EWO CIA HISTORY-4 The Real Cold War & the Creation of CIA

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Chapters-
INTRO 00:00
Ch.1 The 3 worlds 2:45
Ch.2 Red Planet 9:45
Ch.3 From OSS to CIA 13:53
Ch.4 The NatSec Act 20:27
"Welcome back to the History of the CIA Series! Today we cover the beginning of the Cold War. We lay out some background information about the conflict and discuss the creation of the CIA through the National Security Act of 1947.

Remember to always keep your eyes wide open.

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 INTRO
2:45 Chapter One: The Three Worlds
9:45 Chapter Two: Red Planet
13:53 Chapter Three: From OSS to CIA
20:27 Chapter Four: The National Security Act

BIBLIOGRAPHY

[1] The Jakarta Method - Vincent Bevins (p.11-13)
[2] The Devil’s Chessboard - David Talbot (p.230, 260)
[3] Family of Secrets - Russ Baker (p.17)
[4] The Devil’s Chessboard - David Talbot (Chapter 10), All the Shah’s Men, Stephen Kinzer (full work)
[5] The Devil’s Chessboard - David Talbot (Chapter 10), The Jakarta Method - Vincent Bevins (53-57)
[6] The Devil’s Chessboard - David Talbot (p. 375-389)
[7] Deep Politics and the Death of JFK - Peter Dale Scott (full work), Brothers - David Talbot (full work), The Devil’s Chessboard - David Talbot (Chapter 18)
[8] The Jakarta Method - Vincent Bevins (chapter 5)
[9] The Jakarta Method - Vincent Bevins (full work)
[10] The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein (chapter 3)
[11] The Jakarta Method - Vincent Bevins (p.11-13)
[12] ibid.
[13] ibid. p. 19
[14] For the Soul of Mankind - Melvyn P. Leffler (p.132-133), The Jakarta Method - Vincent Bevins (p. 52-54 )
[15]Legacy of Ashes - Tim Weiner (p.3-25)
[16] ibid. (p.18-19)
[17] ibid. (p.19-25)
[18] Legacy of Ashes- Tim Weiner (p. 18-19),
[19] ibid. (p.19-25) The Devil’s Chessboard - David Talbot (p. 144-145)
[20] The Jakarta Method - Vincent Bevins (p. 15)
[21] Legacy of Ashes - Tim Weiner (p.24) Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia - Paul L. Williams (p. 44)

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INTRO
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what if I told you that the history of the Cold War
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we are taught in school
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is inherently dishonest
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beneath the surface of the decades long Cold War
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between the United States and the Soviet Union
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was a drawn out hot war
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between the western capitalist elite class
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and the poor peasant masses of the post colonial world
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as a Second World War came to an end
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millions of former colonial subjects
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fought for their right to autonomy prosperity and independence
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from their previous imperial overlords
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this clash between the landless masses of the global south
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and the bourgeois elites in Washington DC, New York, London and Paris
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was fought sometimes overtly but often in the shadows
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throughout the second half of the 20th century
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and into the present day
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while the USSR in the United States
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pointed increasingly large nuclear weapons at each other
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and shot rockets into space
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a different, yet intrinsically linked war
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for the hearts and minds of the colonial world was at play
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however the United States and its western allies
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had a secret weapon in this fight
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that they would continue to improve and hone throughout the struggle
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that being the Central Intelligence Agency
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folks, welcome to the Cold War
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and welcome back to the history of the CIA
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if this is your first time joining us on this series
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I want to welcome you
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I make all my videos as standalone products
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as a new viewer, I recommend you watch this part first
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especially as we are entering a new chapter of our series
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if you enjoy the video and how I present information
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the previous parts will always be there
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and will hopefully be equally as enjoyable
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today we are starting a new chapter in our story
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with the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency
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in the previous three parts
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we covered the history of the wartime predecessor to the CIA
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the office of Strategic Services
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their collaboration with Nazis in Europe
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organized crime in China and Harlem and the beginning of Operation Gladio
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the future plans for a shadow anti communist army in Western Europe
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as always in every video
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I cite all my sources
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when a number pops up at the top of the screen
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like this you can find a matching bibliographic citation in the description
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I have a lot to cover today
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as we look at the global
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cultural environment that LED to the birth of the CIA
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and how the Central Intelligence Agency was finally created
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with little regard for its troubling future
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let's begin
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I will do my level best
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to stand up for freedom and democracy around the world
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by keeping the United States of America strong
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and by keeping our eyes wide open
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as we welcome change in the world
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by keeping our eyes wide open
Chapter One: The Three Worlds
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since the majority of our series will be taking place during the Cold War
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the years roughly between 1947 and 1991
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I want to use today's video to
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outline some fundamental dynamics of the Cold War
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and cover a few misconceptions about this
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often misunderstood and misrepresented period
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at least where I am from
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we are taught in high school
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and in most establishment documentary sources
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that the Cold War was essentially an era of long troubled peace
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between the two global superpowers
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the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union
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very little attention is given to the constant state of active conflict
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throughout the rest of the world
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this series will take a very different approach
