On Wed, 31 May 2017 12:31:52 -0400
Steve Kinney <ad...@pilobilus.net> wrote:
>
> Oops, I neglected to provide a link to The Secret Team. It is kind of
> hard to find. This is surprising (or not) considering that it is a
> very detailed history of the CIA from 1947 through 1972, the only
> text of its kind.
>
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:59c850afc37d23f1da7d926d76bd58a5135d37da&dn=THE-SECRET-TEAM.pdf
As far as I can tell the book promotes the laughable idea that
the Good Americunt Government has been corrupted by some evil
'secret' organization. In case the painfully obvious needs to
be stated : the US government has been nothing but an
association of murdering psychos since 1776.
The author was a high ranking US military murderer so he
deserves as much trust as jack the ripper. Or rather, a lot
less.
That said, there seems to be some interesting information in it.
> Page 230:
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> "It was necessary for the CIA to arrange for aircraft to enter the
> country quite frequently without the usual customs check that all
> military aircraft must undergo. In the earlier years the CIA would
> arrange directly or through State or Defense to have customs waive
> inspection of a plane with classified cargo or carrying a defector or
> on some other highly classified mission. Then, when such things had
> become more or less commonplace, the CIA would politely offer to
> provide a few men to work with the regular customs personnel to take
> the burden for such activity from them. This was the way it was put
> in the first place, and the customs office would gratefully accept
> the assistance. The CIA would go through all the necessary steps to
> get authorization for increasing the manpower allocations in the
> customs service by the number of men it planned to put there and then
> to make arrangements to reimburse the customs office for the payroll
> and other costs of the office.
>
> This latter step would always be taken, because it would be best for
> the customs office to go through all of the normal motions of paying
> these men, including promoting them and paying for their travel or
> other usual expenses, so that their assignment would appear to be
> completely normal to all others in the office. Then, by special
> accounting procedures that would take place in the main office, the
> CIA would reimburse the Treasury Department for the money involved.
>
> In the beginning this would all be done with elaborate
> open-handedness, even to the point where the new agency men would
> receive training and other prerequisites of the job. However, as the
> years passed, most of this procedure would be forgotten, and few
> would recall that those special assignments had even originated with
> the Agency. Accountants who had known how to transfer the funds would
> have been transferred themselves, and the Treasury Department might
> no longer bill for the costs involved. But the Agency men would stay
> on, their replacements would be carefully fitted into the manning
> tables, and few would even notice that they were there.
>
> This has happened quite extensively in a great many places all
> throughout the Government. There are CIA men in the Federal Aviation
> Administration, in State, all over the DOD, and in most other offices
> where the CIA has wanted to place them. Few top officials, if any,
> would ever deny the Agency such a service; and as the appointive
> official departed, and his staffs came and went, the whole device
> would be lost with only the CIA remembering that they were still
> there.
>
> Many of these people have reached positions of great responsibility. I
> believe that the most powerful and certainly the most useful agent the
> CIA has ever had operates in just such a capacity within another
> branch of the Government, and he has been there for so long that few
> have any idea that he is a long-term career agent of the CIA. Through
> his most excellent and skillful services, more CIA operations have
> been enabled to take place than can be laid at the feet of any other,
> more "legitimate" agent.
>
> This was the plan and the wisdom of the Dulles idea from the
> beginning. On the basis of security he would place people in all
> areas of the Government, and then he would move them up and deeper
> into their cover jobs, until they began to take a very active part in
> the role of their own cover organizations. This is how the ST was
> born. Today, the role of the CIA is performed by an ad hoc
> organization that is much greater in size, strength, and resources
> than the CIA has ever been visualized to be.
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