-orders up if you want a physical version.
https://www.amazon.com/Mueller-Report-Special-Counsel-Collusion/dp/1510750169
> but are nothing in comparison to the 4million of the holocaust, the 3 million of stalin or the 1 million of cambodia.
Cambodia is actually interesting, because it's not exactly certain if all the killings were by Pol Pot. Many people argue (including Chomsky) that many of the deaths were the result of US carpet bombing in the region trying to genocide the Vietnamese who lived there. (What people don't actually realize as well is that Pol Pot was funded and supported by the United States also more bombs were dropped on Cambodia and Laos than were dropped in WW2)
But the US has committed horrid crimes, people have put the death count of the US in the tens of millions that that's ignoring the native Americans.
http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-Military-Interventions-II-Updated/dp/1567512526/ref=pd_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=19T8W9ADVMC2QEMTDE8B
People should really read this book. It shows how absolutely fucked up the US has been over the past 70 years.
no need to apologize Johnny, some of us get it despite your apparent lack of upvotes ..... that what we do have is evidence of a multi decade, multi national pattern of behavior, attitude, policy and direct action by the US using overt and covert means to overthrow democratically elected leaders of nations, including funding terrorism, using corporate hitmen, waging wars in the NAME of democracy, eatablishing kangaroo courts as a victors veneer of justice being served, aggressively and forcefully wrestling nationalized industries from sovereign nations, effectively robbing countries of their natural wealth, to make way for US corporations, etc etc.
ALL of this is described in a book by a former CIA agent William Blue, called Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions since WW2
I'll do the gentleman a favor and leave a link
https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II-Updated/dp/1567512526
so just cause this dude is on his high horse and in his personal world absence of evidence = evidence of asbence (of CIA et al. involvement, which is secretive by nature, but well leave that gaping hole alone) demanding that YOU take significant time and effort out of your day to present to him an itemized list of evidence on a silver platter. don't work like that. was some of Venezuela's undoing partly theirs? I'm sure it was. but given their natural wealth, "undemocratic governmental system" and unwillingness to bend the knee to US interests, Venezuela would have been a PRIME target, and it is silly to think that there was 0 foreign involvement in regards to their fall from grace on the world stage.
It's easy to call that period peaceful from the comfort of an armchair somewhere in the USA. The problem is that the civilians of many countries experienced much upheval. Mostly the fault of the CIA and American imperialism.
Probably worth a read : https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II-Updated/dp/1567512526/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1497851226&sr=1-1&keywords=killing+hope
If its too long, try wikipedia for just regime changes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
The position is that military members of a number of 'friendly' dictators in the area received training by US Forces at Ft. Benning which in turn were used to violently put down resistance movements in their home country - El Salvador (one of my best friends escaped that conflict), Nicaragua, Panama (we overthrew our ally Noriega because he wasn't onboard the Nicaragua plan), Brazil, Chile, Bolivia - my aunt was a very early PeaceCorps volunteer in Bolivia in the 60s who ended up becoming a CIA asset after inadvertently marrying one.
This was the first item I ever bought on Amazon back in 1997 which lays out military and CIA interventions from Korea to the first Iraq war, primarily. [tangent: I fought with my dad for days over buying this because he didn't trust giving his CC out over the internet]
Here's an interesting GAO report from 1996 It looks to only cover 1990-1995, but they admit a lot in there.
Interesting excerpt from a book I found on googlebooks about pre-1963 and the official creation of SOA by Kennedy.
This last one is specifically about El Salvador and comes off very, "look how great we were stopping them commies." Like I said, one of my best friends escaped that country with one of his brothers, trained it through Mexico and hopped the US border at 12 because that conflict was so great and amazing to live through. FREEDOM!
edit: that last link just downloads directly as a pdf for me which is why it might be formatting oddly. I Can't get it to open directly in a browser)
Something that's not on there but which I would heartily recommend is The Cuckoo's Egg, which is 100% hard computer storytelling because it's a true story of a thing that actually happened, and the sneaky espionage / counter-espionage that a sysadmin and a hacker got in to against each other.
Okay
Not the first time. The CIA did the same thing with Khalid_El-Masri.
I was originally for the war in Afghanistan to go after al Qaeda. But when the U.S. is rendering the wrong people, torturing them and then refusing to release them even when they know they were innocent, well, that's where shit gets really bad and beyond criminal.
Yet no one has ever answered to or been punished for these crimes.
What's worse, as told in, among other sources, Lawrence Wright's book, Ali Soufan's book, Joby Warrick's book and the Secrecy Kills audio documentary 'Who is Richard Blee,' many of these people responsible were also responsible for the intelligence failures leading up to 9/11.
Many military trained state-run intelligence muscle were like that. Look up the latest copy of Gideon's Spies to read the reported shit that went on between Israeli Mossad and People's Republic of China's Ministry of State Security during the 2000s economic assistance to African nations. What they did to each other was extremely fucked up (i.e. blow up most of an occupied hotel to kill one agent, toss an opposite agency agent alive to the crocodiles in response to that incident). Most agencies kind of do that shit and, in a way, keep each other in check because of it.
That guy's (Cliff Stoll) a riot. Here's a .PDF link and here's an Amazon link.
I was at a security conference that he spoke at right after the book came out. He was the keynote speaker. I was with him and the organizer right before he was supposed to go on. Apparently he didn't know what 500 people sitting in front of a big stage looked like and once he saw it was refusing to go on. Organizer cajoles him into following through. There's a monster screen up (like most of the size of the entire stage opening) projecting his presentation from the back. He starts the presentation but noone can see him. Then you see this giant shadow on his presentation - he's presenting from behind the screen. The fantastic thing is he's got this Sideshow Bob hairdo so imagine the shadow. Anyway, he gets more comfortable as the presentation goes on and is kind of circling the screen sometimes behind sometimes in front on stage for the rest of the~~ stage~~ presentation.
Actually a brilliant guy and great presentation.
Edit: formatting.
You may be interested in this book.
http://www.amazon.com/Homicide-Killing-Streets-David-Simon/dp/0805080759
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-official-documents-destroy-white-house-staff-repair-presidential-records-national-archives-a8392856.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump%27s_disclosures_of_classified_information
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/23/politics/donald-trump-cell-phone/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/us/politics/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-private-emails.html
https://www.amazon.com/Mueller-Report-Special-Counsel-Collusion/dp/1510750169
I'm familiar with that history. (Examples: Iran 1953, Chile 1973) Here's the tome on it.
What does that have to do with anything we were talking about?
Does it make the Russian election subversion right?
Are you arguing this is specific blowback? If so, from what operation?
I can definitely recommend America's Deadliest Export: Democracy and Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II by William Blum. The latter pretty much has every intervention by the US since WW2. Really nice for referencing.
> Imagine a country in the real world had this kind of secret service, an agency not even the leader of the country could control... What politician, party, council or leader would accept such a thing? If they have no power over this agency, what's to stop said agency simply taking over?
This is exactly how real world deep state Secret Security organizations operate. Politicians know very little about what organizations like MI5, ASIS, CIA, FSB etc operate. All their information is compartmentalized (meaning nobody in the org has a full picture) and they act largely autonomously. Politicians don't want to know what they get up too because of deniability. Iran–Contra affair is a good example of this. Politicans got off scott free from absolute astronishing crimes because they just didn't want to know.
There have been a lot of times Security agencies have basically gone rogue from their Government completely. ASIS secretly worked with the CIA to overthrow Chilean President Allende, when the Australian Government found out, they were furious that ASIS helped install a Fascist dictatorship, ASIS then simply just threatened the Prime Minister at the time and continued to work behind the back of the Australian Government with US interests.
Very good book on CIA and Intelligence Agencies and how they operate. Seriously, its terrifying.
Yes I agree. Ive been reading a book called The Open-Source Everything Manifesto by Robert David Steele whos trying to lay the groundwork for a new type of governance. Its a radically different approach and idea but it covers the bases well on whats actually happening (clear definitions of why and how corruption happens and solutions to it in governance). You might like it:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Open-Source-Everything-Manifesto-Transparency/dp/1583944435
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Team-Allies-Control-United/dp/1616082844
But that was not all. Oh no, that was not all.
Read William Blum’s Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II. It’s comprehensive.
Someone had suggested that a while back.
This is an excellent book:
The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World
by L. Fletcher Prouty
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Team-Allies-Control-United/dp/1616082844/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481398121&sr=8-1&keywords=the+secret+team
https://www.amazon.com/Mueller-Report-Washington-Post/dp/1982129735/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?keywords=meuller+report&qid=1568994578&s=gateway&sr=8-2
You can read the book, too! It's one of my absolute favorites; I read it every couple of years. The Cuckoo's Egg
Not sure if you are into security tech but some of my favorites....
Also thought I'd include some that I have purchased but not finished yet in case you'd be interested.
The whole point of this article is to get people to wander off into useless details after they lead you past the correct path right at the beginning. Read the Cuckoo's Egg. It's about a very early internet hack job by the Russians that was tracked down by a random sysadmin who wanted to figure out who was relaying shit through his server. See, even back then the Russians were making their connection through many hops. They compromised MANY servers in order to make it difficult to trace their activities back to their origin. No hacker worth a shit would only compromise one server directly from his address in Romania. It's just too stupid to even think about.
Except torture has been repeatedly shown to be less effective than other methods of interrogation. Read The Black Banners, Legacy of Ashes, or one of the numerous other books that cover the CIA's recent actions before you continue to perpetuate the lie that torture works.
There are actually a number of sources that have documented the event in Pont-Saint-Esprit as well as a number of other incidents involving different government organizations dosing people without their knowledge and studying the effects. See The Search For The Manchurian Candidate as a good starting point for the US government's experimentation with mind altering substances.
This is discussed briefly in the book The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. I'm only about halfway through the book, but I've already run into some interesting stuff on shortwave radio propaganda as well.
e: According to this book, they didn't trust Eskimos and Aleuts to be reliable stay-behind agents because they were perceived as being anti-establishment drunkards (paraphrased).
KGB secret archives are filled with information about what MPs in various European countries were on the payroll or agents of influence. Allende was on their payroll too.
And for a little history, read The Cuckoo's Egg
Of these projects, I most enjoyed The Wire. But it's worth evaluating each of these projects in terms of what they were trying to accomplish, since they all had different goals.
This was adapted from Simon's book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, but I don't know how much Simon worked on the show day-to-day.
This show is much more of a crime procedural than any of the other works here. And with a few notable exceptions—e.g., Luther Mahoney or Brodie—the near-exclusive default point-of-view is that of the police.
The show was groundbreaking for network TV at the time. For one thing, at least one of the main-cast characters was a cop who was an asshole and basically corrupt. This show also demonstrated that the bosses and their subordinates do not always see eye-to-eye, and not just in the "crusty-but-benign" way described in the movie Network, either. Most cop shows at the time didn't just show cops, but they identified with the cops' perspective. (This is still pretty common today.) This is legitimate, but showing that cops have human foibles which have on-the-job repercussions was taking a chance, especially for a network show at that time. And, like The Wire, it got critical acclaim but relatively small (but devoted!) audiences.
The show's style was very different from that of, say, The Wire. For example, it had a non-diegetic score and camera moves that were more likely to draw attention to themselves. H:LotS also included collaborations with Baltimore native Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana. The latter went on to create HBO's Oz, and you can see plenty of influence there from Homicide.
H:LotS was also able to attract high-level talent throughout its run. Not only was the regular and recurring cast very strong (as you'd likely expect, even without having seen a single episode), but it attracted a number of actors best known for their film work. As just one example, Robin Williams appeared in the second season premiere, playing the husband of a crime victim. Steve Buscemi played an odious racist. Arguably, though, the most memorable guest appearance was Moses Gunn as Risley Tucker, the sole suspect in the homicide of 11-year old Adena Watson. Gunn may not be a household name, but he's been in projects from the original Shaft to Roots to stage performances.
