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.

…we’re going to talk about what happened in the year 1930 in April. This is from documented archives, easily verifiable data. In the month of April of 1930, a company called Eli Lilly made a substance called thimerosal, also known as mercury. This thimerosal is used in different vaccines since the 1930s, is what’s called an adjuvant. An adjuvant is something that by definition increases the effectiveness per say of the virus or the bacteria that’s in the vaccination.

Now I need to give you a little bit of background as to who Ely Lilly, the founders of Eli Lilly, or the people that sat at the board of directors at that time. We go back and look at the directors of Eli Lilly we find a man named Prescott Bush, who is the father of George Herbert Walker Bush, who is the father of our current president George W. Bush. We find also that Prescott Bush had a number of very interesting people sitting on the board at that time. The father of Herbert Walker Bush’s Vice President, Dan Quayle, the Quayle family also sat on the board of directors at the time of Eli Lilly. Eli Lilly in 1930 published a series of experiments on this thimerosal product. And as I pulled and saw the results of this thimerosal study I was incredibly stunned. They inject the thimerosal into 22 people with spinal meningitis, all of which die immediately. However Eli Lilly publishes the study, and somehow claims that thimerosal, which is 50% toxic mercury by weight, is completely safe. Now that’s the first stage to be set.I’m linking here George W. Bush’s father George Herbert Walker Bush, his father Prescott Bush, to the very first studies of thimerosal and vaccinations back in 1930.

In 1972 I found the World Health Organization, also known as WHO, bulletin #47. This refers to the creation of an immune virus, and suggests that a useful way to study the effect would be quote “to put this virus into a vaccination program nationwide and observe the results”. Many people, many biochemists I have spoken with, have theorized that the World Health Organization used the smallpox vaccination program in Central Africa first of all for this study, and from there that’s what led into the spread of HIV, the infection. It coincides precisely with that most intense and recent smallpox vaccination campaign. So I’m here to tell you folks that in 1972, that smallpox experimentation was what led to the HIV/AIDS outbreak that is currently devastating Africa and which is currently a problem here i America as well. The virus requested, again this is the 1972 bulletin #47, says the virus requested would selectively destroy the human T-cell system. And let me say that’s exactly what the Human immuno-suppresent virus HIV actually does.

And we also need to talk about briefly what happened in December, 1976 to set the stage for what we call the bird flu hoax. We need to also look back at something called the swine flu hoax that happened in December of 1976. At Fort Dix New Jersey, a U.S. soldier died, one soldier died, the Centers for Disease Control at that time reported to the nation, to the world on the controlled media, that the American people were in danger of facing a swine flu pandemic that could kill millions of Americans. So what happened, the exact thing I wanted to outline that’s happening today happened back in 1976. The United States Centers for Disease Control mobilized, began purchasing massive mega doses of swine flu vaccination to inoculate all Americans if possible. Many many millions of dollars was spent by our government and enriched the pharmaceutical cartels for this swine flu vaccination.

A rider tacked on to the end of the Homeland Security bill amazingly confers immunity from liability prosecutions to Eli Lilly, Sanofi Pasteur and all other manufacturers of vaccines… maybe we can set he stage here. There are many other instances where the World Health Organization, which again is largely funded by Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the Rothschild Group in London, to absolutely control populations for specific political purposes worldwide. There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever. I can go on for the next half an hour to show specific programs designed to kill large amounts of people, and it does this in every single case, by means of vaccination introduction. We can see a pattern, a modus operandi, in this. Introduce a vaccine to unsuspecting population centers, cause massive sickness, massive death, massive panic, massive chaos, and then they step in and have the agenda completed. It’s the same old problem-reaction scenario. They create the problem, they dictate the response and then they have the prescribed action already made.

Let me just submit this. Fear, panic, and terror are largely caused by ignorance. Folks once a topic is completely understood, I submit there is much less anxiety, much less fear. And let me emphasize that the root word of pandemic is the word panic. Panic and pandemic are synonymous.

