The CIA's Greatest Hits by Mark Zepezauer - Book Review - Five Stars

 

BOOK REVIEW - FIVE STARS

The CIA's Greatest Hits by Mark Zepezauer 

This amazing volume spills the political beans on how the US spread hypocrisy instead of democracy.

An imperative eye opening account of selling the Americans anything...even a war.

EXCERPTS:

Long before World War II ended, many Nazi leaders realized they were going to lose, so they started negotiating with the US behind Hitler’s back about a possible future war against the USSR. In 1943, future CIA Director Allen Dulles moved to Bern, Switzerland, to begin back-channel talks with these influential Nazis.

As a prominent Wall Street lawyer, Dulles had a number of clients—Standard Oil, for one—who continued doing business with the Nazis during the war.

The CIA was founded and run by lawyers, you won’t need to look any further than the overthrow of Guatemalan democracy. The Dulles brothers were partners in the Wall Street law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell; time permitting, they also worked for the US government. With John Foster Dulles heading the State Department and Allen Dulles heading the CIA, they were the czars of Eisenhower’s foreign policy, and they made sure that the interests of Sullivan & Cromwell clients weren’t ignored.

The CIA has always been particularly proud of the Guatemalan operation, which inaugurated a series of bloodthirsty regimes that murdered more than 100,000 Guatemalans. In retrospect, however, some CIA veterans concluded that it may have come off too easily, leading to a certain overconfidence. As one CIA officer put it, “We thought we could knock off these little brown people on the cheap.”

Chinese “brainwashing” of US POWs during the Korean War (captured US pilots were making public statements denouncing US germ warfare against civilians).

Actually, US brainwashing experiments predate the CIA itself. 1953, under a program that was exempt from the usual oversight procedures. Code-named MK-ULTRA, many of its files were destroyed by CIA Director Richard Helms (who was with it from the start) when he left office in 1973, but the surviving history is nasty enough.

MK-ULTRA spooks and shrinks tested radiation, electric shocks, electrode implants, microwaves, ultrasound and a wide range of drugs on unwitting subjects, including hundreds of prisoners at California’s infamous Vacaville State Prison.

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