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Ukraine Invites Russian "Military Specialists" In Donetsk To Promote "Conflict De-escalation"
If the US has become the undisputed world leader in sending non-lethal "military advisors" to the middle east, then Russia is learning fast, and as Interfax just reported, the head of the Russian Armed Forces chief of staff Gerasimov just confirmed that Russian "military specialists" are now working in the Donetsk region, although not to support the separatist army, but to promote "conflict de-escalation." One just has to admire politically correct war talk. But the punchline, from both Interfax and Bloomberg which also just reported this news, is that Russia is doing so at the "request of Ukraine's head of general staff." In other words, Ukraine actually invited the Russians.
From Interfax:
- RUSSIAN MILITARY SPECIALISTS WORKING IN DONETSK REGION TOWARD CONFLICT DE-ESCALATION AT UKRAINIAN GENERAL STAFF'S REQUEST - RUSSIAN ARMED FORCES CHIEF OF STAFF GERASIMOV
The Russian press agency reports that "Representatives of the Russian armed forces led by Lt. Gen. Alexander Lentsov have been sent to the community of Debaltseve in the Donetsk region at Ukrainian armed forces chief of staff Col. Gen. Viktor Muzhenko's request," Gerasimov said at a meeting with military attaches of a number of foreign countries on Wednesday.
"This mission has been tasked, together with the OSCE, with helping the conflicting parties, which are the Ukrainian forces and the local militia, to find compromise solutions on de-escalating the tension and withdrawing the troops from the contact line," he said.
The same from Bloomberg:
- Russian military representatives sent to Debaltseve in Donetsk region at request of Ukraine’s head of general staff, Interfax reports, citing Valery Gerasimov, head of Russia’s general staff.
- Russian military mission led by General Alexander Lentsov, will work with OSCE to help defuse tensions among belligerents
To think there was a time the S&P would tumble on just the hint the Russians were close to Ukraine's borders: it appears even algos habituate...
- And while this update was quite unexpected, the rest of this morning's jawboning, mostly from Russia's Medvedev, was just as one would expect.
- U.S. administration is behaving inadequately, unpredictably, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says in interview on state TV.
- Medvedev says he has good relations with U.S. President Barack Obama
- Putin’s economic ideas in speech this week were “liberal”
- Russia’s given Ukraine >$80b in gas discounts since 1990s
- Russia not excluding EU partners in Turkish gas link
On the topic of the recently cancelled South Stream:
- European partners may join proposed Russian project to create gas route to EU via Turkey, gas hub at Turkey-Greece border, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says in intw on Russian state TV.
- Medvedev comments on plan proposed by Russia after canceling South Stream gas pipeline project to Bulgaria
- “It’s no less interesting idea, which European partners could join; partners from the European Union and other partners. However, that’ll be another project and there’ll be another entry point”
- “The story with South Stream is pretty sad. This is a mutually beneficial project, in which eight countries participated. We’ve come a long way, but the project broke down”
As for the Donetsk region: next up, yet another referendum whether or not the region should join Russia, yet more monetary integration, until finally the Crimea scenario repeats itself and Russia is the proud owner of territory right above some of eastern Europe's biggest shale deposits, oh and some of the best coal mines Europe has to offer.
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What happened to our gold again?
It happened so fast....we think they spoke english.
you see? gold does so many strange things. it vaporizes, it sinks all kind of vessels, it vanishes. It's the Houdini Metal
You are going to need Houndini inorder to escape this coming default.
Schrödinger Gold: the best macroscopic quantum bizarre effect material in our geo-politico multiverse...
It's unstable, it decays into Tungsten.
+1. I was trying to think of that right when I read your comment. Awesome. Of course, it's funnier still because there's no less -ert element than Au. Except mayb Pb.
Correction: decays into Houdinium. Salted gold, OTOH, decyas into Tungsten.
HAHAHAHA thanks for the laugh
It is known where it vaporizes (Ukraine, Bank of England, Libya, Switzerland) but it is unknown where it condenses. Many say in China, Russia, the vaults of GS a.o. It refuses to condense in Germany.
Sorry, it was the Novorussians who invited the Russians to defend against the attacks BY the Ukrainian government in Kiev
That was last week/month etc. This invite is today's news and many in Novorussia will not be pleased about it, especially if the current ceasefire line becomes their 'border' with the rest of Ukraine.
The Russians have shown that they do not want a real civil war, all they have done is to prevent the Eastern areas being overun and then support that status quo. Even the political/military leadership in Donbas has been replaced.
Many wanted more but have been very disappointed. The most important thing is that the killing and maiming seems to have finally stopped.
Did they get Vicky's permission first?
edit: deleted> "Vicky comment" <deleted
"U.S. administration is behaving inadequately, unpredictably, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says in interview on state TV."
that's an old complaint. unpredictability has always been Uncle Sam's middle name, among foreign powers. though it's also a new european complaint versus Russia
but all in all, it's good news. the presence of Russian "advisors" means the fig-leaf of "that's not us, that's your rebels" can be dropped, and Moscow takes some responsibility
but all in all, it's good news. the presence of Russian "advisors" means the fig-leaf of "that's not us, that's your rebels" can be dropped, and Moscow takes some responsibility
Sorry Ghordius I was looking for the /sarc tag at the end of your statement but didn't catch it!
So this should mean we will finally have detente in another form coming from none other than Bandar Bin Sultan showing up to apologize for the 17 dead and 34 wounded in Volgograd when Putin and he discussed the coming Winter Olympics in Sochi and how Saudi Arabia "controls" the Chechen siutation on the ground inside Russia just like Belsan September 2004?...
Perhaps Vicky could also throw another bone to Malaysia and Russia in the classified information dissemination from the downing of MH-17 that is still under "seal" by the Netherlands in addition to some free cookies?...
there was no sarc intended. it is a move towards de-escalation. at least locally. imho
there was no sarc intended. it is a move towards de-escalation. at least locally. imho
Yes indeed it is! Looks like the Anglo-American contingent will need to make haste in awarding Russia with another Olympics or World Cup in order to divert their attention from the simultaneous birth pains of another Western style fledgling democracy on it's border. Wonder who the next one will be as South Ossetia and Western Ukraine did not quite pan out according to plan?