For the first time American men are drafted, forced basically into military service, and then deployed for training in bases in Spain. This is very important to understand. For the very first time in U.S. history, all new recruits, Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, all new recruits are given mandatory vaccinations. one of which is a very broad influenza vaccination. Now, these service men did not have a choice. Either they got the vaccination or they went to the brig for 5 or 10 years of incarceration. The tragedy is to me the manufacturer of this forced vaccine is a man named John D Rockefeller who made literally millions of dollars in vaccine sales to the U.S. government.

For years, rumors of bizarre secret government experiments have surfaced, filtering into the public media from strange and unlikely sources. For example, Nazi Doctors on trial at Nuremberg following WWII sought to justify their actions by pointing to an experiment conducted in Chicago prisons in which 400 prisoners were infected with malaria, in order to study the affects of new and experimental drugs. Whether or not the prisoners were told what was happening to them is still open to question, but this was hardly the beginning of such reports. One of the more disturbing experiments was allegedly undertaken in 1931, when a single pathologist Doctor Cornelius Rhodes of the Rockefeller Institute for medical investigations, according to reports, knowingly infected his human subjects with cancer.

…there have been reports recently of contrails, trails of gaseous substances left in the wake of jet planes flying high above certain areas of the country. A mysterious sickness seems to be centered around these contrails, left by KC135′s and KC10 areal tankers, that were supposedly seeding clouds. Officially, the Air Force denies it is involved with anything associated with these sightings. But in a recent article, Tommy Farmer, former engineer technician with Raytheon Missile systems, says he has collected samples of what he calls angel hair, sprayed by the mystery aircraft on 6 occasions since February of 1998. No one knows where the planes are coming from, or where they land when they are finished. Howev, some reports indicate that the phenomenon is weather modification related, and the Air Force has said the military can find ways to “own the weather” by the year 2025. So what it comes down to is all of this is supposed to be for our own good, or for the sake of national security, whether we like it or not. But if that’s the case, why aren’t we being told about it?

Even with WWII raging, and the obvious need for security, one of the most bizarre government experiments of all time took place right here at the Philadelphia Naval Station. And the results will shock and demystify those who were part of it. The story begins in January of 1956. A man by the name of Moris K. Jessep, a former university, mathematics, and astronomy instructor with a keen interest in Einstein’s unified field theory, received the first of two letters from a man who signed himself Carlos Miguel Allende or Carl Allen. In these rambling, sometimes incoherent letters Allen warned Jessep to forget his interest in the unified field theory, stating that the U.S. Navy had already tried it on a destroyer type ship in 1943. The result was and stands today as proof that the unified field theory to a certain extent is correct. The result was complete invisibility of a ship and all of its crew.

Each year in the United Kingdom, according to U.K. Governments own figures, nearly 3 million animals are poisoned, surgically injured, driven insane, burned, irradiated, starved, electrocuted, and kept in solitary confinement for long periods of time in experiments which most people would have trouble conceiving. Animals are used in this manner by the pharmaceutical and chemical industries, universities, and private research institutions, and by the military in the testing of new weapons, be they conventional, nuclear, or biological. Although the vast majority of animals used are rats and mice, monkeys, cats, dogs, birds, fish, horses, farm animals, and many other species are routinely used. This is the secret world of vivisection. A term which literally means the cutting of live animals. But which today generally applies to all experiments on living animals. Animals are used in research, purportedly to help find cures or treatments for human diseases, or to provide assurances for safety in the testing of drugs, household or industrial chemicals, cosmetics, or other substances that might potentially be a hazard to human health. It is a massive world wide industry involving the death of countless millions of animals each year.

