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From:Richard Sanders <ad207@freenet.carleton.ca> Subject: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PRESS FOR CONVERSION! Issue #43 "A People's History of the CIA: The Subversion of Democracy from Australia to Zaire" J(1)Just Say Know! The CIA's War on Democracy By Richard Sanders, editor, Press for Conversion. For many, the recent U.S. elections raised serious doubts about the American system of democracy. However, millions of others around the world long ago abandoned any notion that the U.S. is a bastion of democracy, either at home or abroad. The U.S. government has, in fact, been a major opponent for millions of people around the world who have struggled to create and maintain democratic systems of governance. Since WWII, the CIA has played a pivotal role in this history of subverting political systems. It has been active in virtually every country of the world and has conducted thousands of secret operations. As a tool of the U.S. president, the CIA has been used to manipulate, undermine and blatantly overthrow countless governments including dozens of functioning democracies. This latest issue of "Press for Conversion" contains only a glimpse into the CIA's largely overlooked history. It is a shameful history which has plumbed the depths of depravity, greed, deception, hypocrisy and ultra-violence. The CIA's history is filled with rigged elections, fraud, bribery, sabotage and economic warfare. CIA officials have masterminded psychological warfare, extensive propaganda and the spreading of lies and misinformation through the media. Simplistic doctrinaire contempt has been instilled in the public towards those groups who threaten corporate power. Continuing public support has been engineered by these the world's most polished propaganda masters for countless wars that are fought to simply maintain a predatory economic system designed to benefit America's ruling business elite. The CIA has planned, armed and financed many military coups that consciously installed brutal regimes to better allow the pillaging of resources by U.S. business. In time, some of these dictatorships also become liabilities and were replaced with new, more pliant client states. This task, among others, has fallen to the CIA after it emerged from the U.S. Office of Strategic Services. Which, before the end of WWII, began close collaborations with the German (Nazi)"intelligence community" that helped shape modern history. Their continuing war against the scourge of public ownership that's touted by communism has been too often brutal. Literally millions of people have been massacred in a U.S. holocaust that has gone unnoticed and is commonly denied. The first to be assassinated, in these CIA-fostered campaigns of terror and mass murder, have usually been progressive politicians, labour leaders, human rights activists, priests, nuns and other "subversives" in the exploited third world countries.' Canadian Complicity; Canada continues to aid and abet ongoing U.S. wars against democracy, peace and human rights. By allowing U.S. military and intelligence gathering stations in Canada, and the testing here of U.S. weapons systems we offer our tacit unconditional support. Our government is increasingly sending troops and equipment and thus moral support to help the U.S. in its invasions and interventions that are too often shown to be predatory. More than half of Canada's arms exports are sold to the U.S. Our government puts such blind trust in the U.S. that no restrictions are placed on these exports. Canadian arms producers must obtain government permits for military sales to every country in the world, except the U.S. Worst of all, our government also funds numerous programs to subsidize these lucrative contracts. But Canadian profit making doesn't end with arms sales to the U.S. That's just the beginning. After the CIA uses its dirty tricks to install investor-friendly puppet regimes in faraway lands, the Canadian government encourages military exports to those governments. This is, of course, invaluable help in the suppression of local dissent to ensure the multinational harvesting of these nation's resources. Thus the Western investors are given full access to other nation's riches in ventures from resource extraction to sweatshop manufacturing. Canadian companies clamor to join the feeding frenzy that bleeds these countries dry of their wealth and increasingly scare resources. The raw expediency doctrine of the CIA's installation of a "compliant" elite, who then often equip and train repressive military regimes for the singular goal of achieving personal opulence instead of social justice must be understood. There's much less consumption of exportable third-world resources involved to keep a small administrative elite (and their army) in relative opulence, than to provide for the basic needs of entire countries as social minded movements (socialists) demand. Thus socialism is simplistically labeled as a threat by the glib rhetoric of the imperialist West. CIA Fingerprints in Canada? Canadians should also be on the look out for the telltale signs of CIA activities in Canada. Being right next door, we are certainly not beyond their grasp. A a small sampling of their meddling must include the CIA-backed brainwashing experiments conducted on unwilling Canadian prisoners and psychiatric patients, Hal Banks and the sanctioned mobster overthrow of Canada's maritime union, right through to the successful campaign to oust John Diefenbaker from office because he would not allow U.S. nuclear weapons to be deployed in Canada. U.S. officials openly colluded with high-ranking Canadian military