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  • CIA Operations That Blew Up

    The acronym CIA,Central Intelligence Agency also sands for Caught In the Act because of its propensity in blowing up its operations at the most inconvenient time for the US or its president.

    The US, I understand, has  Sixteen Intelligence Agencies.

    The List.

    With all this the Intelligence arm the CIA is known for maverick operations and usually notorious for getting the facts wrong and devising funny operations like trying to kill Fidel castro by a Cigar!

    I am listing a few operations that blew up.

    Operation PBSUCCESS.

    CIA operation Guatemala 1954
    Operation PBSUCCESS

     

    PBSUCCESS was the code name for a CIA-backed coup led against the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz, the President of Guatemala, in 1954. It’s one of the first in a long line of suspected or acknowledged CIA interventions in the governments of foreign countries, and it was indeed a tremendous success from the Agency’s point of view.—the first indication that such a feat could be accomplished relatively smoothly.

    Elected in 1950, Arbenz set about instituting reforms aimed at making his country self-sufficient, by giving huge chunks of government land back to citizens. This rubbed the US Government the wrong way, as much of this land was “owned” by the United Fruit Company, a truly evil corporation with which the Eisenhower administration was snugly in bed at the time (CIA director Allen Dulles and his brother John, the Secretary of State, both had strong ties to the company).

    The Agency snidely referred to Arbenz policies in internal memoranda as “an intensely nationalistic program of progress colored by the touchy, anti-foreign inferiority complex of the ‘Banana Republic.’ ” In other words, non-dependence on the US and its allies was not to be tolerated.

    Four hundred and eighty CIA-trained mercenary soldiers, led by exiled Guatemalan military officer Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, forcibly wrested Guatemala from Arbenz’ control. While he and his aides were able to flee the country, CIA documents show that “the option of assassination was still being considered” right up until the day he resigned on June 27, 1954.

    CIA project Operation Mongoose
    Operation Mongoose

     

    This operation was conducted by the Department of Defense in conjunction with the CIA, under Robert Kennedy’s supervision. He told his team at its first briefing that deposing Castro was “the top priority of the US government—all else is secondary—no time, money, effort, or manpower is to be spared.”

    Among the dozens of extremely silly methods of assassination proposed: infecting Castro’s scuba gear with tuberculosis; planting exploding seashells at a favorite diving site; slipping him a poisoned fountain pen; and even even poisoning or slipping a bomb into one of his cigars. Castro’s bodyguard asserted that there were hundreds of CIA schemes on Castro’s life—and they all ended in failure, a gigantic waste of time and money. Castro was Cuba’s dictator for forty-nine years, stepping down in 2008 due to failing health, and appointing his younger brother as his replacement.

    Production of Pornography.

    The CIA produced a porno film starring a Sukarno look-alike, titled “Happy Days”, for distribution in Indonesia. Not that the culture generally frowns upon such things, but as the CIA understood it, “being tricked, deceived, or otherwise outsmarted by one of the creatures God has provided for man’s pleasure cannot be condoned” in Indonesian culture, and “what we were saying was that a woman had gotten the better of Sukarno.” The film went as far as production, and stills were made, but for some reason (perhaps common-sense) it was never deployed.

    Bizarrely enough, this idea resurfaced shortly before the Second Gulf War, when the CIA suggested that a fake gay porno featuring Saddam Hussein or Osama Bin Laden be produced in order to discredit these men in the eyes of their followers. This went nowhere—at least one official claiming that nobody would care. “Trying to mount such a campaign would show a total misunderstanding of the target. We always mistake our own taboos as universal when, in fact, they are just our taboos.

    The May 2011 raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was the result of an insane amount of intelligence collecting and planning; regardless of his crimes, conducting a US military operation to kill a foreign national on Pakistani soil was bound to have myriad consequences. A courier had been tracked to an Abbottabad compound, where it was pretty damn certain Bin Laden was hiding. But before conducting the raid, they had to be absolutely sure—and one method of collecting this proof was shady in the extreme.

    The CIA recruited a respected Pakistani doctor to organize a fake vaccination drive in the town, and in the process collected thousands of blood samples from children in the area children—among them, as it turned out, Bin Laden’s children. Since theirs was a fairly upscale section of town, the campaign began in a poorer area to make it look more authentic, then moved on to the neighborhood housing the Bin Laden compound a month later—without even following up with the required second or third doses in the poor area. The whole thing worked—with consequences.

    For one thing, Dr. Shakil Afridi—the doctor involved—has been convicted of treason by the Pakistani government and given a thirty-three-year prison sentence (“Wouldn’t any country detain people for working for a foreign spy service?” one Iranian official helpfully pointed out). For another, the campaign has caused irreparable damage to organizations that carry out legitimate vaccinations. There are deep-seated suspicions in many Middle Eastern regions about those who provide vaccinations, and this gambit to assist in finding Bin Laden has only bolstered those suspicions—particularly in Nigeria, India and of course Pakistan, where efforts to eradicate polio are ongoing.

