CIA’s Secret Army is Unhinged

[727Sky]

CIA Paramilitary operations in the middle east are wild. From the Drone Papers in Iraq and Afghanistan and Yemen to Timber Sycamore in Syria. These missions are under title 50 deniability so the government often doesnt even say they were involved. Today we dive deep into learning about and educating ourselves on the Central Intelligence Agency missions from around the world. The American government has done some crazy stuff over the years. Lets learn about the history of how we got here.

[FCD]

You know, at some point I think you have to seriously ask..."Whose side is the CIA on???"...and..."Is the CIA on anyone's side but the CIA's??"

I am not convinced at all that the CIA is on the side of the American government, or the American taxpayer.  Seems to me they are an organization who is without rules, and amount to a bunch of rich kids from Ivy league schools who are left to their own devices to come up with the weirdest shit they can think of, and then act on it.  For what reason, and purpose?  No one has a clue.

A common matra of the CIA is..."We can neither confirm nor deny that".  Well, after all these years, it seems to me there might be some value in declassifying some of your successes, ones which really did serve the interests of the American public, and celebrating those successes.  Or...do they not exist?

I am inclined to believe the latter until proven differently.

[F2d5thCav]

I think there have been some successes, but part of their schtick is the drama that they alone can know of those and never get the public adoration they think they deserve ... sort of a, " I self-sacrifice and make myself holy thereby ".

Their organizational attitude very likely morphed over the generations.  And decades of conflict with psychotics from the KGB and the Chinese MSS probably didn't do anything positive for the outlook of their field personnel.

Something to note here, however.  There is no shortage of videos like this on Youtube etc. about the CIA.  I would guess there are comparatively fewer about Russian organizations and probably next to none about the MSS.  Point being the people generating these videos seem to happily overlook the f*kery of all the other countries out there.  Absence of coverage doesn't mean they aren't getting up to evil of their own.