Water fluoridation is not a conspiracy, it’s a policy. It’s a policy that’s protected by the United States EPA and the FDA. It’s a policy that is promoted by the Center for Disease Control, the United States Public Health Service, the American Dental Association, and the American Medical Association. They’re using hazardous waste and adding it to our water supply, because they’ve got a lot of it to get rid of. There’s no reason for it. It doesn’t do anything to improve the health of this country, and I believe it’s destroying the fabric of our nation.

Well, EPA is fighting really hard to avoid getting in the way of the Department of Health and Human Services national program for water fluoridation. They want to play the good federal soldier. They don’t want to take the political heat that would certainly come down on them if they came out and said that the appropriate standard for fluoride is considerably less than 1 part per million. If the EPA did that that would be the end of the national program for water fluoridation. Because you couldn’t have the premier environmental agency saying one thing and the Department of Health and Human Services saying something else. Instead what you got was the EPA coming up with this phony 4 parts per million level, the so called Maximum Contaminant Level Goal, is what it’s now called, as a health based standard. So now the proponents of water fluoridation since 1985-86 have been able to go around the country saying ‘well look EPA says 4 ppm is perfectly safe, there’s not a problem with that so what’s the big deal by adjusting your level to 1 ppm?’ And so EPA is staying on the good side of the federal structure by doing that kind of thing.

A severely vulnerable subset are people with kidney malfunctions. A kidney that’s not functioning properly will not remove fluoride from the bloodstream. And the fluoride concentrations build up to dangerous levels. In fact there have been reports of-there were some deaths in Chicago from use of tap water in hemodialysis, people who are on hemodialysis because of kidney failure. Normally they use distilled water in that hemodialysis system and they were using tap water instead and killed several people because of fluoride exposure.

We have a program in this country called WIC, Women, Infants, & Children, and it’s supposed to be telling mothers, indigent mothers, how to feed and protect and grow up a healthy baby. We’ve contacted them and asked them if they’re telling mothers to not use tap water formula, and no they’re not. And do you know why? Because it would affect the policy of fluoridation. These women need to know they’re poisoning their babies, and instead, the very people you’re paying to educate that woman, are protecting a government policy. That needs to change right now.

There’s a monolith there. A very unusual structure on this little potato shaped object that goes around Mars once every seven hours.Then I went to Technical Services where I was in charge of finding documents that you don’t find in libraries like where you put explosives on a bridge. Where’s the best place to put an explosive on a bridge and what kind of explosive do you have to get that goes under water without losing its effectiveness? Also, I had to find one time–they wanted me to find–if there was such a thing as a poison that was undetectable, especially one that seemed to mimic a heart attack, that would kill someone but it would appear that they had a heart attack. I did find such a thing.

Senator Frank Church: Does this pistol fire the dart?

CIA Director William Colby: Yes, it does, Mr. Chairman, and a special one was developed which potentially would be able to enter the target without perception.

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

The task before UNESCO… is to help the emergence of a single world culture, with its own philosophy and background of ideas, and with its own broad purposes.” UNESCO: Its Purposes and Its Philosophy, Julian Huxley

Founded in 1945, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has been leading the push for a standardized one world culture in preparation for world government. This is being done primarily through education (read indoctrination). One of the founding members of this organization was Julian Huxley brother of Aldous Huxley and grandson of T.H. Huxley

The Huxleys were an aristocratic, blue blooded family and stanch advocates of eugenics. Julian Huxley was President of the British Eugenics Society, and his grandfather, Thomas, was known as “Darwin’s Bulldog”, for his advocacy of the Darwinian Theory.

Julian Huxley, in 1941, wrote:

“The lowest strata are reproducing too fast. Therefore… they must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the removal of the last check on natural selection should make it too easy for children to be produced or to survive; long unemployment should be a ground for sterilisation.”

The elitist views of Huxley and his ilk are reflected in the agenda of UNESCO, which seeks to create a collectivist world culture where the primary purpose of the people is to serve the state. Individualism and free thought is an obstacle to this agenda.

Referring to the creation of consensus, Huxley also stated in his book…
“Taking the techniques of persuasion and information and true propaganda that we have learnt to apply nationally in war, and deliberately bending them to the international tasks of peace, if necessary utilizing them, as Lenin envisaged, to ‘overcome the resistance of millions’ to desirable change.”

In order for people to accept the New World Order, their attitudes and values must be changed. While many of the things UNESCO is promoting may seem good and wholesome at face value, that is simply not the case once you understand the agenda behind it. If you want to create a “global” culture you must first destroy the old one, promoting internationalism (globalism) over national sovereignty. You must destroy the family so people will then look to the state for direction.

The report was put together by MIAC. It warns that militia members most commonly associate with third party political groups. They may display Constitutional Party, Campaign for Liberty, or Libertarian material. Militia members are quote ‘usually supporters of Ron Paul, or Chuck Baldwin, or Bob Barr’. A motivation for militia activity according to the government now is the anticipation of the economic collapse of the U.S. Government…

Last Wednesday we broke a report separately sent to us by two separate police officers in two different states. MIAC strategic report, the modern militia, this federally written to the fusion centers, it’s distributed all over the country, this is the Missouri version with the Governor’s seal on it. We got state reps on to talk to the head of the state police there – the Commander, it’s true, they admit it, they back it, they support it. Now we have interviewed and called and played clips with the state police Captain in charge at MIAC. This is real.

I believe that it is the intent, but I don’t think it’s going to work. I think the officers in my agency can see through this ruse, and they understand that this document is meant to enslave the American people, and I don’t think it’s going to work. I think it missed it’s mark. It’s so obvious to lean one way to be a net that encompasses everybody. Like I said, even though I don’t have that right wing-left wing false paradigm, but even the right wingers in my particular area see through it clearly, they understand what it is. So as a profile document meant to teach police officers to profile, I think they lost.

But people need to know the enemy will stage terror attacks. The enemy will release bio-plagues. These people are hard core killers. They funded Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Lennon, Pol Pot… Zbigniew Brzezinski, Obama’s Chief adviser, brags in two books he wrote about how they… I mean these people are sick… so just people are waking up, I don’t want people to think we’re out of this, this is deep, this is serious, and the New World Order is going to hurt everybody out there.

They worked on a hazardous top secret experiment called Project SHAD. America’s race against the Russians in the 1960s to develop biological and chemical weapons. Now many of those men are sick and asking why their government won’t take care of them. In 1965 Lieutenant Jack Alderson commanded one of the smallest fleets in the Navy. Just five light tugboats. But his mission was so important it was authorized directly by the president. A secret mission codenamed Project SHAD, testing chemical and biological weapons using monkeys held in cages on the open decks. Military agents would spray the boats with VX nerve gas, Sarin gas, E.coli and other deadly microbes. Sailors weren’t supposed to be exposed, but they were. Both in the tests and in the cleanup afterwards.