The fundamental stance against vivisection by many people is simple. That it is morally wrong to torture and kill animals. And in an ideal world this would be the end of the matter. However, those who defend vivisection have a different version of morality. one that states if a species or race considers itself superior, that is sufficient reason to use supposedly lesser creatures in which ever way it deems fit. However, it is an unfortunate fact that many people, taken in by a relentless stream of propaganda from an industry, be howled of media, are convinced that the solution to the diseases plaguing mankind, is through animal experimentation. And that the whole argument is one of animal rights verses human rights.

The German Philosopher Johann Von Goethe once said “there are none more hopelessly enslaved, than those who falsely believe they are free.”
But few who hear the words realize that they are the ones to whom Goethe was referring. For the reality is, that every person in the civilized world is enslaved from childhood. They are enslaved in a prison without walls or bars and so few ever even realize it, but all are enslaved nonetheless. And what the people of the world are enslaved to is a system of perpetual self generating debt that is created for them wholly by design by private international banking interests. And the people are taught from an early age to just except this debt, because this is ‘just the way things are’.
But the real reality is that it is not just the way things are, but more the way things have been designed. And all one has to do is glance around them at the state of the world today to realize, that though this is the way things current are, it is most definitely not the way things should be. The most powerful and useful tool a person can ever gain in their life is knowledge. For with knowledge comes wisdom and a deeper understanding. And real truth can be exhilarating because real truth will set you free.

Now Whether you believe in the Illuminati or not; whether you will take the time to listen to so called conspiracy theories or not, there are some things that should be clearly understood by all. And these are not conspiracy theories by any stretch of the imagination. They are well documented, quite traceable and very provable facts. And these facts are as follows:

There is one ruling bloodline that exists on this earth. This ruling Bloodline is very old. It is the same bloodline that has always ruled the earth ever since the days of ancient Egypt and it is very pervasive. For example, many people think that anyone can get to be President of the United States. But the reality is that all US presidents have been Freemasons. And a large number of them are in fact related, and that their lineage can be traced back to European Monarchy and in particular to the line of William of Orange. This elite Bloodline can actually be traced back a good deal further than William of Orange, and even back as far as the royalty of ancient Egypt. And it is this very same bloodline that has ruled the earth ever since; and to which the British Monarchy and the current US President can both ultimately be traced. Many people may be surprised to learn that US President George W Bush is in fact the 13th cousin of Queen Elizabeth the second of the current British Monarch.

Reverence for the royal bloodline and worship of Amen Ra are still carried out in the world today, though it is veiled and secretive. But the symbolism remains true, as always, hidden in plain view. Adherence to such traditions is why each of the three city states of London, Vatican and the District of Columbia all have their own obelisks. The London Obelisk is also accompanied by two sphinx wrought in the image of Thutmoses, indicating that it is in London that the royal bloodline actually resides. The fact that out of all the pharaohs to choose from, the London sphinx depicts Thutmoses, is actually very telling indeed for a number of reasons, but that is another tale.

The British Monarchy is steeped in ancient traditions and symbolism and they do not attempt to hide these connections, they just don’t mention them or answer questions about them. But the signs and symbols are right there for discerning eyes to clearly see again and as always hidden in plain view. Just a look at the Royal Coat of Arms, the Royal Regalia, and the Coronation Throne clearly demonstrates these connections.

The evidence linking that these rulers to the one bloodline does exist and all the information to verify these claims lies within the public domain. It is up to each of you to connect the dots yourself.
More importantly however, is the fact that over the last two hundred odd years there has developed behind this ruling bloodline, another elite class somewhat similar to a priesthood, that remains hidden in the shadows. This shadowy priesthood is the money changers. The international banking elite, consisting of 13 very influential families. And it is this shadowy elite who ultimately controls things from behind the scenes. This control is achieved through covert manipulation of the global money systems, and maintained through an intricate web of interconnected secret societies, through which control over the flow of all money, all resources, all food, and more importantly, all information, through manipulation of the worlds educational institutions and corporate media is also achieved. Many of these smaller secret societies are completely oblivious to the existence of the others, but all lead back to a round table of six, and ultimately, to one at the very top, that is populated by a virtual handful of individuals. It is this handful of very powerful men that controls all the other societies, and through them the heartbeat of the entire world.