    The Mujahideen

    Terror outfit developed by CIA
    Mujahideen

     

    he CIA set up camps to train the rebels, known as Mujahideen, in the necessary tactics for beating back the Soviets. Advanced weaponry was also part of the deal, including—importantly—Stinger surface-to-air anti-aircraft missiles. Soviet airstrikes had driven hundreds of guerrillas out of the cities and into the surrounding hills, and mitigating the effectiveness of those strikes proved to be essential in prolonging the conflict, placing a great strain on Soviet resources.

    The Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan almost until its collapse in the early 1990s, but the legacy of the Mujahideen lives on. The CIA are finding their own tactics and training turned against them by Mujahideen veterans who have begun their own training programs, producing highly trained and skilled terrorists who now make up the backbone of Al-Qaeda and other radical groups. The US discovered these ramifications the hard way after invading Afghanistan in 2001. The invasion led to a quagmire of an occupation, which—as of this writing—has dragged on for just as long as that of the Soviets.

    Source:

    http://listverse.com/2013/05/25/10-dirty-secret-cia-operations/

  • US Purchased 30,000 Guillotines?

    The Internet is abuzz with articles saying that the Federal Government has purchased 30000 Guillotines and the story is not yet denied by the federal Authorities.

    US Purchases Guillotine.
    Think about this; Why does the US government need 30,000 Guillotines and over 600 Million rounds of hollow point bullets? There are over 800 prison camps in the United States. All fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards. But they are all empty. These camps are to be operated by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) should Martial Law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a proclamation and the attorney general’s signature on a warrant to which a list of names is attached. Ask yourself if you really want to be on THE list. The Rex 84 Program was established on the reasoning that if a “mass exodus” of illegal aliens crossed the Mexican/US border, they would be quickly rounded up and detained in detention centers by FEMA. Rex 84 allowed many military bases to be closed down and to be turned into prisons. Operation Cable Splicer and Garden Plot are the two sub programs which will be implemented once the Rex 84 program is initiated for its proper purpose. Garden Plot is the program to control the population. Cable Splicer is the program for an orderly takeover of the state and local governments by the federal government. FEMA is the executive arm of the coming police state and thus will head up all operations. The Presidential Executive Orders already listed on the Federal Register also are part of the legal framework for this operation. – See more at: http://www.themindunleashed.org/2013/06/why-did-us-government-recently-purchase.html#sthash.efF9jAfd.dpuf

    But an article clarifies that this story has been doing the rounds since 1990 and there is no evidence for this in the Congressional records.
    One would think that the Government of USA should have denied this?
    Why did they not?

    Story:
    Why did the U.S. government recently purchase 30,000 guillotines?

    A: It didn’t. You’ve been hoaxed.

    A June 19, 2013 article claiming the U.S. government recently purchased 30,000 guillotines (yes, exactly 30,000) and that Congress passed a law authorizing their use for “governmental purposes” has sparked a conspiracist feeding frenzy.

    Never mind there’s not a shred of evidence to support these allegations. The first clue to their facetiousness is the fact that the author to whom they’re attributed, retired FBI agent Ted Gunderson, died two years before the article was published.

    It’s true that Mr. Gunderson was once quoted in the press as claiming that the U.S. government had “recently” purchased 30,000 guillotines (yes, exactly 30,000), but that was four years ago, in 2009.

    In point of fact, the “30,000 guillotines” rumor — accompanied by now-familiar claims that the federal government has secretly built “FEMA concentration camps,” ordered mass shipments of coffins and body bags, issued tyrannical executive orders, and so on — has been bandied about in conspiracy theory circles for well over a decade.

    This, for example, was posted 11 years ago in April 2002:

    The information I had received was that 15,000 or 30,000 guillotines had been shipped to Georgia as well as Montana for safe keeping until such a time as they are needed. (I don’t recall the exact number. It’s been a while. However, I do believe it was 15,000 for each storage facility.) Guillotines on American soil? What are they up to? [source][/source]

    The Original Story:

    US Bought 30,000 Guillotines.