Thirty years later Bob Reinhardt and other crew members began suffering from breathing problems and rare cancers. But when they went to the Veteran’s Administration fro medical care, they found themselves in a catch-22.

“If you told anybody they said they’d get you for treason”

And because it was top secret there was nothing in their service records about Project SHAD. No proof, no veterans benefits. So Alderson decided to gather that proof even at the risk of going to prison. He took his case to Northern California Congressman, Mike Thompson.

“There was a cover up”

A cover up, he says, by the Department of Defense.

“To a seated member of Congress they denied there was ever a Project SHAD. And then came back when they finally did admit that there was a Project SHAD, lied to me again by saying that there were no dangerous chemicals used.”

…Dr William Hirzy, who then and now is a chemist at the Environmental Protection Agency, and Dr Robert J Carton. Bob Carton had been with EPA but at that time was then over at the US Army. I went down to Washington and met with Dr. Hirzy and Dr .Carton and they explained to me that the safety standards for water fluoridation in this country were and are based on fraudulent science.

If water fluoridation was found to be harmful, then the US bomb program, as well as many other fluoride polluting industries, would’ve been open to massive litigation. So there’s not a hope Harold Hodge would ever say that water fluoridation was dangerous or that fluoride in small doses was toxic, because if Harold Hodge were to say that it would’ve pulled the rug out from under the US Army and from under the project to build nuclear weapons.

Very few dentists are aware that the fluoride in public water supplies is not a pharmaceutical grade product. It is in fact industrial waste. It’s the waste from the Florida phosphate industry. In the 1950s the Florida phosphate industry was being sued by farmers and citizens living near those plants because the fluoride was killing their cattle… destroying their crops. You know, the Florida phosphate industry today is prevented from having to dispose of it’s industrial affluent in a toxic waste dump by the device of shipping that in tanker trucks around the country and dumping it in our water supply.

Put option bets on the decline in 9/11 related airline and insurance stocks skyrocketed by a whopping 600% just before 9/11, which means that somebody knew about the attacks before they happened… Who exactly were those somebodies? Merrill Lynch and HSBC, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, the Bank of America, weapons manufacturer Raytheon, Lehman Brothers, General Motors, Swiss Re, Munich Re, and AXA Re insurance companies which owns 25% of American Airlines. These insiders bought put options through Deutsche Bank. Buzzy Krongard, the former executive director of the C.I.A., just happened to be the manager of Deutsche Bank.

On August 18, one month before the 9/11 attacks, a New York Times article by reporter Sheila K. Dewan described a group of four foreign artists who smuggled their way into
the World Trade Center just months before 9/11. The artists occupied studio space free of charge on the 91st floor with 14 other artists and claimed to be writing a book called the B-Thing. They also claimed that they constructed a temporary balcony on the 91st floor as a prank. Somehow these so called artist pranksters escaped the attention of the World Trade Center’s heavy security companies. George W. Bush’s brother Marvin Bush just happened to be the director of Securacom which provided electronic security for the World Trade Center. By some mysterious coincidence, Marvin Bush’s company also provided electronic security for 9/11′s United Airline and 9/11′s Dulles Airport.

Did the world wars, revolutions, and big events of human history evolve naturally, or were they calculated and preplanned? If they were preplanned, who planned them? And, what are they planning for the future of humanity?
The answers to these puzzling questions can be found within the boundaries of three of the world’s most powerful cities. Those three cities belong to no nation and pay no taxes. They are Washington’s District of Columbia, which is not part of the city of Washington or the United States; the inner city of London which is not part of London or England; and Vatican City which is not part of Rome or Italy. These cities called “city states” have their own independent flag, their own separate laws, and their own separate identity.

The Vatican rules over approximately 2 billion of the world’s 6.1 billion people. The colossal wealth of the Vatican includes enormous investments with the Rothschilds in Britain, France, and the USA, and with giant oil and weapons corporations like Shell and General Electric. The Vatican solid gold bullion, worth billions, is stored with the Rothschild controlled Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve Bank.

The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator, and property owner in existence. Possessing more material wealth than any bank, corporation, giant trust, or government anywhere on the globe. The Pope, who is the visible ruler of this colossal global wealth, is one of the richest men on Earth. While two-thirds of the world earns less than two dollars a day, and one-fifth of the world is under fed or starving to death, the Vatican hordes the world’s wealth, profits from it on the stock market, and at the same time, preaches about giving.

Like Vatican City, London’s Inner city is also a privately owned corporation, or city state, located right smack in the heart of Greater London. It became a sovereign state in 1694 when King William III of Orange privatized and turned the Bank of England over to the bankers. By 1812 Nathan Rothschild crashed the English stock market and scammed control of the Bank of England. Today the city state of London is the world’s financial power center and the wealthiest square mile on the face of the Earth. It houses the Rothschild controlled Bank of England, Lloyd’s of London, the London Stock Exchange, all British Banks, the branch offices of 385 foreign banks, and 70 US banks. It has its own courts, its own laws, its own flag, and its own police force. It’s not part of Greater London, England, or the British Commonwealth, and pays no taxes. The city state of London houses FleetStreet’s newspaper and publishing monopolies. It is also the headquarters for worldwide English Freemasonry and headquarters for the worldwide money cartel know as the Crown.

Contrary to popular belief, the Crown is not the Royal Family or the British Monarch. The Crown is the private corporate city state of London. It has a council of twelve members who rule the corporation under a mayor called the Lord Mayor. The Lord Mayor and his twelve member council serve as prophecies or represent who sit in for thirteen of the world’s wealthiest, most powerful banking families. This ring of thirteen ruling families includes the Rothschild family, the Warburg family, the Oppenheimer family, and the Schiff family. These families and their descendants run the Crown Corporation of London. The Crown Corporation holds the title to worldwide Crown land in Crown colonies like Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The British Parliament and the British Prime Minister serve as a public front for these ruling crown families.

Like the city state of London and the Vatican, a third city state was officially created in 1982. That city state is called the District of Columbia and located on ten square miles of land in the heart of Washington. The District of Columbia flies its own flag, and has its own independent constitution. Although geographically separate, the city states of London, the Vatican, and the District of Columbia
are one interlocking empire called Empire of the City.

The flag of Washington’s District of Columbia has three red stars. One for each city state in the three city empire. This corporate empire of three city states controls the world economically through London’s inner city, militarily through the District of Columbia, and spiritually through the Vatican.