Homicide was also remarkable, especially at the time, in that it shot on location in Baltimore. (For context, consider that Vancouver (almost) never plays itself; typically, a show at the time would be shot in New York or Los Angeles, even it it's set in another city.) It also helped establish some of the vocabulary familiar to those who've watched The Wire: "the box", "the board", etc.
This was a six-part miniseries for HBO based on David Simon's book about real-life addicts and dealers. If Homicide was primarily a show from the perspective of the cops, The Corner introduced what life was really like for those who lived in places like West Baltimore.
For me, Homicide was always more stylized in its aesthetic, but more traditional in the types of stories it tried to tell. It was groundbreaking relative to other cop shows, but it still chose the cops' vantage points as the default. The Corner inverted this.
A lot of the content from The Corner will be familiar to those who've already seen The Wire. (And, conversely, those who've seen The Corner would have some useful frame of reference for the events depicted in The Wire.) One attribute The Corner clearly focused on was authenticity. Homicide was a solid show, but The Corner felt real. Much of the cast of The Corner reappears in The Wire, too. And some of the real-life people whose lives Simon chronicled in his book played minor characters on The Wire. One of the most notable examples was the late DeAndre McCullough, who played Brother Mouzone's assistant Lamar.
Again: a killer cast. A good story, well-told. And, for a change-of-pace: even some Emmy nominations and wins!
I trust you're all familiar with this, right? :)
I think having laid some groundwork with the reporting which underlay Homicide and The Corner, The Wire had the basis to be incredibly ambitious. It told stories from the perspectives of cops and dealers and dope fiends and stevedores and City Hall and newspaper newsrooms. It also had a definite point-of-view, and it was unafraid to advocate for its argument, but by showing and not merely telling. Yes, it's about all the conflict between characters on all sides of the law. But it's also making some very important arguments: the drug war is unwinnable, and the consequences of that gratuitous futility are disastrous for countless people. Deindustrialization of big cities leaves the corner as the only employer in town. Actual reform that will have any kind of substantive effect will require something other than the standard bromides that have typically gotten politicians elected and re-elected. And so on.
This is a seven-part HBO miniseries based on the book Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Ice Man, Captain America, and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright, documenting those American Marines who were the tip-of-the-spear in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. As with The Corner and The Wire, this goes out of its way to convey authenticity, especially in the context of the military jargon. Oh, and you get to see Baltimore native James Ransone, who played Ziggy, as a Marine, too.
This is Simon's love letter to the city of New Orleans, set in the immediate aftermath of Hurrican Katrina. Again: a killer cast, including everyone from Clarke Peters (who played Lester) to Khandi Alexander (who played Fran Boyd on The Corner) to New Orleans native Wendell Pierce (Bunk Moreland) to John Goodman (in damn-near EVERY movie) to Stephen Colbert's bandleader Jon Batiste (as himself).
For me, Treme was solid, but it was less compelling than The Wire. A lot of the goal of Treme was to show the importance and centrality of New Orleans to American culture, in everything from music to food. For me, that case seemed secondary to the lives of the characters themselves. Many of the themes from The Wire are familiar: indifferent institutions, crime and violence, etc. But it also has some ferociously good performances, amazing music performed live, and an important reminder that life for so many in New Orleans still wasn't really "after Katrina" yet, even years after the storm, because of just how much destruction was caused all around.
Oh, and like The Wire (among others), Treme cast a lot of local New Orleans natives who lived through the storm, as well as musicians who hadn't grown up with training as actors.
The title comes from an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy". Like The Corner, this is another six-part HBO miniseries adapted from a nonfiction book. It's about a huge fight that the city of Yonkers, NY had with federal courts by resisting efforts to remedy housing segregation.
Some of the themes should be familiar: a stellar cast including Oscar Isaac, Winona Ryder (in a role I wouldn't have expected for her), Catherine Keener, Alfred Molina, and Clarke Peters (again). As you might have guessed from the quote, this story doesn't have a happy ending for everyone. The main theme is about how to do the right thing, especially as an elected official, in the face of violent opposition from much of the city, and what cost doing the right thing will entail.
This is a forthcoming David Simon series about the world around Times Square in the 1970s: pornography, just as it was becoming legalized, HIV/AIDS, drug use, and the economic conditions of the city at the time. Even if the whole team totally dropped the ball here, I'm sure this will be better than HBO's 1970s music drama Vinyl, at a minimum.
The cast includes James Franco (playing twins), Maggie Gyllenhaal, Anwan Glover (Slim Charles), Lawrence Gilliard, Jr. (D'Angelo Barksdale), Chris Bauer (Frank Sobotka), and Gbenga Akinnagbe (Chris Partlow). Oh, and the pilot is being directed by Michelle MacLaren, whose directing credits include Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, and Westworld, among others.
https://www.amazon.com/Sword-Shield-Mitrokhin-Archive-History/dp/0465003125/
https://www.amazon.co.jp/World-Was-Going-Our-Way/dp/0465003133
変な本がCIA内部では重要扱いされてるみたいな展開を期待したけど普通の本だった
We were so thoroughly penetration that the Soviet Union obtained the complete plans for the American atom bomb- from two seperate sources.
An excellent book detailing Soviet penetration, ad KGB operations throughout the Soviet era, is The Sword and the Shield, based on the Vasily Mitrokhin archive.
http://www.amazon.com/Sword-Shield-Mitrokhin-Archive-History/dp/0465003125
My two favorites from recent times are the two books written by David Simon which sparked the HBO show "The Wire".
The Corner: A Year in the life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
The Corner follows a family, and others, in the streets of Baltimore. It's about drug addiction, the war on drugs, the welfare system, and the lives of families affected by these things.
Homicide is following the detective department of the Baltimore city police. I preferred this one to The Corner, but they are both great. They are both depressing, at times really funny, but always interesting and entertaining. Eye-opening too.
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon (creator of the Wire). This book is quite simply fantastic. There are things that happen on the streets of Baltimore that will make you laugh and cry and just plain question how some people even exist. I can't remember the last time I read a book that took me through the range of emotions that this one has. Rendering experiences against the backdrop of murder tends to throw everything into a harsh perspective that makes it easy to see what really matters and what doesn't. It will transform how you look at the world, and I can think of no higher compliment for a book.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1510750169/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_EgzJDb0M0TH3F
> I would like to invite you to come to Russia and see how much bullshit we are fed everyday not only about the US but about the West in general. It is unbelievable!
Have been before, don't really need to go to see the bullshit propaganda spread there just need to watch a little bit of Russia-1 ;)
> there are thousands of outlets with all kinds of perspective and bias
My point is the BIG channels are generally the ones people watch and believe, come on lad very few people actually look up small news sites and blogs most just go to whatever the main ones are CNN , BBC etc..
> Comparing Russian propaganda to the US one is like comparing a Master of deceit to a Marketing strategist. But anyway, the world is not Russia vs US dude, so, stop just bringing up the US to justify anything about Russia.
I'd say US propaganda is pretty good with all the "justified" things they've done over the years including screwing elections in other countries and wars, these are the ones that worked : Iran (1953); Guatemala(1954); Thailand (1957); Laos (1958-60); the Congo (1960); Turkey (1960, 1971 & 1980); Ecuador (1961 & 1963); South Vietnam (1963); Brazil (1964); the Dominican Republic (1963); Argentina (1963); Honduras (1963 & 2009); Iraq (1963 & 2003); Bolivia (1964, 1971 & 1980); Indonesia (1965); Ghana (1966); Greece (1967); Panama (1968 & 1989); Cambodia (1970); Chile (1973); Bangladesh (1975); Pakistan (1977); Grenada (1983); Mauritania (1984); Guinea (1984); Burkina Faso (1987); Paraguay (1989); Haiti (1991 & 2004); Russia (1993); Uganda (1996);and Libya (2011).
http://www.alternet.org/world/americas-coup-machine-destroying-democracy-1953
https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-Military-Interventions-Since/dp/1567510523/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=064GA0M04G74H2S1MMKE
Since the conversation is about Pro- & Anti-Russian propaganda I can't not bring up Russia vs US.
> Keep on watching RT and TASS and Sputniknews. Putin thanks you!
I watch a little bit of everything tbh, I like to hear both versions of the story, one where its justified other where its a "war-crime" for example
Killing hope is an absolute must read. You can't really have a grasp on how many countries the USA has ruined without reading this
https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II-Updated/dp/1567512526/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500405284&sr=8-1&keywords=killing+hope
America: The imperialism of ignorance.
This ones brilliant. It details a lot of the countries it invaded while also explaining the wider context.
https://www.amazon.com/America-Imperialism-Ignorance-Foreign-Policy/dp/1849541043/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500405339&sr=8-1&keywords=imperialism+of+ignorance
I was confused at first when I read your post. You seemed to be saying that Juice_lix was using a rhetorical deflection (which is true -- it's called the But What About Gambit). But instead, you're saying that the people he's talking to have diverted the subject.
But that is not even the case. The original point was about rich countries versus poor countries. Which rich country do you think of first? For most people in the world, it's the United States.
So when someone points out the things the United States has done, your friend pulls out the Gambit and you accuse his opponents of changing the subject.
Repeatedly reminding people of the crimes of a person or group of people is not a rhetorical device, nor should it be considered overused. The fact is, someone is saying something that you don't like. Because meanwhile, Matt Taibbi is doing the same thing to Wall Street, and he's practically a folk hero because of it.
You can't just declare something as a rhetorical device because you don't want to hear it, disagree with it, or are uncomfortable with its implications. Truth is not a matter of personal choice. It has to be countered with facts, not accusations.
Besides, there's no such thing as an objective history book. Your friend is setting up an impossible standard so he can easily dismiss all comers. But if you want some stories on the subject, you'll find plenty of that to go around.
> Washington will never approve q coup like this not in a million years.
That's absurd. The US routinely supports coups and overthrows democratic gov'ts -- we've done it dozens of times since WWII. For a short/partial list, read the book Killing Hope by former US State Dept. historian William Blum.
The US gov't might prefer a democratic gov't, but that is only if that gov't does what the US wants it to. If not, the US destabilizes and replaces it -- it's that simple.
I found this book great for a solution that could replace our current economic and political systems:
http://www.amazon.com/Open-Source-Everything-Manifesto-Transparency-Truth/dp/1583944435/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406124471&sr=1-1&keywords=steele+open+source
This book is great as well. It is, Ray Kurzweil, explaining how the human brainn function as he attempts to reverse engineer it for Google in order to create an AI.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Create-Mind-Thought-Revealed/dp/0143124048/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406124597&sr=1-1&keywords=kurzweil
For whatever reason Robert's reply isn't showing. For those interested this is his [unedited] reply:
[robert_steele]
The subtitle of my new book, please buy it at Amazon, is: Transparency, Truth, & Trust. Below are five links, first four graphics and then the book link:
Graphic: Epoch B Swarm Leadership
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/07/2010/09/2008/08/graphic-epoch-b-swarm-leadership/
Graphic: Strategy for a Prosperous World at Peace
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/07/2010/09/2009/07/graphic-strategy-for-a-prosperous-world-at-peace/
Graphic: Intelligence Maturity Scale
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/07/2010/09/2010/01/graphic-intelligence-maturity-scale/
Graphic: Open Source Agency Broad Concept
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/08/graphic-open-source-agency-broad-concept/
You know what I really want to do, until such time as the public is ready to fund the Open Source Agency and put me in charge of it? I want to go around the country doing talks and encouraging people to demand electoral reform and open source everything. Now that Togather exists, people can self-organize to invite me, here is the URL for my Togather page:
http://www.togather.com/robert-steele
THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency, Truth & Trust
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1583944435/ossnet-20
[/robert_steele]
It's available on Amazon:
The Mueller Report Paperback – April 30, 2019
If you want to know what it was really like, from two perspectives, read this http://www.amazon.com/CYBERPUNK-Outlaws-Hackers-Computer-Frontier/dp/0684818620 and http://www.amazon.com/CUCKOOS-EGG-ebook/dp/B0083DJXCM/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381774834&sr=1-5&keywords=cuckoos+nest
I didn't know many women into it, but mostly it was just guys, sitting around Denny's all night, trading disks and showing eachother tricks all night. After the movie, it seemed like everyone was interested, but they all wanted it to be like a video game. My friends, for decades, got together once a year or so and watched the movie making fun of it. Some of the stuff is close ... but either exaggerated, or just 'hey, they just opened a copy of Phreak and took it verbatim'. Lot's of that stuff was bullshit.
