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Thank you, Hillsdale, for having me and the incredible work that you're doing.

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Today's topic is the history of the intelligence state, and what I'm going to try to describe to you

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is the shape of the beast that we are up against and has targeted so many people in this room.

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Hillsdale asked me to speak about this particular topic, the history of the intelligence state.

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Obviously, the intelligence state is a concept that implies that intelligence has taken over the state

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and that it has somehow gone rogue.

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Something has gone very wrong that intelligence, which is supposed to serve the state, has subsumed it.

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I will present the essential history of the intelligence state, but there is something beyond it

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that I think beginning with that helps elucidate, and that may be the octopus that was just referred to,

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but we'll come to meet it as we progress.

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So I think the best way to understand is to actually start the story in the middle,

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and then we will go back in time to the founding of the country,

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we'll sort of speed run the essential history, and then all the way up into the present.

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But we're going to start in the year 1948.

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This is the sort of 0 AD of the founding of the intelligence capacities of the U.S. government.

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And instead of sort of doing the what you'll learn in an ordinary history book,

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we're going to start with a document that I'm curious if anyone has ever seen.

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It's called The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare.

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Anyone ever seen that document in this room?

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How many people in this room know the name George Kennan?

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Okay.

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75% of the hands went up.

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Did you know that George Kennan in 1948 wrote this memo called The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare,

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in which he's famous for folks who are not familiar.

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George Kennan is sort of known as a sort of godfather figure of American diplomacy

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in the Central Intelligence Agency.

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He was famous for this long telegram,

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the chief strategist of the containment strategy of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

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But before all that, when all of this was getting started,

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he penned this top-secret memo, which was not declassified for 60 years.

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It was declassified in 2005.

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That I think helps elucidate the story as we're going to proceed here.

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We're going to go through this memo, but I want to give some context first.

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The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare was written just 12 days

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after the Central Intelligence Agency did its first government overthrow operation,

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its first election-rigging event.

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That was on April 18, 1948, and this was written just 12 days after that.

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And the particular focus was what had just happened in Italy.

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Italy was having its first democratic election after World War II,

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and it posited a U.S.-backed candidate on the one hand

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and a Russia-backed candidate on the other.

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And when the rules-based international order was being established in 1948,

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and we had these coordinating bodies through the National Security Council,

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the very first memo I have just on screen here

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emphasizes how important it is for the U.S. to control the political affairs of Italy.

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You'll see National Security Council memo 1-1.

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It's titled The Positioning of the United States with Respect to Italy.

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Kennan wrote, Italy is obviously the key point.

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If the communists win there, our whole position would probably be undermined.

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Now, what happened in this case was in 1947,

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the Central Intelligence Agency was established under the National Security Act,

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and it was originally intended to have intelligence focus on gathering and analysis.

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But because of the key importance perceived by the U.S. State Department

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to influence the course of the Italian election,

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it developed a makeshift ad hoc, thrown together at the last minute,

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$250 million operation to swing that election in favor of the candidate that the U.S. government preferred.

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And I just have some statistics here and a little bit of context

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because we're going to see this as a repeating theme.

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So, about $250 million were spent of U.S. taxpayer money

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in order to prop up our preferred candidate.

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The CIA made use of off-the-book sources of funding to finance it.

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We had bags of money that were delivered to selected politicians

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to pay for their political expenses, their campaign expenses, for posters, for pamphlets.

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We threatened the Italian government that aid money from the U.S.

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would be withheld if the wrong person got elected.

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Our newly created CIA proprietary media organizations,

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Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty,

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set up a vast spawn of Italian network news

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in order to create a surround sound inside that country

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to buy U.S. propaganda and messaging.

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We funneled aid money through churches and charity fronts

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to mafia and union street muscle.

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and others into the country.

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And the reason I'm starting with this context

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is not just because it will help explain

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the rationale for the beast that was created

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just six weeks after this memo was penned,

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also by George Kennan,

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but it's because, understand that this is the intelligence services

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co-opting all of these organizations,

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which is to say that when the U.S. government

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provides funding or assistance,

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suddenly the churches that they were working with

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are no longer simply churches.

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They are instruments of statecraft.

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The non-profit charities are no longer simply charities.

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They become instruments of statecraft.

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The media is no longer an independent media.

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It is an instrument of statecraft.

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Hollywood becomes an instrument of statecraft.

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Organized criminal mafias,

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and just so you understand the context of this,

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the predecessor to the CIA, the OSS,

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together with our war department,

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as it was called at the time,

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was working with criminal groups in Italy,

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as well as with church organizations and others

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who were being prosecuted by Mussolini,

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and they served as a sort of guerrilla resistance

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to assist the U.S. army in intelligence operations.

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It was unseemly but seen as necessary in a time of war,

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but it was simply maintained in times of peace

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for political war.

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becomes not a criminal offense,

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but rather a sanctioned instrument of statecraft.

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this is Miles Copeland,

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one of the founding members of the CIA,

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in his own book,

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wrote that had it not been for the mafia,

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the communists would by now be in control of Italy.

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Why was all this necessary?

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in the eyes of the U.S. State Department,

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we would have lost the election

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if the intelligence community hadn't rigged it.

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Sixty percent of the vote would have gone to the communists,

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but for CIA intervention in their assessment.

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And I'm going to just urge throughout this

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that when you hear communist or fascist

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in terms of the historical data points

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we're going to go over,

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understand that in the post-2016 world,

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all of this infrastructure has been repurposed

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to take out populism.

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So every time you see communism,

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as much as all of us abhor that,

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the biggest threat right now

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to the intelligence state

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and to the blob we'll come to meet

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towards the end of this

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is domestic populism.

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And this is actually the language that they use.

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the communists would have won,

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many of us would prefer,

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obviously, that the communist does not win.

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as you'll see,

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to describe stopping the rise of populism

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and stopping populist political candidates.

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So I want to just go through this,

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since I didn't see a hand raised

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in this room,

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this key document

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that was the predecessor

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to the government linchpin license

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that created this whole universe.

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So we're just going to go through

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some of these receipts I've flagged on screen here.

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This is from George Kennan,

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just the week before

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the Central Intelligence Agency

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had achieved this incredible win in Italy.

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were so overwhelmed with delight

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about the world of possibility

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if we could simply scale

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the Italian operation.

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is it was very much against

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everything this country had stood for

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for a century and a half before that.

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So I'm just going to read

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some of the highlighted items here.

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So you'll see the phrase

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political warfare

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dots this in a very deliberate way,

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organized political warfare

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by the U.S. government

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to further our national objectives,

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to further our influence and authority

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using means both overt and covert,

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George Kennan says here,

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we have been handicapped, however,

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to the concept of a basic difference

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between peace and war.

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of the draft,

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this is a top secret memo

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that was published in 1948

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and wasn't declassified until 2005.

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his own scrawls.

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it says we're hamstrung

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by our public's yearnings.

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and it says by a national tendency

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to seek a political cure-all

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the realities of international relations.

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listen, we answer to the voters,

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and they're not going to like this.

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international relations.

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between peace and war.

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It just ended three years ago.

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then we will lose the opportunity

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to dominate the 20th century.

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And you'll see here it references,

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this was the Italian elections, right?

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That we just engaged in this

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12 days from then.

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has to be directed and coordinated

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by the Department of State.

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of the intelligence state,

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it extends far beyond intelligence

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it's really a tool of statecraft.

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telling vision

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into this CIA godfather.

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we cannot afford in the future

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in perhaps more serious

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political crises

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to scramble into impromptu

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covert operations

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as we did at the time

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of the Italian elections.

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Saying, we did this,

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it was amazing,

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but we need this capacity everywhere.

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We need it on every country on earth

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where there might be

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a political crisis,

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every country on earth

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where there might be

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a need for us

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to protect U.S. national interests

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or trade interests

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or financial interests

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or security interests.