The society that sits at the very top was founded on Knights Templar traditions in Bavaria in 1776 by a man called Adam Weishaupt, and this is the order of the Illuminati. The man who commissioned Weishaupt for the task was Mayer Amschel Rothschild, and it was done in order to carry out a plan conceived by Rothschild, and the heads of twelve other families at a secret meeting that took place in 1773. These families included the Warburgs, the Schiffs and the Oppenheimers. The Illuminati has since become the most powerful society in the world. And in the last 230 years, it has been instrumental in helping the Rothschild family accumulate over one half of the worlds total wealth, at the cost of quite literally millions of innocent lives. The horded wealth of this one family alone, could comfortably feed, clothe, and house, every man, every woman, and every child on earth. And this just one of the 13 Illuminati families.

The goal of the Illuminati has always been a simple one and that is to achieve, by whatever means possible, total ownership and control, over no less than every resource, every government, every rock, every drop of water, every blade of grass, and every living creature, both human and non human, in the entire world. And since its inception, for over 230 years, the order of the Illuminati has been tirelessly, relentlessly, and unfalteringly steering its members towards the achievement of that one ultimate goal. Through secrecy, they have so far been extremely successful in their endeavors, in fact so much so, that we are right now living in the time when they intend to see this long spanned work come to fruition. The situation we are witnessing in the world right now is in fact the final endgame of the Illuminati. This is their big grab for ultimate power and mass depopulation.

Some people claim that the Illuminati is a myth and that what is really to blame are organizations such as Zionism. but I assure you that this is not the case. It goes far deeper than Zionism. And such people have simply limited the scope of their vision. They have locked to to an answer that supports their beliefs and have refused to delve any deeper. They are not seeing the bigger picture. Greek Philosopher Socrates once said that true wisdom is knowing how little we actually know and he was absolutely correct. And this is why is important to keep an open mind and allow your beliefs to be flexible enough to change as new knowledge is acquired. And it is important to listen to all the information and not to just that which reinforces your beliefs. Because this conspiracy goes very deep, and Zionism and the Jewish influence over the money system, is merely one layer of it. And it goes still deeper than even the Illuminati. Those who we know as the Illuminati are merely the shadowy controllers.

The plan that is unfolding in the world today is indeed an old one, and it is a plan that is very complex, but not so with the system of control that is in place to blind the people to its existence. This system of control just appears to be complex; but in reality, it isn’t. In reality, its very simple, and very fragile. However it is its apparent complexity that has kept it so well veiled, and it has also been kept very well hidden by constructing a conspiracy culture to breed around it, and by then promoting an air of endless ridicule towards such concepts. Indeed, the creation and proliferation of such a culture, and the promotion of constant ridicule towards it, has been one of the Illuminati’s most valuable assets in obscuring the reality of the society’s existence.

The entire Illuminati system is today operated by the Crown, and what is the crown exactly? Well contrary to popular belief the Crown does not refer to the Royal family or to the British Monarchy, but to the Inner city of London which in actual fact is a privately owned corporation that functions as a completely separate sovereign state, outside the jurisdiction of England, the same as its two sister city states of Vatican and Washington’s District of Columbia, all of which combine to form the Empire of the three cities. Most people are completely unaware that when they swear allegiance to the Crown they are actually swearing allegiance to this private corporate empire owned by the the 13 Illuminati families. These are the same private individuals who also indirectly own and operate the World Bank. And what does the world bank do exactly? well apart from other things, like control global oil prices, it lends money to whole countries by supplying each country’s federal reserve bank and then it collects interest on these loans which is paid by taxing the the labor of the peoples of each country.
Now let me just run that by you again so you clearly understand how this works.

