Clandestine Intel Actions
The CIA's Domestic Influence and Global Devastation. A history of destabilization. Has the intelligence apparatus turned inwards?
In the 1930s, driven by the international peace movement, the U.S. pivoted from overt military force to a subtler method. Instead of marines and gunboat diplomacy, we created national guard training programs for military officers throughout Latin America, Africa, and sometimes Asia. One could say, this was the soft emergence of neo-colonialism.
The foreign policy of the United States was to build a military oligarchy, establishing schools to train tens of thousands of military and police officers, pushing them through our academies, then arming them, paying their salaries, and ensuring their loyalties were tied more closely to us than to their own people. This fraternity of military minds, backed by U.S. power, gave us a foothold—an ability to control indirectly through officers who cared more about their American connections than the peasants and citizens they were supposed to protect.
With U.S.-backed military dictatorships, we nurtured the infrastructure needed to exert pressure, tearing at the social and economic fabric of nations. When a government strayed too far from U.S. interests, it could be destabilized. Shadow figures within intelligence agencies honed their ability to grind administrations to a halt, leaving countries in chaos. Economic collapse soon followed—foreign investments dried up, capital markets froze, and the population suffered.
The National Endowment for Democracy, a seemingly innocent institution, became another tool. U.S. funds fueled local newspapers, transforming them into propaganda outlets to discredit elections—elections that, ironically, were often more democratic than our own. The Department of State and CIA found their allies in this chaos, planting the seeds for U.S.-favored regimes to take power.
Take Nicaragua, for instance. In the 1980s, the U.S. spent over a billion dollars on destabilization efforts. Religious leaders, teachers, health workers, and elected officials were assassinated, all while the American public remained blissfully unaware that their tax dollars were being funneled into these deadly "investments."
I am reminded of Omar Torrijos, Panama’s strongman, once personally known to my family. Torrijos, despite his flaws, stood for Panama. Many credit Manuel Noriega’s hand in the plane crash that killed Torrijos. Noriega was infamous for his weakness, depravity, and was known to be a CIA asset who facilitated the supply chain for the Colombian cartels to move cocaine through Central America.
Although the CIA is supposed to operate outside U.S. borders, one could make the case that its activities and tactics have seeped into our own soil. For example, media personalities, journalists, and newscasters were on the payroll to shape public opinion suitable to the interests of the shadow government. Even academia was not spared—grants and funding poured into universities, swaying research and publishing biased dissertations. The question we must ask: Could the strategies the U.S. perfected abroad now be turned against its own citizens?
The carnage caused by the United States via the CIA cannot be overstated. From the bloodshed of the Korean War to the dense jungles of Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia, Cambodia, and Nicaragua, the body count is staggering. Conservative figures estimate a minimum of 6 million lives that might have been spared if the U.S. had not had its hand in exacerbating situations that set people off onto the path of war.
By extension, is the American taxpayer complicit by omission or indifference? Such naiveness or ignorance is now circling back to haunt us. With another election on the horizon, the rest of the world watches with bated breath. Our President, bound by the checks and balances of Congress and the Supreme Court, may have limited power domestically, but U.S. foreign policy has been unleashed without the same restraint.
Is it merely coincidence that the only President to keep the U.S. from entering new wars has faced two assassination attempts in recent months? There seems to be an unrelenting push for war and conflict, driven by the majority of the D.C. establishment, a machine that thrives on the perpetuation of violence and intervention. Yet, these nuances remain obscured from public understanding, buried beneath layers of propaganda, political theater, and media manipulation.
For decades, other nations have borne the brunt of U.S. foreign policy, destabilized by the invisible hand of our intelligence apparatus. Now, as the establishment turns inward, we must ask ourselves: Are we next? Will the same forces that wielded power abroad, unchecked and unaccountable, now set their sights on those at home who challenge the status quo? The signs are troubling, and the stakes have never been higher.
"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
— James Madison, 4th President of the United States.
Father Almighty,
Grant us the strength to discern truth from deception, to walk the path of righteousness amidst confusion and chaos. As we look out upon the world, where power and greed too often reign, we ask for hearts of compassion and minds of clarity.
Heavenly Father, protect the innocent who suffer from the consequences of greed and conflict, and bring comfort to those who are oppressed. We pray that our country elects the only President who has not involved the United States in a new war. May he be surrounded by wise counsel, truth telling advisors, and loyal support staff.
Lord, we ask for forgiveness of our sins of omission. May we be ever aware of our purpose on this earth and during this particular time. We pray our actions are pleasing to you and that we bring glory to your name in all that we do.
Amen
This is the first of a three part series on Mike Benz findings which is incredibly informative. I put this together a while back but its relevance remains top shelf current:
And here was the basis of this article, John Stockwell, former CIA Operations Director, exposes the agency’s intrusion in 1989:
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