What uncanny timing with such unpleasant strings attached?...
I was watching the Winter Games in Russia when a violent foreign backed democracy just happened to "bust out"!!!!
Indeed it is a move toward de-escalation. Frankly, I'm surprised that The Guardian isn't yodeling about another invasion by the Russians. (That would be what, 36th or 37th this year? I've lost count.)
The puzzling part of your initial statement which might lead a reasonable person to think it was sarcastic is this:
Responsibility for what, precisely?
TFS
We know we are in the home stretch when abject lies become truth or else...
9/11 with the Patriot Act and NDAA was the last train out of the station and is why the "mask" is off for good!
And here we are 13 going on 14 years later with no accountability and penalties for anything that has taken place at home or abroad in it's wake!!!
the Kremlin was maintaining all the time that it had no fingers in that pie. Meanwhile, NATO was accusing it to send soldiers there, and to aid them
whatever side you believe, this part of the blame game can't be done when Russian advisers are there. Now Russian influence on the rebels can't be denied. And at the same time Russia itself can guarantee, on the diplomacy table, a whole bunch of rebel behaviour agreements
That's both responsibility and de-escalation
whatever side you believe, this part of the blame game can't be done when Russian advisers are there. Now Russian influence on the rebels can't be denied. And at the same time Russia itself can guarantee, on the diplomacy table, a whole bunch of rebel behaviour agreements That's both responsibility and de-escalation
Well if you choose to look at it that way!.... Don't tell me who started it and even though nearly 15 to 25,000 men, women and children are dead because of it -we need to move beyond it unlike "The" Holocaust being the only genocide that matters to the folks in charge! Just don't tell that to the Parisian homeless wearing "yellow pyramids" so that they can be spotted among the productive ones or for that matter all those horrible terrorists in that open air concentration camp in Gaza?!!!!
I could almost swear Ghordius I heard this someplace else before?... Is that you David?...
That's some skillful dancing, Ghordius, but not skillful enough to hide your attempt to dance around the question. All you've managed to say is that the Russians have denied the claims made by the West's smear campaign, claims which have been notoriously lacking in supporting evidence. Are you saying that the Russians should take responsibility for having refuted the slander directed against them? It makes no sense.
Again, for what, precisely, should Moscow take responsibility?
+100
fuck you ghordious and your jew controlled eussr dictatorship
If not they have a vapor rub to take it's place.
My favorite part: "Medvedev says he has good relations with U.S. President Barack Obama."
Hey Dmitry, did you mean the monkey with a hand grenade?
Don't be rasist, he's just a plain nigga.
Manchurian, puleeze.
The problem that the West faces is the Ukrainian army which: 1. Realizes that fighting Russia is pointless 2. Don´t want this conflict 3. Hate their "elected leaders" which are manipulated by the West.
It is time for the equivalent of the 38th parallel in Korea!
MacArthur went to the Manchurian border in 1951 saw 600,000 Chinese massed - they beat him back to the 38th parallel where he started the False Flag event that initiated the War - and that is where the USA is today.
The Ukraine Military needs to take over Kiev - set up the line north of the east Uraine - with a 50 mile no mans land and call it a day.
In ten years the Ukraine population will move south and east and be a thriving Russian affiliate trading both ways and have a permanent military with Russian support to protect it for the next 100 years and their own considerable tax base and resources.
Leave the Fascists behind in Nulandistan with the USA and the Biden Family - get it over with
Perhaps.
But Kiev is considered the birthplace of Russia.
How about they retreat to the 1654 borders:
https://www.facebook.com/AntiMaidanNews/photos/a.1436889439900635.107374...
That seems more than reasonable, as the year 1654 is about 300 years beyond the consciousness of the cretins and clowns currently running Ukraine.
(Incidentally, the sky blue area of the map linked above constitutes what the citizens of the Luhansk and Donetsk Republics consider "Novorossiya" [New Russia]. )
Ukraine is now a failed state and will remain so for decades. They can thank the Nobel Prize Winner for that:
Among the few western voices to contradict the official propaganda is the professor of political science at the University of Chicago, John J. Mearsheimer. In the September/October issue of the journal Foreign Affairs, he states that Putin is not the aggressor. “The United States and its European allies share most of the responsibility for the crisis. The taproot of the trouble is NATO enlargement, the central element of a larger strategy to move Ukraine out of Russia’s orbit and integrate it into the West.”
Mearsheimer continues: “Putin’s pushback should have come as no surprise…. His response to events (in Ukraine) has been defensive, not offensive.” He points out that the United States would “not tolerate distant great powers deploying military forces anywhere in the Western Hemisphere, much less on its borders. Imagine the outrage in Washington if China built an impressive military alliance and tried to include Canada and Mexico in it.”
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/11/28/pers-n28.html
Ukraine is now a failed state
That seems to happen to them a lot.
Location
Location
Location
Ukraine has never been a sovereign nation.
"Donetsk region"
The current Ukraine regime is making war on its own industrial heartland. This is war it can only lose.
Hey! Hey! USA! Who'd you torture to death today?
Did you get lost on your way to Huffpo lil fella?
He's doing a lot better than the last post.....apparently the KGB has gotten over their hangovers. Nice to see you guys show up.
"Hey, listen. I gotta tell y'all somethin. There are a lot of people out there, in Russia, who think they created all this peaceful de-escalation between them and Ukraine.
You didn't de-escalate that!
Someone else did that for you."
Not de-escilation of business that's for sure
Ukraine Supplies Helicopter Engines to Russia On Schedule
Russia Signed Nuclear Agreements With….Ukraine, Turkey (Existing), Finland, South Africa, India, Algeria, Argentina, Vietnam, Bulgaria (Existing), Belarus (Existing), Iran and U.S.
Russia’s Imperious Group Invests in Ukranian Startup
http://newworldorderg20.wordpress.com
Thank God because sanctions and the collapsing Ruble are absolutely killing Russia!