If you live in a country that has a federal reserve bank, then the World Bank, a privately run company that is able to legally create money from thin air, is who supplies your country with money, at interest. And you as the individual is required to pay a tax on your labor to pay off the interest on the governments’ loan from this private bank.

Many people are duped into believing that their taxes pay for infrastructure, and without taxes their would be no roads or schools and the country would fall apart, but this is completely untrue. The government has the legal right to coin its own money and control its value, but it does not. It borrows money from a private bank and uses this bank loan to pay for infrastructure and then you are taxed in order to pay off the interest on the loan. Interest, which from a business perspective, is pure profit for the international banksters.

However you choose to look at things, one thing must be clearly understood, and that is that each person in the western world who has a job, is forced every year, to give away approximately Three months worth of wages in taxes, and that tax money goes directly into the pockets of the private individuals who own and run the world bank.

Its one big, privately run scam. And if you ever allow yourself to be microchipped and cash money is abolished altogether, which is their plan, then all bills and all taxes will automatically be removed from your account when they are due, whether you actually owe the money or not. And if you complain about the system, well they can simply turn off your chip. Since all commerce will center around the chip, you will not be able to buy food, or pay rent or do anything ay all. And there will be absolutely nothing whatsoever that you can do about it. And that is their goal. To limit the size of the population on earth and to microchip those that are left. Then its game set and match and total control of the world and everyone in it will be in the hands of an international cartel of criminal banksters.

This whole scam is being planned and carried out very methodically. It is these people and their minions and puppets, who attend such gatherings as Bilderberg meetings and the Bohemian Grove summer festival, and who still adhere closely to the schools of ancient mystery, which many such as the late Bill Cooper have referred to as the Ancient Mystery Religion. However it is more a mechanism of control designed to reach an ultimate goal, than a religion.

Though steeped in ritual and what many would term ‘black magic’, It is simply a system, the Illuminati system. And though its workings seem complex to the layman, in reality its quite simple, and its also very easy to see once one has acquired the correct manner of looking at things. And there is definite purpose and reason in the ritualistic nature of this system. In its use of numerology, symbolism and ritual. And all that is needed to realize this is a deeper understanding of the true nature of the universe and how we are all connected to it. However this film directs its focus on the system itself and the key to this system functioning, which is through covert control of the money supply by very few people.

It is crucial that people become aware of this issue, because the methods by which society could free itself from this system of control, are also very simple. Once a person has gained an understanding of the true realities of this world we live in, and this is not as difficult a task as you may at first think, because due to its complexities, the illusion the elite have created that most perceive as reality, is a very fragile one. It is fragile because it is not reality.

The reality is that the world does not have to be this way at all. It does not have to be heading in the direction that it is heading. People do not have to live in a never ending sea of self generating debt. Wars do not have to be fought and children do not have to starve. And don’t think people starve because the world is over populated. Don’t believe what the televisions tells you. The world isn’t over populated at all. In fact, lets look at it realistically with a simple comparison of population versus land mass, and we can do a rough estimate and formulate a quick hypothetical to demonstrate this very easily.

There are approximately 6 billion people in the world and there is 2.97 million square miles of land in the island continent of Australia. 2.97 million square miles breaks down to 1,900,800,000 acres which then converts down to 7,603,200,000 quarter acre blocks of land. So we could hypothetically give every person in the world a quarter acre block of land and they would all fit into an area the size of Australia. Each would have enough land that they could all have gardens and grow a substantial supply of their own food, and we would still have 1,603,200,000 quarter acre blocks, or an area roughly half the size of Queensland left over, plus the entire rest of the world. Now let’s pause to let that sink in to your brain for a second. All the people, that’s every man woman and child on earth, would comfortably fit inside Australia; each individual person could have a quarter acre block of land, and we would still have half of Queensland and the entire rest of the planet left totally unoccupied.

