The history of interference in the internal affairs of other nations by the CIA is well known. No nation except the USA has a record of interference to compare with it or its consistent insistence on its right to do so with impunity.
The CIA is an organization specifically created to interfere in other nations in any way it sees fit, anytime it sees fit. No nation outside U.S. borders is safe from its attacks, demonization, destabilization, assassination and subversion.
Once a target nation has been identified as requiring regime change teams of CIA officers and agents draw up detailed plans designed to create chaos within its internal structure. Every avenue will be explored that contains within it the possibility of a major weakening in the targeted nation whether than be disinformation campaigns via friendly media, the financing of death squads or subversion and sabotage. No avenue is left unexplored. False documents and stories are created, moles are instructed to create as much confusion within government offices as possible, blackmail and scandal material is sought while fake news is seeded in publications where it is unlikely it will be traced to its source. A cadre of informants provide details on possible areas of attack, front groups are set up, dissidents and the disaffected are well financed and provided with all the resources required from utilities to software to specific training and propaganda. Networks of entities designed to undermine, weaken, destabilize and ultimately weaken and bring down governments will receive every possible help and support via non-governmental organizations that have deniability regarding any links to the CIA.
Before looking at specific CIA operations, some information regarding the organization of the CIA.
Back at Langley, Virginia, in CIA headquarters the bulk of CIA staff, approximately 14,000 of them, receive the constant vast flow of data from officers and agents worldwide. This is analyzed, reports are written and recommendations made, plans authorized and funds allocated. Front groups are organized and coordinated, operatives (cut-outs) are debriefed, given new targets or tactics, supplied with carefully weaponized misinformation and given partial details on forward planning.
Structure:
National Clandestine Service
This is where the so-called "spies" work. NCS employees go undercover abroad to collect foreign intelligence. They recruit agents to collect what is called "human intelligence."
Directorate of Science and Technology
The people on this team collect overt, or open source, intelligence. Overt intelligence consists of information that appears on TV, on the radio, in magazines or in newspapers. They also use electronic and satellite photography.
Directorate of Intelligence
All of the information gathered by the first two teams is turned over to the Directorate of Intelligence. Members of this team interpret the information and write reports about it.
Directorate of Support
This team provides support for the rest of the organization and handles things like hiring and training. "The Directorate of Support attracts the person who may be a specialist in a field such as an artist or a finance officer, or a generalist with many different talents," according to the CIA Web site.
‘About a third of the agency's estimated 20,000 employees are undercover.
Most of the agency's overseas officers are under official cover, meaning they pose as employees of another government agency, such as the state department. A much smaller number are under nonofficial cover or NOC (pronounced "knock"). This means they usually pose as employees of real international corporations, employees of fake companies or as students. If NOCs are caught by a foreign intelligence service, they have no diplomatic immunity to protect them from prosecution in that country.
Clandestine service agents are what many people picture when they think of a CIA agent. These individuals may be sent to areas all over the world, and are responsible for collecting information that may be essential to different CIA operations.
Once trained, agents are assigned positions that require them to find, observe, recruit, train, and oversee foreign individuals chosen to gather information that the CIA needs. Other officers are then responsible for taking the gathered information, evaluating it, and then sending it through the appropriate channels to make sure it is received and used in a timely manner. A CIA agent working in clandestine services will spend about half of his or her career oversees, on assignments that may last two or three years.
CIA officers refer to the citizens of foreign countries who are recruited by the CIA to gather sensitive information as agents. These individuals usually work in, or have access to, environments where information about another country or organization's capabilities may be. For example, if the CIA was interested in any new weapons being developed in the Middle East, it would recruit agents, possibly members of the military or engineers working on the projects, to gather any information that may be available about the weapons and provide it to the CIA.’
‘United States involvement in regime change has entailed both overt and covert actions aimed at altering, replacing, or preserving foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars. At the onset of the 20th century, the United States shaped or installed governments in many countries around the world, including neighbors Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.’ (Wikipedia)
Operation Mockingbird
The CIA uses compliant editors and journalists within mainstream media to ensure all narratives broadcast or printed are in line with required U.S. state narratives.
‘In a 1977 Rolling Stone magazine article, "The CIA and the Media," reporter Carl Bernstein wrote that by 1953, CIA Director Allen Dulles oversaw the media network, which had major influence over 25 newspapers and wire agencies. Its usual modus operandi was to place reports, developed from CIA-provided intelligence, with cooperating or unwitting reporters. Those reports would be repeated or cited by the recipient reporters and would then, in turn, be cited throughout the media wire services. These networks were run by people with well-known liberal but pro-American big-business and anti-Soviet views.
The most extensive discussion of CIA relations with news media from these investigations is in the Church Committee's final report, published in April 1976. The report covered CIA ties with both foreign and domestic news media.
For foreign news media, the report concluded that:
The CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda. These individuals provide the CIA with direct access to a large number of newspapers and periodicals, scores of press services and news agencies, radio and television stations, commercial book publishers, and other foreign media outlets.