     

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    HB 1274 authorizes the state of Georgia to execute citizens by guillotine:

    Georgia House of Representatives – 1995/1996 Sessions HB 1274 – Death penalty; guillotine provisions Code Sections – 17-10-38/ 17-10-44 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 
    1- 1 To amend Article 2 of Chapter 10 of Title 17 of the Official 
    1- 2 Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the death penalty 
    1- 3 generally, so as to provide a statement of legislative 
    1- 4 policy; to provide for death by guillotine; to provide for 
    1- 5 applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other 
    1- 6 purposes. 
    SECTION 1. 
    1- 8 The General Assembly finds that while prisoners condemned to 
    1- 9 death may wish to donate one or more of their organs for 
    1-10 transplant, any such desire is thwarted by the fact that 
    1-11 electrocution makes all such organs unsuitable for 
    1-12 transplant. The intent of the General Assembly in enacting 
    1-13 this legislation is to provide for a method of execution 
    1-14 which is compatible with the donation of organs by a 
    1-15 condemned prisoner.

    source: http://www.cephas-library.com/nwo/nwo_guillotine_provisions_in_georgia.html

    One question to consider:

    If Georgia was planning to utilize guillotines as a method of execution, how could this be carried out without purchasing guillotines?

    http://shariaunveiled.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/why-did-the-u-s-government-recently-purchase-30000-guillotines/

     

     

    http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2013/06/21/government-purchased-30000-guillotines.htm

  • US Funds Terrorism Report Afghanistan,Syria

    The US , while fighting terrorism, may actually be funding it, a Report reveals.

     

    This is apart from the unknown Funds diverted by The CIA, whose Budget is tucked away neatly under innocuous Heads in such unexpected places like The Agriculture,Social Security ,Immigration Departments.

    In the shadowy world of Counter terrorism, one can not trust any one, yet, trust one has to ,at times, and the result ,in some cases, is that the funds are used to fight the Donor!

    Read On.

    The U.S. government may accidentally be funneling millions of dollars to the very terrorists and insurgents it’s fighting in Afghanistan through sloppy contracting regulations, according to a new government report.

    The report, called “Contracting With the Enemy” and published Thursday by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), examined the system designed to make sure that the U.S. reconstruction is not providing business for any individuals or groups associated with terrorist or insurgent organizations.

    SIGAR said that due to “several weaknesses” in the long and complicated process, “millions of contracting dollars could be diverted to forces seeking to harm U.S. military and civilian personnel in Afghanistan and derail the multi-billion dollar reconstruction effort.”..

    The report centered on what’s known as Section 841, part of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that describes how the U.S. government is supposed to identify individuals or companies with suspected ties to insurgents, confirm that information, pass it along to the head of the contracting activity, then to the primary contractor and finally to the targeted subcontractors whose business deals would then be voided or restricted based on guidance from higher up.

    US Funds Terrorism In Syria too.
    US Funds Terrorism In Syria too.

    SIGAR said Section 841 was part of a “variety of efforts” undertaken by the government to keep American contracting money out of terrorists’ hands in the wake of incidents like the $2.16 billion Host Nation Trucking contract. In that instance, SIGAR said, the U.S. government paid several companies to ship more than 70 percent of food and materiel to American troops in Afghanistan, only to realize that some of those funds were “widely believed to have been funneled to insurgents.”..

    http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-unwittingly-fund-terrorism-afghanistan-report/story?id=18941109#.UWzKJ6JTB2Y

     US Funds in Taliban .

    A military-led investigation has found that US taxpayer money from trucking contracts in Afghanistan has indirectly found its way into Taliban coffers, the Pentagon confirmed today.

    An internal assessment by Task Force 2010, established to examine allegations of corruption in contracting, has found the problem to be even greater than previously reported. According to reports it determined that funds from a $2.16 billion trucking contract eventually found their way to the Taliban through a payment form a subcontractor to a corrupt local official, who then paid money and guns to the Taliban.

    Col Dave Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman, confirmed the broad findings of the investigation, which was completed in May but has yet to be released to the public, but would not go into specifics. He was unable to confirm how much American money ended up in Taliban hands.

    According to the Washington Post, which first reported details of the investigation, in one case millions of dollars were traced through a web of subcontractors and eventually into the bank account of an Afghan National Police commander. Investigators then found that money was in turn used to provide weapons, explosives, and cash to insurgents.

    Details of the report sparked outrage on Capitol Hill. Rep John Tierney, D-MA and the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, called for immediate oversight hearings to investigate the matter.

    “One year after Congress first demanded attention to these issues, we continue to hear from Pentagon officials that they are aggressively increasing oversight over these contracts and taxpayer money. But so far it has been all talk and no action,” Tierney said in a statement.

    “It defeats all of our purposes to be funding the enemy in Afghanistan,” he added…(ABC News)

    DOWNLOAD: SIGAR’s ‘Contracting With the Enemy’ (PDF)

    US Funds Terrorism In Syria.

    Syrian authorities accused the United States on Saturday of financing terrorist groups in Syria and interfering with the country’s domestic affairs, diplomats said.

     

    In its statement, the Syrian Foreign Ministry referred to State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland who “recommended that terrorists do not surrender to Syrian authorities” on Friday.

     

    The Foreign Ministry called on the international community “to come out against such a policy that contradicts the international law and UN Security Council resolutions on the fight against terrorism and its funding.

    http://en.rian.ru/world/20111105/168437593.html