The constitution for the District of Columbia operates under a tyrannical Roman law known as Lex Fori which bares no resemblance to the US Constitution.

When Congress passed the Act of 1871 it created a separate corporate government for the District of Columbia. This treasonous act allowed the District of Columbia to operate as a corporation outside the original constitution of the United States and outside of the best interest of American citizens.

A sobering study of the signed treaties and charters between Britain and the United States exposes a shocking truth that the United States has always been and still is a British Colony. King James I was famous, not for just changing the Bible into the King James version, but for signing the First Charter of Virginia in 1606. That charter granted America’s British forefathers a license to settle and colonize America. The charter also guarantees that future kings and queens of England would have sovereign authority over all the citizens and colonized land in America stolen from the Indians.

Although King George III of England gave up most of his claims over the American colonies, he kept his right to continue receiving payment for his business venture of colonizing America. If America had really won the war of independence they would never have agreed to pay debts and reparations to the King of England.

Americas blood soaked war of independence against the British bankrupted America and turned its citizens into permanent debt slaves of the king. In the War of 1812 the British torched and burned to the ground the White House and all US government buildings and destroyed ratification records of the US Constitution.

One century later a corrupt US Congress committed the biggest theft in world history. They passed Paul Warburg’s Federal Reserve Act in 1913 handing over America’s gold and silver reserves, and total control of America’s economy, to the Rothschild banksters. Most Americans still believe that the Fed, or Federal Reserve, is the Government. It is not. The Fed is a privately owned banking system whose majority class A shareholders are the Rothschilds, Warburgs, Kuhn and Loeb, J.P. Morgan, Rockefellers, Israel Seiff and the Lehman Brothers. This private banking cartel is the Fed and is never audited and never pays taxes.

Who was the ruling pharaoh that the Bible neglects to identify when Abraham and Sarah reached Egypt? His name was Amenemhet I, and he ruled Egypt from 1991 – 1962 BC. The name Amenemhet means Amen is the head. Besides Pharaoh Amenemhet and biblical Abraham living in the same place at the same time, is there any other evidence connecting biblical Abraham to Pharaoh Amenemhet I? According to Egyptian history Pharaoh Amenemhet I was not of royal blood and his family origin is unknown. Egyptology experts believe he seized the throne of Egypt after murdering Pharaoh Mentuhotep.

In 1818 Antonio Lebolo made a revolutionary discovery that identified the biblical Abraham as an Egyptian Pharaoh. During Lebolo’s excavations in the Egyptian Valley of the Kings he exhumed eleven Egyptian mummies, along with rolls of papyri, inscribed with hieroglyphic writings and drawings. One of those drawings was interpreted by Mormon Joseph Smith and his Egyptologists as Abraham sitting on the Pharaoh’s throne. Abraham’s name was also deciphered on a roll of papyrus.

Who are these ruling Black Nobility families? They include the House of Hanover, Germany; the House of Hapsburg, Austria; the House of Orange, Netherlands; the House of Lichtenstein in Lichtenstein, and most importantly the house of Guelph in Britain. All of these family houses can be found on Queen Elizabeth II family tree. The Black Nobility are the founders of the Committee of 300, which is also known as the Illuminati, or the illuminated ones. Queen Elizabeth II is head of the Committee of these 300 ruling families. The Illuminati was formed to achieve one main objective. One world government called the New World Order.

All of today’s think tanks originate from the Committee of 300 and include the Round Table, the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations), the United Nations, the Bilderbergs, the Club of Rome, RIIA (Royal Institute of International Affairs), and the Trilateral Commission founded by David Rockefeller.

Like the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt who built their empire with the help of a Grand Vizier, Queen Elizabeth II also has a Grand Vizier who serves as her most trusted adviser. His name is Lord Evelyn Rothschild and he is the second wealthiest and most powerful person on Earth. He is also lord of the world’s financial capitol, the city state of London. Lord Rothschild and his ring of power hide their identities behind thirteen city council members who stand in as their representatives. On November 30th 2000, Lord Rothschild, now in his 70s, got married in London to a wealthy Zionist business woman named Lynn Forrester. The couple then jetted to Washington and spent their wedding night in the White House. Just months before 911 they moved to New York and settled into their 18th floor luxury palace at Riverhouse where two private terraces offered them front row for the scheduled 911 show.

Just how rich and powerful is Lord Evelyn Rothschild? Historically the Rothschild family wealth was hidden in underground vaults. The Rothschild secret financial records were never audited, and never accounted for. Their family commissioned biographies give the illusion that their family fortune has dwindled. But researchers estimate their wealth at close to $500 TRILLION dollars. More than half the wealth of the entire world.

To avoid publicity the Rothschilds made themselves invisible by creating and hiding behind two front companies, JP Morgon and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. The Rothschilds bought controlling interest in England’s British East India shipping company and the illegal opium trade with China. They offered junior partnerships to New England’s leading American families. The Russel, Coolidge, Delano, Forbes, and Perkins became fabulously rich smuggling opium aboard their speedy clipper ships into China. In 1820 Samuel Russell bought out the Perkins syndicate and ran the opium smuggling operation with his partner Warren Delano Jr., who is the grandfather of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The Russell family, who controlled the US arm of the Rothschild drug smuggling operation, set up the Skull & Bones fraternity at Yale University. America’s big money families formed a fraternities inner power circle. Taft, Russell, Schiff, Harriman, Bush, Warburg, Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Stimson, Weyerhaeuser, Vanderbilt, Goodyear, and Pilsbury were all members.

Giuseppe Mazzini of Italy was a 33rd degree Mason who replaced Adam Weisshaupt the Illuminati in 1834. Mazzini was a member of the Italian Carbonari and created the mafia’s blood rituals and secret oath. He gave the dreaded Cosa Nostra the name MAFIA. MAFIA’s an acronym spelling the names of the original mafioso godfathers. M for Mazzini, A Autorizza, F for Furti, I for Incendi, and A for Avvelenamenti.

When Woodrow Wilson became president of the United States in 1912 he sold out America. Wilson was backed by Jacob Schiff and Paul Warburg, who worked in the United States as German immigrant agents for the Rothschilds. In 1913, Paul Warburg rewrote the US monopoly rules with the help of Senator Nelson Aldrich. They called the new rules the Federal Reserve Act. With President Woodrow Wilson’s blessing, the US Federal Reserve Bank became a privately owned central bank free of government control. The pirates divvied up the private stock in America’s money supply and made Rothschild agent Paul Warburg head of the US Federal Reserve.