It's weird to have to explain to someone, but back in the day, with BBS systems, people could write up entire 'zines, and never really have them fact checked. You would see one Zine that would swear playing tones from a mincro-recorded into a phone would work, but it almost certainly never did. The tones were nearly inaudible, and needed to be generated at home, on a tone generator, and recorded digitally, to have the volume and quality to have any effect. Even then ... well, it would have been more realistic if they'd shown them doing it several times to get it to work once.
They had 'phone couplers', what we called them, but the way they were used in the movie was fiction.
Phreaking was mostly about boxes, but by the mid-ninety's, most phone companies had pretty much figured out how to fix those problems.
If you wanted to see phreaking, you should have seen weird boxes soldered together and a few guys nervously standing around a phone line. Seldomly a payphone, which was seriously overused in the movie. You know, most buildings phone wires just ran out through a hole in the wall, to a box that MIGHT have a padlock on it. If you wanted a line, all you had to do was walk in an alley, late at night, and strip some wires. Payphones would be stupid to use, by comparison.
I could go on, forever it seems, but the bottom line is that it wasn't very realistic. It got the details all wrong, no one wore clothes like that, there was no 'cyber-club' that anyone knew about, the only realistic 'hacking' scene is in the bedroom where they have five people pouring over one keyboard, trading ideas and fucking around all night. Hell, if the whole movie had been just THAT, it would have been the most realistic old school hacking movie ever made.
The concept may have been first practically demonstrated by some German hackers who found ways to link several separate international education and military webs illegally.
I read this years ago: The Cuckoo's Egg
Anyone interested in the history of the web and how it developed should read it.
It's a book published in 1983.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Puzzle-Palace-Intelligence-Organization/dp/0140067485
Read Puzzle Palace. While it predates Snowden by several decades, it's still probably the best book written about the organization.
You should try to understand an issue before you become outraged about it. Google, and every other telephone and internet company that does business in the US, must abide by the laws of the US. One of those laws permits the government the right to see information relevant to an investigation, if they first get a warrant from a judge. Google's system was designed to give access to only what they were legally required to show when a warrant was issued, not to allow warrant-less, widespread surveillance.
Of course, the sad fact is that since WWI many companies have been willing to allow warrant-less surveillance to the US government. Puzzle Palace describes some instances. However, there is no evidence that Google has done so.
Finally, IANAL but I believe that the answer to your last question is that there is no difference between US citizen and non-US citizen email in the context of a police investigation. The data is stored on a US server, and with the correct warrant issued by a judge the US government can get the right to see that data.
I want to recommend, Ali H. Soufan's The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda.
My brief synopsis,
The book provides a fantastic history of Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Ali Soufan was an FBI criminal investigator who worked on peicing together the U.S.S. Cole bombing in Oct of 2000. He explained the operations and logistics of how the jihadist group conducted its terrorist attack. Ali was an opponent to harsh interogations and a master at seducing captured al-Qaeda memebers to revealing information.
If you didn't find out about it by reading The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, you really should find a copy.
It's a great book in and of itself, but there's an added bonus. The book was subject to extensive censorship by the CIA prior to publication. Instead of suturing the remaining portions together into a lesser book, the author and publisher decided that it would be more meaningful to just leave blank spaces where the excised text had originally been, sometimes just a word or a line, sometimes large chunks.
That was awesome enough in itself, but it gets better. They then used any number of freedom of information requests to find the information that had been censored. They didn't get it all, but they did get a lot of it. Of course they put it back into the book, filling in parts of the blank spots, but they used bold type and different fonts so that you can still tell what had originally been censored. This way you can actually see what the CIA thought had to be censored and you can see each stage of it being returned to the text. Sometimes you can see why the stuff was ordered removed, sometimes it's ridiculous.
As far as shedding some real light on the CIA in that period there's just nothing to match it (or maybe it's in a tie with Inside the Company by Philip Agee, who was Mexico City station chief for the CIA before he decided it was a negative force in the world and wrote a book in which he named every covert agent he knew and revealed every operation he was privy to, refusing to subject the book to the type of censorship that the CIA applied to Manchurian Candidate).
http://www.amazon.com/Search-Manchurian-Candidate-Behavioral-Sciences/dp/0393307948/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1302055095&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/INSIDE-COMPANY-DIARY-Philip-Agee/dp/055326012X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1302056184&sr=1-1
Anyone with a brain who had ever read a book about the CIA or NSA would KNOW fucking KNOW that all those communications are monitored. Trump and his idiot know-nothing family deserve everything that happens to them from this point on.
Two books everyone should read.
The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization
[Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA](
https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Ashes-History-Tim-Weiner/dp/0307389006/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495854882&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=leagecy+of+ashes)
We have hung spies in this country before. We should continue that practice.
No of course it doesn't, there's no concrete proof so any mention of it on the wikipedia page will be edited out. It was however written about in this book, as flawed as it is:
https://www.amazon.com/Gideons-Spies-Secret-History-Mossad/dp/0312252846
That's kind of the point of Mossad, even if everyone knows they are behind something it can seldom be proven. But when Syrian or Iranian state scientists die abroad suspiciously, I'm willing to bet on Mossad being involved.
Shadow banned - Nope haven't heard anything from those with the power to do anything. I'm okay wherever I can approve of my own comments. What I've had to say in /r/EndlessWar has been approved of also, as well as elsewhere, but I'm at the mercy of the moderators.
*****
Projects Have Donut", "Have Drill" and "Have Ferry"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51#Foreign_Technology_Evaluation
http://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Shadows-Special-Lifelong-Assassin/dp/0230620558/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1318824960&sr=8-2
In the 'Search inside book function' search for " In early 1968 " and click on the entry for page 81.
The background for what appears on page 81, is the following (from the same book)"
“During the Korean War, the USAF claimed a seven-to-one kill rate over the Communist MiG-15s it faced. Despite the fact that the USAF was heavily outnumbered and faced a very good fighter in the MiG-15, its tactics and training carried the day. Yet only a generation later, the USAF could not conquer an air force a fraction of its size over North Vietnam. Even worse, that air force kept inflicting jarring defeats on the USAF’s strike aircraft.
“By late 1967, the days of seven-to-one kill rations were long past. From October 1967 until President Lyndon Johnson suspended air operations over North Vietnam in 1968, the MiGs scored a five-to-one kill rate against the USAF’s latest jets and fighter-bombers. ... "
Some basic facts
FBI agent Frank Corn surmised the killer hid behind a large bush next to the garage, shot Alon and fled to a nearby getaway car with a waiting driver - perhaps the car Dvora spotted.
The gunman was only about six feet away when he opened fire.
Corn, like other agents, felt that whoever had killed Alon was a professional and had stalked him.
"That was the feeling that I got," said Corn, now retired. "That they knew his movements."
Investigators discovered a "perfectly shaped bullet," fired from a foreign-made, .38-caliber revolver. The bullet was pulled from the ground next to Alon's car. The FBI narrowed the possibilities to a Titan Tiger or Arminius, of which a staggering 74,000 were in circulation.
Titan Tiger is one of trademarks used for Arminius series revolvers manufactured by the German firm Weihrauch. Arminius/Titan Tiger revolvers were cheap in the US.
“She received strange phone calls, what are called 'ruse calls,' to see if they were home,” as well as “wrong numbers” from people speaking Hebrew - a very unlikely scenario in Maryland, long before the internet made it easy to find people, says Burton. “There was a strange visitor from the phone company' who wanted to get into the basement to do work that could easily have been done from the street.”
More details are described in Chasing shadows by Burton and Bruning. For example, the perpetrator fired 5 bullets, all scored a hit, 3 injured victim's chest, one struck his heart. We should take into account that Alon was in left profile to the shooter so such results indicate quite a good marksmanship.
Obviously, the murder was executed in a professional manner. It was carefully planned and prepared. The preparations could take weeks and months. The victim certainly was put under surveillance prior to the assassination. Most likely, a group, which consisted of the US residents was responsible for the surveillance and logistic support (the murder weapon, cars, safe hoses etc.), and there was another group (the killer and his driver), which actually performed the hit and, possibly, its members had been sent to the US from Europe or Middle East.
A more serious addendum:
Carol Rutz's book on her experiences in MKULTRA/ARTICHOKE
And John Mark's book as well
Russia has a 100+ year history of successfully interfering with other countries.
This is a must read for anybody interested in Russian government subversion.
https://www.amazon.com/Sword-Shield-Mitrokhin-Archive-History/dp/0465003125/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483754893&sr=1-1&keywords=mitrokhin+archive
http://www.amazon.com/Sword-Shield-Mitrokhin-Archive-History/dp/0465003125
buy or check out this book from your library (if your library isn't cucked to blacklist it). has all the dirty laundry on the infiltration by the KGB of our government!
and for a simple synopsis related to communist china and how truman's state dept fucked over china (he really did fuck them over), read this article:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/4691-china-betrayed-into-communism
(fantastic article and one of the only truth you'll find on the internet regarding truman and our state dept getting infiltrated by maoist sympathizers...fucking GENERAL GEORGE MARSHALL who worked for the truman administration called mao and his commies 'so-called communists' and a 'true peasant revolt'...i mean what the fuck????)
I also heartily recommend The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
https://www.amazon.ca/Sword-Shield-Mitrokhin-Archive-History/dp/0465003125
Clifford Stole wrote a pretty good book, but, man, a visionary he ain't.
Yeah, exactly right. The creator is a guy named David Simon. I don't agree with any of his politics (he's a disaffected lefty), but he's a helluva storyteller. He wrote a book called Homicide: A Year on The Killing Streets that became the basis for the show Homicide: Life on The Street that was sort of his jumping off point for HBO and The Wire. He also created Generation: Kill which isn't as good but is still good storytelling.
In the book Homicide he, as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, followed around the same Homicide cops for an entire year in the late 80s in what turned out to be one of the deadliest years ever for that city. It's truly a sad story but a great read, if not a bit morbid. What has happened to our country?
We can't stand for this folks!
I just finished the audio version of FIRE President Greg Lukianoff's Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate about a week ago.
I've been reading David Simon's Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, and I'm about 75% through it.
I've been watching the entire run of the original Law and Order since February, and I've finished 10 seasons of the 20 total.
I gave the USA Network show "Graceland" a shot this morning since the first episode was free on Google Play, so I watched it on my tablet. It was alright, so I might watch it on TV going forward.
I don't listen to a lot of music, I mostly listen to podcasts. I've fallen really far behind on my podcasts (I listen to about 6 regularly) because I stopped listening to them to focus on studying for finals.
Dune by Frank Herbert.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams. You have probably read it, but if you haven't, it's superbly funny sci-fi comedy.
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. A book that I re-read once every few years, and every time I find something new in it.
