“Western Europe
has only 20 to 30 more years of democracy left in
it; after that it will slide, engineless and
rudderless, under the surrounding sea of
dictatorship, and whether the dictation comes from a
politburo or a junta will not make that much
difference.”
– Willy
Brandt (German Federal Chancellor, right before he
stepped down in 1974)
June 15, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" - Believe it or not, but the dystopic view that
democracy is dead is by no measure a new idea.
However, what might disturb you is where this
design, in its contemporary form, really germinated
from.
The idea that democracy is in a crisis and needs
to be replaced with a new form of “governance” did
not originate from the outcries of an oppressed
people demanding their rights to a decent life. We
are not presently seeing an organic, grassroots
process in reforming how government, that is,
democracy will be “improved” upon. Rather, what we
are seeing is a controlled disintegration of the
very thing we think we are trying to uphold, and
this destruction has been in the works for over 45
years.
It is no coincidence that Samuel P. Huntington is
very fond of the Willy Brandt quote “prophesising”
the end of democracy (which was used at the
beginning of both his books ‘The
Crisis of Democracy’ and ‘Disaffected
Democracies’), that is after all his purpose in
life…to see to it that that prophecy comes true.
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In this paper I will go through how the Henry
Kissinger crew successfully purged the last
significant remnants of decency within the CIA and
reshaped the government structure into the Deep
State that we see it grotesquely throbbing as today.
In this story, we will see how those prominent
figureheads who prophesise the “end of democracy”
have been the very orchestrators of its destruction.
The First
Purge of American Intelligence: The Dismantling of
the OSS
On March 4th 1933, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt would be elected President of the United
States, which would become a twelve year presidency,
ending only due to his passing away. Roosevelt was
an anti-imperialist who actively, and successfully,
organised towards
abolishing imperialism throughout the world.
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was
established by Roosevelt on June 13th 1942, under
the direction of William J. Donovan, as a wartime
intelligence agency. Its purpose was to collect and
analyze strategic information required by the Joint
Chiefs of Staff and to conduct special operations
not assigned to other agencies.
Contrary to how we think of American foreign
intelligence today, the raison d’être of the OSS was
to genuinely win the war (WWII) quickly and with the
least amount of loss.
However, FDR would pass away on April 12th 1945,
and the OSS would be dismantled a mere five months
after FDR’s passing and two weeks after the official
end of WWII.
On Sept 20th 1945, Truman infamously ordered the
shutdown of the OSS,
referring to it as a potential Gestapo ,
however, not with the intention to disband all
foreign intelligence capabilities. The OSS would be
replaced under the new banner of CIA, on Sept 18th
1947, and more importantly as a contingent to the
National Security Council which was created on the
same day. Refer to
my paper on this.
Many respectable and patriotic intelligence
officers of repute, who were loyal to FDR’s vision,
were also thrown out of the intelligence community
with the disbanding of the OSS.
In August 1949, the Soviet Union tested its first
atomic bomb, several years before the 1953 date
forecast by the CIA. As a response, the Joint
Intelligence Committee submitted an estimate of the
nature of the nuclear threat from the Soviets.
JIC-502 claimed that once the Soviets had 200 atomic
bombs, they could launch a surprise attack and
defeat the U.S.
These assertions were made without analysis of
Soviet capabilities to actually deliver the weapons,
let alone produce them at that rate. The estimates
did not even attempt to analyze Soviet strategic
intentions.
JIC-502, titled “Implications of Soviet
Possession of Atomic Weapons” and drafted Jan 20th
1950, turned out not to be an intelligence report at
all but rather a sales pitch, claiming that a
nuclear-armed Soviet Union had introduced the notion
that “a tremendous military advantage would be
gained by the power that struck first and succeeded
in carrying through an effective surprise attack.”
It was JIC-502 which would be the first to put
forward a justification for the preventive first
strike concept, supported by a massive military
buildup under the pretence of pre-emptive war.