Oh, wait... Foreign Car Manufacturers To Ramp Up Production in Russia Thanks to Cheap Ruble (Nissan)
And Mercedes said this week that they want to keep their proposed assembly plant, as they said 'the Russian market is too important'.
Next thing to happen will be the Ukranians inviting Putin to do some consultancy for them on gas issues.
I know things might be getting you American ZHers down a bit lately so I thought I'd share a clip that might cheer you up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfU3hI8ML30
This is the work of a seriously sick individual. The thought that the American people could be sujected to a Hillary presidency, makes me shudder, puke and want to scream.
If America cannot do better, then the words of Paul Craig Roberts that "America is dying nation and is about to be run over by history", are correct.
I may hate you for eternity. Ruined my morning coffee.
Pajama-boy goes country.
Just kill me now. I don't want to be here anymore.
Unfortunately pyjama boy runs the country.
Dammit that was hideous. WTF dude? Now I'm all pissed off...
Just as generals are always fighting the last battle, US foreign policy remains mired in the last century.
Does anybody see the similarity between the way the US conducts its foreign policy and the the way US domestic police forces operate?
...When the only tool they have is buckets of stupid...
A very big pile seems to be the answer.
I stand with Novorossiya.
When I see how the Russians are playing this game, they have shown restraint, honor and dignity.
The once respected USA and their CIA and dark ages methods have not handled this so well.
The eagle is no longer flying, the bear is still fishing.
Yes, it's been some turnaround. Russia the much admired good guy, USSA detested internatioal bully.
CIA operations follow the same recurring script. First, American business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or democratically elected leader. The people support their leader because he intends to conduct land reform, strengthen unions, redistribute wealth, nationalize foreign-owned industry, and regulate business to protect workers, consumers and the environment. So, on behalf of American business, and often with their help, the CIA mobilizes the opposition. First it identifies right-wing groups within the country (usually the military), and offers them a deal: “We’ll put you in power if you maintain a favorable business climate for us.” The Agency then hires, trains and works with them to overthrow the existing government (usually a democracy). It uses every trick in the book: propaganda, stuffed ballot boxes, purchased elections, extortion, blackmail, sexual intrigue, false stories about opponents in the local media, infiltration and disruption of opposing political parties, kidnapping, beating, torture, intimidation, economic sabotage, death squads and even assassination. These efforts culminate in a military coup, which installs a right-wing dictator. The CIA trains the dictator’s security apparatus to crack down on the traditional enemies of big business, using interrogation, torture and murder. The victims are said to be “communists,” but almost always they are just peasants, liberals, moderates, labor union leaders, political opponents and advocates of free speech and democracy. Widespread human rights abuses follow.
This scenario has been repeated so many times that the CIA actually teaches it in a special school, the notorious “School of the Americas.” (It opened in Panama but later moved to Fort Benning, Georgia.) Critics have nicknamed it the “School of the Dictators” and “School of the Assassins.” Here, the CIA trains Latin American military officers how to conduct coups, including the use of interrogation, torture and murder.
The Association for Responsible Dissent estimates that by 1987, 6 million people had died as a result of CIA covert operations. (2) Former State Department official William Blum correctly calls this an “American Holocaust.”
The CIA justifies these actions as part of its war against communism. But most coups do not involve a communist threat. Unlucky nations are targeted for a wide variety of reasons: not only threats to American business interests abroad, but also liberal or even moderate social reforms, political instability, the unwillingness of a leader to carry out Washington’s dictates, and declarations of neutrality in the Cold War. Indeed, nothing has infuriated CIA Directors quite like a nation’s desire to stay out of the Cold War.
The ironic thing about all this intervention is that it frequently fails to achieve American objectives. Often the newly installed dictator grows comfortable with the security apparatus the CIA has built for him. He becomes an expert at running a police state. And because the dictator knows he cannot be overthrown, he becomes independent and defiant of Washington’s will. The CIA then finds it cannot overthrow him, because the police and military are under the dictator’s control, afraid to cooperate with American spies for fear of torture and execution. The only two options for the U.S at this point are impotence or war. Examples of this “boomerang effect” include the Shah of Iran, General Noriega and Saddam Hussein. The boomerang effect also explains why the CIA has proven highly successful at overthrowing democracies, but a wretched failure at overthrowing dictatorships.
The following timeline should confirm that the CIA as we know it should be abolished and replaced by a true information-gathering and analysis organization. The CIA cannot be reformed — it is institutionally and culturally corrupt.
1929
The culture we lost — Secretary of State Henry Stimson refuses to endorse a code-breaking operation, saying, “Gentlemen do not read each other’s mail.”
1941
COI created — In preparation for World War II, President Roosevelt creates the Office of Coordinator of Information (COI). General William “Wild Bill” Donovan heads the new intelligence service.
1942
OSS created — Roosevelt restructures COI into something more suitable for covert action, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Donovan recruits so many of the nation’s rich and powerful that eventually people joke that “OSS” stands for “Oh, so social!” or “Oh, such snobs!”
1943
Italy — Donovan recruits the Catholic Church in Rome to be the center of Anglo-American spy operations in Fascist Italy. This would prove to be one of America’s most enduring intelligence alliances in the Cold War.
1945
OSS is abolished — The remaining American information agencies cease covert actions and return to harmless information gathering and analysis.
Operation PAPERCLIP – While other American agencies are hunting down Nazi war criminals for arrest, the U.S. intelligence community is smuggling them into America, unpunished, for their use against the Soviets. The most important of these is Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler’s master spy who had built up an intelligence network in the Soviet Union. With full U.S. blessing, he creates the “Gehlen Organization,” a band of refugee Nazi spies who reactivate their networks in Russia.
