"The CIA: Its Origin, Its Transformation, and Its Militarization" by Dr. Richard Immerman

In his latest work, The Hidden Hand: A Brief History of the CIA, Dr. Richard Immerman of Temple University takes a sobering look at the agency behind some of America's greatest triumphs and her most humiliating blunders. Dr. Immerman explores the various missions of the CIA, from the collection and analysis of information, to secretive operations around the globe. Using the most up to date information available, Dr. Immerman examines the CIA's place in American culture and global affairs, presenting the intricate and divisive nature of the CIA in a way that lets the reader view the Agency in a whole new light. Immerman works to tie together national intelligence and national strategy, highlighting the relationship between the two. From its foundation in 1947 to its heavy involvement in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Central Intelligence Agency plays a key role in the modern day American government. Drawing from his years in the intelligence field, Dr. Immerman will present a lecture which blends experience and a lifetime of study into a powerful, and controversial, narrative.
Length: 71 Minutes
Lecture Date: April 16, 2014

[@bpalpha]

"When everything Americans believe is false, our misinformation campaign will be complete.” ― William Casey CIA Agent Head under Regan

[@tomhassell7985]

a gang of thugs with unlimited funds, answerable to no-one causing havoc which suits big business

[@timothykerr9047]

You sould check out a book by a professor with last name McCoy. The book had a title something like OPIUM AND THE POLITICS OF HEROIN IN SOUTHEAST ASIA. Has some interesting things in it. The US talked the French into shutting down the government opium monopoly in Fr Indochine. Quietly Fr intel took over the opium business in Indochine. There was a lot of money to be made that Fr intel could keep. When the French moved out of Indochine and Americans moved in the CIA took over the opium business. All that money that they did not have to account to congress for. The CIA screwed up our efforts in Vietnam by providing a heavy flow of drugs to our troops. In the end it was really bad. Around the bunkers there were piles of empty heroin viles & and needles. I spent 4 yrs in Vietnam. I was there when America's war ended. I witnessed what the CIA and Navy SEALs were doing under the phoenix program. They were wiping out unarmed villages. Just killing everyone. I went on some CIA raids. The CIA is evil. I could be wrong, but I believe their motto is EVIL FOR THE SAKE OF EVIL. I spent my 20s & 30s working for the Air Force as an undercover asset after they found out I had married the exwife of a Chinese asset. I became a liabilitty after I blew the whistle on a defence contractor and twas let go. But the AF still had my back when the FBI & CIA, who do Boeings dirty work, came after me. The CIA came after not only me, but friends ,& family and anyone helping me. The AF nailed a bunch of them as payback. I nailed a number of them too.

[@VanSisean]

Are you one of the whistleblowers that is the subject of the article "Air Farce One?" concerning Boeing's faulty aircraft manufacturing practices (including attempted sabotage of China Airlines plane deliveries), which was authored by Rick Anderson and published in Seattle Weekly on October 9, 2006? If so, what are your impressions of the recent controversies surrounding Boeing and John Barnett's death, particularly in light of Boeing's 1997 merger with the similarly scandal-plagued McDonnell-Douglas? Also, given your personal experiences with the Phoenix Program in Vietnam, what are your impressions of Douglas Valentine's account of it based on the testimonies of Elton Manzione and others (if you have read Valentine's book)? Your ordeal as described here sounds somewhat similar to that of Verne Lyon, if perhaps a bit less extreme (see "From ISU Student to CIA Spy," Iowa State University, Feb. 7, 2022), alongside those of the likes of Sibel Edmonds (Pete Yost, "FBI Whistle-blower Trying to Get Book Published," The Associated Press, Apr. 11, 2012), Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer (Steven Aftergood, "Behind The Censorship Of Operation Dark Heart," Federation of American Scientists, Sep. 29, 2010), and possibly even Michael Hastings (Carl Gibson, "EXCLUSIVE: Who Killed Michael Hastings?," Occupy, Oct. 24, 2013).