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we had in Italy,

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working with everyone

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from the cultural influencers

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to the organized crime networks.

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even if we don't use it

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just in case we need it

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so we don't need to scramble

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if an opposition politician

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decides to go sideways

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against a U.S. national interest agenda.

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So I'm setting the stage with that

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before we go back in time

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and then sort of go through

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the whole history of this

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because just less than two months

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after George Kennan

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wrote that inauguration

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of organized political warfare

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saying since 1789

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we have never done this sort of thing

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in any organized fashion

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the American people

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aren't going to like it

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but we have to do it

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just less than two months

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after that

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George Kennan then sponsored

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the very act

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which would permanently change

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the structure of the American government

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and the way our country works.

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And this was the National Security Council

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memo 10-2.

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Now for folks who are not familiar

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the National Security Council

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is called the interagency.

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It coordinates what the State Department,

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the Defense Department,

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the CIA,

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what everyone is doing

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so that they are all working

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in a complementary fashion.

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It's in the White House

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and it's sort of the executive oversight

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of everything.

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So you'll see this memo here

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in NSC 10-2

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and just so that you see it

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it's right here

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on the State Department website

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under state.gov

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what I'm about to read here.

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It sanctioned U.S. intelligence

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to carry out a broad range

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of covert operations

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including propaganda,

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economic warfare,

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demolition,

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subversion,

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sabotage.

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It was sponsored by George Kennan.

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He was the one who pushed for this

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right after he wrote

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the inauguration

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of organized political warfare.

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But he would later say

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it was the greatest mistake

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he ever made

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because of the monster it created.

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Because what NSC 10-2 did was

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it gave the intelligence community

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this burgeoning newly created CIA

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and we now have 17 intelligence agencies

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plus the ODNI.

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They transformed not just

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from spy organizations

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but to lie organizations.

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And what I mean by that

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is because of this phrase

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that is used in NSC 10-2.

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I'm going to read it.

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All of these activities

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which are normally illegal

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can be carried out

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so long as they are planned

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and executed

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so that any U.S. government

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responsibility for them

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is not evident

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to unauthorized persons

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and that if uncovered

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the U.S. government

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can plausibly deny

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any responsibility for them.

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I'm going to actually just

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show you the exact language here.

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This is again 1948.

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All covert operations,

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all of these,

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sabotage, demolition,

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controlling the media,

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they are now legal

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as long as you,

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as they are planned

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and executed

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so that any U.S. government

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responsibility

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is not evident

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to unauthorized persons

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so you are cast

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out of Eden

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effectively

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if you eat from the,

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if you eat the apple

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of the fruit

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of the tree of knowledge.

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You are not allowed

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to know

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and they are not allowed

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to tell you

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their job

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is to lie to you.

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And that if they do

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get caught,

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the U.S. government

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can then lie

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above the agency level,

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above the CIA,

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the State Department

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gets to lie to the world

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because the CIA

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had these covert links

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and they can say

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it was not an official

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sanctioned U.S. government

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operation.

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Something went rogue,

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00:14:39,780 --> 00:14:40,720
someone wasn't authorized,

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someone took it

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into their own hands.

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And I'm just going to read

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this analysis

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that I think

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is a useful summary.

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That plausible deniability

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encouraged the autonomy

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00:14:48,740 --> 00:14:50,640
of this newly created CIA

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which was created

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00:14:51,380 --> 00:14:53,080
a year earlier

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and other covert

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action agencies

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in order to protect

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the visible authorities

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of the government.

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And we're going to come back

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00:15:02,140 --> 00:15:03,000
to that as we discuss

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00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:03,840
the power structure

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of all these

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different organizations.

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But I want to drive

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this point home immediately

426
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which is that

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this was seen

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as a major growth opportunity

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because of how effective

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it was in the 1940s

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of the 1950s

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to be able to

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take over the world

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through diplomacy

435
00:15:20,860 --> 00:15:22,000
through duplicity.

436
00:15:23,740 --> 00:15:24,800
But the problem

437
00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:25,680
with diplomacy

438
00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:26,700
through duplicity

439
00:15:26,700 --> 00:15:28,320
plausible deniability

440
00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:29,620
is the core doctrine

441
00:15:29,620 --> 00:15:30,440
that governs

442
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the interagency

443
00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:31,900
which controls

444
00:15:31,900 --> 00:15:32,900
all of our major

445
00:15:32,900 --> 00:15:33,880
U.S. government

446
00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:35,120
operations

447
00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:36,480
on national security

448
00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:37,220
foreign policy

449
00:15:37,220 --> 00:15:38,300
and international interests.

450
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Because

451
00:15:39,820 --> 00:15:41,700
because you lie

452
00:15:41,700 --> 00:15:42,680
to the outside world

453
00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:44,680
you need to also

454
00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:46,200
lie to your own citizens

455
00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:47,820
to keep the outside

456
00:15:47,820 --> 00:15:49,080
from finding out.

457
00:15:49,940 --> 00:15:50,860
So while the lies

458
00:15:50,860 --> 00:15:51,420
may help you

459
00:15:51,420 --> 00:15:52,480
successfully acquire

460
00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:52,960
an empire

461
00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:54,820
you now have to

462
00:15:54,820 --> 00:15:55,840
permanently maintain

463
00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:57,020
an empire of lies

464
00:15:57,020 --> 00:15:58,700
not just abroad

465
00:15:58,700 --> 00:15:59,560
but at home.

466
00:16:03,820 --> 00:16:04,460
Now

467
00:16:04,460 --> 00:16:06,140
in 1948

468
00:16:06,140 --> 00:16:07,320
when the

469
00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:08,080
founding fathers

470
00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:09,020
of the intelligence state

471
00:16:09,020 --> 00:16:10,040
were setting this all up

472
00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:11,900
they were intensely aware

473
00:16:11,900 --> 00:16:12,500
of the monster

474
00:16:12,500 --> 00:16:13,120
they were making.

475
00:16:14,260 --> 00:16:15,320
In 1948

476
00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:18,020
Congress passed

477
00:16:18,020 --> 00:16:19,580
the Smith-Munt Act

478
00:16:19,580 --> 00:16:19,940
because again

479
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in 1948

480
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is when all this

481
00:16:21,700 --> 00:16:22,540
was getting established

482
00:16:22,540 --> 00:16:23,780
the CIA was brand new

483
00:16:23,780 --> 00:16:24,720
NSC 10-2

484
00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:25,460
had just come out

485
00:16:25,460 --> 00:16:26,440
and Congress said

486
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okay okay

487
00:16:26,860 --> 00:16:27,240
listen

488
00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:28,140
you guys are creating

489
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a monster here

490
00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:30,840
we want to make sure

491
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that we don't build

492
00:16:32,180 --> 00:16:33,280
this empire of lies

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and that Americans

494
00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:35,880
are not being inundated

495
00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:37,580
with this sprawl

496
00:16:37,580 --> 00:16:39,560
of information control

497
00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:40,400
that you are conducting

498
00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:41,120
around the world

499
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in order to conduct

500
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organized political warfare

501
00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:46,520
on all countries

502
00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:47,320
on planet earth

503
00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:50,440
and I think many folks

504
00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:50,760
in this room

505
00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:51,620
are probably familiar

506
00:16:51,620 --> 00:16:53,180
with what happened

507
00:16:53,180 --> 00:16:54,800
during the Obama administration

508
00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:56,600
which was this

509
00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:58,020
essential safeguard

510
00:16:58,020 --> 00:16:59,440
which had been with us

511
00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:00,460
since the moment

512
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this all was created

513
00:17:01,900 --> 00:17:02,740
in 1948

514
00:17:02,740 --> 00:17:05,300
was repealed

515
00:17:05,300 --> 00:17:07,680
with quite little fanfare

516
00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:08,440
it was tucked into

517
00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:09,040
an NDAA

518
00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:09,900
it was really

519
00:17:09,900 --> 00:17:10,760
I think only

520
00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:11,740
only discovered

521
00:17:11,740 --> 00:17:12,400
by the public

522
00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:13,240
after the damage

523
00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:13,880
had been done

524
00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:15,220
that the Smith-Munt

525
00:17:15,220 --> 00:17:16,580
was modernized

526
00:17:16,580 --> 00:17:17,820
to get rid of

527
00:17:17,820 --> 00:17:18,600
that restriction

528
00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:19,540
it was effectively

529
00:17:19,540 --> 00:17:20,080
amended

530
00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:22,580
and so the headline here

531
00:17:22,580 --> 00:17:23,540
is U.S. repeals

532
00:17:23,540 --> 00:17:24,440
propaganda ban

533
00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:25,480
spreads government

534
00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:26,540
made news

535
00:17:26,540 --> 00:17:27,240
to Americans

536
00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:28,020
for decades

537
00:17:28,020 --> 00:17:29,740
this anti-propaganda law

538
00:17:29,740 --> 00:17:30,520
prevented the U.S.