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon. A gripping, heartbreaking non-fiction book about police detectives. It inspired the acclaimed TV series "Homicide: Life on the Street." Simon would go on to create "The Wire."
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy. Noir-ish procedural crime fiction. If you enjoy "Homicide," you may well like this.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, "a philosophical novel about two men, two women, a dog and their lives in the Prague Spring of the Czechoslovak Communist period in 1968," according to Wikipedia. One of my favorite books.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami. Detective novel meets sci-fi in one mind-bending existential work. If you watch "Fringe," well, this book is Fringe-y... and more.
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. Time travel. Victorian England. A tea cozy mystery of sorts.
Graphic novels! Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman. Love And Rockets by The Hernandez brothers. The Sandman by Neil Gaiman. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki. Elektra: Assassin by Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz. And of course, Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. To discover yet more great comic books, check out the Comics College series.
The Wire is a (fictional) 5-season series from HBO that shows the most realistic depiction of the challenges of inner-city life - drugs, schools, police, political corruption, etc. Written by geniuses that took the time to completely understand every facet, including the sociological aspects as well as the economic. One of the creators, David Simon, was a journalist for the Baltimore Sun and spent many years covering the Baltimore Homicide detectives. He wrote the non-fiction book "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets" - which the later NBC police-drama "Homicide:Life on the Street" was based. Then, he teamed up with former Homicide Detective Ed Burns (who later retired and actually taught middle school in Baltimore for a while) and they collaborated on a non-fiction book called "The Corner" about the inner-city drug life, the war on drugs, and the ultimate decay of the modern urban center. The Wire was a fictional storyline based upon real characters and events from Simon's and Burns' past. It is often considered the best drama ever created for television.
I think it may even have been mentioned in Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon (what The Wire was based on). But it has been a while since I read that, so I don't remember.
Another tactic Connie Fletcher metioned: throw dry coffee grounds into a pan and put it on the stove to "cook" them. Helps cover the smell a bit. I would imagine troops in the trenches, though, wouldn't waste what precious coffee they got for that.
I got hooked on the TV series The Wire, and a lot of its writers are also novelists and/or crime journalists: David Simon, George Pelecanos, and Richard Price. Dennis Lehane was also a writer for the show, but I haven't read anything of his yet.
David Simon took a year off of work at the Baltimore Sun to follow Baltimore homicide detectives around. He wrote this book called Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets based on that experience. This research was the basis for 3 shows: Homicide: Life on the Streets, the Corner, and the Wire.
Have you seen Homicide? I think its first 3 seasons are objectively better than the Wire (in a way that Patriot isn't). It also has Frank Pembleton in it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgA3mOTQ2gA
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
Yup.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0805080759?pc_redir=1414525447&robot_redir=1
Luke Harding, before he wrote the recent Collusion, wrote about the Mafia state and the murder of ex-Russian spy Litvinenko in London. Both are very good.
For what it's worth, this is the version I bought https://www.amazon.com/Mueller-Report-Special-Counsel-Collusion/dp/1510750169/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_3/147-7151437-2634135?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1510750169&pd_rd_r=7b56938c-8304-11e9-a800-798d64934000&pd_rd_w=gkwFj&pd_rd_wg=Cd5ne&pf_rd_p=a2006322-0bc0-4db9-a08e-d168c18ce6f0&pf_rd_r=15MW9VBC02KSFEPDQ5JK&psc=1&refRID=15MW9VBC02KSFEPDQ5JK
>Go on then. Explain in some detail why the mueller report wasnt released in full if that was exactly what both sides wanted.
Let's try this and we can go from there. Baby steps.
Killing Hope, by William Blum is the definitive book on these matters.
Or just read this..
http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-Military-Interventions-Since/dp/1567510523
Some portions from it are here,
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/KillingHope_page.html
I would also recommend William Blum's Killing Hope and Rogue State, as well as Chalmers Johnson's trilogy on empire, Blowback, Sorrows of Empire, and Nemesis.
US foreign policy throughout the world from the 40s to the present day - keep the guy who makes the money in power, even if this means committing any number of atrocities to stamp out all (democratic!) attempts to move towards a fairer society.
Read Killing Hope by William Blum - https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II-Updated/dp/1567512526 which outlines some of the truly appalling things done by the CIA to keep their man in power around the world.
It's an utter disgrace and continues to this day.
William Blum has interesting book on the topic. Careful - although it's informational - he does have a slanted narrative.
> Capitalism has been consistently proven to raise the standards of living wherever it has been tried.
Google the word neoliberalism sometime, and spend a day researching it.
> Meanwhile, every single attempt at socialism - the USSR, the PRC, the DPRK, Venezuela, Cuba - has resulted in disaster, and has lowered the standards of living wherever it has been tried.
In what sense are these socialist, apart from what they call themselves in name? An anarcho-capitalist can have some actual, justified criticisms against socialism in practice (I've seen many), but when people like you plow forward with such an elementary misunderstanding, believe me when I say you look bad, even to your own camp.
The Zapatistas? The Paris Commune? The Ukrainian Free Territories? Revolutionary Catalonia? The Israeli Kibbutzim? That is your actual target.
> There is a reason why every single country that was once considered communist has transitioned towards capitalism...
Because they were bombed to hell in the interest of the capitalist class?
> ... and it should be no surprise to anyone that the standard of living has raised in these areas.
Like the four asian tigers did through State intervention? (And like the US did, also). Nothing even close to a free market prescription, albeit a quasi-capitalist one nevertheless.
Not exactly ... US, just like any empire in the past, lives partially on the incomes form the colonial taxation. It can take many different forms & shapes, but it's there by this very day. If you interested in mechanisms that make such taxation possible, please read e.g. this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II-Updated/dp/1567512526/
USSR, in it's turn, tried to bring other nations into it's umbrella by sending doctors, teachers and tractors - hugely expensive. They were no saint, of course. But they never used dead squad’s tactics to promote themselves.
The main reason for the difference I think is that US never had a good real war on its territory. We just don't get it - what the war is really about. E.g. do you know the warm smell of guts ripped out by the artillery shell? That's why fellow americans are sort of "OK" with killing more than a half million of Iraqis in last few years. It's just a game, right?
For russia, and USSR, they had to fight so many wars, that they know that smell all too well. That's why were somewhat reluctant to kill but still were making soooo much good weaponry - to protect themselves.
Amazon link to the book he's referring to.
And might I suggest another book on the topic? This one is written by a former US State Dept. historian: Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II.
[Killing Hope] (https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II-Updated/dp/1567512526/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505166085&sr=1-1&keywords=killing+hope) by William Blum
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1616082844?pc_redir=1413174352&robot_redir=1
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00AZ80NJ0?pc_redir=1411853654&robot_redir=1
That'll get you started
I started reading this book about how Japan pillaged and systematically stole from various Asian countries, Korea included, from the late 1800s/early 1900s to during World War 2 and hid their loot throughout the Phillipines
https://www.amazon.ca/Gold-Warriors-Americas-Recovery-Yamashitas/dp/1844675319
That is a great question, and something I have wanted to look into. I have time constraints. I wish I could just read and study this stuff.
Anyways, I read up on Sheehan, and he is the real deal. I just wish he did not have videos about UFO's, too. LOL. That is just my personal bias.
I need to order some books and read:
https://www.amazon.com/Gold-Warriors-Americas-Recovery-Yamashitas/dp/1844675319
https://www.sce.cornell.edu/sce/altschuler/pdf/altschuler_review_20151016_936.pdf
I have a list of others I can send to you later.
It is interesting because the center box lists people like the DuPont's and Rockefellers, and the Bush family is just to the right (recall the last Super Bowl coin toss). The Rockefellers created the Council on Foreign Relations, and most President's are members of it. It is a private think tank, but it decides US government policy. You would think that the American voters would have a say in this matter, but we don't.
Trump is not a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, so Trump does not know or understand what policy he is expected to implement. I see this as being the conflict so far. Trump became President thinking he would set policy, but, instead, he is being told what policy to set. It must be a huge eye opener for him.
Also, I remember about a year ago, some very hard core Republicans were saying that they would support Hillary if Trump was the Republican nominee. The reason for this is because these hard core Republicans are members of the Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg, and the Trilateral Commission, and so is Hillary. Trump is not. So, they will support their own independently of the political party affiliation.
The whole Democrat-Republican thing is a facade to give us, the voters, the illusion of choice. Normally, no matter what candidate gets elected, they will implement the policy of these organizations. Do you see what I mean? Trump unexpectedly broke this trend, though, and they have been scrambling ever since. They expected Hillary to win, not Trump.
You can read all about it here: The Mueller Report
Because despite the privacy issues of previous bills, cyberattacks are an ongoing problem, especially for U.S. companies, and solutions of some sort are needed.
Right now it's not even clear if a company like Google could legally cooperate with a company like Microsoft on detecting and responding to cyberattacks on their networks, and these problems are not theoretical.
For all that you guys are worried about NSA, don't forget that there are other nations with perfectly good foreign intelligence agencies, such as Russia and China, and these nations have been trying to break into U.S. company networks since the Internet existed.
It's hard enough to defend corporate networks when you have employees who will click on random stupid emails and when finding software vulnerabilities seems to be simply an issue of digging for long enough, without the problems introduced by preventing companies from cooperating. In the military we'd call this "defeat in detail", but you probably could see this in those fancy online multiplayer games too, where your team cooperates to gang up on one opponent at a time to bring them all down. It works with networks too, since we're all interconnected to each other, we are as vulnerable as our weakest link.
This is doubly troubling because the U.S. is almost completely dependent on cyber technologies in a way that many other nations are not, so the U.S. has much more to lose than nations like Russia and China.
The fact that previous bills have been used to try to enforce copyrights from the MPAA/RIAA and other such shenanigans has never meant that there wasn't a need to give U.S. businesses and ISPs the ability to defend themselves (since the U.S. government can't protect them by itself). If they've finally delivered a bill that focuses on that and only on that I'd probably support it; it will have been long overdue.
This book any good? I've got the sample sitting on my kindle but haven't actually cracked it open.
I was personally a fan of Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stool, as well.
Indeed, yea I'm sure Russia was using social media and such to influence voters but thus is free speech and its a bit different than US election officials using software to change votes .
That said, it's hard for America to get up in arms with regards election interference.
The chapters of "Killing Hope" by William Blum point to a certain "pattern" of US behavior in this regard;
China - 1945 to 1960s: Was Mao Zedong just paranoid?
Italy - 1947-1948: Free elections, Hollywood style
Greece - 1947 to early 1950s: From cradle of democracy to client state
The Philippines - 1940s and 1950s: America's oldest colony
Korea - 1945-1953: Was it all that it appeared to be?
