Breaking: Old News - Our Current CIA Chief Is A Terrorist
Why do I have to keep finding these things? There's something wrong with this picture.
Okay, this isn't the post on Minitrue Ascendant or Condimelda going to put the screws to the EU or the reason why we need things like Blog Against Racism Day - or any of the other old things I keep trying to write about while new outrages keep cropping up, because trying to quickly find that link to the Slate piece ("Deaths? What deaths?") about that old pirate Hunt for a dKos comment, I found something else that now has meaning which it wouldn't before I'd read the Woodstein books - and that's Who Is Porter Goss.
I mean, here I am, slowly methodically going through ATPM and Final Days taking notes and highlighting passages to transcribe and making note of other names to look up and going and looking up names, and thinking to myself "the way they're talking about this guy Haldeman, he sounds exactly like Karl Rove in his relation to Bush," or "huh, I'm going to have to try to find out how many of the Nixon admin came out of a journalistic or PR background," and other such demi-scholarly actions, and by mere dowsing I chance upon the answer to the unanswered question from 2004, namely "Why Porter Goss to head the CIA? What qualifications does he have?" which was answered - incompletely as it is now clear to me - with "He's a loyal Bush minion who will follow orders without question."
I myself wondered if he was related by blood to anyone else in the Hegemony, but was unable to discover it with my limited resources, and didn't see anything else at the time to challenge the accepted narrative that he was nothing but a former Company hack who had become a present GOP backbencher, a useful idiot paper pusher, that's all. Bad enough, but only bad because of incompetence and party hackery, nothing worse.
Hah. We wish.
It turns out he was (as well as having been part of the Bay of Pigs endeavor) part of Operation 40, those CIA guys I mentioned a while back who were involved in carrying out terrorist acts inside Cuba to try to destabilize Castro. One of whom, Frank Sturgis, went on to become one of the Watergate wiretappers. Another of whom, Felix Rodriguez, was the [probable] assassin of Che Guavara, according to that Hunt interview. What stuff Goss was getting up to in those years that he's so vague about, which arrogant Lefties were so superciliously willing to dismiss as mere paper-pushing and stationkeeping, we may never know unless he gets to be 85, staring death in the face and in a somewhat confessional mood - or the Revolution comes faster than they can shred papers at Langley.
But given what his associates got up to, and for which actions they were never brought to account, in the attempts to "prove" that Communism couldn't work and was evil by destabilizing them with policy and direct actions that any normal person would consider "evil" - given his close ties to this unit of saboteurs and murderers, and given that the Watergate investigation proved that being outside the Company was as meaningless as leaving the Corleone family, that people were continually working for their off-the-books aijiin and that official non-involvment was deliberate White House policy during the Nixon administration - and yes, I am aware that Operation 40 predates a Republican WH (and thus some self-serving lying also going on in Hunt's claims that he got out of the CIA as quickly as possible because it was full of Democrats, given that he was in from '50 to '70 and in '70 went on doing the same work only now freelance for the government) - and that the founder of Operation 40 was that thoroughly evil man Dulles, (for whom the airport that I ignorantly flew through years ago is named) - the one who carried out the US-UK-plotted overthrow of the democratically-elected head of Iran in the 50s to put a tyrant in power using the CIA in order to control their oil -
-- given all of this, I find Porter Goss's appointment far more sinister than a mere political hack and loyal-but-dumb stooge. He may well be a hack and a stooge, but he's a hack and a stooge who belonged to a terrorist cell sponsored by our government which produced some of the most fanatically-loyal Corpo agents to ever work systematically to subvert our democracy.
And I want to know, why did none of this come up either in the Capitol Hill Hearings, or among the Serious Political Bloggers, discussing the guy? Why was it left to a rank amateur like me to blunder across it by accident, and put the pieces together? --Pieces, I should add, that others (but all "wild-eyed conspiracists") have already fitted, if you look at the end-notes to the spartacus entries on Operation 50 and Goss. --Pieces only able to be put together because I chanced across a $1.50 copy of The Final Days and noticed all these odd Cuban connections and started making the synaptic associations a few weeks ago...
The truth is out there. But it isn't doing us any good.
* London Yank did bring it up once here, but since s/he didn't explain what Group 40 was or why we should care about it, the reference missed me and probably 99% of the other people who read the diary.