539
00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:31,300
government's mammoth

540
00:17:31,300 --> 00:17:32,280
broadcasting arm

541
00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:33,400
I should say arms

542
00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:34,400
from delivering

543
00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:34,920
programming

544
00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:36,700
to American audiences

545
00:17:36,700 --> 00:17:38,480
and mammoth

546
00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:41,360
is not a big enough word

547
00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:42,840
after World War II

548
00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:43,800
the world

549
00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:45,920
actually at this exact time

550
00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:46,720
in 1948

551
00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:48,140
the U.N. Declaration

552
00:17:48,140 --> 00:17:48,940
for Human Rights

553
00:17:48,940 --> 00:17:49,460
came out

554
00:17:49,460 --> 00:17:50,400
and forbade

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00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:51,740
the territorial acquisition

556
00:17:51,740 --> 00:17:53,240
of other countries

557
00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:54,260
by military force

558
00:17:54,260 --> 00:17:55,280
it became against

559
00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:55,880
these new

560
00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:56,780
international norms

561
00:17:56,780 --> 00:17:57,340
and standards

562
00:17:57,340 --> 00:17:58,240
international law

563
00:17:58,240 --> 00:17:59,760
you could not simply

564
00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:01,740
have a military occupation

565
00:18:01,740 --> 00:18:02,360
of the Philippines

566
00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:03,340
like the United States

567
00:18:03,340 --> 00:18:05,340
had in the early 1900s

568
00:18:05,340 --> 00:18:07,640
and so with hard power

569
00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:08,280
ruled out

570
00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:09,320
as the dominant means

571
00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:10,060
to have an empire

572
00:18:10,060 --> 00:18:11,900
the U.S. transitioned

573
00:18:11,900 --> 00:18:13,900
to a soft power empire

574
00:18:13,900 --> 00:18:15,700
which would be dominated

575
00:18:15,700 --> 00:18:17,540
by agencies

576
00:18:17,540 --> 00:18:19,140
like the Central Intelligence Agency

577
00:18:19,140 --> 00:18:20,740
democracy promotion programs

578
00:18:20,740 --> 00:18:21,660
at the State Department

579
00:18:21,660 --> 00:18:23,160
later USAID

580
00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:24,760
and the whole swarm army

581
00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:25,520
were about to meet

582
00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:27,540
but even right out the gate

583
00:18:27,540 --> 00:18:29,240
the Central Intelligence Agency

584
00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:30,100
immediately moved

585
00:18:30,100 --> 00:18:31,120
into the media space

586
00:18:31,120 --> 00:18:32,460
to control the messaging

587
00:18:32,460 --> 00:18:33,460
that people around the world

588
00:18:33,460 --> 00:18:34,020
experienced

589
00:18:34,020 --> 00:18:35,160
and so I have on screen

590
00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:35,860
Voice of America

591
00:18:35,860 --> 00:18:36,660
Radio Free Europe

592
00:18:36,660 --> 00:18:37,260
Radio Liberty

593
00:18:37,260 --> 00:18:38,020
Radio Free Asia

594
00:18:38,020 --> 00:18:39,440
dozens of others

595
00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:41,100
they were CIA proprietary media

596
00:18:41,100 --> 00:18:43,640
this is Frank Wisner

597
00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:44,780
Frank Wisner

598
00:18:44,780 --> 00:18:45,880
was the spearhead

599
00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:47,420
of this early CIA

600
00:18:47,420 --> 00:18:48,800
media control apparatus

601
00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:50,140
the name comes from

602
00:18:50,140 --> 00:18:51,000
the Wurlitzer

603
00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:52,760
sort of piano like organ

604
00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:54,480
because Wisner would brag

605
00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:55,520
that he could play

606
00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:57,480
in the international news

607
00:18:57,480 --> 00:18:59,240
as if it was a Wurlitzer

608
00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:00,740
he could have any narrative

609
00:19:00,740 --> 00:19:01,780
carried in any country

610
00:19:01,780 --> 00:19:02,200
on earth

611
00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:03,380
because of the vast

612
00:19:03,380 --> 00:19:04,820
sprawl of media control

613
00:19:04,820 --> 00:19:06,520
that this newly formed

614
00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:07,740
intelligence agency

615
00:19:07,740 --> 00:19:09,320
which had

616
00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:11,100
was leveraging essentially

617
00:19:11,100 --> 00:19:12,820
the Office of War Information's

618
00:19:12,820 --> 00:19:14,440
Pentagon media network

619
00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:15,780
created during World War II

620
00:19:15,780 --> 00:19:16,980
to thousands

621
00:19:16,980 --> 00:19:18,680
of partnered media outlets

622
00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:21,580
on all six populated continents

623
00:19:21,580 --> 00:19:22,680
at that time

624
00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:24,080
one third of CIA's budget

625
00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:25,720
went just to funding

626
00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:26,540
media organizations

627
00:19:26,540 --> 00:19:28,220
and today that number

628
00:19:28,220 --> 00:19:28,940
is paralleled

629
00:19:28,940 --> 00:19:30,660
by the web of CIA cutouts

630
00:19:30,660 --> 00:19:31,900
that we'll meet

631
00:19:31,900 --> 00:19:33,780
when we get to 1983

632
00:19:33,780 --> 00:19:34,540
and beyond

633
00:19:34,540 --> 00:19:36,200
and how this initial structure

634
00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,580
changed after the scandals

635
00:19:38,580 --> 00:19:39,500
of the 1970s

636
00:19:39,500 --> 00:19:41,480
this is properly called

637
00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:42,560
the Department of Dirty Tricks

638
00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:44,760
this NSC 10-2

639
00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:46,360
plausible deniability power

640
00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:48,400
to essentially play God

641
00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:49,060
around the world

642
00:19:49,060 --> 00:19:50,880
this was their term

643
00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:51,980
Department of Dirty Tricks

644
00:19:51,980 --> 00:19:54,980
and just because

645
00:19:54,980 --> 00:19:55,880
it's somewhat funny

646
00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:56,260
you'll see

647
00:19:56,260 --> 00:19:57,680
this is Max Boot

648
00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:59,380
just a few years ago

649
00:19:59,380 --> 00:20:00,600
calling for us

650
00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:01,680
to make a more robust

651
00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:02,680
Department of Dirty Tricks

652
00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:03,660
why the United States

653
00:20:03,660 --> 00:20:04,820
needs to sabotage

654
00:20:04,820 --> 00:20:05,540
undermine

655
00:20:05,540 --> 00:20:06,480
and expose its enemies

656
00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:08,420
and you'll see

657
00:20:08,420 --> 00:20:09,820
that this is

658
00:20:09,820 --> 00:20:11,200
a CIA story

659
00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:12,580
CIA is underlined