These include SS intelligence officers Alfred Six and Emil Augsburg (who massacred Jews in the Holocaust), Klaus Barbie (the “Butcher of Lyon”), Otto von Bolschwing (the Holocaust mastermind who worked with Eichmann) and SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny (a personal friend of Hitler’s). The Gehlen Organization supplies the U.S. with its only intelligence on the Soviet Union for the next ten years, serving as a bridge between the abolishment of the OSS and the creation of the CIA. However, much of the “intelligence” the former Nazis provide is bogus. Gehlen inflates Soviet military capabilities at a time when Russia is still rebuilding its devastated society, in order to inflate his own importance to the Americans (who might otherwise punish him). In 1948, Gehlen almost convinces the Americans that war is imminent, and the West should make a preemptive strike. In the 50s he produces a fictitious “missile gap.” To make matters worse, the Russians have thoroughly penetrated the Gehlen Organization with double agents, undermining the very American security that Gehlen was supposed to protect.
1947
Greece — President Truman requests military aid to Greece to support right-wing forces fighting communist rebels. For the rest of the Cold War, Washington and the CIA will back notorious Greek leaders with deplorable human rights records.
CIA created — President Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947, creating the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Council. The CIA is accountable to the president through the NSC — there is no democratic or congressional oversight. Its charter allows the CIA to “perform such other functions and duties… as the National Security Council may from time to time direct.” This loophole opens the door to covert action and dirty tricks.
1948
Covert-action wing created — The CIA recreates a covert action wing, innocuously called the Office of Policy Coordination, led by Wall Street lawyer Frank Wisner. According to its secret charter, its responsibilities include “propaganda, economic warfare, preventive direct action, including sabotage, antisabotage, demolition and evacuation procedures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, and support of indigenous anti-communist elements in threatened countries of the free world.”
Italy — The CIA corrupts democratic elections in Italy, where Italian communists threaten to win the elections. The CIA buys votes, broadcasts propaganda, threatens and beats up opposition leaders, and infiltrates and disrupts their organizations. It works — the communists are defeated.
1949
Radio Free Europe — The CIA creates its first major propaganda outlet, Radio Free Europe. Over the next several decades, its broadcasts are so blatantly false that for a time it is considered illegal to publish transcripts of them in the U.S.
Late 40s
Operation MOCKINGBIRD — The CIA begins recruiting American news organizations and journalists to become spies and disseminators of propaganda. The effort is headed by Frank Wisner, Allan Dulles, Richard Helms and Philip Graham. Graham is publisher of The Washington Post, which becomes a major CIA player. Eventually, the CIA’s media assets will include ABC, NBC, CBS, Time, Newsweek, Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Copley News Service and more. By the CIA’s own admission, at least 25 organizations and 400 journalists will become CIA assets.
1953
Iran – CIA overthrows the democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh in a military coup, after he threatened to nationalize British oil. The CIA replaces him with a dictator, the Shah of Iran, whose secret police, SAVAK, is as brutal as the Gestapo.
Operation MK-ULTRA — Inspired by North Korea’s brainwashing program, the CIA begins experiments on mind control. The most notorious part of this project involves giving LSD and other drugs to American subjects without their knowledge or against their will, causing several to commit suicide. However, the operation involves far more than this. Funded in part by the Rockefeller and Ford foundations, research includes propaganda, brainwashing, public relations, advertising, hypnosis, and other forms of suggestion.
1954
Guatemala — CIA overthrows the democratically elected Jacob Arbenz in a military coup. Arbenz has threatened to nationalize the Rockefeller-owned United Fruit Company, in which CIA Director Allen Dulles also owns stock. Arbenz is replaced with a series of right-wing dictators whose bloodthirsty policies will kill over 100,000 Guatemalans in the next 40 years.
1954-1958
North Vietnam — CIA officer Edward Lansdale spends four years trying to overthrow the communist government of North Vietnam, using all the usual dirty tricks. The CIA also attempts to legitimize a tyrannical puppet regime in South Vietnam, headed by Ngo Dinh Diem. These efforts fail to win the hearts and minds of the South Vietnamese because the Diem government is opposed to true democracy, land reform and poverty reduction measures. The CIA’s continuing failure results in escalating American intervention, culminating in the Vietnam War.
1956
Hungary — Radio Free Europe incites Hungary to revolt by broadcasting Khruschev’s Secret Speech, in which he denounced Stalin. It also hints that American aid will help the Hungarians fight. This aid fails to materialize as Hungarians launch a doomed armed revolt, which only invites a major Soviet invasion. The conflict kills 7,000 Soviets and 30,000 Hungarians.
1957-1973
Laos — The CIA carries out approximately one coup per year trying to nullify Laos’ democratic elections. The problem is the Pathet Lao, a leftist group with enough popular support to be a member of any coalition government. In the late 50s, the CIA even creates an “Armee Clandestine” of Asian mercenaries to attack the Pathet Lao. After the CIA’s army suffers numerous defeats, the U.S. starts bombing, dropping more bombs on Laos than all the U.S. bombs dropped in World War II. A quarter of all Laotians will eventually become refugees, many living in caves.
1959
Haiti — The U.S. military helps “Papa Doc” Duvalier become dictator of Haiti. He creates his own private police force, the “Tonton Macoutes,” who terrorize the population with machetes. They will kill over 100,000 during the Duvalier family reign. The U.S. does not protest their dismal human rights record.
1961
The Bay of Pigs — The CIA sends 1,500 Cuban exiles to invade Castro’s Cuba. But “Operation Mongoose” fails, due to poor planning, security and backing. The planners had imagined that the invasion will spark a popular uprising against Castro -– which never happens. A promised American air strike also never occurs. This is the CIA’s first public setback, causing President Kennedy to fire CIA Director Allen Dulles.
Dominican Republic — The CIA assassinates Rafael Trujillo, a murderous dictator Washington has supported since 1930. Trujillo’s business interests have grown so large (about 60 percent of the economy) that they have begun competing with American business interests.
Ecuador — The CIA-backed military forces the democratically elected President Jose Velasco to resign. Vice President Carlos Arosemana replaces him; the CIA fills the now vacant vice presidency with its own man.
Congo (Zaire) — The CIA assassinates the democratically elected Patrice Lumumba. However, public support for Lumumba’s politics runs so high that the CIA cannot clearly install his opponents in power. Four years of political turmoil follow.
1963
Dominican Republic — The CIA overthrows the democratically elected Juan Bosch in a military coup. The CIA installs a repressive, right-wing junta.