Albania - 1949-1953: The proper English spy
Eastern Europe - 1948-1956: Operation Splinter Factor
Germany - 1950s: Everything from juvenile delinquency to terrorism
Iran - 1953: Making it safe for the King of Kings
Guatemala - 1953-1954: While the world watched
Costa Rica - Mid-1950s: Trying to topple an ally - Part 1
Syria - 1956-1957: Purchasing a new government
Middle East - 1957-1958: The Eisenhower Doctrine claims another backyard for America
Indonesia - 1957-1958: War and pornography
Western Europe - 1950s and 1960s: Fronts within fronts within fronts
British Guiana - 1953-1964: The CIA's international labor mafia
Soviet Union - Late 1940s to 1960s: From spy planes to book publishing
Italy - 1950s to 1970s: Supporting the Cardinal's orphans and techno- fascism
Vietnam - 1950-1973: The Hearts and Minds Circus
Cambodia - 1955-1973: Prince Sihanouk walks the high-wire of neutralism
Laos - 1957-1973: L'Armée Clandestine
Haiti - 1959-1963: The Marines land, again
Guatemala - 1960: One good coup deserves another
France/Algeria - 1960s: L'état, c'est la CIA
Ecuador - 1960-1963: A text book of dirty tricks
The Congo - 1960-1964: The assassination of Patrice Lumumba
Brazil - 1961-1964: Introducing the marvelous new world of death squads
Peru - 1960-1965: Fort Bragg moves to the jungle
Dominican Republic - 1960-1966: Saving democracy from communism by getting rid of democracy
Cuba - 1959 to 1980s: The unforgivable revolution
Indonesia - 1965: Liquidating President Sukarno … and 500,000 others
East Timor - 1975: And 200,000 more
Ghana - 1966: Kwame Nkrumah steps out of line
Uruguay - 1964-1970: Torture—as American as apple pie
Chile - 1964-1973: A hammer and sickle stamped on your child's forehead
Greece - 1964-1974: "Fuck your Parliament and your Constitution," said the President of the United States
Bolivia - 1964-1975: Tracking down Che Guevara in the land of coup d'état
Guatemala - 1962 to 1980s: A less publicized "final solution"
Costa Rica - 1970-1971: Trying to topple an ally—Part 2
Iraq - 1972-1975: Covert action should not be confused with missionary work
Australia - 1973-1975: Another free election bites the dust
Angola - 1975 to 1980s: The Great Powers Poker Game
Zaire - 1975-1978: Mobutu and the CIA, a marriage made in heaven
Jamaica - 1976-1980: Kissinger's ultimatum
Seychelles - 1979-1981: Yet another area of great strategic importance
Grenada - 1979-1984: Lying—one of the few growth industries in Washington
Morocco - 1983: A video nasty
Suriname - 1982-1984: Once again, the Cuban bogeyman
Libya - 1981-1989: Ronald Reagan meets his match
Nicaragua - 1981-1990: Destabilization in slow motion
Panama - 1969-1991: Double-crossing our drug supplier
Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991: Teaching communists what democracy is all about
Iraq - 1990-1991: Desert holocaust
Afghanistan - 1979-1992: America's Jihad
El Salvador - 1980-1994: Human rights, Washington style
https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II-Updated/dp/1567512526
> The chinese want to do it, and that represents a serious long-term security risk to the US.
Where is your proof?
according to the entire world, it's America that is the biggest threat to world peace. http://nypost.com/2014/01/05/us-is-the-greatest-threat-to-world-peace-poll/
and it's not surprising why they would think that... http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II--Updated/dp/1567512526/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw
> sen·sa·tion·al·ize: "(esp. of a newspaper) Present information about (something) in a way that provokes public interest and excitement, at the expense of accuracy"
Oh, look. Amoricon knows how to look up words in a dictionary. WOO!
> Yes the map is shit. It's almost a perfect example of something that has been sensationalized. Why would Australia and Vietnam be colored the same?
Because they're both countries that have at one time or another suffered the brunt of Americam imperialist interference. Like most of the fucking planet that happen to be colored the same. The map is trying to get across the truth, that far from standing for freedom and democracy, the USA is devoted to terrorizing and enslaving humanity. The USA is just another evil empire cut out of the same cloth as the Soviets, Nazi and Britshits. If you weren't an Americon dipshit apologist jingoist cretin you would have grasped that.
> What exactly was the "intervention" in Australia, or all of Europe for that matter?
You want me to give you a fucking history course on a huge subject as modern American imperialism on Reddit? Am I your own fucking personal internet tutor here? Is my name cojackass22s_tutor? No? Then stop being foolish, you Americon morans. Here are two excellent books dedicated to the subject of American tyrrany and hegemony:
Learn to fucking read and educate yourself. Stop demanding to be spoonfed like an Americon oaf.
> Uhh, I'm not saying the BBC is completely impartial and free of bias, but there is really no comparison here. At least the BBC acknowledges the fact that opposition to the government even exists...
No, you like the BBC because it's an organization run by an allied state. You dislike PressTV they're run by a society that resists American imperialism and hegemony. You dislike PressTV because they stand up for freedom and democracy against Americun tyrranny.
> You mean the news source that has to photo shop extra missiles onto images to make Iran look more threatening? The news source that not once has given any air time to any Iranian opposition leaders or speakers? "Opposition political figures such as Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have not appeared on Press TV since the June 2009 presidential election."
So what? They lost the election. I don't see Mccain and Sarah Palin prancing about on Smericon TV much either.
> The news source that is state owned?
Just like the BBC except more reliable and trustworthy on world events.
Killing Hope. EDIT: Just wanted to add this. "Far and away the best book on the topic."—Noam Chomsky
So are the DNC/Podesta/StoneTear/Guccifer/Veritas leaks all fake? If they are I need to see better evidence that a now taken down AP article that [to my knowledge fails to name sources in all the agencies mentioned.
Sure Russia shouldn't be trying to interfere with elections. Neither should the USA/CIA.
Anyways, where are the Trump leaks? Who's sitting on data, JA has repeatedly and exhaustively claimed he hasn't received any. If anyone reading this knows for a fact he has I want to know your source. We've seen his tax returns [legal, and disappointing], we heard him say he could "grab her [any woman] by the pussy." We've seen his shitposting. But still, even when considered critically all of these pale in comparison to any of the individual leaks against Clinton and her accomplices.
We have no ground to tell russia not to interfere in our elections, when we have 6 decades of the USA doing just that to many nations. The USA terrorizes countries that try to stand against the will we oppose of them. It is well past time that we acknowledge just how fucked up US foreign/military policy is and have rational/non-partisan discussions about how to interact with the rest of the world.
EDIT: How could I forget?
Look into the Open Source Intelligence community and the ideas of Robert David Steele, a former CIA agent who says that "spying doesn't work".
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1583944435/ossnet-20
http://www.phibetaiota.net/
If the Panopticon is coming anyway, I'd rather it go both ways, so that The People can watch The State watching The People.
Great source of history about this topic. https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Team-Allies-Control-United/dp/1616082844
> I'd suggest starting with a little known (suppressed) book written by L. Fletcher Prouty, retired USAF Colonel and former Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, under President Kennedy, who wrote a book titled "The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World"
For those who don't want to read an entire book on a website you can buy the "suppressed" book on Amazon in a few different formats and editions.
L Fletcher Prouty's book Secret Team is the most cogent, well-written, non-hype book I've ever seen on the topic of hidden government and the deep state.
His credentials:
> L. Fletcher Prouty (1917-2001), a retired colonel of the U.S. Air Force, served as the chief of special operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Kennedy years. He was directly in charge of the global system designed to provide military support for the clandestine activities of the CIA.
He was the guy in there during the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy assassination, and Vietnam, and he lays out in detail how information and goods flowed through secret networks. He provides detailed logistical information on how men and materiel were moved around to prepare for Bay of Pigs and how the CIA gave compartmentalized briefings to the military and president so nobody but them had a full picture of what really was being planned.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-Team-Allies-Control/dp/1616082844
>Didn't he do that with Mueller too? And now preventing people from seeing the report?
Hes not preventing anyone from seeing the report. The report is public. You can see the report right now.
Where are you getting you information?
Look. Here's the report. Its on amazon ffs.
https://www.amazon.com/Mueller-Report-Washington-Post/dp/1982129735?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=1982129735
Like this?
Read Killing Hope and get back to me on the history of the CIA's role in neutering leftist movements in the 20th century.
sighI don't have time to educate clueless redditors again at the moment.
Do yourself a favor and crack open a book or two.
And if that's too hard it can be broken down in simple video form.
If reading books is too advanced for you.
The other replies have shown you what it is used for in astronomy. If you want a fascinating real-world example of what else it is used for, check out Clifford Stoll's book The Cuckoo's Egg:
>Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized user on his system. The hacker's code name was "Hunter"—a mysterious invader who managed to break into U.S. computer systems and steal sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own: spying on the spy. It was a dangerous game of deception, broken codes, satellites, and missile bases—a one-man sting operation that finally gained the attention of the CIA . . . and ultimately trapped an international spy ring fueled by cash, cocaine, and the KGB.
PBS did a really cheesy (but good) documentary of his book if you want a taste before you dive all the way in, but the book is better.
During the MKULTRA program, a bioweapon specialist who was drugged with LSD by the CIA committed suicide. The wikipedia page doesn't go in detail, but if anyone wants to read more about MKULTRA, Frank Olson, and the filthy shit that the CIA was doing at the time, I'd highly recommend the book "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate" by John Marks.
I think you're thinking of The Black Banners by Ali Soufan, where he discusses his work as an FBI interrogator. He goes into a lot of depth about how he would cultivate a relationship with his subject.
His second book, Anatomy of Terror, is also an excellent history of al-Qaeda as known to the West.
You're right that there's nothing to prove that the content of every call in the US is being monitored. There is evidence that every call entering or leaving the US has been monitored since the 70s, and we know that they sometimes monitor people with three degrees of separation from a suspect, but they aren't saying if that means metat-data or actual phone calls.
What's old is new again... 1983 book published on NSA's intelligence gathering The Puzzle Palace. James Bamford has a couple of follow up books from 2007/2008 also.
http://www.amazon.com/American-Black-Chamber-Bluejacket-Books/dp/1591149894/ref=sr_1_1/189-5393201-2174227?ie=UTF8&qid=1414715465&sr=8-1&keywords=the+black+chamber
And
http://www.amazon.com/The-Puzzle-Palace-Intelligence-Organization/dp/0140067485/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414715506&sr=8-1&keywords=puzzle+palace
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This book: "The Puzzle Palace", was written in 1983 and is still amazing today. At that time, the source indicates that it took 14 acres of cooling equipment to keep the NSA's computers from overheating (as I remember).
The worst part is that one of his novels, The Puzzle Palace, shares its title with a nonfiction book about the NSA by James Bamford which happens to be one of the best books written about the NSA... so now you have to be careful when mentioning it, so people don't confuse it with the Dan Brown novel (which is also about the NSA, 'The Puzzle Palace' being one of the real nicknames for the agency)
Fred Burton was a founding member of the United States' Diplomatic Security Service. He was the DSS's specialist in Middle Eastern affairs, over time he came to be the head of the Counter Terrorism division as well as the vice director of the DSS. His office predicted an Al Qaeda strike against the US but decide the threat wasnt valid enough. He was involved in the arrest Ramzi Yousef and brought up warrants for Imad Mugniyah. He wrote the book Ghost, which is very fun to read.
Edit: For must Reads:The Encyclopedia of the CIA, America's Secret War, and Spies Among Us. Also the aforementioned Ghost and Chasing Shadows
Gideon's Spies
By Gordon Thomas
Fantastic book on the Mossad. Shin Bet is showcased a bit as well. Gives an outsider a good idea of just how cutthroat the agency is.
There was a book about the E. German Stasi that came out sometime in the 1990's, but I cannot remember the title for the life of me.
> Does anybody know where I can find official documents about the various methods the CIA used in the 1950s/60s to mind control people, especially children?
You can download the documents here. I'll warn you, most of these documents are incredibly boring. You're going to go through about 100 pages of budgets and expenditures for every one page about experimentation.
Use the wiki over at /r/MK_Ultra. It attempts to index and transcribe the documents, so it'll give you a starting point on which ones to read--though there's a lot of work still to be done. If you update it, it will help serious researchers in the future.
Check out the book The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate", by John Marks. Marks is the guy who got these documents released to the public to begin with, and he also tracked down many of the people mentioned in these documents, and interviewed them about their involvement. The book is very readable, informative, and accurate.
> So far I’ve only found personal testimonies from people like Cathy O’brien, Brice Taylor
In my humble opinion, neither of these two was an actual victim. A lot of people with schizophrenia convince themselves that they were experimented on when they were not. In O'Brien's case, she's married to Mark Phillips, who has a history of abusing--google it. I think he's encouraging her delusions because he's making lots of money off of it.