660
00:20:12,580 --> 00:20:13,300
there on the second one

661
00:20:13,300 --> 00:20:14,160
but notice

662
00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:14,980
that it goes

663
00:20:14,980 --> 00:20:16,180
way beyond that

664
00:20:16,180 --> 00:20:17,300
the Dirty Tricks

665
00:20:17,300 --> 00:20:18,500
it's the Secretary of State

666
00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:19,720
the Secretary of Defense

667
00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:21,040
the Central Intelligence Agency

668
00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:21,460
Director

669
00:20:21,460 --> 00:20:22,740
and the Administrator

670
00:20:22,740 --> 00:20:23,920
of USAID

671
00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:24,860
the U.S. Agency

672
00:20:24,860 --> 00:20:25,900
for International Development

673
00:20:25,900 --> 00:20:27,820
to create political warfare

674
00:20:27,820 --> 00:20:28,680
career tracks

675
00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:30,520
and attract people

676
00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:31,700
who find political warfare

677
00:20:31,700 --> 00:20:33,700
rewarding and attractive

678
00:20:33,700 --> 00:20:36,520
so

679
00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:38,160
one essential way

680
00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:39,000
to cut through

681
00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,380
how this is structured

682
00:20:41,380 --> 00:20:42,160
is to understand

683
00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:43,260
that there's a key distinction

684
00:20:43,260 --> 00:20:44,100
between the American

685
00:20:44,100 --> 00:20:44,800
homeland

686
00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:46,040
and the American empire

687
00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:47,340
we live in the

688
00:20:47,340 --> 00:20:48,420
American homeland

689
00:20:48,420 --> 00:20:50,340
but the American empire

690
00:20:50,340 --> 00:20:53,260
is everywhere else

691
00:20:53,260 --> 00:20:54,180
and today

692
00:20:54,180 --> 00:20:55,400
even

693
00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:56,700
all the major

694
00:20:56,700 --> 00:20:57,940
U.S. national

695
00:20:57,940 --> 00:20:59,840
U.S. domiciled

696
00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:00,720
corporations

697
00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:02,480
get the lion's share

698
00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:03,960
of their markets

699
00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:04,920
their revenues

700
00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,400
their supply chain resources

701
00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:08,340
from

702
00:21:08,340 --> 00:21:10,420
everywhere else on earth

703
00:21:10,420 --> 00:21:11,300
we are actually

704
00:21:11,300 --> 00:21:12,180
even though we are

705
00:21:12,180 --> 00:21:13,380
a big country

706
00:21:13,380 --> 00:21:14,840
we pale in comparison

707
00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:15,880
to the globe

708
00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:16,920
and the issue is

709
00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:18,100
when people

710
00:21:18,100 --> 00:21:19,160
on the homeland

711
00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:20,840
want to put

712
00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:21,820
their own interests first

713
00:21:21,820 --> 00:21:23,300
they run up against

714
00:21:23,300 --> 00:21:24,680
the empire managers

715
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:26,040
and therefore

716
00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:26,640
against

717
00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:27,740
the

718
00:21:27,740 --> 00:21:30,300
this blob apparatus

719
00:21:30,300 --> 00:21:30,760
we are going to see

720
00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:31,340
therefore against

721
00:21:31,340 --> 00:21:31,600
the

722
00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:33,460
the intelligence state

723
00:21:33,460 --> 00:21:34,360
and

724
00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:35,760
what I have here

725
00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:36,900
is in this inauguration

726
00:21:36,900 --> 00:21:38,080
of organized political warfare

727
00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:38,980
you see that

728
00:21:38,980 --> 00:21:39,920
even though the emphasis

729
00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:41,040
is on giving the CIA

730
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:41,860
this capacity

731
00:21:41,860 --> 00:21:43,380
the entire thing

732
00:21:43,380 --> 00:21:43,880
is coordinated

733
00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:44,980
by the U.S. State Department

734
00:21:44,980 --> 00:21:45,800
which

735
00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:47,140
does not have

736
00:21:47,140 --> 00:21:47,620
a plausible

737
00:21:47,620 --> 00:21:48,740
deniability license

738
00:21:48,740 --> 00:21:49,740
it's supposed to be

739
00:21:49,740 --> 00:21:50,820
our official

740
00:21:50,820 --> 00:21:52,060
U.S. government policy

741
00:21:52,060 --> 00:21:54,420
but secretly

742
00:21:54,420 --> 00:21:56,400
the CIA

743
00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:56,900
answers

744
00:21:56,900 --> 00:21:58,140
to the State Department

745
00:21:58,140 --> 00:21:58,780
in all things

746
00:21:58,780 --> 00:21:59,380
and we're going to

747
00:21:59,380 --> 00:22:00,220
dive into the structure

748
00:22:00,220 --> 00:22:00,520
on that

749
00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:01,240
you'll see there

750
00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:01,680
at the bottom

751
00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:02,520
this whole operation

752
00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:03,560
has to be answerable

753
00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:04,560
to the Secretary of State

754
00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:05,800
who directs the whole

755
00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:06,560
in coordination

756
00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:08,280
while covert political warfare

757
00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:09,000
must be controlled

758
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:09,820
by the State Department

759
00:22:09,820 --> 00:22:10,400
the direction

760
00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:11,200
should not physically

761
00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:12,480
be in the State Department

762
00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:13,860
this is more true

763
00:22:13,860 --> 00:22:14,520
when it's realized

764
00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:15,600
that the considerable funds

765
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:17,040
necessary for such an operation

766
00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:18,140
could not be concealed

767
00:22:18,140 --> 00:22:19,440
in the Department's budget

768
00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:21,440
so they have to hide

769
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:22,740
what they're doing

770
00:22:22,740 --> 00:22:23,840
from the American people

771
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:25,520
and from foreign countries

772
00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:26,200
who

773
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:27,700
if there was transparency

774
00:22:27,700 --> 00:22:28,880
about how our own

775
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:29,540
taxpayer dollars

776
00:22:29,540 --> 00:22:30,100
were being spent

777
00:22:30,100 --> 00:22:31,080
they would know

778
00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:31,600
their countries

779
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:32,320
are being targeted

780
00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:32,900
for overthrow

781
00:22:32,900 --> 00:22:34,220
so the State Department

782
00:22:34,220 --> 00:22:35,140
can't conceal it

783
00:22:35,140 --> 00:22:36,700
so we need this web

784
00:22:36,700 --> 00:22:37,820
of other government agencies

785
00:22:37,820 --> 00:22:39,200
including the intelligence services

786
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,340
to park the money there

787
00:22:41,340 --> 00:22:42,280
so again

788
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:42,920
the coordination

789
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:44,700
of covert operations

790
00:22:44,700 --> 00:22:45,860
with overt conduct

791
00:22:45,860 --> 00:22:46,860
should be accomplished

792
00:22:46,860 --> 00:22:47,700
through the office

793
00:22:47,700 --> 00:22:48,840
of the Secretary of State

794
00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:49,780
and Undersecretary

795
00:22:49,780 --> 00:22:51,220
and our proposal

796
00:22:51,220 --> 00:22:52,020
is that this tradition

797
00:22:52,020 --> 00:22:53,140
be revised

798
00:22:53,140 --> 00:22:54,360
to further

799
00:22:54,360 --> 00:22:55,640
American national interests

800
00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,000
so that is the linchpin

801
00:22:58,000 --> 00:22:58,360
of this

802
00:22:58,360 --> 00:22:59,200
which is this concept

803
00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:01,120
of U.S. national interests

804
00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:02,880
so now let's go back

805
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:03,320
in time

806
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:04,500
to look at the origin

807
00:23:04,500 --> 00:23:04,920
of this

808
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:05,800
so this is the first

809
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:06,520
meeting of Congress

810
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:08,000
in 1789

811
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,240
when the first

812
00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:10,140
meeting of Congress