For U.S.-based media, the report states:
Approximately 50 of the [Agency] assets are individual American journalists or employees of U.S. media organizations. Of these, fewer than half are "accredited" by U.S. media organizations ... The remaining individuals are non-accredited freelance contributors and media representatives abroad ... More than a dozen United States news organizations and commercial publishing houses formerly provided cover for CIA agents abroad. (Wikipedia)
Specific CIA operations:
Iran (1953):
‘On August 19, 1953, with the aid of “rented” crowds widely believed to have been arranged with CIA assistance, the coup against popular Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq
succeeded. Iran’s nationalist hero was jailed, the monarchy restored under the Western-friendly shah.’
BBC article:
‘The CIA has released documents which for the first time formally acknowledge its key role in the 1953 coup which ousted Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadeq.
They come from the CIA's internal history of Iran from the mid-1970s.
"The military coup... was carried out under CIA direction as an act of US foreign policy," says one excerpt.
Until now the intelligence agencies have issued "blanket denials" of their role, says the editor of the trove of documents, Malcolm Byrne.
This is believed to be the first time the CIA has itself admitted the part it played in concert with the British intelligence agency, MI6.’
Guatemala (1954)
‘To get rid of President Árbenz in 1954, CIA agents and U.S. State Department officials created a hoax radio station in the style of Orson Wells’ War of the Worlds. CIA director Allen Dulles, in a now-declassified memo to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, explained the plan. “The entire effort,” Dulles wrote, was “more dependent upon psychological impact rather than actual military strength.”
Pretending to be Guatemalan patriots, the Americans aired false news reports and what they called “terror broadcasts” for months. At first, the CIA radio station broadcast music and political commentary for a couple hours each day, including false reports of a brewing rebel movement and defections of high-ranking officials who were upset that the Árbenz government was secretly operating under Soviet control. (None of this was true.) Over time, the station upped the fear factor and urgency, until it was eventually broadcasting all day long and reporting civil rights abuses by the government — and claiming that Árbenz was actively trying to find the station and crush the ever-growing rebel army.
Local papers and social networks (the offline kind) repeated this “news” — which escalated to the point that it convinced Guatemalans that a bloody civil war had erupted. The campaign culminated in the public, military, and presidential cabinet giving up and letting the U.S. walk a puppet president into their highest office.
But there was no war — just a guerilla radio station sowing falsehoods, a few CIA mercenaries dropping smoke bombs to back up the charade, and a narcissistic and inexperienced right-wing politician that the U.S. wanted to take Árbenz’s place. After the U.S. put its preferred man in office, it would be decades before Guatemala would have free and fair elections again.’
Cuba (1961)
The idea of overthrowing Castro first emerged within the CIA in early 1960. As the perceived threat of international communism grew larger, the CIA expanded its activities to undertake covert economic, political, and military activities that would advance causes favorable to U.S. interests, often resulting in brutal dictatorships that favored U.S. interests.
CIA Director Allen Dulles was responsible for overseeing covert operations across the world.
Recognizing that Castro and his government were becoming increasingly hostile and openly opposed to the United States, Eisenhower directed the CIA to begin preparations of invading Cuba. Richard M. Bissell Jr. was charged with overseeing plans for the Bay of Pigs Invasion. He assembled agents to aid him in the plot, many of whom had worked on the 1954 Guatemalan coup six years before.’ (Wikipedia)
Regime change operations of the USA from 1900 onward:
1903: Panama
The U.S. aided the secession of Panama from the Republic of Colombia.
1903–1925: Honduras
The U.S. staged many military invasions and interventions in Central America and the Caribbean.The United Fruit Company and Standard Fruit Company dominated Honduras' key banana export sector and associated land holdings and railways. The U.S. staged invasions and incursions of US troops in 1903 (supporting a coup by Manuel Bonilla), 1907 (supporting against a Nicaraguan-backed coup), 1911 and 1912 (defending the regime of Miguel R. Davila from an uprising), 1919 (peacekeeping during a civil war, and installing the caretaker government of Francisco Bográn), 1920 (defending the Bográn regime from a general strike), 1924 (defending the regime of Rafael López Gutiérrez from an uprising) and 1925 (defending the elected government of Miguel Paz Barahona) to defend US interests.
1898–1909: Cuba
Cuba was occupied by the U.S. run by military governor Leonard Wood during the first occupation from 1898–1902, after the end of the war. The Platt Amendment was passed later on outlining U.S. Cuban relations. It said the U.S. could intervene anytime against a government that was not approved, forced Cuba to accept U.S. influence, and limited Cuban abilities to make foreign relations.
