Twee grote terroristen bij elkaar, Kissinger en Pinochet, beiden zijn nooit veroordeeld voor hun terreur, voor de schendingen van de democratie en de mensenrechten, voor de martelingen en moorden die in hun opdracht zijn gepleegd namens de economische elites die hun landen besturen. In hun wereld komt de macht uit de loop van een geweer. Het zijn de moderne leiders.
Er wordt een deel van de Amerikaanse terreur in de afgelopen decennia openbaar gemaakt. En deeze schendingen van de mensenrechten, de democratie, het internationaal recht, het Amerikaans recht en dat van buitenlandse landen zijn alle begaan vanwege de bescherming van de mensenrechten, de democratie, het internationaal recht, het Amerikaans recht en dat van buitenlandse landen. Dat is de reden waarom onze huidige christelijke en sociaaldemocratische regering deze terreur financieel, politieke, economisch en militair steunt. Maar deze context zult u de vrije Nederlandse pers van de commerciele massamedia nagenoeg nooit zien geven.'CIA to Air Decades of Its Dirty Laundry
Assassination Attempts Among Abuses Detailed
By Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, June 22, 2007.
The CIA will declassify hundreds of pages of long-secret records detailing some of the intelligence agency's worst illegal abuses -- the so-called "family jewels" documenting a quarter-century of overseas assassination attempts, domestic spying, kidnapping and infiltration of leftist groups from the 1950s to the 1970s, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said yesterday.
The documents, to be publicly released next week, also include accounts of break-ins and theft, the agency's opening of private mail to and from China and the Soviet Union, wiretaps and surveillance of journalists, and a series of "unwitting" tests on U.S. civilians, including the use of drugs.
"Most of it is unflattering, but it is CIA's history," Hayden said in a speech to a conference of foreign policy historians. The documents have been sought for decades by historians, journalists and conspiracy theorists and have been the subject of many fruitless Freedom of Information Act requests.
In anticipation of the CIA's release, the National Security Archive at George Washington University yesterday published a separate set of documents from January 1975 detailing internal government discussions of the abuses. Those documents portray a rising sense of panic within the administration of President Gerald R. Ford that what then-CIA Director William E. Colby called "skeletons" in the CIA's closet had begun to be revealed in news accounts.
A New York Times article by reporter Seymour Hersh about the CIA's infiltration of antiwar groups, published in December 1974, was "just the tip of the iceberg," then-Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger warned Ford, according to a Jan. 3 memorandum of their conversation.
Kissinger warned that if other operations were divulged, "blood will flow," saying, "For example, Robert Kennedy personally managed the operation on the assassination of [Cuban President Fidel] Castro." Kennedy was the attorney general from 1961 to 1964.
Worried that the disclosures could lead to criminal prosecutions, Kissinger added that "when the FBI has a hunting license into the CIA, this could end up worse for the country than Watergate," the scandal that led to the fall of the Nixon administration the previous year.'
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The CIA will declassify hundreds of pages of long-secret records detailing some of the intelligence agency's worst illegal abuses -- the so-called "family jewels" documenting a quarter-century of overseas assassination attempts, domestic spying, kidnapping and infiltration of leftist groups from the 1950s to the 1970s, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said yesterday.
The documents, to be publicly released next week, also include accounts of break-ins and theft, the agency's opening of private mail to and from China and the Soviet Union, wiretaps and surveillance of journalists, and a series of "unwitting" tests on U.S. civilians, including the use of drugs.
"Most of it is unflattering, but it is CIA's history," Hayden said in a speech to a conference of foreign policy historians. The documents have been sought for decades by historians, journalists and conspiracy theorists and have been the subject of many fruitless Freedom of Information Act requests.
In anticipation of the CIA's release, the National Security Archive at George Washington University yesterday published a separate set of documents from January 1975 detailing internal government discussions of the abuses. Those documents portray a rising sense of panic within the administration of President Gerald R. Ford that what then-CIA Director William E. Colby called "skeletons" in the CIA's closet had begun to be revealed in news accounts.
A New York Times article by reporter Seymour Hersh about the CIA's infiltration of antiwar groups, published in December 1974, was "just the tip of the iceberg," then-Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger warned Ford, according to a Jan. 3 memorandum of their conversation.
Kissinger warned that if other operations were divulged, "blood will flow," saying, "For example, Robert Kennedy personally managed the operation on the assassination of [Cuban President Fidel] Castro." Kennedy was the attorney general from 1961 to 1964.
Worried that the disclosures could lead to criminal prosecutions, Kissinger added that "when the FBI has a hunting license into the CIA, this could end up worse for the country than Watergate," the scandal that led to the fall of the Nixon administration the previous year.'
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Een prachtig online archief is
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
Hier wordt alle recente belangrijke declassied materiaal gepubliceerd en besproken.
Bijvoorbeeld deze:
IRAQ: THE MEDIA WAR PLAN
White Paper and PowerPoint Briefing on "a critical interim rapid response component of the USG's strategic information campaign for Iraq - in the event hostilities are required to liberate Iraq."
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 219
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB219/index.htm
Je schrijft: "In hun wereld komt de macht uit de loop van een geweer. Het zijn de moderne leiders."
Daar is toch niets moderns aan? De geschiedenisboeken staan vol met zulke leiders.
Laatst is nog een Inca skelet van 500 jaar oud gevonden met een kogelgat in zijn hoofd.
dank je sonja.
poplar. je hebt helemaal gelijk. wat ik bedoelde was dat de moderne leiders zich beroepen op de Verlichting, het rationalisme, democratie en mensenrechten. dat in tegenstelling tot de leiders van vroeger. en zie wat de Verlichting, het rationalisme, de democratie en de mensnjerechten in de praktijk voor hen betekenen.
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