NSC-68 would be drafted the same year, declaring
that the U.S. was in the moral equivalent of war
with the Soviet Union and called for a massive
military buildup to be completed by 1954 dubbed the
“year of maximum danger”, the year JIC-502 claimed
the Soviets would achieve military superiority and
be able to launch war against the U.S. This proposed
military buildup would increase the defense budget
from $10 billion to $40 billion from 1950-53.
During this same period another security doctrine
was drafted, titled “NSC-75: A Report to the NSC by
the Executive Secretary on British Military
Commitments”. The report concluded that if the
British Empire collapsed, and Britain could no
longer carry out these deployments, in defending the
“free world” against the Soviets, the U.S. would not
be able to carry out its current foreign policy,
including NSC-68.
It was thus concluded in the report that it would
be more cost-effective to aid Britain in saving its
Empire!
If you were ever wondering why the CIA was
constantly found paired with British Intelligence,
starting from its very inception, in a series of
coups in countries they had no reason to be in, now
you know why.
The U.S. had gone from an
explicit mission to end imperialism worldwide
under Roosevelt, to actively supporting and
upholding British colonies and vassal states under
Truman!
This was all done under the pretence of
protecting the “free world” from the evil boogeymen
Soviets, whom Churchill decided to be labelled such
in his Iron Curtain Speech. And thus, the interests
of the British Empire were safeguarded by an abiding
American stooge, as long as the narrative that all
Russians were villains was believed.
Interestingly, the CIA was not on board with the
pre-emptive war strategy, as defined by JIC-502. In
February 1950 the CIA responded in
ORE 91-49, stating:
“It is always possible…that the USSR would
initiate a war if it should estimate that a Western
attack was impending. [However], It is not yet
possible to estimate with any precision the effects
of Soviet possession of the Atomic Bomb upon the
probability of war. The implications of atomic
warfare, either militarily or psychologically, have
not yet been fully appraised.” (emphasis added)
In other words, the CIA was stating that
JIC-502’s frantic lunacy in demanding a military
buildup and first strike capability against the
Soviets was groundless. That there was no data to
support such a claim, and thus such a response would
be a reckless and dangerous one.
It became evident to those who wished to push
through these permanent war policies that the CIA
was going to need “stronger” leadership.
At least, this was the argument made by the
Dulles-Jackson-Correa Report which called for a
strong CIA Director in the wake of the Cold War.
Though Walter Bedell Smith, who would become CIA
Director from 1950-53, did much to reorganise the
CIA away from the pre-emptive war mongering, it was
ultimately Allen Dulles who would take the CIA
throne.
It should not come as a surprise that Dulles had
himself in mind the whole time when he was talking
about the stuff that was needed for a “strong” CIA
Director… however, he was not referring to a strong
mind, but rather a strong stomach.
Dulles would act as Director of the CIA from
1953-61, until he was fired by President Kennedy
(along with the Deputy Director and Deputy Director
for Plans), all three were caught essentially
committing treason during the Bay of Pigs fiasco,
refer to
my paper on this.
McCone would replace Dulles as CIA Director and
would attempt to clear the CIA of its Dulles
loyalists in the Bay of Pigs incident; unfortunately
it would not be enough.
During Dulles’ term as CIA Director, he did
nothing less than entrench America’s role in
exacting permanent warfare across the world against
“communist insurgents”, with the never-ending
Indochina wars lasting for over 35 years.
Though Bedell Smith would only be CIA Director
for three years, he would succeed, along with
Donovan (founder of the OSS) to create the most
strategically important departments within the CIA:
the Office of National Estimates (ONE).
Smith sought potential candidates for this new
branch from those who had been thrown out of the
intelligence community when Truman disbanded the
OSS. Many of these “retired” intelligence officers
had served in the OSS’ original Research and
Analysis Branch; including William Langer and
Sherman Kent who both played crucial roles in the
running of ONE. Both Langer and Kent were reputable
historians.
