Very important. Glenn Beck and RFK Jr. doing good things here to educate the public. (I hate copying these tweets loses paragraphs.)
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RFK Jr: JFK and RFK had a plan to break up the CIA in the 1960s“One of the documents that the CIA had kept secret” until last year was “a memo from Arthur Schlesinger that summarized my uncle’s plans … for how to end this rogue operation”“A week before he died, my father was asked by Pete Hamill … ‘what are you gonna do about the CIA?’ … and he essentially paraphrased what this earlier memo said.He was gonna separate the plans division, which is the dirty tricks division, from the espionage division.Espionage is what you want the CIA to be doing, that’s information-gathering and analysis.That was why the CIA was founded.But Allen Dulles, very early on, had changed the function of the CIA to allow it to do all these other malevolent tasks: overthrowing governments, fixing elections, bribing public officials … that’s called the plans division.My father had seen that … the espionage division had become the servant to the plans division, and the espionage division’s function was to provide tasks to the plans division to fix things in other countriesAnd then it served the function of justifying those and making sure none of the blowback was ever accounted for, or weighed, or measured, or reported.My father wanted to break them up into two separate agencies, so the espionage division would be looking over the dirty tricks division, and saying, what was the blowback?”They overthrew “Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran in 1953, and then in 1954, they overthrew Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala.Guatemala has never recovered. It’s got the highest murder rate in the hemisphere, it’s got terrible poverty, it never recovered from that.Iran has never recovered from the overthrow of Mosaddegh.Eisenhower did not want to go into another war. And he saw the CIA as a way to manipulate public events, to get rid of problems without sending US troops abroad.So, he relied very heavily on Dulles. Dulles was able then to just run amok.He was incapable of distinguishing between the welfare of the corporations that he had represented … Texaco, United Fruit Company”… and the welfare of the country and the people.“So, when Mohammad Mosaddegh said, ‘we’re gonna start actually charging BP and Texaco for the oil that they’re taking from our country,’ Dulles said, ‘oh that means they’re communists’ and overthrew him.The same thing happened in Guatemala … 80% of Guatemala’s arable land was controlled by United Fruit.Jacobo Árbenz said ‘we’re gonna distribute it all to the peasants,’ including his own land. He nationalized his own property.United Fruit had claimed on its tax returns that all of this land … was only worth $17 million, because they wanted to keep their taxes low.But then when he said, ‘we’re gonna nationalize it, here’s your $17 million,’ they said, ‘oh, no no, we’re making a mistake, it’s really $300 million.’So, they got on the phone to Dulles and had him overthrow the government.The espionage division ought to be looking at these blowbacks and saying, ‘okay, Obama, you used a drone and you killed a terrorist and his kids … what’s the long-term costs? He has fourteen brothers.’That kind of blowback is never, ever assessed by the CIA.”From Glenn Beck