To collect their bounty they also created the Income Tax Act and the hated IRS. With the stroke of President Wilson’s treasonous pen, the banker gangsters became the Fed in 1913 and have owned a virtual monopoly over the US economy and the taxpayers money ever since. They can print money out of thin air. Control treasury loans and profit from interest rates. Since their biggest windfalls come from loan profits and weapon sales, wars and death are not only profitable they are desirable and necessary. Today American citizens owe these merchants of death approximately $70,000 per citizen.

The Versailles Treaty negotiations after World War I were held behind closed doors at the luxurious private mansion of yet another Rothschild family member named Edmond Rothschild. Treaty negotiators included Rothschild agent Paul Warburg as the United States delegate and Paul’s brother Max Warburg as a German delegate.

The League of Nations was the money cartel’s first attempt at world control, but Czar Nicolas II of Russia caught on to their plot and sabotaged it. That proved to be a deadly mistake. Schiff, Warburg, Rockefeller, Harriman, and Morgan backed the uprisings that led to the 1917 Russian Revolution. Their strategy was to finance both sides of wars and revolutions, which gave them control over the winners, the losers, and the outcome.

Between 1918 and 1921, 14 million Russians died from war and starvation under Lenin Bolshevik. By 1919, Lenin ran up a national debt to the Rothschild banksters of $60 billion, which put Russia firmly under their control. As Mayer Rothschild once said ‘give me control of a nation’s money and I care now who makes her laws’. To this day, the Rothschilds have stopped the heirs to the Czar’s fortunes from claiming their deposits held in Rothschild banks. Those fortunes are now worth an estimated $50 billion.

Joseph Stalin, who was financed by the same money cartel, replaced Lenin as Russia’s brutal new dictator. Using terror and death threats, Stalin’s job was to industrialize Russia and turn communism into a powerful counter force to democracy. Manufactured conflicts between these two powerful political forces would be the ideal excuse for all future wars and for dividing, conquering, and ruling the world.

In 1947 the United States played host to an international conference at Bretton Woods to put an end to world poverty and starvation caused by World War II. The idea was to give humanitarian loans to needy nations by creating a world bank and international monetary fund. But who would be put in charge of these billion dollar mega loans? Who else but the US Federal Reserve bankster families.

Putting the US Federal Reserve banksters in charge of humanitarian loans is like putting pedophiles in charge of day care centers.

C.I.A.’s team of ex-Nazi and Skull & Bonesmen financed and trained Osama Bin Laden who pushed the Russians out of Afghanistan by 1989. The CIA then trained and installed the ruthless Taliban regime to run the booming opium trade. After a decade, the long friendship between America and the Taliban suddenly turned ugly. In a meeting held on December 4, 1997 at Unocal headquarters, American oilmen made a proposal to the Taliban about building a pipeline through Afghanistan. Rothschild’s Shell Oil and Rockefeller’s Exxon Oil had invested billions in the Kazakhstan oil and gas reserves just north of Afghanistan. Now, they needed a pipeline to transport it to the Persian Gulf. The Taliban demanded a bigger cut and turned down the proposal. Suddenly the banksters American controlled media were calling the Taliban monsters, evil-doers, and cruel villains who beat up on women.

The White House Council on Environmental Quality is headed by James Connaughton, who is not a scientist. He had been appointed to his post, by President Bush, only months before 9/11. His previous experience; representing large corporations in disputes about cleaning toxic waste sites working against the EPA.

We’d go out with rakes and shovels and stuff and just go through all the debris. Looking for, you know, body parts and different things of that sort to make identifications. The weird thing was it was very cold when we were up there; I believe it was the middle of winter, but the ground wasn’t frozen… the ground kind of like bubbled underneath your feet, which was strange to me. You know you’re coughing a lot, I mean for days after coughing up blood and different things like that.

The next destination on our research trip is Japan. Its a huge market for the genetic engineering industry. Monsanto pushed its way onto the market with genetically modified soy during the mid 90s. Every Japanese person eats soy and Monsanto wants a piece of the pie.

The problem is obvious. No one preparing soy in the home cooks it at 220° and for half an hour at that. Genetically modified soy should not have been approved. It is probable that the genetic modification made the protein more stable it just isn’t destroyed. For me in this failed cooking test, it says in the appears here how they did it, has a direct connection with the increased number of allergies. Monsanto’s conclusion that genetically modified food is safe is wrong, probably even criminal.

Full Transcript
Ronald Reagan: You, the men and women of the CIA, are the eyes and ears of the free world. You are the tripwire.

Verne Lyon: CIA is a state sponsored terrorist organization. You don’t look at people as human beings. They’re nothing but pieces on the chessboard.

Lyndon Johnson: Secrecy in this work is essential: achievements and triumphs can seldom be advertised; shortcomings and failures often are advertised.

Mary Embree: No one really knows all the things that CIA does. They pretty much have carte blanche, and they have an enormous amount of money.

Oliver North: Maybe I am overly na–ve but I don’t see what would be wrong with that.

George Bush: We need more intelligence: not less. We must not diminish our intelligence.

Ralph McGehee: The CIA is not really an intelligence agency. It is a covert action agency.

Phil Agee: The CIA has been involved in assassination and torture behind the scenes all through its history.

Bill Clinton: The Cold War is over, but many new dangers have taken its place. The decisive advantage United States intelligence provides this country is therefore as important as it has ever been.

Narrator: December 1941. The attack on Pearl Harbor sinks the Pacific fleet. Military intelligence is in shambles. The dawn attack becomes the crucible on which the modern spy culture is born. Into the breach stepped a new generation of American soldiers: the spies and covert warriors of the Office of Strategic Services. They battled the Japanese and Germans behind the lines in an underworld of sabotage and psychological warfare. They trained and fought with local guerillas in unknown jungles with only one guiding command: don’t get caught.

It was a simpler time when the nation’s enemies were clear. Washington and Hollywood swept into action inventing the popular culture that has surrounded espionage for half a century: the mystery, the adventure, the romance, the simple stereotypes of the enemy, and the fearless hero.

Harry Truman: We had hoped that our wartime ally, the Soviet Union, would join in the efforts of the whole community of nations to build a peaceful world. Instead, the rulers of the Soviet Union have sought to extend the boundaries of their totalitarian control.

Narrator: The battlefields of the new Cold War seemed uniquely suited to the skills of spies and secret agents. President Truman pledged that the United States would never be caught by surprise again. The Central Intelligence Agency was born.

Mary Embree: It was considered “the Cadillac” of government agencies, and they mostly hired from Ivy League colleges.

John Kennedy: The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose and that is the path of surrender or submission.

