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Truman Was Right About the CIA
Mises Institute ^ | 03/08/2017 | Jeff Deist

Posted on 05/13/2021 11:10:27 AM PDT by george76

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To: nickcarraway

Yes I have proof. Read “American Betrayal” by Diana West. She lays it all out in frightening detail. Donovan stupidly assumed that because the Soviets were an “ally” they could be trusted. He welcomed numerous Communist spies into positions where they could access our most deeply held secrets. We paid a steep price for that during the Cold War.


41 posted on 05/14/2021 1:16:09 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Grampa Dave

Yep, he sure did. Even back then Democrats were Democrats.


42 posted on 05/14/2021 3:40:35 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: nickcarraway

He abandoned the brave Cubans at the bay of pigs. He was the pig.


43 posted on 05/15/2021 6:29:11 PM PDT by Impy ("Burn them all!!" - King Aerys II Targaryen, I share the sentiment )
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To: Impy

Wrong he didn’t. According to records it was McGeorge Bundy that called General Charles Cabell DD of the CIA and canceled the air strike on the last 3 aircraft of the Cuban airforce. It has never been clear why he did that. Kennedy had approved the air strike only the day before.

The Director of the CIA, Allan Dulles, was absent and out of the country when the operation went into action. He could have overridden Bundy was not available, no one knows why that happened either.


44 posted on 05/15/2021 6:37:12 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page)
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To: dragnet2

Exactly EVIL!!


45 posted on 05/17/2021 4:21:25 PM PDT by Bill of Rights FIRST (If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: canuck_conservative

Yes, and they first started as the OSS right out of the Nazi SS.


46 posted on 05/17/2021 4:24:02 PM PDT by Bill of Rights FIRST (If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

They never were against Russia, etc. they were and still are EVIL allies.

You are right about all else.


47 posted on 05/17/2021 4:26:29 PM PDT by Bill of Rights FIRST (If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: dragnet2

So when we had that talk the other day about the CIA’s tech. (that the news, etc. is calling aliens), did you ask me all that/keep talking to me just to get me to explain what you already knew about the CIA so you could then tell me you don’t understand per my tagline? If so, that is funny. We still have to keep our humor as much as we can. The CIA/EVIL SIDE Hates that if we can keep a sense of humor not related to them. It was funny related to my tagline. There is NOTHING funny about the EVIL CIA!!!


48 posted on 05/17/2021 4:51:29 PM PDT by Bill of Rights FIRST (If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: Bill of Rights FIRST

That’s right, you’re the one who believes the stooges at the CIA are behind all the UFO sightings.

Tell me, how will these sightings benefit the CIA?


49 posted on 05/17/2021 4:58:57 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

They are not aliens! I already explained it to you and you said you don’t understand.


50 posted on 05/18/2021 4:31:33 AM PDT by Bill of Rights FIRST (If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: Grampa Dave

“Now, as nearly as I can make out, those fellows in the CIA don’t just report on wars and the like, they go out and make their own, and there’s nobody to keep track of what they’re up to. They spend billions of dollars on stirring up trouble so they’ll have something to report on. They/ it’s become a government all of its own and all secret. They don’t have to account to anybody.”

THE CIA IS EVIL INCARNATE!!!!!


51 posted on 06/01/2021 8:07:42 AM PDT by Bill of Rights FIRST (If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: canuck_conservative

The CIA IS THE SS!!


52 posted on 06/01/2021 8:08:51 AM PDT by Bill of Rights FIRST (If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Yep, they ALL hate freedom fighters/patriots.


53 posted on 06/01/2021 8:10:06 AM PDT by Bill of Rights FIRST (If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: SuperLuminal

In some of the stuff that put out they tell the truth about some of their EVILS because that know most people will just think it is “only” a show, movie, book, etc. when in fact the CIA is telling the truth about some of the COUNTLESS EVILS that the CIA DOES.


54 posted on 06/01/2021 8:14:01 AM PDT by Bill of Rights FIRST (If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: Bill of Rights FIRST

In some of the stuff that (the CIA) puts out they tell the truth about some of their EVILS because that know most people will just think it is “only” a show, movie, book, etc. when in fact the CIA is telling the truth about some of the COUNTLESS EVILS that the CIA DOES.


55 posted on 06/01/2021 8:17:45 AM PDT by Bill of Rights FIRST (If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: george76

America has devolved in the past 60 years. Government is too big and too corrupt and it will never get better.


56 posted on 06/01/2021 8:25:40 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: canuck_conservative

You might want to add their own airports or at least parts of smaller isolated airports.


57 posted on 06/01/2021 9:25:00 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (“Respond only to polite and intelligent posters, who don’t insult you or us! Forget the others!”)
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To: george76; Travis McGee; Squantos

Truman was wrong when he said it

CIA did a decent job in cold war and Vietnam and even today SAD SAC or SOG or whatever their live fire teams are called nowadays certainly have employed some brave sons of beaches

Most we never know about..isn’t that what our sneakypete did in Laos?

Or was he MACvSOG?

Anyhow...problem is today’s CIA is infected with woke minded apparatchiks

Bill Donovan OSS
Bill Colby
Bill Casey

Good men then


58 posted on 06/01/2021 9:41:51 AM PDT by wardaddy (I’ve been listening to Maggot Brain for days....I can’t stop...Windowpane flashbacks I blame)
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To: Bill of Rights FIRST

“those fellows in the CIA don’t just report on wars and the like, they go out and make their own, and there’s nobody to keep track of what they’re up to. They spend billions of dollars on stirring up trouble so they’ll have something to report on. They/ it’s become a government all of its own and all secret. They don’t have to account to anybody.”

That is a pretty good summary.


59 posted on 06/01/2021 5:34:15 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (“Respond only to polite and intelligent posters, who don’t insult you or us! Forget the others!”)
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To: Bill of Rights FIRST
This reads like a CIA tagline or explanation for something, maybe.:
60 posted on 06/01/2021 5:37:25 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (“Respond only to polite and intelligent posters, who don’t insult you or us! Forget the others!”)
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