It was recognised that there was a crisis in
competent intelligence gathering and analysis that
would in turn be used to shape reckless war
mongering policies such as JIC-502, NSC-68 and
NSC-75. As Kent would state, there were those in the
CIA who were “seeking power through sacrificing the
truth.”
The formation of ONE was to be a major pushback
on this type of groupthink within the intelligence
community.
Kent would comment on the issue of the agency’s
security screening (McCarthyism was in full swing at
the time) stating:
“When an intelligence staff has been screened
through [too finely], its members will be as alike
as tiles on a bathroom floor – and about as capable
of meaningful and original thought.”
In summary, since the death of FDR there was a
somewhat open battle between members of the
intelligence community, which could be categorised
as FDR loyalists vs Churchill loyalists (1).
Although there was an attempt to expunge the most
notable intelligence officers who remained
anti-imperial, Bedell Smith was successful in
bringing these men back in, under the reorganised
department ONE, who would in turn be a form of sane
leadership within the CIA.
Unfortunately, the NSC did not share these views
and there would be a second purge of the last
remnants of true American patriots.
The Second
Purge of American Intelligence: The Deep State is
Born
From the moment Kissinger assumed the post of
National Security Advisor to Nixon, he set out to
centralize all intelligence estimates, diplomatic
initiatives, and covert operations over figuratively
and sometimes literal dead bodies of members of the
CIA, Joint Chiefs of Staff, State Department and
Congress.
According to John Ranelagh in
his book The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the
CIA:
“Very early in the Nixon administration, it
became clear that the President wanted Henry
Kissinger to run intelligence for him and that the
NSC staff in the White House under Kissinger would
control the intelligence community. This was the
beginning of a shift of power away from the CIA to a
new center: the growing NSC staff.”
Kissinger would use the Watergate scandal, where
the CIA was caught by Congress directly implicated
in
treasonous activities, as the impetus needed to
form a new CIA, a secret branch away from the
scrutiny of Congress.
In 1978, Kissinger would launch the Intelligence
Reorganization and Reform Act, which essentially
worked to “clean house” of the intelligence
community.
In 1982, under the direction of Kissinger,
President Reagan would sign
NSDD 77 under Cold War duress, which would
launch Project Democracy, a sardonic name for a
Trojan Horse.
NSDD 77 allowed Project Democracy the reins over
“covert action on a broad scale” as well as overt
public actions later to be associated with the
National Endowment for Democracy (NED). The
directive ordered the CIA to stay out of both the
overt and covert part of Project Democracy, thus
giving free reign to the Kissingerian “NSC
apparatus”.
Almost one year later, the uninformed and naïve
Congress passed the NED Act in Oct 1983, and
effectively signed off on wrapping duct tape around
their heads.
The structure of the NED essentially functions as
a private CIA political operations arm of an
invisible, secret government beyond accountability
and beyond the reach of the law.
Those who still had a degree of humanity as
members of the intelligence community, and had
survived the Kissinger purge, were simply kept in
the dark about the cloak and dagger operations of
the secret government branch.
As for the department ONE, they would be
disbanded in 1973 (the year Kissinger became
Secretary of State) and replaced with a “group of
experts” that would later form the National
Intelligence Council in 1979. This would be the last
purge of sane patriotic leadership within the
intelligence community, left to the hyenas and
jackals to run from thenceforth.
In a 1991
interview, then NED President David Ignatius
arrogantly stated “a lot of what we do today was
done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA…The biggest
difference is that when such activities are done
overtly, the flap potential is close to zero.
Openness is its own protection”.
The Real
“Crisis of Democracy”
The Trilateral Commission was founded in the wake
of Watergate and oil crisis of 1973. It was formed
under the pretence of addressing the “crisis of
democracy” and calling for a reshaping of political
systems in order to form a more “stable”
international order and “cooperative” relations
among regions.
