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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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Michael Collins Piper stated that the Israelis had a hand in the JFK assassination in his excellent book, ‘Final Judgement.’
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Dont you just love the use of the words ‘may have’ that they always use when Israel is concerned
Like they ‘may have committed genocide or a massacre or that it maybe a racist Apartheid occupying Entity
Israel Did assassinate JFK
Israel also murdered Robert Kennedy and JFK Junior and his wife (aircrash)
Israel has killed other people they saw as oponents to their Agenda like poisoning Yasser Arafat, murdering both Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein and other Arab politicians and ministers like Lebanon’s Hariri, Iran’s General Suleimani etc
Israel was behind the Lavon Affair hoping to spark off a war
Israel carried out the attack on USS LIBERTY hoping America would join its war by blaming Egypt but its survivors lived to tell the truth
Israel DID 911, London bombing and attacks. And all the terrorist attacks in Europe Mumbai Australia etc……
Israel behind the murders of over 500 Iraqi Scientists and similar figure for Iranian Scientists
I suspect their Operatives were behind the death of Hugo Chavez injecting him with Cancer along with 3 other Latino Leaders who also had cancers though theirs was not fatal
Everywhich way you look when solving a puzzle, it ALWAYS leads to the Criminal Entity of Israel and its Mossad Sayanem Agents who each time literally get away with murder as they DID in 911 that set in motion their Wars FOR Israel and their minion America ‘s War OF Terror upon the listed Arab Islamic Countries on Israel’s Oded Yinon Clean Break Agenda
After all this is what Mossad and Israel do best- mass murder all their perceived opponents and brave critics falsely tagged with The Jewish Ruse libel of anti semitism coming from a people who are not even Semites at all but are in fact the real Anti Semites against the Arab Semitic Nations
Add to this Money Laundering Drug Trafficking, Human Trafficking of Children and women, their Lucrative Human Organ Trafficking, Arms trafficking, Assassinations and of course Espionage which is so rife in America UK Europe and Canada and their wire tapping in the UN etc Mossad also controls and dictates policies to the CIA
But hey we cannot talk about this at all because of the Self Chosen status of these Criminals who bring darkness, not light, unto the world of Nations.
And a footnote to Alison Weir
I believe they were also behind the sudden untimely death of Michael Collins Piper whom they needed to silence as they did American James Trafficant some months after he was released from prison (trumped up charges Israel arranged) and Canadian lawyer Edgar Steele who died mysteriously in prison again on trumped up charges
Even Aussie Brendon O’Connell arrested served jail time severely beaten up taking a year and a half of freedom from his life coz he upset a Bnia Brith weasel by taking part in a small pro Palestinian demo ; and the unjust persecution of and character assassination of Academic Professors like Dr Kevin Barrett and Canadian Dr Anthony Hall amongst others defamed and who lost their jobs their careers and standing within their respective countries Zio corrupted Academia!
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Years ago I met Alison Weir and invited her to ally with efforts to expose 9-11. This linking of Mossad to JFK assassination is a step in that direction. Better late, than never.
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IF AMERICANS KNEW that the nexus of the 9-11 agenda is Zionism, the cause Alison Weir seeks to motivate Americans to support would have a magnified importance.
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Forward this link to Alison Weir: https://www.dropbox.com/s/36hn5fhuk7paliu/Barrett%2C%20Gage%2C%20Bollyn%202017%20%E2%80%9CThe%20War%20On%20Islam%E2%80%9D%20HD.mp4?dl=0 This is the best overview of Israeli roles in the 9-11 false flags attacks. It’s a presentation by Christopher Bollyn at the Nation of Islam annual plenary session in 2017.
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By his own words, on the record. Larry Silverstein admitted that HE and the NYFD decided to
“PULL” building 7, and he has never been asked to account for it. The NYFD have absolutely denied any involvement whatsoever.
There was no REAL investigation of “9/11” by the American Government because the people watched the whole Crime, live on TV, (almost as if it was a “Hollywood” production).
The NIST Report is an insult to the intelligence of a donkey.
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