That's your own fault – all of this has been documented and explained for years before Snowden started his data leaking. Someone that seems to be well-respected by lots of Snowden followers is James Bamford. Check out his books – any of them, but I'd start with The Puzzle Palace[1] – and you'll read about data collection programs that date back to Black Chamber[2][3] and analog recording of phone conversations through phone cable routers. Incredible books that I enjoyed reading, and anyone seriously interested in intelligence/security studies should read, too.
It's nothing new. Just because you didn't read the book doesn't mean it isn't out there. I wouldn't dare dispute that Snowden has given these topics a higher profile than they've ever had, but I would be equally reluctant to give him credit for exposing the existence of sophisticated data collection programs. It's an absolutely essential dialogue to have and I'm glad that the country is engaged in it, but Snowden is not the savior or intellectual that people are making him out to be.
Well I'm not sure, is what I'm saying. When it comes to MPD I tend to think that yes, that is the case. The experiments of US government agencies into dissociation and mind control during the 1960s are quite well documented and not really in doubt, except by hard-core "never suspect malice" see-no-evil monkeys. A Terrible Mistake by Hank Albarelli is a good read on that, as is of course The Search for the Manchurian Candidate. On the other hand I doubt very much that it was ever as widespread as is claimed in certain circles. But then I wonder whether the most hysterical theories aren't encouraged by the spooks in order to discredit the idea itself, because that does happen.
As for human-sacrificing Satanists I'm a lot more sceptical than I am about the MPD, but at the same time there is the occasional case of a concerted group of people murdering a victim in a ritual manner. In those cases I think an analysis that takes into account the influence of Christian myths is more useful than theories of actual underground Satanist networks (the murderers tend to look like they operate independently), but some of the revelations around the Dutroux trial in Belgium do seem to show that in that country, at least, there exists a network of powerful men who rape and murder children ritually.
The dysfunctionality of our society is obviously ANYTHING but accidental.
The article suggests that these experiments provided chemical substances that would create negative symptoms, not only in society at large, but designed to do so within every type of personality in that society-resulting, in addition to the symptoms you cite, the IMPOSSIBILITY of such desperate personalities ever successfully working together-eventually being unable to communicate effectively on ANY LEVEL.”]
Drugs to transform individuals…and even, by implication, society.
Drug research going far beyond the usual brief descriptions of MKULTRA.
The intention is there, in the record:
A CIA document was included in the transcript of the 1977 US Senate Hearings on MKULTRA, the CIA’s mind-control program.
The document is found in Appendix C, starting on page 166. It’s simply labeled “Draft,” dated 5 May 1955: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/e1950/mkultra/appendixc.htm (note: scroll down to #123-125 in the document).
It states: “A portion of the Research and Development Program of [CIA’s] TSS/Chemical Division is devoted to the discovery of the following materials and methods:”
What followed was a list of hoped-for drugs and their uses.
First, a bit of background: MKULTRA did not end in 1962, as advertised.
It was shifted over to the Agency’s Office of Research and Development.
John Marks is the author of the groundbreaking book, Search for the Manchurian Candidate, which exposed MKULTRA. [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393307948/]
Marks told me a CIA representative informed him that the continuation of MKULTRA, after 1962, was carried out with a greater degree of secrecy, and he, Marks, would never see a scrap of paper about it.
I’m printing below, the list of the 1955 intentions of the CIA regarding their own drug research.
The range of those intentions is stunning.
Some of my comments gleaned from studying the list:
The CIA wanted to find substances which would “promote illogical thinking and impulsiveness.”
Serious consideration should be given to the idea that psychiatric medications, food additives, herbicides, and industrial chemicals (like fluorides) would eventually satisfy that requirement.
The CIA wanted to find chemicals that “would produce the signs and symptoms of recognized diseases in a reversible way.”
This suggests many possibilities—among them the use of drugs to fabricate diseases and thereby give the false impression of germ-caused epidemics.
The CIA wanted to find drugs that would “produce amnesia.”
Ideal for discrediting whistleblowers, dissidents, certain political candidates, and other investigators. (Scopolamine, for example.)
The CIA wanted to discover drugs which would produce “paralysis of the legs, acute anemia, etc.”
A way to make people decline in health as if from diseases.
The CIA wanted to develop drugs that would “alter personality structure” and thus induce a person’s dependence on another person.
How about dependence in general?
For instance, dependence on institutions, governments?
The CIA wanted to discover chemicals that would “lower the ambition and general working efficiency of men.”
Sounds like a general description of the devolution of society.
As you read the list yourself, you’ll see more implications/possibilities.
Here, from 1955, are the types of drugs the MKULTRA men at the CIA were looking for.
The following statements are direct CIA quotes:
A portion of the Research and Development Program of TSS/Chemical Division is devoted to the discovery of the following materials and methods:
At the end of this 1955 CIA document, the author [unnamed] makes these remarks:
“In practice, it has been possible to use outside cleared contractors for the preliminary phases of this [research] work.
However, that part which involves human testing at effective dose levels presents security problems which cannot be handled by the ordinary contractors.
“The proposed [human testing] facility [deletion] offers a unique opportunity for the secure handling of such clinical testing in addition to the many advantages outlined in the project proposal.
The security problems mentioned above are eliminated by the fact that the responsibility for the testing will rest completely upon the physician and the hospital. [one line deleted] will allow [CIA] TSS/CD personnel to supervise the work very closely to make sure that all tests are conducted according to the recognized practices and embody adequate safeguards.”
In other words, this was to be ultra-secret.
No outside contractors at universities for the core of the experiments, which by the way could be carried forward for decades.
A secret in-house facility.
Over the years, more facilities could be created.
If you examine the full range of psychiatric drugs developed since 1955, you’ll see that a number of them fit the CIA’s agenda.
Speed-type chemicals to addle the brain over the long term, to treat so-called ADHD.
Anti-psychotic drugs, AKA “major tranquilizers,” to render patients more and more dependent on others (and government) as they sink into profound disability and incur motor brain damage.
And of course, the SSRI antidepressants, like Prozac and Paxil and Zoloft, which produce extreme and debilitating highs and lows—and also push people over the edge into committing violence.
These drugs drag the whole society down into lower and lower levels of consciousness and action.
If that’s the goal of a very powerful and clandestine government agency…it’s succeeding.
https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/11/29/cia-mkultra-drugs-to-take-down-the-nation/#comment-192948
i asked my superhacker friend and he told me he had to hack "the inthenet" using "gogole" or something to get you this info fresh off the presses, so use this wisely
https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/israel-zionism/2019/05/the-soviet-roots-of-anti-zionist-anti-semitism/
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/140328/timmerman-disinformation
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4886594,00.html
do you really think people have bookmark libraries and scans of books to pamper fools for free?
for the third time:
https://www.amazon.com/Sword-Shield-Mitrokhin-Archive-History/dp/0465003125
has a whole chapter detailing how ruskis were flooding arab populations with endless prints of protocols for decades, on top of all the other shit i listed above and many more
you want the unabridged 2-tome version
This article was published after he released his book, Programmed to Kill. It contains new information.
The primary sources referenced are the Mitrokhin archives and former Russian President Yeltin's own memoirs.
Some of the Mitrokhin archives are open to the public, and a book about them was written by the only historian allowed to see them. The book is The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB.
The first problem you're going to run into is that no one (with good reason) wants to tell you what "works" because as soon as that becomes public knowledge, people will craft means and methods against it. There's absolutely no value to disclosing what works aside from for public relations. So understand that.
Books like this and this are great for grasping a bit of knowledge and getting a storyline, but don't share much about the nitty gritty. I've read them both, and though I have no experience in operations in the 40s-70s, I do with what Bamford speaks of and there's quite a bit of fearmongering there. Either way, it's helpful to find the perspective of what's trying to be done. These aren't people trying to trample your friends, it's people trying to find a balance between freedom and security.
A book like this is basically just a nice story. It's a few biopics in one and the writer clearly likes the people he's writing about, so he's extremely pretty sympathetic to them. Still good for motivations and perspective, though.
These two are extremely useful because they get into that nitty-gritty that I spoke of earlier.
But as I said, it basically comes down to the balance between freedom and security. If you- like a crazy amount of redditors and young people seem to be- are way way way more interested than freedom than you are security, you're never going to like what people in the IC do. And that's your preoperative, but it seems that many people that of that cloth usually live within a secure environment and just don't really worry about. It's easy to not give a shit about heavy jackets when you live in West Maui. Moreover, the craze that I've seen in reddit is just...amazing? So many people with so little experience of education in these things that insist they know just so much. These same people will flip shit if you wander into their area of expertise acting like you know what's up when you clearly don't but...if someone's talking about CIA/NSA/FBI/etc or even just international politics in general? Suddenly they're the expert. It's weird.
This is why I chuckle when people think the redacted portions of the 9/11 Commission Report somehow point to an inside job, letting it happen, or a vast Saudi conspiracy. The redacted portions were redacted because of classification, and things are classified to protect means and methods, 99% of the time. Sometimes technology is classified, but it's rare and I don't know much about that anyway.
> Y'know I used to think the whole Red Scare was an overreaction
When the Mitrokhin Archive came to light, it showed that some of the most insane sounding Red Scare conspiracy theories were actually true. The Sword and the Shield breaks it down into digestible form.
You can read more about the Mitrokhin files (concerning Israel) in this story: http://www.ynetnews.com/home/0,7340,L-13181,00.html
Or in the books written by Prof. Christopher Andrew in cooperation with Mitrokhin himsef: https://www.amazon.com/Sword-Shield-Mitrokhin-Archive-History/dp/0465003125/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1476826988&sr=1-1&keywords=the+sword+and+the+shield+the+mitrokhin+archive
Or: https://www.amazon.com/Mitrokhin-Archive-II-KGB-World/dp/0713993596
Russia nerd here. I don't have anything in my library that contains a history of espionage in the broad sense, but "The Sword and the Shield" is probably the most thorough examination of the KGB, which is pretty interesting. It's actually a compilation of smuggled KGB documents.
This is the same, tired Soviet propaganda narrative western communists have been shilling for the past fifty years.
If you want to read all the stuff elided from this bullocks, check out The World Was Going Our Way.
But that would ignore the amount of money the USSR was pouring into Chile, and specifically Allende's pockets since the early 1950s as well.
Money that payed for the establishment of Chile-Soviet relations in 1964 backed by Allende who recieved a $50,000 subsidy by the KGB by that time.
Or how they payed $18,000 to a left-wing Senator to prevent him from running outside Unidad Popular coalition.
Allende was given $60,000 by the USSR personally to bribe political and military leaders.
As president Allende constantly looked towards the USSR for financial aid to keep the economy a float, including a $45 million loan and a $200 million rubles revolving facility.
http://www.amazon.com/The-World-Was-Going-Our/dp/0465003133
Of course, I'm not excusing the US actions at all. But let's always keep in mind this stuff wasn't ocurring in a vacuum.
If you want to read about some interesting fuckery during this period in South America, and other 3rd world countries, read The World Was Going Our Way https://www.amazon.com/World-Was-Going-Our-Way/dp/0465003133
this is the follow up to The SWord and the Shield, another great book.
You may enjoy the cuckoo's egg.
It's a true story about a man finding a 75 cent accounting discrepancy and tracing it all the way back to the KGB. Reads like a thriller and besides Cliff Stoll is pretty funny.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Espionage/dp/0743411463
A picture of a Klein bottle with the famous Cliff Stoll in the background. Stoll now makes these things and sells 'em off kleinbottle.com.
