Showing posts with label CIA. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 6, 2012

US: WEST ASIA

A recent release of classified documents shows how US has manipulated West Asia. A B&E exclusive

President Nixon's crown national security aides including James Schlesinger and William Colby met right away and chuckled that they could clarify their abrupt decision by blaming “Russian treachery”. They indicted Moscow of commissioning a “massive” airlift, falsely, according to the CIA's guesstimate. Kissinger rough drafted what the government would say to the world: “We can now say there was Russian treachery on the negotiations.

They have made an abortion of our peace move and sent in 200 flights of arms. We can run the Russians into the ground and we can call it an act of Russian treachery,” Schlesinger added. There was laughter in the room when Schlesinger added, “We had anticipated that!” Also, while the US was non-committal over a peace initiative, it was very active in securing its oil interests in the region. In July 1973, Henry Kissinger opened a clandestine channel to the Shah of Iran to synchronise the development of contingency tactics to snatch control of Saudi Arabia and its colossal oil riches, in the backdrop of instability in the House of Saud. “Any contingency planning on Saudi Arabia must be most hush-hush,” the Shah told Kissinger. He also added that he was a supporter of the Israelis.

Later Arabia''s King Fahd made an official visit to the White House when it was aggressively cooperating with the US operation to drive out the Soviet force from Afghanistan. Documents reveal that the Saudis also were clandestinely sponsoring US-backed Contra insurgents fighting the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. George Bush may have been a great damager in the Middle East impasse... but he is certainly not the only US President in that ‘Hall of shame’.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri

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Monday, September 3, 2012

INFORMATION PORTAL: US PROPAGANDA

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s State Department considers Pranab Mukherjee to be India’s foreign minister! More similar gaffes inside...

First, the comical. In South Korea, three years ago, a series of protests against the CIA finally forced the agency to correct the information about South Korea’s origins (CIA had earlier amusingly stated that “South Korea has been a nation for a millennium;” South Korea, apparently a stickler for dates, protested en masse as this nation has been in existence only since the last 4000 years). This was apart from the CIA correcting the misrepresentation of the number of deputy prime ministers that South Korea had had. However, the country is still trying to convince the agency to rectify names of two locations on CIA’s map of South Korea.

On the same lines, Northern Cyprus is still being shown as a part of Republic of Cyprus, despite the region having gained independence in the year 1983, 27 years earlier. On another line, while the whole of Kashmir is shown as being “disputed”, Taiwan is peacefully included on the map of China. This has to be seen along with the fact that Taiwan is shown as a separate country on the US Department of State site with the names of its President and Prime Minister. And when it comes to Myanmar, both the CIA and US State Department list the country under its old name Burma. In 1989, Burma changed its name officially to Myanmar; a rename that was endorsed by the UN. Apparently, not by the CIA/State Department.

While some of the mistakes – including India’s foreign minister’s name – are evident typographical mistakes (and show the lack of intent within the government to keep critical diplomatic facts updated), some of the mistakes, like Kashmir or Taiwan, seem deliberate and evidently committed with political intent. This can be considered even propaganda if one were to assume the worst, as many institutions globally (including schools) refer to these websites for authentic information. There’s a thin line between a diplomatic error and a strategically planted insult. Imagine if were considering Bush still to be the US president.



 
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