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List of Chapters | Main Menu | Contact | About Futurepower ® The U.S. has a history of secret interference with the governments of other countries. We often hear about secret activities of the U.S. government after it is too late to object. The U.S. supported the killing of president Mossadegh of Iran, and then supported an extremely weak man, the Shah of Iran. (See Iran 1953: Making it safe for the King of Kings) [thirdworldtraveler.com], for example.) This provoked a revolution in Iran that was hostile to the United States. Citizens of the U.S. were kept hostage, for example. The U.S. secret agencies'secret answer to the anti-U.S. sentiment was to support Saddam Hussein of Iraq against Iran. The U.S. government supported Saddam Hussein's war against Iran. However, when Saddam Hussein became violent toward another country in the region, the government spent billions of dollars to kill an estimated 100,000 Iraqis and destroy the property in an already very poor country. When executives do things openly they make lots of mistakes, and are sometimes held accountable, usually in a very peaceful way, and usually by their own staffs. When executives do things in secret, there is little accountability, and the mistakes can become huge. Anyone interested in the activities of secret U.S. agencies may have been interested in a segment of the CBS show "60 Minutes" about the secret involvement of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the killing of General Rene Schneider of Chile. The show aired on Sunday, September 9, 2001. General Schneider was a strong supporter of democracy. Here are links to information about U.S. interference with democracy in Chile: National Security Archive Chile Documentation Project [gwu.edu] Hinchey Report, CIA Activities in Chile [state.gov] This is a U.S. government document. Iran, Iraq, and Chile are just three of the countries that have suffered from secret U.S. involvement. There is some discussion of U.S. government interference in Saudi Arabia below. Also, don't forget secret and public U.S. government violence in Nicaragua. I asked someone who went to Nicaragua during U.S. involvement there whether it was possible to see the wealth that the U.S. government was pouring into that small country. The amount was said to be about $1,000,000 per day. I was told, no, there was no evidence of the money that was spent. Possibly some of the money was diverted into private pockets. There is a cycle: 1) The U.S. government influences other governments in hidden ways, including arranging the killing of foreign leaders. 2) Some members of the countries with whom the U.S. has interfered want to retaliate violently to the violence of the U.S. 3) The U.S. government uses the violent retaliation as a justification for more hidden and public violent activity. One problem with the secretly violent agencies of the U.S. government is that there is a conflict of interest. If there is more violence, they get more money and prestige. So they have reasons to encourage violence. I am not claiming that they do so consciously. However, there is certainly unconscious pressure to increase violence and de-stabilize governments. Invading countries and killing the residents and destroying their property is not a way of relating to others that I consider socially skilled. Why do the citizens of one country think they can kill the citizens of another? If killing is the answer, can't the U.S. ask a better question? The interference in the affairs of other countries by the secret U.S. agencies has prompted some people to retaliate. These people who retaliate are called "terrorists" in the U.S. The terrorists make everyone in the U.S. less safe. So, U.S. citizens have, in very significant ways, gotten less security for the money the government spent on secret activities. The violent attitude toward people outside the U.S. has, predictably, spread to the internal police forces in the U.S. When some religious fanatics decided to do foolish things in Waco, Texas, the U.S. government responded by bringing in very violent-minded people. The result was that people were killed. There were U.S. citizens who didn't like the activities of the U.S. police forces in Waco. There were people who were psychologically unbalanced by these activities. One of them, Timothy McVeigh, decided to retaliate and bombed a U.S. government building in Oklahoma. So then the U.S. government killed him. Secrecy encourages people not to trust. Violence encourages violence. We tend to hear about the activities of secret U.S. government agencies about 30 years after they occur. Do you know what the secret agencies of the U.S. government are doing now? No, it is a fact that you don't. You cannot even know how much of your money, if you are a U.S. citizen, is spent on secret activities, because the budget for secret U.S. government agencies is partly hidden in other appropriations. Definition of a terrorist: The other country's CIA. Tomahawk cruise missile: The rich country's car bomb. List of Chapters | Main Menu | Contact | About Futurepower ® | Go to top Futurepower
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