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from this traditional narrative
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by looking through the lens of the CIA's activities
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from the 1940s to the 1990s
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a different picture emerges
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this period of relative peace between great powers
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becomes an era of innumerable bloodshed and struggle
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between the western capitalists and the emerging countries of the developing world
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I believe that learning the history of the Cold War through this viewpoint
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helped me better understand the world we live in today
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I hope that this will do the same for you as well
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at the end of the Second World War
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the globe could be broadly divided into three major camps
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the first camp or the First World
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as it was known at the time
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was made up of the capitalist Western European countries
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and their settler colonial states in North America
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specifically, Canada and the United States
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by the 1950s, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea
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would all join this arrangement as well
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this grouping of states had gotten exceedingly rich
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through global colonialism over the previous four centuries
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extracting the wealth from their global empires
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be it minerals, cash crops such as tea and tobacco
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or as discussed in the last part
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opium, as well as lumber, rubber slaves, and most recently, oil
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these commodities were then shipped
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to the colonial homelands
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where the industrial capabilities to transform these resources were established
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this practice created a clear division
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between the poor exploited colonial residents
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that work to extract raw materials
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almost solely to the benefit of their colonial rulers
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then, the slightly less poor and more comfortable western working class
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that work to transform the colonial resources into consumer goods
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and finally, the western capitalist elite
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the business owners, lawyers, stock traders, shipping magnets and power brokers
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that owned the productive capabilities
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and profited massively from this whole system
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as we've made clear in past episodes
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most of the early CIA men were from this upper crust of the First World
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throughout the CIA's history
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its directors and agents would continue to be pulled from Wall Street
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elite law firms, and multinational corporations
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that benefited massively from the open door system
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left behind by global colonialism
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take for example Allen Dulles
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who worked at his brother John Foster Dulles's elite Wall Street law firm
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Sullivan & Cromwell
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Sullivan & Cromwell
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represented such clients as United Fruit and the Anglo Iranian Oil Company
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unsurprisingly
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these conflicts of interest would manifest themselves in covert operations
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and illegal meddling abroad
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at the behest of these massive companies
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the CIA would be lobbied by United Fruit to overthrow
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the left wing government of Guatemalan President
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Yacobo Arbens in 1954
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Allen Dulles, the director of the CIA under Eisenhower
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and John Foster Dulles, the secretary of state
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in the same administration
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worked to overthrow the democratically elected government of Arbenz
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and replaced him with a brutal western friendly dictator
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this was one year after the CIA toppled
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the democratically elected government of Muhammad Mozadek in Iran
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at the request of the British government
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and Anglo Iranian Oil Company
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once again, United Fruit and Anglo Iranian
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were both Sullivan & Cromwell clients
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the worlds of the western elite and the CIA
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were for the most of its history intrinsically linked
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with both parties
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pulling from each other's ranks
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George H W Bush, for example
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was the president of a global oil company called Zapata Oil
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among other business ties
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before he became director of CIA in the 1970s
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William Casey, director of CIA under Reagan
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was a partner at the elite corporate law firm
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Hall Casey Dickler and Howley, before his tenure
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this is but a very short list of
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the deep ties between the CIA and the American elite business class
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the reason I put so much emphasis on this point
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is because this interplay between
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American capital and the Central Intelligence Agency
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let to countless illegal and undemocratic operations abroad
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largely in the developing world but also in Europe
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and even, as alleged by some, domestically in the United States
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throughout this series I will continue to point out
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the conflicts of interest
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and the business dealings of relevant CIA figures
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to continue to paint this picture
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of the true motives of America's spy agency
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The Second World on the other hand in 1945
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consisted of the Soviet Union
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and the new Eastern Bloc states that occupied in Eastern Europe