The world is not over populated at all. It is just very badly managed. And you need have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that this bad management is intentional and it is methodical. It would however be very simple to fix things. And all that is required is for people to wake up to how much they are being lied to and how much they are being scammed. And this goes for everyone.

People really need to gain an understand of how this system actually works, because this bad management is crippling the world and it is crippling the people. The methods that are used to do this become truly transparent once a person has gained a clear enough vision to see it, and people really do need to open their eyes to see it right now. Because now that the world has been made smaller, and now that all resources have been discovered and there are no frontiers left to conquer, the criminal elite intend to carry out a mass depopulation of this world. And their plan to do this is well underway. They are doing it in the Middle East with war, in countries such as Africa through starvation, and now in western countries through water additives, aerial spraying and through the introduction of toxic and nutrient deficient genetically modified foods. And this is to very soon to be taken to the next level with the global introduction of Codex Alimentarius, an insidious set of food guidelines that are due to come into effect world wide on December 31, 2009. But people are now beginning to wake and realize that all is not right, and they are beginning to speak out.

The police need to understand this situation and take action to address these matters as well. And this is very important and there is no reason the police should act against the people who are waking up and speaking out about this corrupt system, for the police are also being scammed just as badly, and in some ways even worse than everyone else. Worse because it is the police who are being coerced and tricked into defending this elitist corruption by puppet governments put in place by banksters, who coerce these officers into compliance by adding creative names to such public awakenings, such as ‘social unrest’ or ‘civil disobedience’, and by instilling a robot like adherence to authority within the minds of police officers, rather than a strong set of moral values.

The police in these cases should stand by the people they are sworn to protect, not blindly follow instructions given to them by the criminal elites. The police need to realize that they too are the people. And they are being stolen from and used as well. And the way to beat this system is for the people, the police, and everybody else to simply stop agreeing with it. And also for the politicians, who bow to these corrupt money cartels and enact these ridiculous pieces of legislation. These politicians need to seriously think about what they are doing. They need to realize that these money cartels don’t care about them, or their families. These politicians have children and grandchildren who are also going to have to live in this world that is being created. And don’t kid yourself that there’s a politician in a position of power somewhere who isn’t a puppet. All are puppets of the money cartels without exception. These people may well have been voted into power, but the voting process is simply theater for the masses, to promote the illusion of peoples choice. The people may vote for one particular candidate over another, but they do not get to actually decide who these candidates will be to begin with.

The people of the world need to realize their own potential and wake up from the dream that they are living in. Forget what you are told and trained to you by the TV’ because it’s a lie. TV is there to train people what to think and how to act. End of list. It is nothing more than a tool of propaganda, that has successfully brainwashed 95% of the western world by feeding people manufactured news, disinformation and giving people an utterly false perception of the the world and of their relationship to each other. Turn your TV off and leave it off. After even a month of no TV, you will be surprised at how much better and how much healthier you feel.

It needs to be clearly understood by people everywhere that the elite only have the power over the people that the people themselves grant to them, so stop giving it to them. Stop doing what the TV tells you, and stop complying with the system. Understand that there truly is no division among the people of the world no matter who they are, or where they are from. We are all people and we are all one. It is through the constantly promoted illusion of division that the system is able to function. But in order for it to do so, it needs public compliance. Stop complying, and you will shut the system down.

You will shut it down completely. Because if people stop complying, it will simply implode. It will collapse like a house of cards. And all it would take for this to occur is global awareness of how it really works.

We have reached a turning point in history and the veil of secrecy that has always surrounded the Illuminati system is now at last being lifted. Now is the time for the people of the world to look after each other, and not the system.

It really is that simple, and the world is almost on the verge of that happening now. Because a new awareness is growing amongst the people. More and more are waking up every day, and they are spreading the word as we all should do as loudly and as loudly as we can. Because the masses who are still sleeping really must be woken up to what is occurring. There is quite literally nothing more important than this issue.