813
00:23:10,140 --> 00:23:10,700
happened

814
00:23:10,700 --> 00:23:11,480
we established

815
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:12,220
only three

816
00:23:12,220 --> 00:23:13,040
government agencies

817
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:14,620
imagine a world

818
00:23:14,620 --> 00:23:15,220
without HUD

819
00:23:15,220 --> 00:23:16,180
imagine a world

820
00:23:16,180 --> 00:23:16,740
without the Department

821
00:23:16,740 --> 00:23:17,300
of Education

822
00:23:17,300 --> 00:23:17,780
or Labor

823
00:23:17,780 --> 00:23:19,060
at the founding moment

824
00:23:19,060 --> 00:23:19,920
of our first

825
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:20,800
meeting of Congress

826
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:21,560
we established

827
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:23,020
only three

828
00:23:23,020 --> 00:23:24,200
government agencies

829
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,180
the Department of State

830
00:23:26,180 --> 00:23:27,620
to manage

831
00:23:27,620 --> 00:23:28,680
the affairs of state

832
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:29,600
to manage our

833
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:30,740
our relations

834
00:23:30,740 --> 00:23:31,820
in the international community

835
00:23:31,820 --> 00:23:34,380
the Department of Defense

836
00:23:34,380 --> 00:23:35,680
and I'm going to asterisk that

837
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:36,560
for a second

838
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,540
and the Department of Treasury

839
00:23:38,540 --> 00:23:39,440
so basically

840
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:40,360
money

841
00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:40,920
war

842
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:41,660
and

843
00:23:41,660 --> 00:23:42,800
everything else

844
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:43,720
that involves

845
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:45,020
America's posture

846
00:23:45,020 --> 00:23:47,320
to the wider world

847
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:48,600
now

848
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:49,800
I put an asterisk next to

849
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:50,440
the Department of Defense

850
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:50,880
because

851
00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:52,520
it was not actually called

852
00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:53,140
the Department of Defense

853
00:23:53,140 --> 00:23:53,440
at the time

854
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:53,780
it was called

855
00:23:53,780 --> 00:23:54,620
the Department of War

856
00:23:54,620 --> 00:23:56,400
and it kept that name

857
00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:57,960
for 150 years

858
00:23:57,960 --> 00:23:59,440
until 1948

859
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:01,000
exactly when

860
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:01,820
the CIA

861
00:24:01,820 --> 00:24:02,600
was created

862
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:03,620
exactly when

863
00:24:03,620 --> 00:24:04,500
the Smith-Munt Act

864
00:24:04,500 --> 00:24:05,300
came out

865
00:24:05,300 --> 00:24:06,460
exactly when

866
00:24:06,460 --> 00:24:07,200
the UN

867
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:08,780
Declaration on Human Rights

868
00:24:08,780 --> 00:24:09,420
forbade

869
00:24:09,420 --> 00:24:10,420
the military

870
00:24:10,420 --> 00:24:11,280
from taking over

871
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:11,660
the world

872
00:24:11,660 --> 00:24:13,080
and so

873
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:13,900
we simply

874
00:24:13,900 --> 00:24:14,800
did something cute

875
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:15,260
and we said

876
00:24:15,260 --> 00:24:16,240
okay we are no longer

877
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:17,100
the War Department

878
00:24:17,100 --> 00:24:18,080
we are

879
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:19,100
forward defending

880
00:24:19,100 --> 00:24:19,580
ourselves

881
00:24:19,580 --> 00:24:20,080
we are

882
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:21,240
we're about

883
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:22,220
defense actually

884
00:24:22,220 --> 00:24:23,140
but we're just going to do

885
00:24:23,140 --> 00:24:24,400
the same things we were doing before

886
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:25,420
but we're not allowed to say

887
00:24:25,420 --> 00:24:25,980
war anymore

888
00:24:25,980 --> 00:24:28,020
because that's outlawed

889
00:24:28,020 --> 00:24:29,860
just if you want to

890
00:24:29,860 --> 00:24:30,600
see your seats on that

891
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:31,320
okay

892
00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,260
so let's just speed run

893
00:24:33,260 --> 00:24:34,160
what happened between

894
00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:34,940
1789

895
00:24:34,940 --> 00:24:35,700
and

896
00:24:35,700 --> 00:24:36,620
and 1948

897
00:24:36,620 --> 00:24:38,620
to establish the American Empire

898
00:24:38,620 --> 00:24:40,280
so we started off

899
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:40,800
as just

900
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:41,920
you know

901
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:42,760
this mainland

902
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:44,160
the homeland

903
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:44,800
that we're in

904
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:45,620
and

905
00:24:45,620 --> 00:24:46,620
today

906
00:24:46,620 --> 00:24:47,620
our reach

907
00:24:47,620 --> 00:24:48,320
is on

908
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,020
is in every country

909
00:24:50,020 --> 00:24:50,820
and

910
00:24:50,820 --> 00:24:52,020
on every continent

911
00:24:52,020 --> 00:24:53,100
there is a State Department

912
00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:54,560
regional desk

913
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:55,680
there is an Assistant Secretary

914
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:56,480
whose job

915
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:57,540
is to make sure

916
00:24:57,540 --> 00:24:59,000
the right politician wins

917
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,680
in every single country

918
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:01,160
on earth

919
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:02,480
so the Assistant Secretary

920
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:03,780
for Europe and Eurasian Affairs

921
00:25:03,780 --> 00:25:04,820
is going to have a portfolio

922
00:25:04,820 --> 00:25:06,480
of 15 different European countries

923
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:07,740
every one of those countries

924
00:25:07,740 --> 00:25:08,300
has elections

925
00:25:08,300 --> 00:25:09,400
every one of those elections

926
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:10,920
has a State Department

927
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:11,720
preference

928
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:13,400
they will back channel

929
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:14,160
with all parties

930
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:15,640
one will be better

931
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:17,120
for U.S. national interest

932
00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:17,780
the other won't

933
00:25:17,780 --> 00:25:18,180
and

934
00:25:18,180 --> 00:25:20,040
that Assistant Secretary's job

935
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:21,040
is to influence

936
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:21,600
the course

937
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:22,080
of

938
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,720
political events

939
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:25,880
in that country

940
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:26,380
to conduct

941
00:25:26,380 --> 00:25:27,580
organized political warfare

942
00:25:27,580 --> 00:25:28,980
using plausible deniability

943
00:25:28,980 --> 00:25:30,200
in order to achieve

944
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:30,660
that outcome

945
00:25:30,660 --> 00:25:31,480
sometimes they win

946
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:32,220
sometimes they don't

947
00:25:32,220 --> 00:25:33,340
but that is their job

948
00:25:33,340 --> 00:25:35,420
but how do we get this empire

949
00:25:35,420 --> 00:25:36,540
so

950
00:25:36,540 --> 00:25:37,940
in 1823

951
00:25:37,940 --> 00:25:38,680
we declared

952
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:39,500
the Monroe Doctrine

953
00:25:39,500 --> 00:25:40,820
this was the

954
00:25:40,820 --> 00:25:41,520
you know

955
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:42,060
before that

956
00:25:42,060 --> 00:25:42,480
the

957
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:44,240
fledgling U.S. Navy

958
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:45,060
was flying out

959
00:25:45,060 --> 00:25:45,400
to Trip

960
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:45,700
you know

961
00:25:45,700 --> 00:25:46,780
flying out to Tripoli

962
00:25:46,780 --> 00:25:47,660
and there was a lot

963
00:25:47,660 --> 00:25:48,240
of competition

964
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:48,920
with the Spanish

965
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:50,400
and other colonial powers

966
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:51,180
in the Western Hemisphere

967
00:25:51,180 --> 00:25:52,680
we told Europe

968
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:53,540
you stay out

969
00:25:53,540 --> 00:25:55,520
of the Western Hemisphere

970
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:56,380
we'll stay out of Europe