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following the fall of Nazi Germany
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as previously mentioned
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traditional histories of the Cold War
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focus almost entirely on the cold conflict
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between the USSR and NATO
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through nuclear posturing
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proxy wars and moments of diplomacy
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for the purposes of this series
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and as I will explain in depth throughout this part
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the competition between the first and Second World
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will not feature very prominently in this series
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at least not in the traditional sense
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the real point of interest for the burgeoning CIA
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was the Third World
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the Third World was essentially
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every country that was still under colonial rule
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or had previously been under western colonial rule
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at the war's end
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this represented nearly two thirds of the globe's population in 1945
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throughout the Cold War
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the colonized world would fight a bitter struggle
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against their former colonial overlords
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for autonomy and the right to choose their own destiny
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the right to control their natural resources
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and the choice on how to organise their society
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in 1945 however
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most of the Third World remained
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under direct European or American control
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India, parts of the Middle East, and large swaths of Africa
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remained under the British
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Indochina, Syria and much of the rest of Africa
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was still French
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Indonesia remained in the control of the Dutch
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and the Philippines remained under American control
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this would not be a sustainable system however
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as colonial resentment, nationalism and Marxism
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spread throughout the global south
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furthermore, the Soviet Union
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and later Mao's China and Castro's Cuba
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were vocal supporters of the decolonization of the west's former colonies
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giving moral and at times material support
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to these causes
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these tensions between former colonial overlords
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and the exploited peasantry of the Third World
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is where the Cold War became a hot war
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and where the CIA would be used as a tool of neo colonial subjugation
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and western capital
Chapter Two: Red Planet
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during this period of colonial unease
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the rise of global socialism
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was the western elite class's worst nightmare
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Marxist rhetoric of class warfare and redistribution of wealth
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left serious anxiety with the rapacious global corporations
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that had been ruthlessly exploiting the postcolonial states for the past century
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the idea of forgoing these insane profits was untenable
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to the American, British and French ruling elites
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Marxism was also a natural fit in the decolonized states
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as the people living under this arrangement
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were some of the most exploited people on the planet
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soon after the end of the Second World War, in 1949
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Mao Zedong's People's Liberation Army in China
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inspired countless colonial peasants across the globe
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as he armed farmers and laborers
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against the western backed nationalists of Shangkai Shek
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this peasant revolution rang alarm bells in the halls of power across the west
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as it made it clear how effective grassroots insurgencies could be
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at toppling unpopular western backed governments
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it is important to note here
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a fact that is often overlooked in today's conversations about the Cold War
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communism as a global force
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was an idea that needed to be actively fought
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and destroyed by the western elite class
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as it posed an existential threat to their existence
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inherent in Marxism is the redistribution of wealth
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and most scary to the western capitalists, was land reform
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wherein the new nationalist or Marxist government seized all foreign owned land
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and redistributed to the people within that society
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essentially cutting off the western middleman
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this was a devastating prospect
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for the western oil firms
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mining firms and agricultural corporations, such as United Fruit
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which ran their Central American and Caribbean plantations
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like feudal kingdoms
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communism was untenable for these corporations
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that had deep political power
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within the institutions of the west
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another ideology that was rising across the world, was nationalism
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contrary to popular depictions of the Cold War
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not all Third World revolutionary leaders
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were Marxists in the early Cold War
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actually quite the opposite
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these states, these national states
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were prominent throughout the Cold War
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embracing a third way
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outside of the communist-capitalist paradigm
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that was laid out by the superpowers
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these states decided to work both sides
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and try to create their own destiny
