The Sordid History of the CIA – Part 4
Tales of the American Empire | July 16, 2026
Tales of the American Empire produces short historical videos about the American empire, like “The Sordid History of the CIA” series that are linked in the description. Most viewers are interested in the American CIA, so this is another episode about videos detailing the evils of the CIA. Some CIA officers work with murderous dictators and criminal organizations involved in the drug trade, arms dealing, and government contract fraud. These evil deeds are sometimes uncovered by the media but receive little attention.
There are great documentaries that provide insight into covert CIA operations. This is far too much material to condense into a short video. Here is a quick review of more great stories about the sordid CIA with a link to them in the description. If the link no longer works, the content has been removed. Two videos from the first part of this series have since disappeared from YouTube. They may be found on smaller hosting websites like Rumble, Bitchute, or Odyssey.
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“Your Favorite Movies Are CIA Propaganda”; Moon; April 13, 2026; 
• Your Favorite Movies Are CIA Propaganda
“The American Colony of Thailand”; September 1, 2022; • The American Colony of Thailand
“Operation Gladio – 1992 documentary”; BBC; 1992; (this has been scrubbed from the BBC website but can be watched here); • Operation Gladio – Full 1992 documentary BBC
“The Destruction of Laos”; October 14, 2021; • The Destruction of Laos
“Exposing The 9/11 Cover-Up | TMZ Investigates: The Fifth Plane”; TMZ; June 3, 2025; • Exposing The 9/11 Cover-Up | TMZ Investiga…
“The CIA in Ethiopia”; September 14, 2023; • The CIA in Ethiopia
“Ex-CIA Agent on the Most Successful Propaganda Campaigns the US Engaged In”; Tucker Carlson; February 18, 2026; • Ex-CIA Agent on the Most Successful Propag…
“The Fake War on Terror in the Philippines”; January 7, 2021; • The Fake War on Terror in the Philippines
“Some Ugly History of the CIA”; Bio-weapons; Phaedrus; April 27, 2024; https://odysee.com/@Learntoswim:1/Tru…
“Did the US Military Withdraw from Afghanistan because of Fentanyl?”; May 22, 2025; • Did the US Military Withdraw from Afghanis…
Tales’ playlist: “The CIA”; • The CIA
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By Hua Bin | July 19, 2026
I have always enjoyed reading a wide variety of books on somewhat arcane subjects. Many are triggered by references from other books, and they form a sort of chain reaction.
Around 10 years ago, I read Webster Griffin Tarpley’s book 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, my first exposure to alternative 9/11 theories of what truly happened in 2001.
Tarpley’s book led me to David Ray Griffin’s The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11.
I subsequently read perhaps 30 books on the subject such as Kevin Ryan’s Another Nineteen: Investigating Legitimate 9/11 Suspects, Chris Bollyn’s Solving 9/11: The Deception That Changed the World, Jim Fetzer’s The 9/11 Conspiracy – the Scamming of America, and more.
Griffin’s New Pearl Harbor further led me to Peter Dale Scott’s The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War as well as his books on the drug trade, particularly his 2010 book American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan and the 2003 book Drugs, Oil, and Wars: the US in Afghanistan, Columbia, and Indochina.
Peter Dale Scott’s books motivated me to explore the subjects of JFK assassination and drug trade, which included many books such as James Douglass’s JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, Alfred McCoy’s The Politics of Heroine: CIA Complicity in Global Drug Trade, and Gary Webb’s Dark Alliance: the CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.
Two books were particularly intriguing among the many on the subjects: Michael Collins Piper’s 1994 book Final Judgement: The Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy and Salvador Astucia’s Opium Lords – Israel, Golden Triangle, and the Kennedy Assassination.
Piper was among the first to connect the JFK assassination to Mossad as Kennedy was adamantly opposed to the Israeli nuclear weapons project and therefore became a threat to Israel to be eliminated.
This theory has been further supported by French historian Laurent Guyenot in his books JFK to 9/11: 50 Years of Deep State and The Unspoken Kennedy Truth.
Salvador Astucia, in turn, developed the thesis that Israel used drug-related interest to carry out the assassination, fingering the hitmen as French-Corsican heroin traffickers and associates of Meyer Lansky, the head of Jewish mafia in the US.
One obscure reference by Astucia in his book led me to a book written by David Martin in 2019 The Assassination of James Forrestal, subject of this article. … continue
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