971
00:25:56,380 --> 00:25:58,040
and we began

972
00:25:58,040 --> 00:25:59,700
to take over

973
00:25:59,700 --> 00:26:01,820
the political ecosystems

974
00:26:01,820 --> 00:26:02,980
and the

975
00:26:02,980 --> 00:26:04,460
the agriculture

976
00:26:04,460 --> 00:26:05,100
the sugar

977
00:26:05,100 --> 00:26:06,280
the natural resources

978
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,340
of almost the entirety

979
00:26:08,340 --> 00:26:09,740
of Latin America

980
00:26:09,740 --> 00:26:10,580
and South America

981
00:26:10,580 --> 00:26:12,160
these were the famous

982
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:13,020
in the next image here

983
00:26:13,020 --> 00:26:14,200
the famous banana wars

984
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:15,260
the pineapple wars

985
00:26:15,260 --> 00:26:16,440
the guava wars

986
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,040
it's a funny moment

987
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:18,940
in American history

988
00:26:18,940 --> 00:26:20,860
in the late 1800s

989
00:26:20,860 --> 00:26:21,240
when

990
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:23,180
we were establishing

991
00:26:23,180 --> 00:26:24,380
what are now

992
00:26:24,380 --> 00:26:24,940
known as

993
00:26:24,940 --> 00:26:26,080
banana republics

994
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:26,720
these were

995
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:28,100
U.S. private

996
00:26:28,100 --> 00:26:29,140
corporations

997
00:26:29,140 --> 00:26:30,400
for profit corporations

998
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,020
having

999
00:26:32,020 --> 00:26:33,440
financial interests

1000
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:34,280
in a region

1001
00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:35,660
outside of our country

1002
00:26:35,660 --> 00:26:37,240
where the U.S.

1003
00:26:37,700 --> 00:26:38,340
war department

1004
00:26:38,340 --> 00:26:39,480
and state department

1005
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:40,180
would descend

1006
00:26:40,180 --> 00:26:41,040
on the territory

1007
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:42,380
basically help

1008
00:26:42,380 --> 00:26:43,400
overthrow that government

1009
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:44,360
provide support

1010
00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:46,260
and that private corporation

1011
00:26:46,260 --> 00:26:47,220
would essentially run

1012
00:26:47,220 --> 00:26:48,000
the government

1013
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:48,860
and it would run

1014
00:26:48,860 --> 00:26:49,500
in a very

1015
00:26:49,500 --> 00:26:50,720
dysfunctional way

1016
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:51,800
but it was protected

1017
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,380
the big business

1018
00:26:53,380 --> 00:26:54,140
and big government

1019
00:26:54,140 --> 00:26:54,900
were in league

1020
00:26:54,900 --> 00:26:55,480
with each other

1021
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:56,820
in the sense that

1022
00:26:56,820 --> 00:26:57,960
the big government

1023
00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:59,740
had the U.S. military

1024
00:26:59,740 --> 00:27:00,940
had U.S. diplomats

1025
00:27:00,940 --> 00:27:02,620
had U.S. power projection

1026
00:27:02,620 --> 00:27:03,400
into the regions

1027
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,740
and the big corporations

1028
00:27:05,740 --> 00:27:06,680
would profit

1029
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:07,760
from being able

1030
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:08,780
to exploit

1031
00:27:08,780 --> 00:27:09,540
the resources

1032
00:27:09,540 --> 00:27:10,440
the labor

1033
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:11,920
and that is part

1034
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:12,320
of the reason

1035
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:13,240
that we had

1036
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,020
cheap food

1037
00:27:16,020 --> 00:27:17,880
and this same relationship

1038
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:18,560
is in big oil

1039
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:18,940
it's the reason

1040
00:27:18,940 --> 00:27:20,240
we had cheap gas

1041
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:20,860
it's the reason

1042
00:27:20,860 --> 00:27:23,180
we'll come to this

1043
00:27:23,180 --> 00:27:25,500
but we may need

1044
00:27:25,500 --> 00:27:26,360
this apparatus

1045
00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:27,620
but the fact is

1046
00:27:27,620 --> 00:27:28,420
is it was established

1047
00:27:28,420 --> 00:27:28,960
very early

1048
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:30,260
in the American story

1049
00:27:30,260 --> 00:27:31,800
well before

1050
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:32,900
seven decades

1051
00:27:32,900 --> 00:27:34,080
before the actual

1052
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:34,820
creation of the

1053
00:27:34,820 --> 00:27:35,640
intelligence state

1054
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:36,460
the intelligence state

1055
00:27:36,460 --> 00:27:37,180
just grafted

1056
00:27:37,180 --> 00:27:38,660
onto that relationship

1057
00:27:38,660 --> 00:27:40,080
between the war department

1058
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:40,920
the state department

1059
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:42,520
and private sector stakeholders

1060
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,840
so the next image

1061
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:45,340
here I have

1062
00:27:45,340 --> 00:27:46,240
is remember the main

1063
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:47,720
this was in 1898

1064
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:49,000
we became

1065
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:49,940
an international empire

1066
00:27:49,940 --> 00:27:51,100
when we won

1067
00:27:51,100 --> 00:27:52,360
the Spanish-American war

1068
00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:53,780
and not only took Cuba

1069
00:27:53,780 --> 00:27:54,600
but we took

1070
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:55,180
the Philippines

1071
00:27:55,180 --> 00:27:56,540
as well

1072
00:27:56,540 --> 00:27:58,080
and then suddenly

1073
00:27:58,080 --> 00:27:59,580
had to control

1074
00:27:59,580 --> 00:28:01,580
this wide ranging

1075
00:28:01,580 --> 00:28:02,660
plot

1076
00:28:02,660 --> 00:28:04,660
of geography

1077
00:28:04,660 --> 00:28:05,580
on planet earth

1078
00:28:05,580 --> 00:28:06,560
the next image

1079
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:07,020
here is just

1080
00:28:07,020 --> 00:28:07,560
the FBI

1081
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:08,260
the FBI

1082
00:28:08,260 --> 00:28:08,800
was created

1083
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:09,880
in 1908

1084
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:11,540
the Justice Department

1085
00:28:11,540 --> 00:28:12,100
had been around

1086
00:28:12,100 --> 00:28:13,140
for about 60 years

1087
00:28:13,140 --> 00:28:13,760
before that

1088
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,120
but the FBI

1089
00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:16,040
was created

1090
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:16,480
in the romp

1091
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:17,360
to World War I

1092
00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:18,960
and its first

1093
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:19,820
serious operation

1094
00:28:19,820 --> 00:28:21,420
was rounding up

1095
00:28:21,420 --> 00:28:22,540
anti-war protesters

1096
00:28:22,540 --> 00:28:23,640
to World War I

1097
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:25,020
and working to

1098
00:28:25,020 --> 00:28:25,940
undermine their ability

1099
00:28:25,940 --> 00:28:27,720
to use the U.S. Postal Service

1100
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:28,600
and other means

1101
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:29,700
to get their messages out

1102
00:28:29,700 --> 00:28:30,800
the FBI is one of our

1103
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:32,460
17 intelligence agencies

1104
00:28:32,460 --> 00:28:34,220
so again this preceded 1948

1105
00:28:34,220 --> 00:28:36,020
this preceded the CIA

1106
00:28:36,020 --> 00:28:37,760
we have 17 intelligence agencies

1107
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:38,480
only two of them

1108
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:39,420
faced domestically

1109
00:28:39,420 --> 00:28:40,200
the other one

1110
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:40,940
besides the FBI

1111
00:28:40,940 --> 00:28:41,560
that's domestic

1112
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:42,220
is DHS

1113
00:28:42,220 --> 00:28:43,500
which of course

1114
00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:44,280
was after 9-11