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in the 1960s countries such as Egypt, Indonesia, India
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and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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would form the Non Aligned Movement
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an anti colonial movement of states that work to maintain autonomy
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and remain neutral in the growing Cold War
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this however, was still untenable to the CIA
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and their elite benefactors
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as nationalists believed equally in the dreaded land reform
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that we mentioned earlier
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therefore a cycle began to form
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that would repeat again and again across the globe
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as we'll see in the series
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where nationalist leaders will be pushed by the CIA
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to embrace Marxism
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due to harsh and often violent opposition from the west
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these states will be forced to gain support
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from communist states such as the Soviet Union and China
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to complete their revolution
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so in turn
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most of the CIA's activities throughout the Cold War
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were not directly aimed at the Soviet Union
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or undermining the activities of Communist China
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they were aimed at manipulating global circumstances
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to ensure that western capital
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remained in firm control of the Global South's wealth
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this is a bit of a spoiler
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to the end of the Cold War here
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but they largely succeeded in this goal
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as you will see throughout this series
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the main battlefields of the Cold War
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were not Berlin or Moscow
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they were in the global south
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and this would be a dirty war
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full of trickery, crime and injustice
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so with all that laid out
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let's discuss the creation of the CIA
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and the passing of one of the most significant pieces of legislation
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in American history, the National Security Act of 1947
Chapter Three: From OSS to CIA
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after Truman ordered the dropping of
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the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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in August 1945, Japan agreed to unconditional surrender
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and the world's six year long nightmare was over
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only two weeks after the wars end
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President Harry Truman ordered the OSS
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the USS wartime spy agency
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to largely disband, leaving only a few agents in key European locations
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Dulles, Donovan, Angleton and all the other OSS boys
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went back to their now seemingly boring desk jobs
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in the upper crust of American society
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Colonel William Donovan's days as the leader of American intelligence were over
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and this mostly marks his departure from our series
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although, as we will see
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Donovan remained intimately connected to the future CIA
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through his help in creating shell companies
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to help funnel illegal funds to Gladio forces across Europe
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as I mentioned in previous parts
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CIA agents rarely retire from their intelligence roles
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they simply shift into other useful business
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for Wild Bill, this was the case
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but for now, we say goodbye to this character
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his influence in helping save Nazis from Nuremberg
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will be remembered
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between the dissolution of the OSS in 1945
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and the creation of the CIA in 1947
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there was a transition period
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President Truman was very reluctant to create a peace time intelligence agency
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due in part to his Liberal leanings
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Truman feared that creating an operating agency
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that had unlimited power
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to conduct illegal operations across the globe
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was potentially dangerous to American and global democracy
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however pressure for the creation of a new spy agency
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came to him from all ends of the security state
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firstly the FBI proposed their bid
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to undertake the new spying functions
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of the US government abroad
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under their authoritarian director J Edgar Hoover
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the FBI had formed a strong
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domestic intelligence network in the United States
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spying on leftists and subverting political action on American soil
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allegedly, Hoover forever cunning
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actively sabotage the creation
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of a civilian intelligence agency
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by doctoring a report that was delivered to Harry Truman
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outlining the OSS activities during the war as largely ineffective
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of course he wasn't wrong
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but he was clearly just trying to persuade the president
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to give him ultimate control of the agency
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so this isn't exactly a noble move on his part
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J Edgar Hoover will continue to have a mixed relationship
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with the future CIA
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as we will explore in the next parts
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when we uncover the shadowy blackmail network
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that tied both agencies together
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but that's for another day
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The Joint Chiefs of staff at the Pentagon also argued
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that they should become the sole proprietor of American intelligence
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as they already had an international foothold