Narrator: The public embraced the cloak of secrecy that the CIA wrapped around itself.

Phil Roettinger: The government didn’t know that I was working for the government.

Mary Embree: They told me not to tell anyone: not even my mother.

Ralph McGehee: I couldn’t tell my children.

Phil Agee: My wife didn’t even know what I was doing.

Narrator: Who were these agents and what were they doing in Guatemala and Iran? How did patriotic Americans from main street neighborhoods get caught up in the overthrow of foreign governments? What were they doing in places like Ecuador and Vietnam, where the CIA organized torture and assassination? These are the stories of former agents who dared to break away from the CIA.

Mary Embree: I was so disillusioned about my country because I believed, “it was my country right or wrong,” but my country was wrong so much of the time.

Verne Lyon: I’ve lost my first-class citizenship. I’ve lost the respect probably of a lot of friends. I’ve gained a lot of enemies.

Ralph McGehee: I think CIA ex-members, somewhat like myself, who leave and tell their stories, are [involved in] a very painful process, but I think they are feeling that they are doing a higher duty, if you will. They’re not just quitting and leaving and being quiet. They’re quitting and expressing their conscience [by saying,] “Here is something that we have done that is terrible, and here is something that must be stopped.”

Ralph McGehee: I played four years of football at the University of Notre Dame, and we were undefeated for all four years (three national championships), and I was the first-team right tackle. So once when I was cut from the Green Bay Packers, I was recruited by the Agency, and I wondered why they recruited me, but when I got down to Washington, I found out that most of those in my class were rejects from the National Football League.

I went to an interview at the Chicago courthouse by a man who didn’t identify himself or the agency he was recruiting for, and he said that what I would be doing would be involved in fighting communism.

Voiceover: 800 million people (one-third of mankind) exist under communist tyranny without the God-given rights of freedom and human dignity.

Ralph McGehee: Of course, at that particular period in 1952, this was so much a part of our every day life, and I said, “Yes, I very much want to be a part of it.” I was very proud to be a part of it.

My career in the Agency began in 1952, and I stayed in the Agency through 1977. In the entire twenty-five years, I was in the Directorate of Operations, also known as “The Dirty Tricks Department.” My second tour in Thailand was probably the most important, where I was assigned to work with the provincial police, which was a fifty-thousand-man national police force, in developing an effort to counter the growing insurgency and to gather intelligence on that insurgency, and the program there was to interview or interrogate everyone in a village over the age of twelve, and in the process, we found out that the Thai Communist Party was much larger, much more active, much more effective than had ever been reported before. My initial reports received glowing commendations from everyone, and then all of a sudden, the program was shut down and I was sent home and I couldn’t understand this. I know now why they didn’t want this information to be reported. Because if they acknowledged that the Communist Party in Thailand consisted of thousands of organized villagers, than they would have to have told the same truths about the communist movement in Vietnam, where the strength of the communist movement was in the millions, and if we had ever admitted that, there would have been only one solution to what was going on in Vietnam [and that] was to shut down the war and come home. We could not win.

Voiceover: Men of the 101st Airborne Division land in Camran Bay.

Ralph McGehee: Intelligence on Vietnam was doctored to support the ongoing was there, and I could see that the situation in doctoring intelligence was universal.

Voiceover: Now, these reinforcements head for where the action is supposed to be for according to current policy the emphasis is to be on direct combat rather than on advisory duty.

Ralph McGehee: Wherever the Agency had a covert action role or a policy role to implement, its intelligence was distorted, shaped, created to support that policy. It was in many, many cases nothing but fiction.

I think the worst thing I was involved in was the Phoenix Operation in Vietnam: a countrywide assassination program. I was part of it. This was a program started by the CIA, funded by the CIA, recruiting people for the operation, training them to go out and kill or capture the Viet Cong. I came to realize later that we were shooting fish in a barrel. Most of the Vietnamese supported the other side, and we were the intruders, and the Vietnamese were fighting for their own liberation from foreign domination. I went out to Vietnam to help save Vietnam for democracy, and when I saw photographs of the children bombed and napalmed and burned by operations, this caused for me a tremendous trauma, and I for a number of months contemplated suicide as my only out. This, of course, I finally got over, and [I] thought that what I should do with my knowledge is try to bring this knowledge to the American people so that there won’t be further Vietnams, there won’t be further abuses, and since that time I’ve dedicated my life to exposing the Agency.

Casey Kasem: The CIA called him “an analyst with few peers,” but upon leaving the CIA, this man wrote a book about it called Deadly Deceits, and now he has compiled a one of a kind database resource on the subject called CIAbase. Please: a big welcome for Ralph McGehee.

Ralph McGehee: I feel that I am doing what I should be doing, and in that sense I am happy. I am not happy in the sense that no amount of criticism of the Agency, no amount of revelation of its dirty deeds, no amount of exposure of the weaknesses of the Agency has weakened the CIA, but I do feel that at some point all of this is going to impact on the awareness of the American people, and at that time there will be an attack on the CIA.

Verne Lyon: I considered myself a good spy. I would be given a name of a student or a professor or a teaching assistant, and I would try to develop a relationship with this person and try to get him to say to me statements concerning the U.S. involvement in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. I was to infiltrate student groups to get copies of propaganda, meeting times, protest posters, [and] this kind of thing. [I was] your friendly spy on campus.

The excitement initially came when I was offered the job and told that I was very special, and that played to my patriotism, my ego, my manhood, the whole thing.

It was thirty years ago almost this month that I was a senior on the Iowa State University campus ready to my aerospace engineering degree and wondering what I was going to do in light of the nation’s deepening involvement in the quagmire of Vietnam.

Voiceover: There were antiwar demonstrations on college campuses and in cities from Los Angeles to Washington. Draft card burnings became common, and the chant, “Hell no! We won’t go!” was the theme of the protest generation.

Verne Lyon: It was then that the CIA appeared on campus, and it began the largest illegal domestic operation in history called “Chaos.” The FBI and Hoover thought U.S. college student demonstration against the Vietnam War was being manipulated and funded from abroad. President Johnson didn’t believe it, so he actually authorized the CIA to start an illegal covert operation inside the country, and I became the eyes and ears of the CIA on the Iowa State University campus.

Voiceover: Iowa State University: the opportunities are here.

Verne Lyon: I initiated files on students of my own interest even without the CIA’s knowledge. There was this young lady who caught my eye on campus, and I tried to date her and she refused, so I initiated a file on her, and that was personally for my own benefit.