1115
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,180
and then the final image

1116
00:28:46,180 --> 00:28:46,760
here I have

1117
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:47,920
of a sort of

1118
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:49,700
essential history

1119
00:28:49,700 --> 00:28:50,520
in the speed run

1120
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:51,960
is simply Woodrow Wilson

1121
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:53,440
because he is

1122
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:54,140
the sort of

1123
00:28:54,140 --> 00:28:55,740
spiritual godfather

1124
00:28:55,740 --> 00:28:57,300
of the doctrine

1125
00:28:57,300 --> 00:28:58,320
that organized

1126
00:28:58,320 --> 00:28:58,980
political warfare

1127
00:28:58,980 --> 00:28:59,980
would be grafted under

1128
00:28:59,980 --> 00:29:01,920
because his mission

1129
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:03,900
to make the world

1130
00:29:03,900 --> 00:29:05,020
safe for democracy

1131
00:29:05,020 --> 00:29:06,560
allowed us to pull

1132
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:07,560
a very cute trick

1133
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:08,340
when the world

1134
00:29:08,340 --> 00:29:09,120
transitioned from

1135
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:09,680
hard power

1136
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:10,420
to soft power

1137
00:29:10,420 --> 00:29:11,340
as the primary means

1138
00:29:11,340 --> 00:29:12,060
to run an empire

1139
00:29:12,060 --> 00:29:13,180
which was that

1140
00:29:13,180 --> 00:29:13,900
you no longer

1141
00:29:13,900 --> 00:29:14,520
had to have

1142
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:15,640
a national security threat

1143
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:16,720
to use the national

1144
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:17,500
security state

1145
00:29:17,500 --> 00:29:19,660
you could simply

1146
00:29:19,660 --> 00:29:21,380
promote democracy

1147
00:29:21,380 --> 00:29:23,720
and under the banner

1148
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:24,760
of promoting democracy

1149
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:25,820
you could do

1150
00:29:25,820 --> 00:29:26,840
the dirtiest of deeds

1151
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:27,740
you could do

1152
00:29:27,740 --> 00:29:28,300
demolition

1153
00:29:28,300 --> 00:29:29,240
sabotage

1154
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:30,800
black propaganda

1155
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:31,480
you could work

1156
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:31,980
with the criminal

1157
00:29:31,980 --> 00:29:32,500
underworld

1158
00:29:32,500 --> 00:29:33,220
again as I mentioned

1159
00:29:33,220 --> 00:29:33,700
in Italy

1160
00:29:33,700 --> 00:29:34,200
and Iran

1161
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:35,240
and dozens

1162
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:35,860
of countries

1163
00:29:35,860 --> 00:29:36,800
you could

1164
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:38,760
rig elections

1165
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:39,200
you could stuff

1166
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:39,880
ballot boxes

1167
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:40,620
but it's all

1168
00:29:40,620 --> 00:29:41,760
to promote democracy

1169
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:42,960
even if there is

1170
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:43,680
no threat

1171
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:44,720
to the American people

1172
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:45,700
and even if it only

1173
00:29:45,700 --> 00:29:47,420
benefits a small

1174
00:29:47,420 --> 00:29:47,980
coterie

1175
00:29:47,980 --> 00:29:49,160
of financial

1176
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:50,380
and corporate

1177
00:29:50,380 --> 00:29:50,980
stakeholders

1178
00:29:50,980 --> 00:29:51,600
working with

1179
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:52,440
the US State Department

1180
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:53,760
so what happened

1181
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:54,500
after 1948

1182
00:29:54,500 --> 00:29:55,620
there's an image

1183
00:29:55,620 --> 00:29:56,280
here on the left

1184
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:57,020
which is just

1185
00:29:57,020 --> 00:29:58,080
a list of

1186
00:29:58,080 --> 00:29:59,280
CIA regime change

1187
00:29:59,280 --> 00:29:59,820
operations

1188
00:29:59,820 --> 00:30:00,600
after Italy

1189
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:01,660
you don't need

1190
00:30:01,660 --> 00:30:02,440
to blow it up

1191
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:03,080
on screen or anything

1192
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:03,640
but essentially

1193
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:04,800
there were 85 countries

1194
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:05,820
that the CIA

1195
00:30:05,820 --> 00:30:07,100
orchestrated coups in

1196
00:30:07,100 --> 00:30:07,800
on the back

1197
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:09,180
of this Italy operation

1198
00:30:09,180 --> 00:30:10,340
that George Kennan

1199
00:30:10,340 --> 00:30:11,180
and the rest of the

1200
00:30:11,180 --> 00:30:11,840
State Department officials

1201
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:12,800
were so inspired by

1202
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:14,440
they did in fact

1203
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:15,720
achieve the goal

1204
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:16,720
that they set out to

1205
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:17,640
which was to

1206
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:18,760
broaden this

1207
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:20,060
to virtually

1208
00:30:20,060 --> 00:30:21,140
every country

1209
00:30:21,140 --> 00:30:22,460
continent

1210
00:30:22,460 --> 00:30:22,900
and region

1211
00:30:22,900 --> 00:30:23,920
on earth

1212
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,040
and to capacity

1213
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:26,040
build these networks

1214
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:27,080
whether we needed them

1215
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:27,620
or not

1216
00:30:27,620 --> 00:30:28,900
50 of those

1217
00:30:28,900 --> 00:30:29,240
by the way

1218
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:29,860
happened just during

1219
00:30:29,860 --> 00:30:31,060
the Eisenhower administration

1220
00:30:31,060 --> 00:30:33,060
between 1952

1221
00:30:33,060 --> 00:30:34,320
and 1960

1222
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:35,280
just right out

1223
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:35,860
right off

1224
00:30:35,860 --> 00:30:37,560
right out the gate

1225
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:38,580
in the 1950s

1226
00:30:38,580 --> 00:30:40,220
and by the early

1227
00:30:40,220 --> 00:30:41,300
1960s

1228
00:30:41,300 --> 00:30:42,860
this began

1229
00:30:42,860 --> 00:30:43,720
to come home

1230
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:44,420
and caused

1231
00:30:44,420 --> 00:30:45,320
the first real

1232
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:46,800
led to the chain

1233
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:47,160
of events

1234
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:47,460
that caused

1235
00:30:47,460 --> 00:30:47,920
the first real

1236
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:48,780
structural change

1237
00:30:48,780 --> 00:30:49,120
to the way

1238
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:49,620
the intelligence

1239
00:30:49,620 --> 00:30:50,220
state works

1240
00:30:50,220 --> 00:30:51,980
and this was

1241
00:30:51,980 --> 00:30:53,520
the intelligence

1242
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:54,300
state was doing

1243
00:30:54,300 --> 00:30:55,320
to the new left

1244
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:55,980
at the time

1245
00:30:55,980 --> 00:30:56,780
what they are

1246
00:30:56,780 --> 00:30:57,400
currently doing

1247
00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:58,420
to the populist right

1248
00:30:58,420 --> 00:31:00,420
there was this

1249
00:31:00,420 --> 00:31:01,020
new faction

1250
00:31:01,020 --> 00:31:01,920
within the

1251
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:02,820
democrat party

1252
00:31:02,820 --> 00:31:03,940
that was not

1253
00:31:03,940 --> 00:31:04,880
necessarily all

1254
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:05,720
limousine liberals

1255
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:06,360
a lot of them

1256
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,180
were anti-war

1257
00:31:08,180 --> 00:31:08,900
protesters

1258
00:31:08,900 --> 00:31:09,820
or they

1259
00:31:09,820 --> 00:31:11,000
because of the

1260
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:11,500
third world

1261
00:31:11,500 --> 00:31:12,380
people's movement's

1262
00:31:12,380 --> 00:31:13,560
popularity at the time

1263
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:14,700
and a lot of the