If you like international spying, crime, and hacking, the man went for a pretty amazing real-life adventure and wrote a book about it (which is a fun, lighthearted read).
Stoll also has a nice description of the mathematical significance of Klein bottles.
http://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espionage/dp/0743411463
Certainly!
The Cuckoo's Egg is a classic and describes a true story written by one of the "hackers" involved. It involves international espionage, the US military, the FBI, and the NSA.
http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Time-Shaun-Attwood/dp/1845966511
http://www.amazon.com/Homicide-Killing-Streets-David-Simon/dp/0805080759
Paraphrased from Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets.
You mean Homicide?
This may be a bit unconventional, but I suggest that you read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Homicide-Killing-Streets-David-Simon/dp/0805080759
This is a book by the guy that eventually ended up being the producer for The Wire. It's about following every single lead you can to solve a case. I think it is a really valuable psychology lesson in how to approach difficult or "impossible" situations, which is something that happens a lot, especially early in your career when you are thrown into the deep end of the pool of technology.
In the DevOps field, I find it's more important to be extremely flexible and able to rapidly become a jack of many trades than a master of any specific tools or technology. Mastery will come in time with experience/exposure.
You might like Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey. Sandman Slim is more like Dr. Strange if he decided to be a private investigator. He wields magic and has a drinking problem. I found the first 2 novels to be entertaining, even if they are a bit lighter than The Dark Knight trilogy.
If detective novels are your thing check out Red Dragon. Heavier on the detective stuff than you might think, and it's about Hannibal Lecter.
For something about detectives, and how they actually work cases check out Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets.
No problem, I'm currently reading it now. Its quite Eye-opening. If you like that check out David Simon, author of Homicide a Year on the Killing Streets as well as [The Corner](http://www.amazon.com/The-Corner-Year-Inner-City- Neighborhood/dp/0767900316/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1374081268&sr=8- 5&keywords=a+year+on+the+killing+streets); both provide a sickening view of the urban decay currently facing inner city ghettos. One from the perspective of an Homicide Detective and the other from the actual drug dealers respectively. These together are what formed the backbone for The Wire, which i also suggest.
For those with Wire withdrawl I suggest.
You don't need it it be fiction - read David Simon's Homicide
but if you absolutely want fiction - Elmore Leonard (sadly passed away this week) - or James W. Hall, Ed McBain, Joseph Wambaugh, Donald Westlake, Robert Crais, Andrew Vachss
I'll leave you to your anti-western trolling for now but here is a reading list for you that Im sure will not make any difference to your anti-EU / USA ideas but might give you some idea of the corruption and kleptocracy that exist in the brutal regime of Russia in 2014:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mafia-State-Reporter-Became-Brutal/dp/0852652496
http://www.academia.edu/5597850/The_Russian_Kleptocracy_and_Rise_of_Organized_Crime
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8917352/Garry-Kasparov-Putins-just-like-Al-Capone.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Russia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyC0YbWT2v4
https://www.amazon.com/Mafia-State-Surveillance-Russias-Secret/dp/0852652496/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498680389&sr=8-1&keywords=mafia+state
Fuck Russia under Putin, it is the very definition of sleaze. Been to Monte Carlo recently? I have and all the super yachts have Russian or Arabic names.
Social justice, democracy, natural resources and freedom of speech have all been taken from the Russian people by the utterly corrupt and ruthless regime of Tsar Putin. He and his cronies have set back Russia decades, while at the same time enriching themselves and backing/selling arms to some of the worlds worst regimes. His crimes are numberless, from causing the Moscow bombings to ensure his election, to recently trying to close down foreign NGOs on the basis of his cold war paranoia hangover. You are a cretin, a slave and bad person for supporting his regime.
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-04-25/opinions/38815132_1_human-rights-mir-protect-journalists
http://www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/russia
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mafia-State-reporter-became-brutal/dp/0852652496
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/27/russia.humanrights
As for the Exile that is hardly a credible publication, bring me some evidence from a non-bullshit source, cunt.
WolfgangJones: ^^original ^^reddit ^^link
She showed up on the radar about 1 year ago at an event sponsored by the 9/11 Truth Alliance. I haven't read her 2010 book, "Extreme Prejudice", but the reviews are mostly good. I supoose it's easy for the Feds to disavow an ex-CIA asset if there is no other agents willing to corroborate her story. I hope to hear more from her in the future...if she survives.
> It's also abundantly clear that Dershowitz didn't read the report.
Oh he absolutely read it. He's even selling a copy of it on Amazon where he gives a biased and misleading introduction. He's just not writing with a shred of intellectual honesty anymore.
"Source? Liar."
Source:
https://www.amazon.com/Mueller-Report-Special-Counsel-Collusion/dp/1510750169
"Again, I disagree. Tik Tok is worse. It isn't as prevalent, sure, but it's still worse."
Why am i still talking to you. Ciaooo FBPR
Apparently Mueller is selling it on Amazon? How is this legal?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1510750169/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_hj6UCbEB930R1
Read his book "Killing Hope"; it is profusely documented with citations.
Well publicly available information may not always be the best place for information on conspiracies. Whether big secrets can stand the test of time is itself a paradox. What is publicly known is that the USA/CIA has been involved in covert activity around the world killing elected presidents, funding death squads, destabilising democracies...
here is the contents page for Killing Hope
East Timor - 1975: And 200,000 more
the President of the United States
to which our friend gave this epitaph
"Far and away the best book on the topic."
Noam Chomsky
The question is certainly not would or could this be an inside job
just simply was it. For the record I don't know, in many ways I don't care. There is enough public information to know how power operates to lead me the conclusion that all these things are inside jobs whether planned directly or not. A relatively small group of people hold sway over huge resources militarily, economically, culturally and create an environment that maintains the status quo - a status quo of hopelessness, environmental destruction and human misery. Power is not passive in this it continually lobbies for it and against any challenge to this status quo by 'pretty much' all means necessary.
killing hope - William Blum
> I want a source that isn't some randy's blog. How do you know he's an ex-CIA "official?
It's not some blog, its from a well-known and well-researched book. Actually, he worked for the Department of State, not the CIA.
> Even if he was in the CIA, how do you know he wasn't just a custodian or a courier?
That would be very useful too. Even a custodian and courier can be in possession of damning evidence. Just look at Bradley Manning. Another American hero.
> What are his sources?
If you want his sources you can go to a library, borrow his book and look them up. Do you want me to personally reproduce all the evidence and sources he's compiled over a timespan of several decades and from several continents? You want me to do that?
> I'd like a detailed explanation of the map in words.
Ok, the US bombs and terrorizes most of the planet in it's campaigns of imperial domination. This is why most of the planet hates the US. This is why the US makes ISIS look like a bunch of hippies.
> And what's so bad about a government source? Do you not trust the National Weather Service?
Because government misinformation and propaganda? Does the US government have a known history of pushing propaganda through the National Weather Service? If so, we should be highly skeptical of it too.
I don't know whats more sad, that you support terrorism thinking you are fighting it, or that you think its ok for a nation to just occupy another, because a small minority of people have committed violence.
Maybe by your logic the whole world should invade the United States and Occupy it since America has had CIA and military interventions in just about every country in the world since WWII.
You are just an old geezer who is too stuck in his brainwashed mentality to admit to that you have been used as a fucking pawn.
You really should watch that video so you know what you are supporting. Just because I don't support an occupying nation, doesn't mean I am taking sides. Seriously you are a dumb old fucker stuck in duality. There are more colors than red and blue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DduUcPSU_TM
Come back here when you actually know the history of the fucking nation you live in you ignorant fuck.
http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II--Updated/dp/1567512526/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407458175&sr=1-1&keywords=killing+hope
Maybe after actually reading something of value you will know why America created Israel and supports it no matter the cost.
You are capable of choosing books and reading them on your own yes? Or does it have to be on CNN/FOX approved readers list?
Do you even read educational material anymore?
There was a good reason for this. The so-called antiwar movement was infiltrated and funded by Soviet intelligence.
Confirmed by Mitrokin after he defected to the West.
EDIT: http://www.amazon.com/Sword-Shield-Mitrokhin-Archive-History/dp/0465003125/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1463946856&sr=8-1&keywords=mitrokhin+archive
I would just like to point out, in 1991 the KGB archives from 1918 to 1980s were smuggled to the west. Apart from the areas that were obliterated to erase the feuding during the Stalin purges and potentially embarrassing information collected on the leadership that took over after Stalin (and tragically Stalin's obliteration of his Okrana record) it is a pretty complete record of KGB activity in other countries. The KGB was extremely interventionist beyond the wildest dreams of the CIA into other nations affairs during the early 1950s. So the CIA was paranoid, but it was paranoid because there really were extreme interventions by the USSR going on behind the scene in many places. If you ever get the chance there are several books that have summarized the contents of the archive. The breadth of KGB operations was staggering even in the UK and US.
This is the book written by the KGB defectors on the contents of the archive
There's the official narrative, and then there's the shit they aren't telling you, there are covert wars and destabilization behind the scenes.
I couldn't possibly convince you in a line of text, I'd point you to the covert actions behind the scenes of the official narratives being presented.
http://www.amazon.com/KILLING-HOPE-William-Blum/dp/B007K517VE
On Venezuela
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeJsauYlLi4&feature=youtu.be
This is clearly described in The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda by Ali Soufan
Area 51, eh? Wake up Sheeples and connect the dots!!!1!!!1!
“ In the early 1960s, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) watched with growing alarm as the Soviet Union equipped its Arab client states with its latest-generation fighter, the MiG-21. Little was known about the new aircraft, but its capabilities were rumored to be superior to anything the Israelis possessed. Could the new MiG tip the balance of power in the Middle East? [IAF chief] General Motti Hod worried that it just might.
“ With Hod’s urging, Mossad set out to get a MiG-21 into Israeli hands. ...
“ ...
“ [O]n August 16 [1966], Captain [Monir] Radfa took off from Rashid Air Force Base near Baghdad on a navigation training mission. He had managed to secure a long-range external fuel tank for this flight; otherwise, the MiG-21 would never have had the range to make the 486 miles to Radfa’s real destination: Hatzor Air Base in Israel.
“ ...
“ The Israelis had just secured the Cold War brass ring. In the months that followed, their experts dissected the MiG-21’s assembly, avionics, radar system, weapons, and construction techniques. After they mapped the MiG’s weaknesses and vulnerable points on the ground, the IAF’s top test pilots flew it to figure out its performance envelope. Eventually, it was flown in mock air combat against Israel's Mirage IIIs in order to develop tactics that could exploit the MiG’s weaknesses. The plane, which the Israelis designated number 007 in homage to James Bond, served as the single greatest treasure trove of aerial intelligence the IAF had ever received. It also became a currency more valuable than gold.
“ ...
“ ... After the Six-Day War, the Israelis approached the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and offered to lend the United States their precious MiG-21. In return, the Israelis wanted to purchase F-4 Phantom fighter-bombers.
“ President Johnson personally approved the deal and also released the A-4 Skyhawks [the sale of a small number of which was suspended as a result of Israel’s preemptive attack] for delivery to the IAF. In exchange for the MiG-21, the Americans supplied the Israelis with fifty gun-armed F-4E Phantoms. These aircraft played a pivotal role in saving Israel in the years to come; the deal itself became the first major connection between the United States and the Israel military. ...
“ In early 1968, the Israelis crated up the MiG-21 and sent it to Groom Lake, Nevada--known in conspiracy circles as Area 51. There the USAF’s Foreign Technology Division undertook the same rivet-by-rivet study of the MiG-21 the Israelis had conducted the year before. At last, the USAF had its hands on the weapon that was causing its fighter-bomber wings in Southeast Asia so much grief.
