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- I saw the latest Austin Powers movie, "The Spy Who
Shagged Me" the other day and throughout the movie could not get the
CIA out of my mind. What exactly does a bumbling, goofy, inept spy with
bad teeth, an overblown ego and a missing "mojo" have in common
with our own $30 billion a year "real" life, super-spies? Everything.
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- Look, the fact is that I'm a court qualified Expert Witness
and 25 year veteran federal agent who never lost a federal case that I
was charged with bringing to trial. Among my cases were some of the most
complicated and important conspiracy cases on record. So I value my credibility
and don't make claims that aren't backed up by facts.
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- Let's examine just a few of the lowlights of the Central
Shagadellic Agency's known record for the past several decades and see
what I mean:
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- -They allowed "Doctor Evil" China, to steal
our nuclear technology and, THEN bombed their embassy?
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- -They allowed their own chief of Soviet Counterintelligence,
Aldrich Ames, to work for the, then, "Doctor Evil" KGB for eight
years, completely destroying all CIA's human intelligence capabilities
in Russia--and if it weren't for the FBI, the drunken, bumbling traitor
who would have been detected quicker by Walmart Security would still be
working for them. -They missed the fall of Russia entirely. -They missed
the development of Nuclear weapons by India, while every Indian waiter
in the Big Apple was gossiping about it for a year before it happened.
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- -They were outsmarted by "Doctor Evil" Sadaam
Hussein so badly that they were the laughing stock of the espionage world.
-They admitted, before Congress, to looking the other way for over a decade
at massive drug smuggling into the US by their "assets" like
Manuel Noriega and the Nicarauguan Contras, while Americans trying to keep
the stuff out of the brains and veins of their children, were taxed more
than a half trillion dollars to fight drugs.
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- -They called the informant who walked into their Nairobi
office with accurate details of the embassy bombings that would kill hundreds
nine months later, a liar.
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- -The Cuban, Bay of Pigs fiasco-according to a CIA Inspector
General's report, hidden in the Director's safe under "national security"
for 37 years-was due to CIA amateurishness, puffed up egos and their lies
to the President of the United States.
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- -Under their infamous MK-Ultra program, they used US
taxpayer dollars to carry out some of the wackiest and most criminal mind
control experiments this side of the Third Reich on unwitting, innocent
people around the world. Even surreptitiously dosed one of their own scientists,
Dr. Frank Olsen, causing him to leap out of tenth floor hotel room in NYC.
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- -They gave the, then, "good guys," the America-hating
Mujihideen, 750 stinger missiles to fight the, then, "Doctor Evil"
Soviets (now "good guys") during the Afghan war. A good portion
of these shoulder-fired, surface to air missiles are now in the hands of
the, now, "Doctor Evil" Muslim terrorists and the subject of
recent State Department alerts. Yes, they can now be used to shoot OUR
planes out of the sky.
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- -They supported the, now, "Doctor Evil" Numero
Uno, Bin Ladeen, during the Afghan war, when he was a "good guy"
and a "freedom fighter," throwing tens of millions in US taxpayer
dollars into his efforts at creating, arming and training the first Pan
Arab army in history, many of whom are now the terrorists engaged in a
holy war against us!
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- -Among those trained with US taxpayer dollars in Afghanistan
was Ramsey Youseff, the man who bombed the World Trade Center.
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- Look, I can go on for pages but I think the list is already
shagadellic enough to prove the point. And if you're not yet convinced
that this is a spy agency in frantic search of its own mojo, at our expense,
dig this: In May 1998 when CIA failed to discern that India was preparing
to explode nuclear devices DCI George Tenet appointed a team to investigate
this stupefying intelligence failure, headed by retired Vice Admiral David
E. Jeremiah. The report damned CIA's performance and recommended across
the board changes and improvements.
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- Specifically, Admiral Jeremiah said that the CIA "needs
to be scrubbed from the top down, from its spies to its analysts to its
bureaucratic barons." The [Indian] debacle revealed chronic failures
of imagination and personnel, flaws in information-gathering and analysis,
and faulty leadership and training." This finding, so critical to
the security of the American people, was virtually absent from mainstream
media and our congressional "protectors" pretended it didn't
exist.
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- And that's the other reason the world of our "real"
CIA is so similar to the Austin Powers world. What makes Austin Powers
movies funny is that everyone in his world, particularly the politicians
and the media seem to take the guy seriously. He cannot screw up enough
to outrage the bizarro characters in his world.
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- Apparently the same can be said for the world of our
CIA. Every single screwup they have committed led invariably to Congress
raising their budgets. (i.e., $3 billion increase after bombing the Chinese
Embassy). And if that weren't bad enough, every single debacle they get
involved in is looked at by our media--who are awarded Pulitzers for Monica
Lewinsky reporting-- as unique, with their entire shagadellic history immediately
forgotten.
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- One of the few CIA officers I've ever met whom I would
consider a street smart professional is 25 year veteran Ralph McGehee,
who furnished me with excerpts from a CIA document, obtained via an FOIA
request, wherein the Agency's PAO (public affairs office) bragged that
its relationships with "reporters from every major wire service, newspaper,
news weekly and TV network... has helped turn some 'intelligence failure'
stories into 'intelligence success' stories..."
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- As testament to the PAO's success at media manipulation,
the CIA's decades long record of horrific failure and screw-ups has been
well documented but only published briefly and superficially by mainstream
media. As I write this, for example, the bombing of the Chinese embassy,
an act that still may cost America dearly, has virtually vanished from
mainstream American media in a blur of conflicting vague statements leaving
the public confused about what really happened.
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- Let's face it folks, having a $30 billion a year spy
agency in perpetual search for its lost mojo is only funny in movies. If
there is a lesson in this latest screwup of bombing the embassy of a belligerent,
nuclear superpower, it is that we had better follow Admiral Jeremiah's
recommendations and take these guys apart before they do it to us.
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- Several weeks ago a New York newspaper reported that
the Director of Central Intelligence addressed a graduating class of his
high school where he admitted that he was "the biggest mouth in his
class." How ironic that he would become the head of Central Intelligence.
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- Shagadellic, Baby.
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