Ecuador — A CIA-backed military coup overthrows President Arosemana, whose independent (not socialist) policies have become unacceptable to Washington. A military junta assumes command, cancels the 1964 elections, and begins abusing human rights.
1964
Brazil — A CIA-backed military coup overthrows the democratically elected government of Joao Goulart. The junta that replaces it will, in the next two decades, become one of the most bloodthirsty in history. General Castelo Branco will create Latin America’s first death squads, or bands of secret police who hunt down “communists” for torture, interrogation and murder. Often these “communists” are no more than Branco’s political opponents. Later it is revealed that the CIA trains the death squads.
1965
Indonesia — The CIA overthrows the democratically elected Sukarno with a military coup. The CIA has been trying to eliminate Sukarno since 1957, using everything from attempted assassination to sexual intrigue, for nothing more than his declaring neutrality in the Cold War. His successor, General Suharto, will massacre between 500,000 to 1 million civilians accused of being “communist.” The CIA supplies the names of countless suspects.
Dominican Republic — A popular rebellion breaks out, promising to reinstall Juan Bosch as the country’s elected leader. The revolution is crushed when U.S. Marines land to uphold the military regime by force. The CIA directs everything behind the scenes.
Greece — With the CIA’s backing, the king removes George Papandreous as prime minister. Papandreous has failed to vigorously support U.S. interests in Greece.
Congo (Zaire) — A CIA-backed military coup installs Mobutu Sese Seko as dictator. The hated and repressive Mobutu exploits his desperately poor country for billions.
1966
The Ramparts Affair — The radical magazine Ramparts begins a series of unprecedented anti-CIA articles. Among their scoops: the CIA has paid the University of Michigan $25 million dollars to hire “professors” to train South Vietnamese students in covert police methods. MIT and other universities have received similar payments. Ramparts also reveals that the National Students’ Association is a CIA front. Students are sometimes recruited through blackmail and bribery, including draft deferments.
1967
Greece — A CIA-backed military coup overthrows the government two days before the elections. The favorite to win was George Papandreous, the liberal candidate. During the next six years, the “reign of the colonels” — backed by the CIA — will usher in the widespread use of torture and murder against political opponents. When a Greek ambassador objects to President Johnson about U.S. plans for Cypress, Johnson tells him: “Fuck your parliament and your constitution.”
Operation PHEONIX — The CIA helps South Vietnamese agents identify and then murder alleged Viet Cong leaders operating in South Vietnamese villages. According to a 1971 congressional report, this operation killed about 20,000 “Viet Cong.”
1968
Operation CHAOS — The CIA has been illegally spying on American citizens since 1959, but with Operation CHAOS, President Johnson dramatically boosts the effort. CIA agents go undercover as student radicals to spy on and disrupt campus organizations protesting the Vietnam War. They are searching for Russian instigators, which they never find. CHAOS will eventually spy on 7,000 individuals and 1,000 organizations.
Bolivia — A CIA-organized military operation captures legendary guerilla Che Guevara. The CIA wants to keep him alive for interrogation, but the Bolivian government executes him to prevent worldwide calls for clemency.
1969
Uruguay — The notorious CIA torturer Dan Mitrione arrives in Uruguay, a country torn with political strife. Whereas right-wing forces previously used torture only as a last resort, Mitrione convinces them to use it as a routine, widespread practice. “The precise pain, in the precise place, in the precise amount, for the desired effect,” is his motto. The torture techniques he teaches to the death squads rival the Nazis’. He eventually becomes so feared that revolutionaries will kidnap and murder him a year later.
1970
Cambodia — The CIA overthrows Prince Sahounek, who is highly popular among Cambodians for keeping them out of the Vietnam War. He is replaced by CIA puppet Lon Nol, who immediately throws Cambodian troops into battle. This unpopular move strengthens once minor opposition parties like the Khmer Rouge, which achieves power in 1975 and massacres millions of its own people.
1971
Bolivia — After half a decade of CIA-inspired political turmoil, a CIA-backed military coup overthrows the leftist President Juan Torres. In the next two years, dictator Hugo Banzer will have over 2,000 political opponents arrested without trial, then tortured, raped and executed.
Haiti — “Papa Doc” Duvalier dies, leaving his 19-year old son “Baby Doc” Duvalier the dictator of Haiti. His son continues his bloody reign with full knowledge of the CIA.
1972
The Case-Zablocki Act — Congress passes an act requiring congressional review of executive agreements. In theory, this should make CIA operations more accountable. In fact, it is only marginally effective.
Cambodia — Congress votes to cut off CIA funds for its secret war in Cambodia.
Wagergate Break-in — President Nixon sends in a team of burglars to wiretap Democratic offices at Watergate. The team members have extensive CIA histories, including James McCord, E. Howard Hunt and five of the Cuban burglars. They work for the Committee to Reelect the President (CREEP), which does dirty work like disrupting Democratic campaigns and laundering Nixon’s illegal campaign contributions. CREEP’s activities are funded and organized by another CIA front, the Mullen Company.
1973
Chile — The CIA overthrows and assassinates Salvador Allende, Latin America’s first democratically elected socialist leader. The problems begin when Allende nationalizes American-owned firms in Chile. ITT offers the CIA $1 million for a coup (reportedly refused). The CIA replaces Allende with General Augusto Pinochet, who will torture and murder thousands of his own countrymen in a crackdown on labor leaders and the political left.
CIA begins internal investigations — William Colby, the Deputy Director for Operations, orders all CIA personnel to report any and all illegal activities they know about. This information is later reported to Congress.
Watergate Scandal — The CIA’s main collaborating newspaper in America, The Washington Post,reports Nixon’s crimes long before any other newspaper takes up the subject. The two reporters, Woodward and Bernstein, make almost no mention of the CIA’s many fingerprints all over the scandal. It is later revealed that Woodward was a Naval intelligence briefer to the White House, and knows many important intelligence figures, including General Alexander Haig. His main source, “Deep Throat,” is probably one of those.
