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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 187
Chapter 7
U.S. Crimes Against Other Nations
In acquiring near total power, we [the United States] have made many
comprises along the way. Particularly during the Cold War, we made numerous
alliances and supported a host of corrupt and authoritarian regimes all over the
world.
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Jim Garrison, Speech made at the State of the World Forum, 2003
The US has had interventions of all sorts around the world. Some intervention have
been good and some has been bad. US foreign intervention has come through many means
including missionaries, through international aid organizations, through international investment,
through arms sales, through military intervention or the threat of military intervention and
through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). This chapter is primarily concerned with
interventions that can be considered crimes against other nations and peoples. These include
coups d'etat, assassinations and other misadventures.
In 1996 Congress acknowledged that the CIA had a criminal nature. Congress has not
only recognized that the CIA is involved in serious crimes in other nations but they have
estimated that these crimes occur at the rate of 100,000 per year. This was exposed in the House
of Representatives’ Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in a report entitled IC21: The
Intelligence Community in the 21st Century. The report stated:
The CS [clandestine service] is the only part of the IC [intelligence
community], indeed of the government, where hundreds of employees on a daily
basis are directed to break extremely serious laws in countries around the world
in the face of frequently sophisticated efforts by foreign governments to catch
them. A safe estimate is that several hundred times a day (easily 100,000 times a
year) DO [Directorate of Operations] officers engage in highly illegal activities
(according to foreign law) that not only risk political embarrassment to the US but
also endanger the freedom if not lives of the participating foreign nationals and,
more than occasionally, of the clandestine officer himself.
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(Emphasis added)
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