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> “Some of our people were out of control in those days,” Colby said. “They went too far. There were problems of supervision and administration.” That was in 1
by rdtsc 7y ago
> “Some of our people were out of control in those days,” Colby said. “They went too far. There were problems of supervision and administration.”
That was in 1975 talking about the events in the 1950s. There is this idea that, well CIA might have gone a bit too far, but it was a long time ago. Hiring Nazi scientists, feeding people drugs, murdering, overthrowing governments, conducting torture sessions. That was in those old dark and confused times. Today they just sit at their desks and type reports like nice little bored bureaucrats.
What if they are just as evil and brutal today and we just don't know about it. I have a hard time believing that as an organization, they sort found their moral one day and decided they need to start behaving.
> “Well, he’s gone,” the caller had said. Abramson replied: “Well, that’s too bad.”
Abramson is a doctor treating Olson. Surely, after being told his patient is gone, he would be horrified and demand to know all about the tragedy. But the conversation indicates they were both expecting it to happen. Well who is Dr Harold Abramson, were there any other suspicious deaths associated with his patients. What the heck was Abramson doing that made Olson reconsider seeing his family again and instead opted to head back to New York to this doctor instead. How many Dr. Abramsons are there around today I wonder...
- bilbo0s 7y ago>Today they just sit at their desks and type reports like nice little bored bureaucrats. What if they are just as evil and brutal today and we just don't know about it. Just throwing this out here, but what if it's both. They, like every other nation in the world, are evil and brutal, and the vast majority of them are just sitting at desks somewhere doing fairly mundane jobs. That's just the nature of a modern intelligence agency I bet.
- fl0wenol 7y agoThe trend has been to push the crazy research stuff into the private sector or universities and fund it through intermediaries / grants. Not just the IC but in general.
- RyanAF7 7y agoHannah Arendt wrote about this in The Banality of Evil. Bureaucracies which create disassociation from accountability are necessarily evil. So yeah, I'd imagine you're correct.
- fit2rule 7y ago>What if they are just as evil and brutal today and we just don't know about it. Pay attention to America's illegal wars, and the nature of the innocent victims. Yes, these wars are evil and brutal. That is why the American people are kept un-informed about them. But if you peek beneath the propaganda you will find the ugly truth: the people of the USA have been hoodwinked into letting their military-industrial complex ruin civilisation around the world.
- RyanAF7 7y agoAh yes, the European moron has arrived.