And the plan goes even deeper than the international money cartels. There truly are deep and dark forces at work controlling things here. But it is through the manipulation of the money system that global control is maintained, and it is that system that must first be addressed.

It’s all very well for us to all talk about all of this stuff and to continue learning and gathering more information about it, but the time for merely gathering information is now passed. What is needed now is action, and it is needed very quickly because the prison door is swinging shut.

Please understand that these people plan on depopulating at least 80% of the world, and that most likely includes you. This is not a joke and this is not some wild conspiracy theory, it is the absolute truth. And this matter seriously needs to be addressed. All the information on how they intend to do this is available in the public domain though of course you are not hearing it reported by the mainstream media because the money cartels own the mainstream media.

A great deal of information regarding this is posted on my youtube channel and I highly recommended that you view it and distribute it to as many people as you are able to, because the time for talk really is over. What is truly needed at this time is for the good people of the world to act and to act now. The key is in love and unity amongst all mankind. Because it matters not who you are, what country you are in, or where you are from. It makes no difference whether you are black or white or christian, or Muslim, or Jew, it makes no difference at all what your beliefs are, because the prison that is being constructed affects every one of us equally.

The world that we are allowing to be created for our children to live in, is a world that will not be worth living in. And if we just allow the situation to continue along its current path, then we are condemning our decedents to a hell on Earth. But we are many and they are few and it simply must not be allowed to occur.

It is time for the people of the world to stop and realize that the divisions that supposedly exists amongst us are an illusion. There is no division. It’s time for everybody to understand the truth of this. It’s time to approach the world and each other in a state of love rather, than a state of fear. It’s time for you to tap into the source and realize your own potential, and it’s time for us all to collectively stand together and address the root cause of the problem. And all of you need to spread this information. It’s very important that you do. Burn DVD’s and hand them out to people. Bring the conversation up at every opportunity. This issue is too important to ignore, and if you’re not part of the solution then you’re part of the problem. There’s simply no middle ground here.

Bring all the truth factions of the world together under one banner, the banner of human unity. Set aside your differences and work out the finer details later. Regardless of who or what is the ultimate intelligence behind this plan for global control, everyone needs to understand clearly that the fascist New World Order that is being introduced, and the mass depopulation that is occurring across the globe, is being implemented by the criminal banking elite.

The money system is the head of the snake. Cut the head off the snake and the rest of it will whither and die. The time for talk is over, and the time for action has come. It is now time for the people of the world to stop complying with the system. Everyone.

Stop complying with it and you will shut it down. And the best form of non compliance is love. Approach every issue with love. Rather than obediently following orders given to you by a commanding officer, and rather than doing what is right for you personally, do what is actually right. And, if a leader wants to send you to war, say no sir, I won’t murder other peoples’ children for you any more. You’ll have to go and do it yourself. You will be called coward by the military, but such is not the case. Because it’s much easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. And it takes a far braver man to stand up for what is right, and spit in the face of authority, than it does to blindly follow orders due to fear of the consequences. Understand that we are all one, and the key to real change and unity in this world lies with love.

There need be no violence, no guns, no banners, no slogans, no group think, just a united act of global non compliance. Non compliance for any thing in conflict with the directives outlined in the universal declaration of human rights would be a good start. Simply stop giving these people the power to control you. Understand that the only power they have is the power the people give them. Understand that injustice towards one is injustice towards all. Injustice towards him, is injustice against you, and there should be no grey area in your mind in regard to that. Everyone needs to stop going along with it, and it needs to be done immediately. It’s time to cut the head off the snake.

The Revolution is not coming.

The Revolution is now.

This is the story of how biology and technology will combine to create a new kind of human. For some the coming of this event offers untold possibilities. For others this future is something to be afraid of.

These artilects, artificial intellect, almost godlike-massively intelligent machines…what impact will they have, their very presence, how will they feel about us as an inferior species… So I see this centuries global politics being dominated by the question should humanity built artilects or not.

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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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