I did that for my senior year and on graduation I thought my responsibilities to the Agency would end when I went to work for McDonald-Douglas in St. Louis, but it didn’t work out that way, and eventually I was assigned to Canada posing as an anti- Vietnam War engineer. The Agency knew that Fidel had gone around the island and built all these small dams. He actually wanted two growing seasons a year. He needed someone to seed the clouds so it would rain and he could store the water, and that’s where my expertise was having been an amateur rocketeer and an aerospace engineer and all this good stuff.

The Cubans were duped into believing the credentials I presented. There really was no other option of getting an American down there.

After the October Crisis of 1962, Kennedy said that we would never physically invade the island if Khrushchev would remove the ballistic missiles; so therefore, the United States was frozen into a policy of trying to bring Castro down from within which meant disrupting the average life of the Cuban citizen, doing whatever we could to sabotage the economy, to discredit the Revolution.

One way of doing that, of course, was to try to control the amount of food coming into Havana for distribution to the public, and if we could do that by puncturing tires on a truck loaded with tomatoes for the market or if we could cause a truckload of whatever (onions or fresh fruit or meat) to become putrid or be stolen or contaminated on the way into town, we would do that, and I remember one particular instance. A brand new secondary school that had opened up in the countryside was going to receive its week’s supply of fresh milk and we bribed the driver of the truck. We knew where he stopped to have breakfast on his route. We wanted him to take a few extra minutes so we could put cement powder into the milk.

We declared war on school children! That shouldn’t be the policy of the United States government! You don’t win friends and influence people that way (declaring war on children and innocent civilians). [It was] a big mistake, but the U.S. government orders it and participates in it, and the CIA’s goal eventually was to increase this frustration level to a point where there’d be a civil revolution within Cuba to bring him down.

I think from almost the outset I had reservations about what I was doing in Cuba, and that’s because, just in general, I didn’t enjoy harming people. I didn’t know the Cubans at the time, so I would rationalize myself that “well, this was in the best interest of my country.” But as I got to know the Cuban people personally and ended up getting married to a Cuban, I started to change my attitude toward them very quickly.

I think the most frightening thing that ever happened to me in Havana was when the Cuban counterintelligence people actually decided they had enough and they came to my house and detained me.

And eventually, I was arrested and accused of espionage (even given a fake firing squad), and in spite of all the training I’d had and all the instruction I’d had that you don’t get shot (you may be tried, there’ll be a lot of publicity, you may even be imprisoned for awhile but eventually you’ll be released and exchanged), you forget that when you’re actually facing those rifle barrels and you’re in a foreign country with no diplomatic mission and nobody there to speak for you. Your knees tremble and you lose bladder control. It’s very scary.

Hindsight is something I think we all enjoy, and I just wish we could switch it around and use it as foresight, but in hindsight, if I could go back and change things, I’d have to go back thirty years to 1965 and my senior year and refuse the offer that was made to me by the CIA, and take my chances with the draft, and pursue my engineering career. It certainly would have been a better life than what I’ve had. I wouldn’t have the memories that I have of the things that I have done to people and countries, and all of it in the name of the United States and under its flag.

Mary Embree: For many years, I didn’t even tell my friends I worked for CIA because I was embarrassed. It’s colored my life. It always will. It’s like a shadow that falls over my life all the time. I still, if I say anything against them, turn around, wondering if I’m being followed.

I never even thought of joining the CIA. First of all, I thought I probably couldn’t get in because it was considered the Cadillac of government agencies, and they mostly hired from Ivy League colleges. I was just out of high school and went to work for Veterans Administration. Actually, it was the typewriter repairman, who came in to repair my typewriter one day, and he said, “You shouldn’t be working here. You should be working at a nicer place.”

They test you a lot: huge testing. When you are put into this personnel pool, there’re probably two or three weeks of tests where it’s all day long, every single day. They are IQ tests and personality tests. The questions, which bothered me the most, were when I took the polygraph test. In the polygraph test, they ask you such incredibly personal questions. For instance, they asked me if I was a virgin, and I was eighteen and I thought, “What business is it of theirs whether I am or not?” I was rather embarrassed to tell them that I was because I don’t think any of my girlfriends were. I was raised very strict.

There were very few women at CIA who were other than secretaries. It was very sexist. It was the male establishment: the white male establishment. I asked a couple of times why it was that there were no blacks there and why there were no gay people there, although they did not call them gays in those days–I think they called them queers in those days–and they said because homosexuals could not be cleared because they could be blackmailed. They said that blacks couldn’t be cleared because blacks were just still too primitive. They just weren’t usually smart enough, and they didn’t have the kind of background that white people had. I didn’t think that much of it at the time because it was standard operating procedure, but when I think about it now, I’m really quite shocked how you probably would never get a job if you were black.

I was assigned as a secretary in the Audio Surveillance Division. They were experts on listening devices and hidden microphones and that sort of thing. I did also very often help the operatives get the documents that they needed. Once in a while, I’d have to make a quick trip to State Department to pick up their passports, and sometimes, if we couldn’t get the passports in time, then I’d have to go over to Graphic Arts Reproduction Division so that they could forge one for them. Most of them were artists in there, but they were recruited from prisons because they were forgers and they were master forgers. They were people who knew how to forge money. They forged all kinds of things. That was how they made their living. FBI would arrest them and CIA would come and spring them.

Then I went to Technical Services where I was in charge of finding documents that you don’t find in libraries like [sic] where you put explosives on a bridge. Where’s the best place to put an explosive on a bridge and what kind of explosive do you have to get that goes under water without losing its effectiveness? Also, I had to find one time–they wanted me to find–if there was such a thing as a poison that was undetectable, especially one that seemed to mimic a heart attack, that would kill someone but it would appear that they had a heart attack. I did find such a thing.

Senator Frank Church: Does this pistol fire the dart?

CIA Director William Colby: Yes, it does, Mr. Chairman, and a special one was developed which potentially would be able to enter the target without perception.

Mary Embree: The poison was frozen into some sort of dart, and then it was shot at very high speed into the person. So when it reached the person, it would melt inside them, and the only thing would be like one little, tiny red dot on their body, which was hard to detect. There wouldn’t be a needle left or anything like that in the person.

Senator Frank Church: But also the toxin itself would not appear in the autopsy?

CIA Director William Colby: Yes, so that there was no way of perceiving that the target was hit.

