------ Forwarded Message > From: "dasg...@aol.com" <dasg...@aol.com> > Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:00:30 EDT > To: Robert Millegan <ramille...@aol.com> > Cc: <ema...@aol.com>, <j...@aol.com>, <jim6...@cwnet.com>, > <lar...@rawstory.com> > Subject: Daily Kos and the CIA >
> Daily Kos: > CIA-Engineered Controlled Opposition? > Kurt Nimmo > http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=23344 > > > Is it possible Markos Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga, leader of the ³Kossaks,² that > is to say followers and fawners of the Daily Kos, is a CIA operative? Francis > Holland, posting on the My Left Wing messageboard, details Moulitsas¹ > relationship with the CIA: > > ³Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, owner of the DailyKos website, now admits that he > spent six months in the employ of the US Central Intelligence Agency in 2001,² > writes Holland. ³In a one-hour interview > <http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/06/06-06zuniga-audio.html> on June > 2, 2006 at the Commonwealth Club, Moulitsas, also known as Kos,¹ admitted > that he was a CIA employee and would have no problem working for them¹ in the > present.² > > ³I applied to the CIA and I went all the way to the end, I mean it was to the > point where I was going to sign papers to become Clandestine Services,² > Moulitsas admits in the interview. ³And it was at that point that the Howard > Dean campaign took off and I had to make a decision whether I was gonna kinda > join the Howard Dean campaign, that whole process, or was I was going to > become a spy. (Laughter in the audience.) It was going to be a tough decision > at first, but then the CIA insisted that if, if I joined that, they¹d want me > to do the first duty assignment in Washington, DC, and I hate Washington, DC. > Six years in Washington, DC [inaudible] that makes the decision a lot easier.² > > Moulitsas considers the CIA ³a very liberal institution,² never mind the > agency, according to John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola (see > my John Stockwell: The Third World War > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9VxnCBD9W4&mode=user&search=> video), is > responsible for killing more than six million people. >> This is a very liberal institution. And in a lot of ways, it really does >> attract people who want to make a better, you know, want to make the world a >> better place. Of course, they¹ve got their Dirty Ops and this and that, >> right but as an institution itself the CIA is really interested in stable >> world. That¹s what they¹re interested in. And stable worlds aren¹t created >> by destabilizing regimes and creating wars. I don¹t think it¹s a very >> partisan thing to want a stable world. And even if you¹re protecting American >> interests, I mean that can get ugly at times, but generally speaking I think >> their hearts in the right place. As an organization their heart is in the >> right place. I¹ve never had any problem with the CIA. I¹d have no problem >> working for them > Is it possible Mr. Moulitsas does not have a problem with the documented fact > the CIA¹s predecessor, the Overseas Secret Service, imported Nazis to work for > the soon to be created CIA under General Reinhard Gehlen? ³Gehlen was far from > the only Nazi war criminal employed by the CIA. Others included Klaus Barbie > (¹the Butcher of Lyon¹), Otto von Bolschwing (the Holocaust mastermind who > worked closely with Eichmann) and, SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny (a great favorite > of Hitler¹s),² writes Mark Zepezauer > <http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/GehlenOrg_CIAHits.html> (The > CIA¹s Greatest Hits, Odonian Press, 1994). ³There¹s even evidence that Martin > Bormann, Hitler¹s second-in-command at the end of the war, faked his own death > and escaped to Latin America, where he worked with CIA-linked groups. > > Or that the CIA financed the P-2 Masonic lodge, connected with the Vatican and > the Mafia, and enthusiastically supported Operation Gladio, the ³strategy of > tension² terrorist ³stay behind army² effort in Europe, responsible of train > station bombings and assassinations, run by former SS Nazis? Is it possible > Mr. Moulitsas supports the CIA effort to create shell banks such as the Bank > of Credit and Commerce International, accurately characterized by former CIA > director and current Sec. Def. Robert Gates as ³the Bank of Crooks and > Criminals International²? Does Moulitsas support the idea of MK-ULTRA, a > program designed to test ³radiation, electric shocks, electrode implants, > microwaves, ultrasound and a wide range of drugs on unwitting subjects, > including hundreds of prisoners at California¹s infamous Vacaville State > Prison,² as Zepezauer notes? Or what about the CIA getting into the heroin > business with the Corsican Mafia, paving the way for highly profitable drug > importation operations in Central America and Afghanistan, money used not only > to enrich the ³investment² (in death and misery) bankers but also used for the > CIA¹s black budget? How liberal is it to engage in assassination, genocide, > and plotting the overthrow of governments in Iran, Guatemala, Indonesia (where > more than 500,000 people were put to death, many of them due to CIA drafted > ³death lists²), and dozens of other countries? > > Of course, the CIA long ago penetrated the ³liberal² as well as the > ³conservative² corporate media in America. ³Among the executives who lent > their cooperation to the Agency were William Paley of the Columbia > Broadcasting System, Henry Luce of Time Inc., Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the > New York Times, Barry Bingham Sr. of the Louisville Courier-Journal and James > Copley of the Copley News Service. Other organizations which cooperated with > the CIA include the American Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting > Company, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst > Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, > The Miami Herald, and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York > Herald-Tribune. By far the most valuable of these associations, according to > CIA officials, have been with The New York Times, CBS, and Time Inc.,² writes > Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein (Rolling Stone, Oct. 20, 1977). ³From the > Agency¹s perspective, there is nothing untoward in such relationships, and any > ethical questions are a matter for the journalistic profession to resolve, not > the intelligence community.² > > Indeed, it would appear Markos Moulitsas finds nothing ³untoward in such > relationships,² if we are to believe his above quoted comments. > > Finally, Moulitsas¹ relationship with the CIA makes perfect sense, as Daily > Kos appears to be yet another political front operation tasked with cracking > the whip over ³progressive² Democrats and marching them off to support the > Bilderberger Queen Hillary Clinton and her probable running mate, Barack > Obama, both on record as supporting the neocon plan to reduce the Muslim world > to a smoldering wasteland, albeit with stylistic policy changes. It is no > secret the CIA has long stage managed the ------ End of Forwarded Message
