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Ronald Reagan’s Torture
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | September 8, 2009
The 2004 CIA Inspector General’s report, released in August 2009, referenced as “background” to the Bush-era abuses the spy agency’s “intermittent involvement in the interrogation of individuals whose interests are opposed to those of the United States.” The report noted “a resurgence in interest” in teaching those techniques in the early 1980s “to foster foreign liaison relationships.”
The report said, “because of political sensitivities,” the CIA’s top brass in the 1980s “forbade Agency officers from using the word ‘interrogation” and substituted the phrase “human resources exploitation” [HRE] in training programs for allied intelligence agencies.
The euphemism aside, the reality of these interrogation techniques remained brutal, with the CIA Inspector General conducting a 1984 investigation of alleged “misconduct on the part of two Agency officers who were involved in interrogations and the death of one individual,” the report said (although the details were redacted in the version released to the public).
In 1984, the CIA also was hit with a scandal over what became known as an “assassination manual” prepared by agency personnel for the Nicaraguan Contras, a rebel group sponsored by the Reagan administration with the goal of ousting Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista government.
Despite those two problems, the questionable training programs apparently continued for another two years. The 2004 IG report states that “in 1986, the Agency ended the HRE training program because of allegations of human rights abuses in Latin America.”
While the report’s references to this earlier era of torture are brief – and the abuses are little-remembered features of Ronald Reagan’s glorified presidency – there have been other glimpses into how Reagan unleashed this earlier “dark side” on the peasants, workers and students of Central America. … continue
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Before the globalists can drop the borders, all humans must work for the same low wages, and all currency be driven down to the same worthless level, and everyone must be a slave to the same global private central bank. This IS the New World Order.
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From what I’ve understood, the total return on the sell-off of Greek utilities and infrastructure would amount to a mere 10-15% of what [it is claimed] Greece owes.
Last year, the British government proposed the sell-off of Welsh, Scottish and English forests, ie, public property, claiming that the measure would help lighten Britain’s debt burden! The Brown administration also floated the idea of taxing savings accounts …
This is sheer insanity.
For those who are interested in the financial situation in Europe, there’s not a blog I would recommend more highly than David Malone’s Golem XIV. He’s digging deep into the roots of the “financial crisis” and floating interesting ideas. See, notably, Who bankrupted Ireland?, in which Malone’s research uncovers a nest of millionaire investors, not the “grannies and orphans” whom financial institutions claim would be hurt by restructure of Irish debt.
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I was talking with our dermatologist about how we might pay off our debt to the Chinese et all. I mentioned Yellow stone national park and she said that Yellow stone was already owned by the UN.
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The Greeks are behaving stupidly, If they don’t want to be sold out they will just have to retire at 65 like most of us, pay their taxes properly so this can happen, instead of wheeling and dealing in cash to get out of paying taxes (Greece isn’t a third world country is it?). Socialism and Communism seem only to make people more surly, sullen and unhappy. People seem to forget know matter who is at the top running things they are usually feathering their own nest or agenda. The most loud outspoken cretins don’t know their history, nothing has changed on Planet Earth since the big bang. Get over yourselves and be happy, or better still try and make some else happy you will better immediately.
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