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and were already conducting global espionage
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under their military intelligence branch of the Pentagon
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an organization that will continue to rub shoulders of the CIA
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throughout its history
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ultimately the former OSS men won this arms race
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for the future of American intelligence
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after several meetings with former OSS agents
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on January 24th, 1946 Truman reluctantly created
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the Central Intelligence Group under the War Department
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a very short lived agency
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with minor authority to conduct international activities
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apparently Truman created the CIG
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to simply provide him with a daily intelligence brief
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little did he know
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that he had opened the door for the development of the future CIA
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and all its ensuing operations
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The Central Intelligence Group
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attempted to leverage its limited powers to act against global communism
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but largely failed to make any real impact
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their first operation took place in Romania
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where they attempted to mobilize an irrelevant right wing party
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known as the National Peasant Party
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to resist the Soviet Union and create a western aligned state in Romania
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the OSS had created a small network of anti communist
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allies in Romania during the war
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due to the efforts of Wild Bill Donovan
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and another important figure of the early CIA, Frank Wisner
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wizner or just Wiz for short
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was the charming son of a rich Mississippi landowner
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in the Jim Crow South
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he came from an incredibly privileged background
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as did many of his other colleagues
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but he allegedly didn't even dress himself as a child
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instead he would just lay on the bed
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and let a servant dress him for him
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Wisner attended a prestigious private school
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and went to the university of Virginia
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where he was a part of the mysterious secret society of seven
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this society remains so secret
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the names of its members
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are only revealed upon their death
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secret societies will play a crucial role in future CIA operations
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as shadowy forums for backroom deals
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and liaisons between organized crime
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and legitimate figures of the security state
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Wiz graduated from college with a law degree
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and like so many other future CIA agents
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joined a white collared law firm on Wall Street
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Wisner was the OSS station chief in Romania during the war
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where he helped organize a small
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community of German fascists into an anti Communist stay behind force
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to fight the future Soviet invasion
19:06
Wizner's stay behind organization in Romania
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foreshadowed the future Operation Gladio
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that would place fascist paramilitary cells across Western Europe
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to fight communists
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despite his best efforts to combat Romanian communists
19:19
wizarders networks were completely wasted by the Central Intelligence Group
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as once they were activated in Soviet occupied territory
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they were quickly rounded up by Russian intelligence agents
19:28
and sent to the gulags
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to add to the failure
19:31
the CIGS misstep LED to a quicker official integration of Romania
19:36
into the Soviet Union by Stalin
19:38
fearing more subversive activity in the territory
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The Central Intelligence Group did provide
19:43
one important lesson to the future CIA
19:46
there existed a massive gap in intelligence experience
19:50
and capabilities between the Americans and the Soviets
19:53
at this time
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especially given Stalins repressive and omnipresent reach
19:58
throughout the USSR
20:00
The Soviet Union had been running their secret agency Cheka
20:03
the predecessor of the KGB since 1917
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and had become masters at counter intelligence
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comparatively to the relatively new American intelligence apparatus
20:12
that had only been in effect since 1941
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throughout the Cold War
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American covert operations behind the Iron Curtain
20:19
would be mostly futile
20:21
which LED the agency to fighting the advance of communism
20:24
on other fronts around the world instead
Chapter Four: The National Security Act
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under the CIGS second director Air Marshal Hoyt Vandenberg
20:34
the agency would be reformed into the CIA of today
20:37
but not without the help of the venerable Allen Dulles
20:40
while the CIG failed to subvert the Soviet Union in Europe
20:44
our old pal Allen Dulles
20:45
was working hard at his former law firm
20:47
Sullivan & Cromwell on Wall Street
20:49
although on paper
20:50
Allen Dulles was working as a lawyer during this period
20:53
he did continue to liais with his former OSS colleagues
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to plot the course of the future CIA
20:59
he and Wild Bill Donovan created a work plan for the future agency
21:03
in the years of 1946 and 1947
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he was also elected as the president of the council of Foreign Relations in 1945
21:12
a powerful think tank of former army men, business leaders and politicians
21:17
that work to preserve American supremacy across the globe
21:21
Dulles did not retire from spy craft after the war
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he was simply on a hiatus
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these efforts to remain intimately connected to the post war security state
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paid off massively, when in 1947
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Dulles was called forward by the Senate Armed Services Committee
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to lay out the architecture of the future CIA
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the outline he devised was largely based on Wild Bill Donovan's dreams
21:44
a highly funded top secret unaccountable agency
21:48
that could operate globally without any limitations
21:52
the report was presented to Truman in 1947
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and after years of constant lobbying by the FBI
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the Pentagon and former OSS agents
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he finally agreed to the proposal
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coincidentally