Okay, this isn't the post on Minitrue Ascendant or Condimelda going to put the screws to the EU or the reason why we need things like Blog Against Racism Day - or any of the other old things I keep trying to write about while new outrages keep cropping up, because trying to quickly find that link to the Slate piece ("Deaths? What deaths?") about that old pirate Hunt for a dKos comment, I found something else that now has meaning which it wouldn't before I'd read the Woodstein books - and that's Who Is Porter Goss.
I mean, here I am, slowly methodically going through ATPM and Final Days taking notes and highlighting passages to transcribe and making note of other names to look up and going and looking up names, and thinking to myself "the way they're talking about this guy Haldeman, he sounds exactly like Karl Rove in his relation to Bush," or "huh, I'm going to have to try to find out how many of the Nixon admin came out of a journalistic or PR background," and other such demi-scholarly actions, and by mere dowsing I chance upon the answer to the unanswered question from 2004, namely "Why Porter Goss to head the CIA? What qualifications does he have?" which was answered - incompletely as it is now clear to me - with "He's a loyal Bush minion who will follow orders without question."
I myself wondered if he was related by blood to anyone else in the Hegemony, but was unable to discover it with my limited resources, and didn't see anything else at the time to challenge the accepted narrative that he was nothing but a former Company hack who had become a present GOP backbencher, a useful idiot paper pusher, that's all. Bad enough, but only bad because of incompetence and party hackery, nothing worse.
Hah. We wish.
It turns out he was (as well as having been part of the Bay of Pigs endeavor) part of Operation 40, those CIA guys I mentioned a while back who were involved in carrying out terrorist acts inside Cuba to try to destabilize Castro. One of whom, Frank Sturgis, went on to become one of the Watergate wiretappers. Another of whom, Felix Rodriguez, was the [probable] assassin of Che Guavara, according to that Hunt interview. What stuff Goss was getting up to in those years that he's so vague about, which arrogant Lefties were so superciliously willing to dismiss as mere paper-pushing and stationkeeping, we may never know unless he gets to be 85, staring death in the face and in a somewhat confessional mood - or the Revolution comes faster than they can shred papers at Langley.
But given what his associates got up to, and for which actions they were never brought to account, in the attempts to "prove" that Communism couldn't work and was evil by destabilizing them with policy and direct actions that any normal person would consider "evil" - given his close ties to this unit of saboteurs and murderers, and given that the Watergate investigation proved that being outside the Company was as meaningless as leaving the Corleone family, that people were continually working for their off-the-books aijiin and that official non-involvment was deliberate White House policy during the Nixon administration - and yes, I am aware that Operation 40 predates a Republican WH (and thus some self-serving lying also going on in Hunt's claims that he got out of the CIA as quickly as possible because it was full of Democrats, given that he was in from '50 to '70 and in '70 went on doing the same work only now freelance for the government) - and that the founder of Operation 40 was that thoroughly evil man Dulles, (for whom the airport that I ignorantly flew through years ago is named) - the one who carried out the US-UK-plotted overthrow of the democratically-elected head of Iran in the 50s to put a tyrant in power using the CIA in order to control their oil -
-- given all of this, I find Porter Goss's appointment far more sinister than a mere political hack and loyal-but-dumb stooge. He may well be a hack and a stooge, but he's a hack and a stooge who belonged to a terrorist cell sponsored by our government which produced some of the most fanatically-loyal Corpo agents to ever work systematically to subvert our democracy.
And I want to know, why did none of this come up either in the Capitol Hill Hearings, or among the Serious Political Bloggers, discussing the guy? Why was it left to a rank amateur like me to blunder across it by accident, and put the pieces together? --Pieces, I should add, that others (but all "wild-eyed conspiracists") have already fitted, if you look at the end-notes to the spartacus entries on Operation 50 and Goss. --Pieces only able to be put together because I chanced across a $1.50 copy of The Final Days and noticed all these odd Cuban connections and started making the synaptic associations a few weeks ago...
The truth is out there. But it isn't doing us any good.
* London Yank did bring it up once here, but since s/he didn't explain what Group 40 was or why we should care about it, the reference missed me and probably 99% of the other people who read the diary.