CIA Director Helms Fired — President Nixon fires CIA Director Richard Helms for failing to help cover up the Watergate scandal. Helms and Nixon have always disliked each other. The new CIA director is William Colby, who is relatively more open to CIA reform.
1974
CHAOS exposed — Pulitzer prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh publishes a story about Operation CHAOS, the domestic surveillance and infiltration of anti-war and civil rights groups in the U.S. The story sparks national outrage.
Angleton fired — Congress holds hearings on the illegal domestic spying efforts of James Jesus Angleton, the CIA’s chief of counterintelligence. His efforts included mail-opening campaigns and secret surveillance of war protesters. The hearings result in his dismissal from the CIA.
House clears CIA in Watergate — The House of Representatives clears the CIA of any complicity in Nixon’s Watergate break-in.
The Hughes Ryan Act — Congress passes an amendment requiring the president to report nonintelligence CIA operations to the relevant congressional committees in a timely fashion.
1975
Australia — The CIA helps topple the democratically elected, left-leaning government of Prime Minister Edward Whitlam. The CIA does this by giving an ultimatum to its Governor-General, John Kerr. Kerr, a longtime CIA collaborator, exercises his constitutional right to dissolve the Whitlam government. The Governor-General is a largely ceremonial position appointed by the Queen; the Prime Minister is democratically elected. The use of this archaic and never-used law stuns the nation.
Angola — Eager to demonstrate American military resolve after its defeat in Vietnam, Henry Kissinger launches a CIA-backed war in Angola. Contrary to Kissinger’s assertions, Angola is a country of little strategic importance and not seriously threatened by communism. The CIA backs the brutal leader of UNITAS, Jonas Savimbi. This polarizes Angolan politics and drives his opponents into the arms of Cuba and the Soviet Union for survival. Congress will cut off funds in 1976, but the CIA is able to run the war off the books until 1984, when funding is legalized again. This entirely pointless war kills over 300,000 Angolans.
“The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence” — Victor Marchetti and John Marks publish this whistle-blowing history of CIA crimes and abuses. Marchetti has spent 14 years in the CIA, eventually becoming an executive assistant to the Deputy Director of Intelligence. Marks has spent five years as an intelligence official in the State Department.
“Inside the Company” — Philip Agee publishes a diary of his life inside the CIA. Agee has worked in covert operations in Latin America during the 60s, and details the crimes in which he took part.
Congress investigates CIA wrong-doing — Public outrage compels Congress to hold hearings on CIA crimes. Senator Frank Church heads the Senate investigation (“The Church Committee”), and Representative Otis Pike heads the House investigation. (Despite a 98 percent incumbency reelection rate, both Church and Pike are defeated in the next elections.) The investigations lead to a number of reforms intended to increase the CIA’s accountability to Congress, including the creation of a standing Senate committee on intelligence. However, the reforms prove ineffective, as the Iran/Contra scandal will show. It turns out the CIA can control, deal with or sidestep Congress with ease.
The Rockefeller Commission — In an attempt to reduce the damage done by the Church Committee, President Ford creates the “Rockefeller Commission” to whitewash CIA history and propose toothless reforms. The commission’s namesake, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, is himself a major CIA figure. Five of the commission’s eight members are also members of the Council on Foreign Relations, a CIA-dominated organization.
1979
Iran — The CIA fails to predict the fall of the Shah of Iran, a longtime CIA puppet, and the rise of Muslim fundamentalists who are furious at the CIA’s backing of SAVAK, the Shah’s bloodthirsty secret police. In revenge, the Muslims take 52 Americans hostage in the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
Afghanistan — The Soviets invade Afghanistan. The CIA immediately begins supplying arms to any faction willing to fight the occupying Soviets. Such indiscriminate arming means that when the Soviets leave Afghanistan, civil war will erupt. Also, fanatical Muslim extremists now possess state-of-the-art weaponry. One of these is Sheik Abdel Rahman, who will become involved in the World Trade Center bombing in New York.
El Salvador — An idealistic group of young military officers, repulsed by the massacre of the poor, overthrows the right-wing government. However, the U.S. compels the inexperienced officers to include many of the old guard in key positions in their new government. Soon, things are back to “normal” — the military government is repressing and killing poor civilian protesters. Many of the young military and civilian reformers, finding themselves powerless, resign in disgust.
Nicaragua — Anastasios Samoza II, the CIA-backed dictator, falls. The Marxist Sandinistas take over government, and they are initially popular because of their commitment to land and anti-poverty reform. Samoza had a murderous and hated personal army called the National Guard. Remnants of the Guard will become the Contras, who fight a CIA-backed guerilla war against the Sandinista government throughout the 1980s.
1980
El Salvador — The Archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Romero, pleads with President Carter “Christian to Christian” to stop aiding the military government slaughtering his people. Carter refuses. Shortly afterwards, right-wing leader Roberto D’Aubuisson has Romero shot through the heart while saying Mass. The country soon dissolves into civil war, with the peasants in the hills fighting against the military government. The CIA and U.S. Armed Forces supply the government with overwhelming military and intelligence superiority. CIA-trained death squads roam the countryside, committing atrocities like that of El Mazote in 1982, where they massacre between 700 and 1000 men, women and children. By 1992, some 63,000 Salvadorans will be killed.
1981
Iran/Contra Begins — The CIA begins selling arms to Iran at high prices, using the profits to arm the Contras fighting the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. President Reagan vows that the Sandinistas will be “pressured” until “they say ‘uncle.’” The CIA’s Freedom Fighter’s Manualdisbursed to the Contras includes instruction on economic sabotage, propaganda, extortion, bribery, blackmail, interrogation, torture, murder and political assassination.
1983
Honduras — The CIA gives Honduran military officers the Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual – 1983, which teaches how to torture people. Honduras’ notorious “Battalion 316? then uses these techniques, with the CIA’s full knowledge, on thousands of leftist dissidents. At least 184 are murdered.