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or maybe not so coincidentally
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1947 was also the year that Truman declared his famous Truman Doctrine
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where he officially positioned the United States
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as an overt enemy of communism across the globe
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he stated to Congress in March 1947
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while requesting military aid to anti communist forces in Greece
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quote I believe that it must be
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the policy of the United States to support free people
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who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities
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or by outside pressure
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and with the utterance of these words the Cold War had begun
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Truman's words about freedom and fighting for the oppressed
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sounded really nice on the surface
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but as we will see in the next part of the series
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these words would manifest themselves immediately
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in the support of fascist paramilitaries
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and a deeply unpopular monarchist government in post war Greece
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Truman could not simply create the Central Intelligence Agency
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out of thin air though, he needed congressional approval
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so in June 1947 a congressional committee was convened
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and Allen Dulles was brought into DC to present the proposal
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at this point with the rise of the Red Scare
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and the encroachment of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe
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the US government was looking for any way
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to subvert the spread of socialism across the globe
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so in 1947 Truman signed the grotesque National Security Act
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which I consider to be up there with the Patriot Act
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as one of the most devastating pieces of legislation for American civil liberties
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The National Security Act of 1947, created firstly
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the National Security Council
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a new direct line between the White House and the Joint Chiefs of staff
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essentially further blurring the lines between the political arena
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and the military
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but also adding an extra layer of fog
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between military decision making
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furthermore, it also created the secretary of defence position
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which unified all military branches under one civilian leader
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the act also created the US Air Force
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which had previously been under the army
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with good old General Vandenburg
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the leader of the Central Intelligence Group as its new leader
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and finally, the National Security Act
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included the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency
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an independent civilian intelligence agency
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with an operating budget a staff and a global reach
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and just like that, with the signing of one act
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President Truman created one of the most influential
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and damaging organizations in the modern world
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the CIA would be able to conduct
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illegal regime change operations
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political assassinations, coups and all sorts of other immoral acts
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due to 11 words in the National Security Act
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nowhere does the OC prescribe the
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outright authority to conduct a ny of these operations
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but it does include 11 innocuous words
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that would define the CIA's mandate until the present day
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the act firstly
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allows the CIA to correlate evaluate and disseminate intelligence
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which is all very standard intelligence work
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but it's what comes next that is very problematic
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on top of those functions
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the National Security Act allows the CIA to perform quote
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other functions and duties related to intelligence
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affecting national security
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these 11 words
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that do not define anything in particular
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would form the legal basis for
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all the activities we will be covering in this series
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all the illegal coups, assassinations drug smuggling, blackmail and extortion
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would be covered by this vague and unassuming passage
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and all this illegal activity started in Greece in 1947
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where a brutal civil war was unfolding between communists and monarchists
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and this is where the CIA operated for the first time
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and we will cover this in the next part of this series
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and that's all I've got for today folks
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and I think that's been a pretty good schedule for me so far
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as I previously mentioned
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we're gonna be covering the Greek civil war
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which is the first CIA operation that's officially on the books
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and we might also cover a bit more Gladio stuff
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I know I told you guys
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that I would cover some Vatican stuff in this part
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I just really didn't have the the time for it in this video
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I try not to exceed 30 minutes and that's really a big topic
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so if we have time next week with Greece
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I'll try to cover all the other
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sort of early gladiovatic and stuff
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I promise um
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but I can't promise anything so we'll see
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um that being said
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thank you so much for watching this full way through
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and as always you know, this is the history of the CIA
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and remember to always keep your eyes wide
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open take care