1909–1910: Nicaragua
Governor Juan Jose Estrada, member of the conservative party, led a revolt against the president, Jose Santos Zelaya, member of the liberal party. This became what is known as the Estrada's Rebellion. The United States supported the conservative forces, because Zelaya had wanted to work with Germany or Japan to build a new canal through the country. The U.S. controlled the Panama Canal, and did not want competition from another country outside of the Americas. The United States became directly involved in the rebellion and sent in troops, which landed on the Caribbean coast. On December 14, 1909 Zelaya was forced to resign under diplomatic pressure from America and fled Nicaragua.
1912–1933: Nicaragua
The Taft administration sent troops into Nicaragua and occupied the country. When the Wilson administration came into power, they extended the stay and took complete financial and governmental control of the country. The second intervention in Nicaragua would become one of the longest wars in United States history. The U.S. government fought against rebels led by Augusto Cesar Sandino. The United States left the US-friendly Somoza family in charge, and in 1934 they would kill Sandino.
1913-1919: Mexico
During the Mexican revolution the USA helped to make the coup d'état of 1913, assassinating Francisco I. Madero. Later, in April 1914, the U.S. army invaded Veracruz and occupied it for 7 months. Later in 1916 USA invaded Mexico through the northern border in an attempt to kill Pancho Villa and his revolutionary army.
1915–1934: Haiti
The U.S. occupied Haiti from 1915 to 1934. U.S.-based banks had lent money to Haiti and the banks requested U.S. government intervention. In an example of "gunboat diplomacy," the U.S. sent its navy to intimidate to get its way. Eventually, in 1917, the U.S. installed a new government and dictated the terms of a new Haitian constitution of 1917.
1916–1924: Dominican Republic
U.S. marines invaded the Dominican Republic and occupied it from 1916 to 1924. This was preceded by US military interventions in 1903, 1904, and 1914. The US Navy installed its personnel in all key positions in government and controlled the Dominican army and police.
1918–1920: Russia
After the new Bolshevik government withdrew from World War I, the U.S. military together with forces of its Allies invaded Russia in 1918. Approximately 250,000 invading soldiers, including troops from Europe, the US and the Empire of Japan invaded Russia to aid the White Army against the Red Army of the new Soviet government in the Russian civil war.
1941: Panama
The United States government used its contacts in the Panama National Guard, which the U.S. had earlier trained, to back a coup against the government of Panama in October 1941. The U.S. had requested that the government of Panama allow it to build over 130 new military installations inside and outside of the Panama Canal Zone, and the government of Panama refused this request at the price suggested by the U.S. President Arnulfo Arias fled the country and Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango, the leader of the coup and a friend of the US government, became president.’ (Wikipedia)
Modern U.S. interventions:
In recent times the USA has intervened in many Middle Eastern nations exacerbating the scourge of international terrorism by fracturing each nation in turn and turning the resentment caused into a powerful weapon of recruitment for Islamist terrorist forces.
Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria have all been subjected to regime change wars with heavy involvement of the CIA and their compliant workers within western mainstream media.
CIA operations within Europe:
Ukraine (2013-present day)
The United States mounted a coordinated campaign to achieve regime change bringing Ukraine into the western orbit. The CIA has remained actively engaged along with high-profile members of the U.S. political hierarchy at the time the coup operation began, they include the late Senator John McCain, then ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt and then U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.
The use of murderous Ukrainian ultra-nationalists and neo-Nazis proved effective in bringing down both the president and government of Ukraine. This undermining of the democratic process undermined also the confidence of those in eastern Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula, setting the stage for an uprising from both to re-assert their democratic rights in defense of their pro-Russian history and culture. This effort continues to this day and involved Crimea returning to Russia from whom it had been separated by decree in 1954. In southeastern Ukraine two republics were set up to achieve autonomy from the coup leaders in Kiev. These continue to defend the rights listed about until today.
CIA treatment of prisoners:
‘Prisoners are exposed to constant noise and light. They are stripped, shackled in vertical positions, diapered, fed a liquid diet and deprived of sleep for up to 180 consecutive hours.
To force cooperation interrogators are instructed to use facial and stomach slaps. Prisoners are slammed against walls up to 30 times per session and doused with water.
CIA interrogation teams are authorized to repeat the "enhanced" interrogation cycle with each prisoner for up to a month.
Harsh interrogations are not the work of rogue operators in the field but rather the core of a carefully crafted program conceived and supervised by CIA headquarters.’
Above we see the general thrust of U.S. foreign policy in regard to the world outside its borders, forever promoting its own self-interest at the expense of the human misery and countless lives lost of those in sovereign nations much less rich or powerful than the USA. These efforts are always aided and supervised by members of the CIA, prisoners are tortured and kept imprisoned by the CIA and related military powers to the end of their lives without trial.
No nation has created more atrocities over such lengthy time periods as the USA. It has taken upon itself the role of planetary judge, jury and executioner and global spymaster, giving itself the right to interfere wherever it wants, whenever it wants and by whatever means it wants and with complete impunity. All to deliver a de facto prison planet with a single jailer.
This is the empire of the United States of America... and the CIA acts as Gestapo and SS combined to do its bidding.
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