• ileftreddit@piefed.social
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    15 hours ago

    MKULTA and COINTELPRO were pretty wild. Operation Northwoods as well. And the FBI basically admitted to assassinating Dr King. By the 1990s they learned to eliminate the paper trails, so probably no telling who actually knew what regarding 9/11 or the 20 trillion dollars that vanished into thin air during Iraq and Afghanistan

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      Operation Northwoods

      One thing that’s often missed about this in the hero-worship of JFK is that Kennedy’s administration desperately wanted to intervene in Cuba militarily - just because Castro was a Communist - and they had been pressuring the CIA hard to find something to justify an invasion. This was the context in which the CIA finally said “well, we can’t find anything, so how about we fake attacks on US citizens and blame it on Cuba?” It wasn’t like the CIA came up with this plan on its own out of the blue and presented it to Kennedy for approval.

      To their discredit, the CIA would certainly have done this happily if Kennedy had given the go-ahead, but he said “uh, that’s a little too far.”

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      I’ve always maintained that we let 9/11 happen to drum up public support to spin up the war machine and further the conservative plot to take over the country. I don’t think we orchestrated it, but I do think we knew and looked the other way.

      We did it with Pearl Harbor, so it’s 100% within the realm of possibility that we did it with 9/11.

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      14 hours ago

      don’t forget the CONTA scandal, illegally financing violent drug cartels to flood black streets with drugs, to sell missiles to Iran and fill private prisons with black people for slave labour.

      it sounds like made up BS.

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        Oh yeah, fairly recently (last 10 years or so) a private jet owned by a CIA shell company went down stuffed to the gills with cocaine. They were 100% responsible for the crack epidemic and the “war on drugs” aka war on POC

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          Ronald Reagan switching sides on the war of drugs such a twist.

          and he was right “we do not negotiate with terrorists” he meant he doesn’t negotiate, he just gives them what they want