Counterpunch Article
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July 30, 2014
Pay No Attention to that Man Behind the Curtain
The Media Ignores the CIA in Ukraine
by BILL BLUNDEN
A few days back the Economist published an essay which dismissed the idea of fascists in Kiev as an illusory product of Russian propaganda.
Are readers supposed to categorically assume that U.S. intelligence has played absolutely no role in the coup d’état? So far the bulk of the American media’s coverage of the Ukraine deftly sidesteps the CIA’s role.
Yet all of the signs are there. Former CIA Officer John Stockwell explained that “stirring up deadly ethnic and racial strife has been a standard technique used by the CIA.” Students of history (e.g. Iran, Guatemala, Indonesia, Chile, and Nicaragua) will also recognize many of the hallmarks of a covert destabilization operation.
- Senator John McCain sharing a stage with Oleh Tyahnybok [Svoboda] in the early days of the coup
- CIA director Brennan’s discreet visit to the Ukraine (buried near the end of a Reuters brief)
- taped phone call where Victoria Nuland essentially selects who would replace the deposed president
- disproportionate number of high-level officials in the new government linked to neo-fascist groups
CIA has a well-documented history of supporting authoritarian regimes. If the far-right represents only a small contingent of the Ukrainian electorate, as we’ve been told by allegedly credible sources like Timothy Snyder, how exactly did they end up with so many powerful government slots?
A report by FAIR provides unsettling details:
“The new deputy prime minister, Oleksandr Sych, is from Svoboda; National Security Secretary Andriy Parubiy is a co-founder of the neo-Nazi Social-National Party, Svoboda’s earlier incarnation; the deputy secretary for National Security is Dmytro Yarosh, the head of Right Sector. Chief prosecutor Oleh Makhnitsky is another Svoboda member, as are the ministers for Agriculture and Ecology”
Media’s penetration by the intelligence community
... May ... White House ... accidentally leaked the name of the CIA station chief in Afghanistan to roughly 6,000 reporters.
The White House asked reporters to dutifully “zip it” and that’s exactly what they did.
... one reporter who dared to cross the line and mention the station chief’s name and in print, Ted Rall, was summarily fired before he got the chance. Never mind that this sort of information is all over the Internet.
[US-NATO EXPANSION INTO UKRAINE]
Karl Rove aptly crystallized the prevailing mindset:
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The empire has its sights on expansion. Despite promises made to Gorbachev decades ago by then Secretary of State James Baker that NATO wouldn’t expand into former Soviet countries, that’s exactly what’s been underway. Putin can see this happening and if he’s meddling in the Ukraine it’s only because he’s following the CIA’s lead.
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So what would be the chances of CIA
not being involved?
That leopard ain't changing its spots.
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