Mary Embree: I think the first time that I seriously questioned anything that was more than I just couldn’t take it anymore was when I w came across this document. It was “Eyes Only,” and it was to my boss, but he only had one hand and a hook on the other hand, so I always opened all of his mail and his packages and so forth. This one–he wasn’t in the office–I opened it and read it. It said, “Eyes Only.” I wanted to read it because I wasn’t supposed to, probably, and it was a report about a mission where they had blown up a bridge in Asia somewhere, and they had killed a number of women and children who were on there way to market that morning. It was reported as though they were really proud: mission accomplished. That one bothered me a lot. When my boss came in, I gave him his mail, and I mentioned this and I said, “This is wrong. These women hadn’t done anything. These children didn’t deserve to die. Why did we do that?” He said, “That’s the fortunes of war.” And I said, “But we’re not at war. We’re certainly not at war on that country. Why did we do that? I don’t understand it.” He said, “Well, you’re very young. When you get older, you’ll understand those things.”

I think probably all of us became addicted to the danger, to the intrigue. It was living a fantasy. It was actually living a fantasy and being on the inside and it was very hard to leave, even though I felt that they did wrong and I would never ever work for an agency like that now because I realize that it wasn’t because I was a child or I was so young. It was because it was wrong. But at the time, it was really exciting. After that, there was no other job I could have ever again in my life that would be that exciting. I knew that.

Phil Agee: During this period in Ecuador, I got involved in all these different types of operations. I was running around here, running around there, working with the police intelligence and military intelligence, falsifying documents as provocations to get people landed in jail, running a surveillance team, which was a team that would follow people around on the streets and they had radio communications with vans. It was very exciting at first and you had–at 25, 26, 27 years old–you had this sense of power, which is intoxicating, really, for such a young person.

My motivation was partly the youthful, romantic aspect of it, which was the idea of secret work, of being abroad in strange cultures and communities, but patriotism was also a very strong motivation. It was a period in which we still had to do compulsory military service and the Draft was breathing down my neck and I had to do it one way or another and the CIA told me that, if I hadn’t done my military service, I could do it within this secret program that they had with the Pentagon and I would become an officer and so forth. I thought that might be more interesting than washing dishes and peeling potatoes for a couple of years as a draftee.

I was sent down to Quito, Ecuador, where I worked for a period of three years.

Voiceover: Poverty breeds anger and despair. Anger and despair are ingredients of violence, of lawlessness, of revolt.

Phil Agee: And our job was to squelch or impede the influence of the Cuban Revolution throughout Latin America because the Cuban Revolution had such an impact in Latin America. And in practically every Latin American country, there were people who went into armed struggle at that period to emulate the Cubans, hoping that they too could overthrow the traditional, ruling power structure in their countries in which very few families controlled the land and the wealth and that meant that a very large proportion of the population was marginalized. They didn’t count.

Voiceover: Here, as in so many other places on this troubled Earth, can be seen the conditions that give rise to conflict, to riot and revolution. Here can be found the familiar challenges that threaten the future of us all. We are here.

Phil Agee: When I was working in Uruguay, it was a complicated period. The trade unions and students were out in the streets all the time, and there was a state of siege imposed, and we wanted to stop these lightning demonstrations, which were making our police look bad. And so, one of the leaders of these squads of the Communist Party was Oscar Bonaudi, and I had him arrested. It was supposed to be simply preventive detention. But on that Sunday morning, I knew that he was under arrest, and I didn’t know what was happening, but we were sitting in the room as the chief of police was reading a document I had written to attribute all this violence and unrest and strikes to the Soviets. It was false, but it was very credible the way I had written it. Then the sound began to come through the walls, and it was a low moaning sound, and I wondered to myself as it got louder and louder and the chief was embarrassed whether it was the guy whose name I had given, and he told me the story that, “Yes, it was Bonaudi,” and that, “One of the most sadistic police officers had ordered his interrogation and torture that Sunday morning.” But it was a horrible sound. I’ll never forget it. It’s just awful to hear that moaning and groaning, and screaming coming through the walls.

I began to question the work. The initial thrill of being on the inside, of having this secret power, of knowing things that individuals and governments try to hide, had faded. By the time I got to Mexico, I had already had all the political reasons to leave. I met an American woman who had lived in Mexico for many years. This would be October of 1967. At dinner, she suddenly went into a tirade about Che Guevara because he had just been killed. He had been captured and executed and it was just out in the papers that day. And so, she was furious. She went into this tirade about this horrible, stinking CIA that had murdered the best hope for Latin America in generations, and she loved Che Guevara. She thought he was the most wonderful man in the world, and I was in love with her and she was in love with me. And I thought to myself as I sat there at dinner, “Wow, what am I going to do?” And so, the upshot is that she was the personal factor, which led me actually to say that, “I’m quitting now.”

Voiceover: The case against the CIA has always lacked information on how precisely its officers set about their covert actions. Philip Agee, now living in Cornwall, was such an officer, and his diary, to be published by Penguin in the next few weeks, gives his version of what life is really like inside the Agency. He names every officer and agent he’s ever met and describes the CIA man’s work in daily detail.

Phil Agee: Why should I be delicate with them? I don’t expect any quarter in return because this is part of the conflict that is going on in the world right now. The CIA is enforcing American economic exploitation, and people are dying and people are starving because of this system.

In actual fact, what had happened is Henry Kissinger had intervened secretly with the British government to force them or pressure them to deport me and to cause me all these problems. Because not only was I deported from Great Britain, but also that was followed by a kidnapping and deportation by force from France, plus Holland and Italy and Germany and Norway would not let me in. And so, over a two-year period, they were constantly pressuring these governments, which had no provocation from me at all. So they tried very hard during a period of time in the 1970s to stop my work, but I just continued, got on with my life, and achieved stability in Germany. And now in the last seven or eight years, I’ve been coming frequently to the United States, and I think I’ve been in practically every nook and cranny of the country at hundreds of meetings, political rallies, and university lectures over these last eight years.

Phil Roettinger: When I was a kid, the American flag was something we absolutely marveled at; whenever the American flag went by in a parade, we took our hats off, put our hands over our hearts, and we really felt it because this is a symbol of the United States and the way that the United States should behave. We have to have something like that in order to hold ourselves together.

In those days, the Depression was really seriously affecting everybody and me, too. Along about that time, I began to travel to different shooting matches in the Midwest and I finally got to shooting against the U.S. Marine Corps Team, and I used to beat the Marines: every one of them. And the captain of the Marine team came to me and said, “Son, have you ever thought about enlisting in the Marine Corps?” And I said, “No, captain, I never have.” And he said, “Well, I tell you what. If you were to enlist in the Marine Corps, when you’re finished your training in Parris Island, I’ll see to it that you’re assigned to the Marine Corps Rifle and Pistol Team.” [I thought,] “Jeez, you know, I’ll be getting paid for shooting!” I was scared stiff, of course, and we went up there and went in the Commandant of the Marine Corps’ office, and the captain said, “This young man is a specialist in marksman training, and I would like if we would commission him in the Marine Corps.” I said, “Commission! Oh my God!” The Commandant said, “We’ve never done anything like that before: commission a man.” The captain said, “Well, sir, I think this is the time to do it.” The Commandant scratched his head and said, “I think you’re right. Young man, you’re a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps.” I said, “Oh my God! This is terrible!”