1984
The Boland Amendment — The last of a series of Boland Amendments is passed. These amendments have reduced CIA aid to the Contras; the last one cuts it off completely. However, CIA Director William Casey is already prepared to “hand off” the operation to Colonel Oliver North, who illegally continues supplying the Contras through the CIA’s informal, secret, and self-financing network. This includes “humanitarian aid” donated by Adolph Coors and William Simon, and military aid funded by Iranian arms sales.
1986
Eugene Hasenfus — Nicaragua shoots down a C-123 transport plane carrying military supplies to the Contras. The lone survivor, Eugene Hasenfus, turns out to be a CIA employee, as are the two dead pilots. The airplane belongs to Southern Air Transport, a CIA front. The incident makes a mockery of President Reagan’s claims that the CIA is not illegally arming the Contras.
Iran/Contra Scandal — Although the details have long been known, the Iran/Contra scandal finally captures the media’s attention in 1986. Congress holds hearings, and several key figures (like Oliver North) lie under oath to protect the intelligence community. CIA Director William Casey dies of brain cancer before Congress can question him. All reforms enacted by Congress after the scandal are purely cosmetic.
Haiti — Rising popular revolt in Haiti means that “Baby Doc” Duvalier will remain “President for Life” only if he has a short one. The U.S., which hates instability in a puppet country, flies the despotic Duvalier to the South of France for a comfortable retirement. The CIA then rigs the upcoming elections in favor of another right-wing military strongman. However, violence keeps the country in political turmoil for another four years. The CIA tries to strengthen the military by creating the National Intelligence Service (SIN), which suppresses popular revolt through torture and assassination.
1989
Panama — The U.S. invades Panama to overthrow a dictator of its own making, General Manuel Noriega. Noriega has been on the CIA’s payroll since 1966, and has been transporting drugs with the CIA’s knowledge since 1972. By the late 80s, Noriega’s growing independence and intransigence have angered Washington… so out he goes.
1990
Haiti — Competing against 10 comparatively wealthy candidates, leftist priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide captures 68 percent of the vote. After only eight months in power, however, the CIA-backed military deposes him. More military dictators brutalize the country, as thousands of Haitian refugees escape the turmoil in barely seaworthy boats. As popular opinion calls for Aristide’s return, the CIA begins a disinformation campaign painting the courageous priest as mentally unstable.
1991
The Gulf War — The U.S. liberates Kuwait from Iraq. But Iraq’s dictator, Saddam Hussein, is another creature of the CIA. With U.S. encouragement, Hussein invaded Iran in 1980. During this costly eight-year war, the CIA built up Hussein’s forces with sophisticated arms, intelligence, training and financial backing. This cemented Hussein’s power at home, allowing him to crush the many internal rebellions that erupted from time to time, sometimes with poison gas. It also gave him all the military might he needed to conduct further adventurism — in Kuwait, for example.
The Fall of the Soviet Union — The CIA fails to predict this most important event of the Cold War. This suggests that it has been so busy undermining governments that it hasn’t been doing its primary job: gathering and analyzing information. The fall of the Soviet Union also robs the CIA of its reason for existence: fighting communism. This leads some to accuse the CIA of intentionally failing to predict the downfall of the Soviet Union. Curiously, the intelligence community’s budget is not significantly reduced after the demise of communism.
1992
Economic Espionage — In the years following the end of the Cold War, the CIA is increasingly used for economic espionage. This involves stealing the technological secrets of competing foreign companies and giving them to American ones. Given the CIA’s clear preference for dirty tricks over mere information gathering, the possibility of serious criminal behavior is very great indeed.
1993
Haiti — The chaos in Haiti grows so bad that President Clinton has no choice but to remove the Haitian military dictator, Raoul Cedras, on threat of U.S. invasion. The U.S. occupiers do not arrest Haiti’s military leaders for crimes against humanity, but instead ensure their safety and rich retirements. Aristide is returned to power only after being forced to accept an agenda favorable to the country’s ruling class.
max steel, that was an impressive and educational read. thanks.
So, we're not at war with Russia?
Gee, that was quick.
Oh, I get it. Put the Ukraine back together first, then NATO will clobber Russia.
A Brilliant Plan.
I hope it works out.
Life's a bitch....then you're surfing.
Something must be done about the tribe....they will get us all killed.
Glad to see some kind of accomodation forming between Russia and Ukraine.
Worried about the state-centric vision of energy projects Russia is brewing with EU. States, exactly like mafia, do not peacefully collect their share of profits, they struggle to defraud their partners. That is the nature of States and the personalities that inhabit them.
It's a shrewd move to run the pipeline via Turkey: They can run it to the EU via Greece and from there both via Italy and another one to the Central EU via Serbia, Hungary, etc. They could also run a separate (undersea?) line to Israel.
The latter route would give just cause to 'normal Israelis' to reel in the rabid Zionists in the Knesset (Likud and Netanyahu), that are causing all the trouble in the world.
In one fell swoop they'd make the very need for a line from Qatar or anywhere from the ME totally obsolete.
For those shills who wave the red herring argument of being dependent on a sole source like Russia, they'd better admit that it's better than being dependent on a sole-source like the volatile ME or the USSA bully. At least Russia is bending over backwards to work with the EU, whereas the US acts as an Imperial Dictator and spies on them endlessly. Screw the USSA. The world has had enough of your endless financial fraud and war machine. Ugly American Go Home!
Russia is hugely dependent on oil and gas exports. Russians are not dumb. 'Nuff said.
Even if we kill enough people to get a pipeline right-of-way through Arabia, how is that gaz going to be competitive with Russia's whose gaz is closer and whose infrastructure is in place? Never. Or will it become patriotic for Europeans to "Buy Arab" never mind the price?
Its just hysteria.
Even if we kill enough people to get a pipeline right-of-way through Arabia, how is that gaz going to be competitive with Russia's whose gaz is closer and whose infrastructure is in place?
+100
And Cheap, too!!
Don't forget - IRN can join in on the Fun-filled Pipeline Deal!!!
+100
The pipeline thing is a wise ploy by Russia. Perhaps they can peel Turkey away from the west and into their fold (nominally anyway). Turkey sits on their border and controls access to the Med. Syria is not important at all if Russia gains Turkey.