Its formation would be organised by Britain’s
hand in America, the Council on Foreign Relations,
(aka: the offspring of the Royal Institute for
International Affairs, the leading think tank for
the British Crown).
Project Democracy would originate out of a
Trilateral Commission meeting on May 31st, 1975 in
Kyoto Japan, where the Trilateral Commission’s “Task
Force on the Governability of Democracies” findings
were delivered. The project was overseen by
Trilateral Commission Director Zbigniew Brzezinski
and its members James Schlesinger (former CIA
Director) and Samuel P. Huntington.
It would mark the beginning of the end,
introducing the policy, or more aptly “ideology”,
for the need to instigate a “controlled
disintegration of society.”
The Trilateral Commission is a non-governmental
body, its members include elected and non-elected
officials scattered throughout the world, ironically
coming together to discuss how to address the
“crisis of democracy” in the most undemocratic
process possible. It is an organisation meant to
uphold the “interests” of its members, regardless of
who the people voted in.
You see, by the 1970s democracy was obviously
broken, and someone had to put things back in order,
right?
This elite grouping of people decided that this
approach would be the best for all democracies and
just like that, it was brought into official policy
across the western hemisphere.
On Nov 9th, 1978, Trilateral Commission member
Paul Volcker (Federal Reserve Chairman from
1979-1987) would affirm at a lecture delivered at
Warwick University in England: “A controlled
disintegration in the world economy is a legitimate
object for the 1980s.” This is also the ideology
that has shaped Milton Friedman’s “Shock Therapy”.
By the time of Jimmy Carter’s Administration, the
majority of the government was being run by members
of the Trilateral Commission. But who runs the
Trilateral Commission?
Well, keeping in mind that this whole operation
is run as an “open conspiracy”, in May 1981, Henry
Kissinger who replaced Brzezinski as the head of the
Trilateral Commission gave a
speech at Chatham House describing his term as
Secretary of State:
“[The British] became a participant in internal
American deliberations, to a degree probably never
practiced between sovereign nations…In my White
House incarnation then, I kept the British Foreign
Office better informed and more closely engaged than
I did the American Department…It was symptomatic.”
(emphasis added).
In his speech, Kissinger outlined the conflicting
ideologies between Churchill and Roosevelt, and
concluded with his support for the British worldview
as the more superior of the two.
Looks like the Churchill loyalists have won.
Controlled
Disintegration: And We All Fall Down
In 1975 the CFR launched a public study of global
policy titled the 1980’s Project. The general theme
was “controlled disintegration” of the world
economy, and the report did not attempt to hide the
famine, social chaos, and death its policy would
bring upon most of the world’s population.
The study explained that the world financial and
economic system needed a complete overhaul according
to which key sectors such as energy, credit
allocation and food would be placed under the
direction of a single global administration. The
objective of this reorganization would be the
replacement of nation states.
However, before this could occur, nation states
would have to falter, or at least give off the
impression of faltering.
The failure of the nation state is not a natural
phenomenon but rather is the outcome of a
fascist coup; involving a
banker’s dictatorship,
economic looting and permanent warfare (the Cold
War never ended) to hinder national industrial
growth.
Among the most effective strategies towards this
end has been color revolutions, which just so
happens to be the NED’s specialty practice and has
included, to name a few, the nations of Yugoslavia,
Georgia, Iraq, Lebanon, Burma,
Iran, Egypt, Yemen, Ukraine and the ongoing Hong
Kong protests.
Wherever this strategy has unfolded, the target
state is told by the international community that it
has no right to intervene and is told to stand by as
its nation is ransacked by locusts and its
government ‘reorganised’.
With the final purge of American intelligence and
the formation of a secret government, rendering
anything resembling a democratic process obsolete,
unless someone can restart the engine fast, we will
soon be confronted by Willy Brandt’s prophecy of
finding ourselves rudderless, under a surrounding
sea of dictatorship.