[@timothykerr9047]

Yes. I hadn't seen the article by Rick Anderson in the weekly, but I had sent him material. I believe I told him that it was the FBI or their CIA friends who took out Tom Wales, the federal prosecutor murdered on Queen Anne hill. The regular FBI KNEW their own people or the CIA did it by late the following morning. I had written to Dave Calhoun and told him to stop trying to do hits on me. But he didn't. They killed over 14 friends and people helping me. I had filed a complaint with the WASH BAR ASSO saying that Boeing & Perkins Coei lawyers had used murder to solve a whistle blower problem. My complaint disappeared after two lawyers on the disciplinary board died in a traffic "accident."yeah, I believe they killed that whistle blower. That's the way they do things. On a radio talk show Anthony Mendez, a former #2 man at the CIA said the CIA does hits for big corporations. He said you make it look like a robbery, a heart attack, or an accident. Or a suicide, I would add. He also said very few hitmen want to die doing the hit. A bunch of them went down trying to wax me. I fight back. If you wack them nothing legal wise is going to happen to you.

[@timothykerr9047]

I added a long reply, but it seems to have not gone through. I did not see the Rick Andeson article, but I had sent him material anonymously. Yeah, I think Boeing took the guy out. It is the Boeing way. When I tried to work through the system, Boeing could have thanked me for bringing it to Boeing's attention, rewarded me by putting me on an AOG team and sending me off to Africa or the middle east, then dumping my concerns in the dumpster. But it is more of a power trip to over lunch with the head of the FBI or CIA to say "Kill him, kill him now. And oh , could you film it."

[@VanSisean]

My name is Casey VanSise (you can find information about me fairly readily on Temple University's website). As a History PhD Candidate, I would be very interested to hear more about your own experience, to the extent that you feel comfortable disclosing it.

[@VanSisean]

@@timothykerr9047 Now that I have had an opportunity to view your follow-up comment and done some further preliminary investigation based on that information, did Tom Wales's murder in Oct. 2001 have anything to do with his investigations as documented in Bruce Keppel's Mar. 9, 1999 article in RFE/RL, "Russia: Boeing Denies U.S. Probing Venture," to your knowledge?

[@quantumfineartsandfossils2152]

50:00 +"an intelligence service more congruent with what americas Cold War years had in mind when they created the cia in 1957" "it will require a cultural change"

[@robertgabuna355]

Thank you...!

[@marshalllapenta7656]

Good questions in there.

[@ChinDulles]

Say what you want but Dulles and Helms played apart in an achievement: America played an instrumental role in defeating the nazis and not only staved off communist domination of the world, but without it leading to ww3 or nuclear war. These men and Cia played a role in that!

[@marshalllapenta7656]

He made a great point with that cultural change. 🤔

[@juliannzzineilson241]

A truly disgusting group. We were warned about these types by Kennedy and many others.

[@beatlejuice7755]

The CIA was a continuation of the OSS. FDR's policies required a new intelligence organization and did so under the guise of national security. Madison Grant's Passing of the Great Race, the original book that inspired Adolf Hiterl's Mein Kampf, was one of America's most influential texts that led to the start of WW2 and modern day anti-semitism. Anyone arguing for the CIA does not realize it is just another White Supremecist organization that intends to eradicate any non-whites thru a eugenics program. The arguement against Trump from the CIA is a farse, a false flag.

[@ethanhammond7615]

Man some pictures or a slide show would be nice with these presentations.

[@RCSkunkWorX]

"AND NOW, FRIENDS AND COUNTRYMEN, if the wise and learned philosophers of the elder world, the first observers of nutation and aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the inventors of Congreve rockets and Shrapnel shells, should find their hearts disposed to enquire what has America done for the benefit of mankind? Let our answer be this: America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government. America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom, of generous reciprocity. She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights. She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own. She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama the European world, will be contests of inveterate power, and emerging right. Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force.... She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.... [America’s] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is, Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her Declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice." John Quincy Adams 6th President of the united states.

[@Johnconno]

Who could have guessed in 1947...? It must have happened accidentally.

[@akathevip]

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[@scottdurkee9162]

I can’t listen to this bs any more 🤮

[@gary6754]

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