“ Dubbed the Have Donut program, the testing lasted for months, and the MiG-21 underwent a complete technical, engineering, and operation evaluation. ... "
Source: Fred Burton and John Bruning (Chasing Shadows) (2011)
It's as real as shows get. It was created by a former homcide reporter for the Baltimore Sun and the show was on HBO (aka, uncensored). The creator, David Simon, also wrote the book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
The characters (criminals, cops, and politicians) and most events on the show were based on real life. He takes liberties to make social/political commentary and to adapt to television, it's not a documentary. I recommend you give it a shot before dismissing it as just another cop show. This is far from your average cop show. In fact, I wouldn't even say it's a cop show. It's a show about the war on drugs and decline of the American city as told through the stories of cops, dealers, addicts, politicians, schools, and the media.
When are you going to stop believing propaganda lies? Megrahi DID NOT do the bombing. He was framed; the witness whose dodgy testimony led to his conviction was paid a million dollars by the US to say he bought a shirt, said to be wrapped around the bomb.
For the truth about it , go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQCgojiiq-Q
Or read this (TL/DR? CIA)
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Lockerbie Diary: Gadhaffi, Fall Guy For CIA Drug Running
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By Susan Lindauer, Former U.S. Asset covering Iraq and Libya – Contributing Writer
March 4th, 2011
For years I was told the terrorist who placed the bomb on board Pan Am 103, known as the Lockerbie bombing, lives about 8 miles from my house, in Fairfax County, Virginia.
His life-time of privilege and protection, gratis of high flyers in U.S. Intelligence, has been a reward for silence on the CIA’s involvement in drug trafficking in Lebanon during the 1980s.
As sources go, I was more than a casual observer. From May 1995 until March 2003, I performed as a back channel to Tripoli and Baghdad, supervised by my CIA handler, Dr. Richard Fuisz, who claimed from day one to know the origins of the Lockerbie conspiracy and the identity of the terrorists. http://issuepedia.org/1998-12-04_Susan_Lindauer_Deposition He swore that no Libyan participated in the attack.
Armed with that assurance, our team started talks with Libya’s diplomats for the Lockerbie Trial, and I attended over 150 meetings at the Libyan Embassy in New York. After the hand over of Libya’s two accused men, our team engaged in a concerted fight to gain permission for Dr. Fuisz to give a deposition about his primary knowledge of the conspiracy, during the Lockerbie Trial. In a surprise twist, the U.S. Federal Judge in Alexandria, Virginia imposed a double seal on a crucial portion of Dr. Fuisz’s deposition. The double seal can only be opened by a Scottish Judge. In my opinion, that should be a priority, as testimony hidden by the double seal maps out the whole Lockerbie conspiracy. Most significantly, it identifies 11 terrorists involved in the attack. Dr. Fuisz’s testimony could put the whole matter to rest forever.
There’s good reason for my confidence. Much to my surprise, during the Lockerbie talks, Dr. Fuisz’s allegations of CIA opium running in Lebanon received unusual corroboration. One day, as I left the office of Senator Carol Moseley-Braun on my lunch break, an older spook caught up with me in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. From out of nowhere, he stepped in my path and invited me to lunch. With extraordinary candor, he debriefed me as to what motivated the CIA’s actions. I remember it as one battle-hardened old spook sharing the perils of fieldwork with a gung ho young Asset, anxious to get started on great adventures.
It was a morality tale for sure. According to him, the CIA infiltrated opium and heroin trafficking in Lebanon as part of a crisis operation to rescue AP reporter Terry Anderson and 11 other American and British hostages in Beirut, including CNN bureau chief Jeremy Levin and Anglican envoy Terry Waite. The hostage crisis was a legitimate CIA concern. The CIA Station Chief of Beirut, William Buckley, was also kidnapped by Islamic Jihad and brutally tortured to death, his body dumped in the street in front of CIA headquarters. The rescue was protracted and complicated by Lebanon’s Civil War—ultimately, Terry Anderson’s captivity lasted seven years. Many of the hostages suffered beatings, solitary confinement chained to the floor, and mock executions.
The older spook who refused to identify himself swore that the CIA considered it urgently necessary to try every possibility for recovering the hostages. The concept of infiltration into criminal networks cuts to the murky nature of intelligence itself. Drug enforcement frequently rely on the same strategies. Where the CIA went far wrong was in pocketing some of those heroin profits for itself along the way. The dirty little secret is that the CIA continued to take a percentage cut of opium and heroin production out of Lebanon well into the 1990s.
As for the hostage rescue itself, considering the operation took years to accomplish, it’s always been whispered that a corrupted CIA officer enjoying those opium profits might have swallowed reports on the hostages’ locations, or otherwise diverted his team in order to protect his narcotics income.
That appears to have become a serious fear at the time, among other U.S. officers jointly involved in the rescue.
In December 1988, infuriated Defense Intelligence agents issued a formal protest, exposing CIA complicity in Middle East heroin trafficking. When teams from both agencies got summoned back to Washington to attend an internal hearing, they boarded Pan Am 103. A wing of militant Hezbollah led by Ahmed Jibril, his nephew Abu Elias, Abu Talb and Abu Nidal took out both teams in order to protect their lucrative cartel.
Classified Defense Intelligence records show that Jibril and Talb had been toying with a conspiracy to bomb a U.S. airplane during the 1988 Christmas holidays anyway. They planned to bomb a U.S. airliner in revenge for the U.S.S. Vincennes, which shot down an Iranian commercial airliner loaded with Hajiis returning from Mecca in July, 1988. However the Defense Intelligence threat to expose their heroin network put the bombing plan into action. Islamic Jihad’s ability to discover actionable intelligence on the flight schedules would definitely confirm that somebody at CIA was operating as a double agent, keeping Islamic Jihad a step ahead of the rescue efforts.
That’s the dirty truth about Lockerbie. It ain’t nothing like you’ve been told.
Wait a darn moment—I anticipate your confusion. Libya got blamed for the Lockerbie attack. Daddy George Bush told us so! The United Nations imposed sanctions on Libya, demanding that Colonel Moammar Gadhaffi hand over two Libyans for trial. One of the two, Lameen Fhima got acquitted immediately. The other Abdelbasset Megrahi got convicted (on the most flimsy circumstantial evidence that overlooked endless contradictions). Libya paid $2.7 billion in damages—amounting to $10 million per family death— to make the U.N. sanctions go away, and expressed a sort of non-apology for the deaths—while never acknowledging its involvement in the conspiracy.
So Libya was innocent the whole time? In a word, yes.
Don’t get me wrong: I have no soft spot for Libya. As an Asset, I saw that no matter the flowing promises of friendship, at heart Libyans hearken to their glory days as Bedouin raiders. It’s pathological, not personal. They are deeply tribal and Islamic, which often makes them paranoid and suspicious of outsiders. They have an ancient history of raiding each other’s camps, back and forth, stealing livestock, women and children. One of my best diplomatic sources had a tattoo on his wrist, because his grandmother feared he would be kidnapped as a small child (in the 1950s). Libya simply does not have a history of believing that it needs to keep promises to individuals outside their clans. That’s not part of their heritage.
That vendetta culture bodes dangerously for the current rebellion. Even after Gadhaffi’s gone, in all likelihood these tribal families will continue to exact vengeance on one another. It remains to be seen whether the new government will hide those clashes to protect its image of cohesion and legitimacy to the outside world. In truth, Libyan culture poses a threat to itself most of all.
I don’t say that about just any Arab country. I enjoy Arab culture very much. I just know better than to do favors for Gadhaffi. His actions often mask some other agenda.
But the bottom line is that Libya had nothing to do with the bombing of Pan Am 103, which exploded over the town of Lockerbie, Scotland.
We should care about Lockerbie because of the serious problem that it exposed. Opium trafficking out of the Bekaa Valley provides a major source for global heroin production. In turn, the global pipeline of narco-dollars keep militant operations alive world-wide from the Middle East to Indonesia, Colombia, Burma and the Far East.
That’s something to fear. We don’t have to deploy soldiers to shut it down. With a little creativity, we could attack the bank accounts of these global heroin traffickers and cut off funds for the violence without damaging the local society through warfare. We could strike down two scourges—heroin and terrorism. And the U.S. would not require military action all over the planet to accomplish its goals. Thankfully, there are other ways.
The first step is recognition.
Susan Lindauer is the author of Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq.
http://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Prejudice-Terrifying-Story-Patriot/dp/1453642757
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TL/DR? CIA.
https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Prejudice-Terrifying-Story-Patriot/dp/1453642757/
Deprive you of our collective myth.
Actually it was always know that NYPD officers were posted overseas. Since they are collecting NYC focused intel, I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing.
This book by a muslim FBI agent said one of the issues the FBI had dealing with the CIA is as LEOs they had higher standards for collecting evidence to be used in trials. I would assume that if people overseas were targeting NYC, and they wanted to have a proper trial (ok I don't see that part actually happening, but the facade of a fair trial), it would make sense to have an NYPD detective to advise the CIA on how to make sure their intel is admissible in court.
You should consider reading Gold Warrior. This was the Gold taken from Korea, China, Southeast Asia, hidden in the Philippines. " In 1945, US intelligence officers in Manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion and other looted treasure in the Philippines. President Truman decided to recover the gold but to keep its riches secret. These, combined with Japanese treasure recovered during the US occupation, and with recovered Nazi loot, would create a worldwide American political action fund to fight communism. This ‘Black Gold’ gave Washington virtually limitless, unaccountable funds, providing an asset base to reinforce the treasuries of America’s allies, to bribe political and military leaders, and to manipulate elections in foreign countries for more than fifty years. " If people really understood the financial implications to this loot, we would be rioting.
here is the report on the gov site
here it is in print form
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=omnskeu-puE
And yeah, Noam Chomsky is equivalent to garbage YouTube videos huh? How about Glenn Greenwald? There are many more people exposing American crimes. You could start with Killing Hope by William Blum. You seem to think our country doesn't commit war crimes and worse. Fucking educate yourself.
By the way, who the fuck stands around a place where they just laid a trap for soldiers? It's a known fact that they attacked a person just trying to help get them out of there as well. It's justified attacking random people because they're armed in a country where it's more than common? It's speculated that one of them had an RPG, so that's irrefutable evidence that they're enemies?
Gallows humor doesn't include joking WHILE you're killing people. It implies that attacking people not confirmed to be enemies is not something they consider serious, and that it's just another day at the office to them. Not to mention, it's a known fact that military killing people from far away on what amounts to a TV screen is MUCH less traumatizing than those fighting on the ground, so implying it's even close to them coping with what they're doing is ridiculous.
Point out one fucking thing I said in my OP that is wrong or you're just continuing to prove how uneducated you are on one of the most important things an American should be aware of. Ad hominem is a term misused constantly on here, but you are absolutely replacing arguments with insults.
oh rly?
Report Shows US Invasion, Occupation of Iraq Left One Million Dead
http://www.globalresearch.ca/report-shows-us-invasion-occupation-of-iraq-left-1-million-dead/5442905
 
in case you think this is some "unique" problem..
http://www.globalresearch.ca/how-to-start-a-war-the-american-use-of-war-pretext-incidents/28554
http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II--Updated/dp/1567512526/
http://www.amazon.com/Overthrow-Americas-Century-Regime-Change/dp/0805082409/
 
lots of blood on them hands of the Leaders of the Free World.
So I noticed that alot of people down voted my comment.idk if I can post a link on reddit but here you go. 736 pages of full unedited report. If the link doesn't show up just go to Amazon and search Mueller report. The full official report was published by washington post. Idk why I'm getting so much hate for stating what can easily be Googled. I hope this helps.
The Mueller Report https://www.amazon.com/dp/1982129735/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_YkzIDb63V76P8