I went through World War II as an officer in the Marine Corps, came back, and one night the doorbell rang and I want [to the door] and here was this nattily dressed man in a nice suit and a snap-brim hat. And he said, “May I come in?” And I said, “Well, I think you had better identify yourself. Who are you?” “Well,” he said, “I know who you are and you’ve been recommended very highly to our organization.” I said, “What’s your organization?” [He said,] “Well, I’m not at liberty to tell you what the organization is.” And I said, “This is crazy! But I told him, “Come on in,” [because] he was a little guy and I thought I could handle him pretty well. And he said, “You have been accepted in our organization, and we want you to go to Central America.” And I said, “What? Central America? Come on!” So that’s how it happened. I was to join this group that went to Central America and I found out that I was supposed to be in charge of overthrowing a government in Central America. “It doesn’t sound right,” and I said, “What’s the government?” “Well,” [he said,] we don’t want to go into it too deeply here, yet.” “Well,” I said, “I think you’d better forget the whole thing.” “Oh, no no no no no! It’s very important,” and so finally he did let out that we were going to overthrow the government of Guatemala.

Well now, I had been to Guatemala before several years before that because I was a member of the U.S. Olympic team and we were requested to go down and help organize the Games, the Central American/Caribbean Games.

Voiceover: Doves are released: living symbols of the peace and friendship among the twenty-two nations represented.

Phil Roettinger: So I knew people down there. I knew this gentleman by the name of Arbenz, and the CIA was going to have me overthrow these friends of mine. Well, they explained to me that this is extremely important to the security of the United States. (When they pull that, you know there’s something wrong because the United States is so secure that nobody is ever going to do anything to it.) Anyway, so I said, “Well, okay, I’ll do it.” And we organized a group of dissident Guatemalans, armed them and trained them minimally, and sent them off up to overthrow the government [Operation El Diablo].

Voiceover: Fighting ends in Guatemala. These rebel troops backed by air power have compelled the ousting of Guatemala’s pro-communist regime and have won a ceasefire from government forces. That red rule in Guatemala is over is grimly symbolized by the determination of the insurgents themselves and by this effigy of ex-president Arbenz who fled the country. The sign reads: “Go back to Russia.”

Richard Nixon: You know there were some people during the Arbenz regime that said there was a question as to whether it was truly a communist regime and as to whether it was controlled by Moscow. Do we have here the proof that there was no question whatsoever?

1954 Guatemala Coup Spokesman: There was no doubt at all that Russia controlled all the communists here in Guatemala, sir.

Richard Nixon: In other words, the Arbenz regime was not a Guatemala government; it was a foreign government controlled by foreigners.

Phil Roettinger: What happened was that they went up there and caused great bloodshed and great damage, which have never been corrected even to this day. That started the whole thing in Guatemala and is why we’re having all this trouble today.

The only thing that can be done, of course, is to work with our Congress because everything that happens in Latin America or any place else in the world begins in our Congress.

Now look: Are you in favor of killing somebody that you don’t know? Are you in favor of torturing somebody? Are you in favor of locking people up in dungeons and things? Are you really in favor of that because I don’t think that you are? And I think that I can get that across to you pretty well if I get a chance to talk to you like that.

Ralph McGehee: I feel that because of the problems that I went through, the realizations that I came to, the efforts that I’ve taken to counter–if I may call it this–this monster, that I am contributing so much now that I could not have contributed had I not joined the agency.

Verne Lyon: There’s no way I can make amends, but certainly helping in this effort to expose the abuses of our intelligence services, perhaps, in some small way will help pay that debt.

Narrator: In an organization that celebrates loyalty and security, the public confessions of these former agents have been hard to swallow, but as revelations of the Agency’s failures and deceit pile up, the courage to speak out has spread from one agent to another.

Phil Roettinger: I promise that I will do as much as I can for peace in Latin America. Thank you very much.

A number of us have organized this group of former U.S. intelligence people, and we are very serious because of the experience we have, we believe that we should have a certain amount of influence in the Congress and in the government.

Peter Kornbluh (Senior Analyst, National Security Archive): Frank Church, the late Chairman of the Senate Select Committee to Study Intelligence, concluded that covert operations was really a semantic disguise for blackmail, sabotage, assassination, whatever the United States wanted to do to influence other countries to do its will.

Narrator: In small ways, Congress has pressured the CIA to reform itself. Hundreds of individuals who smuggled drugs, tortured, and murdered in the name of the Agency, have recently been purged from its payroll and oversight committees have been created to monitor the Agency’s activities.

Stansfield Turner (Admiral, Former Director of Central Intelligence): One of my biggest jobs was to get the CIA to understand that they could do their secret operations at the same time that we were keeping the Congress adequately informed. It wasn’t easy to overcome that dichotomy because the CIA people just assumed that if you told the Congress it was all over the newspapers the next day. It wasn’t really the case.

Peter Kornbluh: But it is similarly true that many of these Congressmen and Senators become members of a covert club. If they are given access to the information, then they consider themselves to be on the inside. They don’t share it. So all too often, they are co-opted into a system of secrecy that contributes to a major intelligence scandal every five or six years or so.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Senator (D) New York): The great problem of the Central Intelligence Agency today is that it completely missed the end of the Cold War. For twenty-five years, it reported everything there was to know about the Soviet Union excepting the fact that it was collapsing. The great question is whether we should abolish it. Weapons intelligence: put it in defense. Political intelligence: put it with the State Department, which is where the president should be turning for that kind of advice. And economic information: well, that’s open and public the world over.

Gene LaRocque (Rear Admiral, President of the Center for Defense Information): But until the American public know how much the CIA receives in money every year and know how many people they have and what they are doing all over the world, the CIA will continue to bumble along in some sort of romantic role that they ascribe to themselves and the American people attribute to the CIA because we know nothing about it.

Mary Embree: I believe that what is happening right now is that there is more and more information about CIA coming out with freedom of information and some of the things that have been released, declassified. We’re finding out a lot of things. And I think that the American people are going to say, “No, we can’t do that. It’s immoral. It’s wrong. It’s against everything I believe in. It’s not patriotic. It’s not good. It’s not good even for our country. It certainly is not good for the world.”

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