Going through Greece might provide another lever to give Russia the potential to break up the EU.
All Russia has to do with Ukraine is maintain the status quo.
I'm not sure how the west benefits from any of this nor what western plots actually will come to a beneficial fruition. Gee, we got Syria but Russia already bypassed it... We got the poor part of Ukraine while Russia got the industrial and resource rich half... We lost Turkey and got nuffin' for it.
noben, israel has a huge off shore oil field (aphrodite i believe)...a lot of the mess in ukraine and ME relates back to this field and israel's intention to be a player.
The Leviathan Basin is the whole West Mediterranean geological formation emersonreturn. Israel's two major gas fields within that formation are the Leviathan Field and the Tamar Field. Israel has no interests in Block 12 (also called Aphrodite) further West because it's in Cypriot territory. It has only about a fifth of the reserves as Leviathan and Tamar.
Israel would bring the gas inland at Haifa, across the Golan to Jordan and up the existing Arab Gas Pipeline to Turkey. That's pretty much the reason for the staged Syrian Spring and ensuing civil war to kill the entire Syrian population. Israel's other options are an undersea pipeline to Cyprus or Greece (impractical and costly) or a new pipeline through Lebanon (requires killing entire Lebanese population).
Israel was interested in tying up Russian gas in a destabilized Ukraine until they could get Leviathan producing and piped to Europe as an alternative supply. They hadn't anticipated Russia simply bypassing Ukraine so quickly with North Stream and the now abandoned South Stream. A Turkish pipeline instead of South Stream is still an equal threat to Israel's plans. Israel can still sell plenty of Leviathan gas to Europe, but they're in a much less favorable (and profitable) position if Russia already has alternate pipelines in operation. Worse yet (from their perspective), Israel may be forced to use the Arab Gas Pipeline and run it up to the Turkish-Russian pipeline for transit to Europe.
Israel's best bet at this point is to continue the Syrian genocide for access to the Arab Gas Pipeline, and hope for the economic collapse of Russia so no South Stream or Russian-Turkey pipeline is built. Israel and American firms already have several alternatives they can build quickly to move gas from the Syrian-Turkish border to Europe. If they can get one of those built first, then Russia is in the unfavorable position of building the second one or using the Israeli-American one for transit.
American politicians were sold on the Israeli plans as they were marketed as 'Energy Security for the EU' as an alternative to the 'evil' Russian gas. Destabilizing Ukraine and installing a pro-EU puppet regime worked to interfere with Russia's existing pipelines and was suppose to bring Russia to it's knees economically, making them lose most of their European gas market and preventing further expansion of their pipeline network. It's been a spectacular failure so far.
At this point, Israel is desperate for something - anything - to interfere with Russia getting it's gas to Europe first. They pretty much own the Republicans, so you can expect the usual clownfuckery and goofball ideas in Washington to further Israel's interests. WWIII, for example.
pavewayIV, thank you for the clarification. as always you are thorough and informative. much appreciated.
edit: i forgot to mention spot on! brilliant!
Thanks, but the credit should really go to CNN. I'm pretty sure that's where I heard most of that.
cnn? the first i heard of it was on ZH, probably about 6mos ago...a link to the maps of the area and estimated deposit; clearly my memory and map reading skills are faulty, thanks again. i'll see if i search out the maps again.
Yeah,
The CNN guys get if from ZH...
Oh come on, they own the dems just as much.
Oh come on, they own the dems just as much.
When they invited the EU they came and stole their gold.
Sorry Hunter...
Everything east of Kiev is Russian, most of the Russian food is grown and harvested there for the past decades.
All the remaining unpledged or loosely aligned countries, e.g. Hungary, will get their energy supplied by Russia by new nuclear power plants or natgas.
The Balkans will start to feel the gravity pulling them East again and China adds gravitas. Once Russia completely cuts off Ukraine natgas in a year (once BlueStreamII is going), then the middle countries will need new sources of energy or start burning wood.
Bang bang bang! Europe shoots itself in the foot yet again.
I'd say 2016 or 2017 not 2015. The current pipeline to Turkey is not big enough and it will take at least that long to lay another plus the link through Turkey to Greece etc.
Or maybe it's to ensure their own won't freeze this winter...
Yup Russian military adbisors "helping" to bring cease fire. Like driving around with OSCE and marking locations of all Ukrainian positions on maps and with GPS and then coming back and reporting them to Russian advisors embedded in Grad and artillery units in the pro-Separatist units. Russia will push an attack through Mariupol to link a direct path to Crimea using this new DEAL. I don't think Kiev really agreed to this; it is just Russia's way of rushing through their disinformation because no one is there to say Hell No.
moron, r u from US?
That guy is either ironic or extremely delusional.
Mr.Mad care to read it again . Considering no one well US flags have been raised over their intelligence agency offices and just yesterday they attempted a false flag by blowing a building .
If you are correct, then I would expect a strong denial by Ukraine that it invited the Russians.
You may not know but Russia has these things called satellites that are capable of providing that data. OSCE drive round on their own, without Ukrainians or Russians with them.
As to the land link with Crimea, have you looked on a map at how large it would have to be?
Russia may well be using its power to force a deal on the Ukrainians but I doubt it is being done at 3 star level by the military. The power being exercised here is financial. The West is currently demonstrating that they do not have the money to save Ukraine from the disaster that marches ever closer. Kiev is going to have to yield to Moscow.
I guess rulers in Kiev are becoming concerned about people and the military turning against them. They want forces still loayl to them near Kiev.
Read this, http://www.4thmedia.org/2014/12/terrified-france-warns-russia-of-obama-t...
wow
then I read at the bottom
By Sorcha Faal
Vlad must have made Porky an offer he couldn't refuse, dealing with all those hasbera criminals in Russia proved to be great experience.
My guess is that it means the Christmas cease fire is going to hold.
If it does, Nuland and NATO will claim that it held only because Russian observers were monitoring the Ukrainian positions and the separatists would be identified as the truce breakers if they shelled them with Russians present.
And of course, by extension, it follows that the separatists were responsible for every cease fire violations since Minsk.
Western Logic.