CIA History of Subversion of Democracy

CIA History of Subversion of Democracy -------/\/\/ CIA History of Subversion of Democracy Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II By William Blum pg. 120 to pg.122 "Covert funding was the name of the game." "Victor Marchetti former executive assistant to the Deputy Director of the CIA, has revealed that in the 1950s the Agency "spent ..." .... Expenditures ... came to about $10 million annually." "The CIA itself has admitted that between 1948 and 1968, it paid a total of $65,160,000 to the Christian Democrats and other parties, to labor groups, and to a wide variety of other organizations in Italy.  It also spent an undisclosed amount in support of magazines and book publishers ..." "It is not known when, if ever, the CIA ended its practice of funding anti-Communist groups in Italy.  Internal Agency documents of 1972 reveal contributions of some $10 million to political parties, affiliated organizations, and 21 individual candidates ... that year." " ... in the 1980s, CIA Director William Casey arranged for Saudi Arabia to pay $2 million to prevent the Communists from achieving electoral gains in Italy." " ... largest oil company in the United States, Exxon Corp., admitted that between 1963 and 1972 it had made political contributions to the Christian Democrats and several other Italian political parties totaling $46 million to $49 Million.  Mobil Oil Corp. also contributed to the Italian electoral process ..." [Money given by CIA to Italian political parties since WWII]: "... ended up "in villas, in vacation homes and in Swiss bank accounts for the politicians themselves." [The Italian Communist Party]: ".... all those years, the party was proceeding along a path revisionist enough to make Lenin turn in his grave ..." "The path was marked by billboards proclaiming "the democratic advance to socialism" and the "national road to socialism", the abandonment of "the dictatorship of the proletariat" ..." "The party pushed it's "national" role as responsible opposition, participated in "the drive for productivity", affirmed its support for a multi-party system and for Italy remaining in the Common Market and in NATO ..." "... files of the State Department and the CIA ... testify to the reality of the Communist Party's "historic compromise" and the evolution of its estrangement from the Soviet Union known as "Eurocommunism." [comment:  misnomer - should be "CIAcommunism".   That explains all those sh*tty fake left political parties in every country.  The ones disavow material socialism (or whatever you call it) and, instead, stand for pretty much what their conservative opposition represents, while both support all facets of Balkanising Cultural Marxism ... presumably on the basis that all gullible plebs are equal. Oh, and as confirmation of their 'legitimacy' as forces for 'good' and 'noble intentions', and evidence of their clear moral superiority,  that's at one with the sacred authority that is the  "international community", in bullsh*tting politician jargon.  Playing Spot-the-Lies, looking for key bullsh*t phrases uttered by politicians would be a good game to play, if I watched enough -- or any -- commercial TV.  ] Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II By William Blum pg. 120 to pg.122 ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENTS How appalling is this? Check out corrupt Saudi Arabia, right in with the CIA -- Saudi Arabia is just another CIA state. Does anyone actually believe that the CIA have stopped funding media publications and political parties,  and that they've stopped bribing and otherwise infiltrating  the media and political parties, across the globe? I don't. So the great 'democracy' debate is itself a LIE -- it's just ruse to distract the masses with to and fro senseless, going nowhere argument to create the ILLUSION of CHOICE as well as the ILLUSION of ACTION.