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It's not like CIA has some mastermind strategy, it is also a preferred career for old money nepo kids who gain quasi-global legal immunity from these government
by bflesch 2mo ago
It's not like CIA has some mastermind strategy, it is also a preferred career for old money nepo kids who gain quasi-global legal immunity from these government roles. CIA job is much better than being a honorary consul for some shithole just to evade parking tickets.
If those nepo kids like to mingle in the NYC artsy scene, then that's where the funds flow.
- leonidasrup 1mo agoSome of this old money CIA nepo kids do much more then mingle in the NYC artsy scene. For example, George H. W. Bush, born into the old-money Bush family in Massachusetts. The 41st president of the United States. He was appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in 1971 and Chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1973 by Richard Nixon, and Chief of the Liaison Office to the People's Republic of China in 1974 and Director of Central Intelligence in 1976 by Gerald Ford. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush
- bflesch 1mo agoThere are many more..
- expedition32 1mo agoI read a book about CIA operations against China in the 1940s and 50s. Hundreds of people died, a bunch of American agents were imprisoned for literally decades and when Mao told the international press that imperialists were trying to destabilise China even the UK ambassador had to admit it was true.