officers, journalists and politicians to install a compliant government that agreed to U.S. terms involving stationing their nuclear warheads in Canada. It must be clearly apparent to Canadians that any relatively progressive government that somehow manages to get elected in Canada, will likely live with the threat of similar covert U.S. activities. After all, the CIA has created, controlled and disposed of governments all over the world. Why would we think that they'd hesitate to extend their tentacles of power here? Challenging the Cheerleaders; For too long, the CIA has operated under a cloak of secrecy without even the knowledge or consent of elected U.S. officials, let alone the U.S. public or the billions of people around the world who have suffered from CIA activities. Anything that we can do to shed light on this dark history will be an invaluable gift to future generations. In this era of a `free media' eager to cover controversies, the CIA's history and its countless scandals have largely been ignored. An awareness of this history is invaluable in understanding the contexts of so many wars that are now raging. Hopefully, it will only be a matter of time before the CIA's real legacy becomes part of our society's common knowledge. The next time the U.S. wants Canadian support or participation in a "humanitarian war," let's hope we have the wherewithal to just say no! Knowing the CIA's history will equip us with the knowledge to challenge anyone who is naive enough to want Canada to join in as a cheerleader or fellow warmonger. As the marble inscription in the main lobby at CIA headquarters reads "And ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free." ------------------------------------------------------ (Their headquarters has since been renamed "The George Bush Center". A study of the CIA's agenda development during the Reagan / Bush era clearly reveals why.) A People's History of the CIA: The Subversion of Democracy from Australia to Zaire In researching the CIA's role in subverting governments around the world, I found a wealth of material that I believe may be of interest to you. To receive a free sample copy of this issue, send me an email with your street addess and we'll mail you a copy. Below you'll find: (1) the Table of Contents of this issue on the CIA, (2) an article on the U.S. role in `Knocking Over' Canada's government, 1963 (3) an overview of this issue: "Just Say Know! The CIA's War on Democracy." Richard Sanders, Editor, Press for Conversion! Chronological history of events. 1944-1954, Germany/USA: Original Sin - From SS to OSS.....4 Growth of the Gehlen Org.......................................5 1945-1973, Germany/Austria/USA: "Operation Paperclip"........6 1945-1973, Germany/USA: From Dachau to "MKULTRA"........7 late1940s-present, International: "Mockingbird," Buying the Media....8 1947-1948, Italy: Nazi Loot used to Rig Election..........9 1947-1970s, Greece: Helping Fascists in a Civil War and Coup....10 l ate 1940s-1990s, Europe: Building Right Wing Terror Groups....11 EU Resolution on Operation "Gladio"........................11 1950-now, Germany,: "Stay Behind" Forces and Neo-Nazism......11 1945-1963, Vietnam............................................12 1945-1953, Philippines..........................................12 1949-1953, Albania: CIA `Cut its Teeth' with "Operation Valuable"...12 1950-1970s, Southeast Asia: Drug Lords and Covert Wars....13 1953-1963, USA: MKULTRA and LSD..........................14 1953, Iran: Coup Returns Shah in "Operation TPAJAX".......15 1954, Guatemala: "Operation PBSuccess," Another Coup.....16 1957-1961, Canada: MKULTRA Experiments in Montreal......17 1958-1991, Iraq: A Classic Case of Divide and Conquer......18 1958, Indonesia: The Failed Overthrow.....................19 1960s-1970s, Canada: Prisoners used as Guinea Pigs..........20 1960-1997, Congo: replacing Lumumba with Mobutu.....21 1962, South Africa: Mandela Imprisoned...................21 1961-1963, Cuba: Everything from PsyOps to an Invasion.......22 1962-1963, Canada: `Knocking Over' "Dief the Chief".......23 Dief's "Made in Canada" Policies..............................23 A Plot "Made in the USA"......................................23 Key Quotations on the events of January 1963.................24 CIA Fingerprints: The Americans behind the Plot..............25 1965, Indonesia: Executing a Campaign of Mass Murder.........26 1968-1976, Chile: Killing a Democracy..................27 1975, Angola: Mercenaries, Murder and Corruption........28 1975, Australia: Overthrowing Whitlam's Labour Party........29 1976, South America: "Operation Condor" Cross-Border Killing......31 1978-1992, El Salvador: Training the Death Squads..........32 pre1979-1989, Afghanistan: The CIA's Biggest Covert War......33 1980, Iran/USA: TheReagan/Bush "October Surprise"...........34 1980s, Nicaragua: Reagan's Contra Terrorists..................35 1980s, U.S./Central America: Contras, Gangs and Crack......36 1980s, USA: Money Laundering for Contras, Mob and CIA...37 1983-present, International: NED and "Project Democracy".......39 1984-1989, Panama: If NED Fails, Send in the Marines..........40 1990s-present, Colombia: The Phoney `War on Drugs'..........41 1999, Yugoslavia: KLA, CIA, OSCE and NATO Join Hands.........42 Mr. Massacre, from El Salvador to Racak.......................43 plus: VANA Update (the National Newsletter of Veterans Against Nuclear Arms) Nuclear Winter Revisited.................................44 Peace Policies of the Political Parties...................46 Short Shots.....................................................48 VANA and DREC Reports.....................................51 -