CIA Intervention In Venezuela By Jacob G. Hornberger!!!
(2019-05-06 at 14:49:34 )

CIA Intervention in Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger

As far as I know, no evidence has yet surfaced that definitively establishes direct Central Intelligence Agency involvement in the United States regime-change operation in Venezuela. But it is a virtual certainty that the Central Intelligence Agency is directly embroiled in the operation.

How do we know that?????

Because that is what the Central Intelligence Agency does!!!

It is what it has always done!!!

Regime-change has always been one of the core missions of the CIA. If there is a United States regime-change operation, you can bet your bottom dollar that the CIA is at the center of it.

You can also be certain of something else: secrecy. The long-established modus of the CIA is to keep its role in regime-change operations secret, even if it has to lie or commit perjury to maintain that secrecy.

For example, think back to the Chilean coup in the 1970s.

When the Chilean people elected Salvador Allende president, the Central Intelligence Agency immediately went into action.

It began offering bribes to Chilean congressmen to get them to vote against Allendes confirmation. (Allende had received only a plurality of the votes and, therefore, under the Chilean constitution the Chilean congress determined who was going to be president.)

It also orchestrated the kidnapping and assassination of Gen. Rene Schneider, who was the overall commander of Chiles armed forces.

He was standing in the way of a CIA-inspired military coup, which the CIA was secretly inciting within the Chilean national-security establishment.

In the months leading up to the coup, the CIA was doing its best to maximize the economic suffering of the Chilean people. GOP President Richard Nixon called it "making the economy scream" and it was intended to aggravate the economic crisis that had been brought on by Mr. Allendes socialist policies. The CIA even tried to starve the Chilean people to death by bribing truckers who delivered food across the country to go on strike.

All of this Central Intelligence Agency mayhem was kept top-secret.

In fact, CIA and United States involvement in the 1973 coup was considered so secret that the CIA may will have played a role in the Chilean execution of American Charles Horman during the coup.

He had inadvertently discovered strong circumstantial evidence of the United States role in the coup and, therefore, posed a grave threat to the secrecy of CIA involvement in the coup.

When CIA Director Richard Helms was summoned before Congress and asked about CIA involvement in the circumstances surrounding the coup, he committed perjury in order to keep the CIAs role in the coup secret.

When he was later convicted of lying to Congress, his CIA counterparts glorified him for having lied to Congress for the sake of "National Security."

It was no different with respect to the CIAs regime-change operations against Cuba.

Although the CIA was planning and orchestrating the invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs through the use of Cuban exiles, the CIA was doing everything it could to hide its own role in the invasion.

Later, the secrecy was expanded to include the CIAs partnership with the Mafia to achieve regime-change in Cuba through the assassination of Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

In 1954, the CIA successfully planned and orchestrated the regime-change operation against Guatemalas democratically elected president, Jacobo Arbenz. Secrecy, once again, was the policy. It was not until years later that the United States of American people discovered the CIAs role in the operation.

The year before, 1953, the CIA had done the same in Iran.

In a coup in which the CIAs role was kept secret at the time, the CIA successfully ousted the countrys democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, and replaced him with the Shah.

The CIA then proceeded to train the Shahs secret police force, the SAVAK, in the dark-side arts of torture, indefinite detention, and assassination in order to help him maintain his grip on power.

Again, secrecy was the order of the day.

There is something else to keep in mind as the Venezuela regime-change operation continues to unfold - the short term vs. the long term.

In the short term, the CIA secretly celebrated its regime-change operations in Iran, Guatemala, and Chile. Medals were secretly passed out to CIA participants.

The long-term results of those interventions, however, proved to be disastrous. Relations between Iran and the United States continue to suffer. Guatemala was ruled by a succession of brutal military dictatorships that threw the county into a 30-year-long civil war that killed more than a million people. Chile was ruled by a brutal military dictatorship for more than 15 years, one that rounded up, incarcerated, tortured, raped, or killed some 50,000 innocent people. Moreover, do not forget the disastrous long-term results of the United States regime-change operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Libya.

Of course, the solution to all this mayhem is not to require the CIA to provide real-time transparency in its regime-change operations.

It would not comply with such a law anyway, based on concerns for "National Security."

The only solution is to abolish the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Pentagon, and the military-industrial complex, restore the United States of Americas founding foreign-policy principle of non-interventionism, and restore a limited-government republic to our land.

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!