1264
00:31:14,700 --> 00:31:15,660
civil rights struggles

1265
00:31:15,660 --> 00:31:17,000
and ethnic identity

1266
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:17,720
struggles that were

1267
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:18,560
happening at the time

1268
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:19,700
many people in the

1269
00:31:19,700 --> 00:31:20,480
democrat party

1270
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:21,380
were positioning

1271
00:31:21,380 --> 00:31:22,200
themselves both

1272
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:22,680
socially

1273
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:23,280
politically

1274
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:24,840
and informationally

1275
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:26,220
aligned with countries

1276
00:31:26,220 --> 00:31:26,680
that were being

1277
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:27,980
targeted by the

1278
00:31:27,980 --> 00:31:28,620
central intelligence

1279
00:31:28,620 --> 00:31:29,160
agency

1280
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:30,200
it was being seen

1281
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:30,860
it was seen as a

1282
00:31:30,860 --> 00:31:31,800
right-wing force

1283
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:32,480
because it was

1284
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:33,300
targeting socialist

1285
00:31:33,300 --> 00:31:33,840
and communist

1286
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:34,320
governments

1287
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:35,380
primarily actually

1288
00:31:35,380 --> 00:31:36,040
just to sort of

1289
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:37,280
privatize the assets

1290
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:38,020
the state industries

1291
00:31:38,020 --> 00:31:38,580
held

1292
00:31:38,580 --> 00:31:40,400
but the CIA

1293
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:41,400
began to do

1294
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:42,480
more and more

1295
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:43,340
the same things

1296
00:31:43,340 --> 00:31:44,040
against the left

1297
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:44,640
then that they're

1298
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:45,240
doing against

1299
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:46,340
the populist right

1300
00:31:46,340 --> 00:31:47,020
now

1301
00:31:47,020 --> 00:31:48,540
so just have a few

1302
00:31:48,540 --> 00:31:49,300
images on screen

1303
00:31:49,300 --> 00:31:50,760
huge CIA operation

1304
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:51,640
reported in US

1305
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:52,540
against anti-war

1306
00:31:52,540 --> 00:31:53,300
forces

1307
00:31:53,300 --> 00:31:55,140
the CIA was

1308
00:31:55,140 --> 00:31:56,180
actually bribing

1309
00:31:56,180 --> 00:31:56,680
the National

1310
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:57,680
Association of

1311
00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:58,120
Students

1312
00:31:58,120 --> 00:31:58,820
they launched

1313
00:31:58,820 --> 00:31:59,320
something called

1314
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:00,260
Operation Chaos

1315
00:32:00,260 --> 00:32:01,340
basically designed

1316
00:32:01,340 --> 00:32:01,920
at permanently

1317
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:02,740
shaping the

1318
00:32:02,740 --> 00:32:03,240
composition of

1319
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:03,980
the democrat party

1320
00:32:03,980 --> 00:32:05,560
to purge this

1321
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:06,600
new but very

1322
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:07,960
popular populist

1323
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:08,900
leftist faction

1324
00:32:08,900 --> 00:32:09,480
out

1325
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,180
and tell me if

1326
00:32:11,180 --> 00:32:11,980
that sounds familiar

1327
00:32:11,980 --> 00:32:12,920
in terms of the

1328
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:13,500
intelligence state

1329
00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:14,220
it's not targeting

1330
00:32:14,220 --> 00:32:15,180
George Bush

1331
00:32:15,180 --> 00:32:16,020
or Mitt Romney

1332
00:32:16,020 --> 00:32:16,820
or John McCain

1333
00:32:16,820 --> 00:32:18,420
it is only targeting

1334
00:32:18,420 --> 00:32:19,280
one faction

1335
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:20,260
of the

1336
00:32:20,260 --> 00:32:22,660
conservative wing

1337
00:32:22,660 --> 00:32:23,460
of the GOP

1338
00:32:23,460 --> 00:32:24,740
in order to purge

1339
00:32:24,740 --> 00:32:25,340
that out

1340
00:32:25,340 --> 00:32:27,900
the next image

1341
00:32:27,900 --> 00:32:28,300
I have here

1342
00:32:28,300 --> 00:32:28,640
on screen

1343
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:29,420
is COINTELPRO

1344
00:32:29,420 --> 00:32:29,920
this was on

1345
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:30,800
the FBI side

1346
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:31,580
but it was done

1347
00:32:31,580 --> 00:32:32,880
in tandem with

1348
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:33,200
the Central

1349
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:34,140
Intelligence Agency

1350
00:32:34,140 --> 00:32:35,680
the COINTEL

1351
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:36,240
refers to

1352
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:37,200
counterintelligence

1353
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:38,200
which is

1354
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:39,840
basically when

1355
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:40,620
the FBI

1356
00:32:40,620 --> 00:32:41,940
is dealing with

1357
00:32:41,940 --> 00:32:43,040
threats from

1358
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:44,160
foreign countries

1359
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:44,640
using this

1360
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:45,420
foreign predicate

1361
00:32:45,420 --> 00:32:47,380
I'll get to that

1362
00:32:47,380 --> 00:32:47,900
a little bit more

1363
00:32:47,900 --> 00:32:48,500
in a second here

1364
00:32:48,500 --> 00:32:49,780
now

1365
00:32:49,780 --> 00:32:51,540
the first thing

1366
00:32:51,540 --> 00:32:52,180
that forced

1367
00:32:52,180 --> 00:32:53,840
the restructuring

1368
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:55,480
of the intelligence

1369
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:56,220
state into its

1370
00:32:56,220 --> 00:32:56,840
current form

1371
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:57,640
was a series

1372
00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:58,320
of scandals

1373
00:32:58,320 --> 00:32:59,180
that led up

1374
00:32:59,180 --> 00:33:00,000
to and ultimately

1375
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:00,820
culminated in

1376
00:33:00,820 --> 00:33:01,300
what was called

1377
00:33:01,300 --> 00:33:02,400
the Church Committee

1378
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:02,720
hearing

1379
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:03,360
also there's a

1380
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:03,840
Pike Committee

1381
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:05,280
on the left here

1382
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:06,160
is Frank Church

1383
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:06,720
he was the

1384
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:07,580
Democrat Senator

1385
00:33:07,580 --> 00:33:08,320
who spearheaded

1386
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:08,780
those hearings

1387
00:33:08,780 --> 00:33:09,400
it was the first

1388
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:10,680
time the Central

1389
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:11,520
Intelligence Agency

1390
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:12,460
ever had

1391
00:33:12,460 --> 00:33:13,740
congressional oversight

1392
00:33:13,740 --> 00:33:14,780
it had been around

1393
00:33:14,780 --> 00:33:15,680
for 30 years

1394
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:17,380
and members of

1395
00:33:17,380 --> 00:33:18,040
Congress were not

1396
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:18,500
allowed to see

1397
00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:19,080
what it was doing

1398
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:19,880
there was no

1399
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:20,220
oversight

1400
00:33:20,220 --> 00:33:20,660
there was no

1401
00:33:20,660 --> 00:33:21,060
accountability

1402
00:33:21,060 --> 00:33:21,680
there was no

1403
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:22,200
hey let me look

1404
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:22,480
at that

1405
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:23,000
there was no

1406
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:23,520
gang of eight

1407
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:25,440
it was only

1408
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:26,880
with the Church

1409
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:27,160
Committee

1410
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:28,340
that we created

1411
00:33:28,340 --> 00:33:29,440
a House Intelligence

1412
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:29,820
Committee

1413
00:33:29,820 --> 00:33:31,920
to have a select

1414
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:33,020
handful of members

1415
00:33:33,020 --> 00:33:33,500
of the House

1416
00:33:33,500 --> 00:33:34,120
be able to do

1417
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:34,440
oversight

1418
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:35,320
it was only then

1419
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:35,880
that we created

1420
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:36,760
the Senate Intelligence

1421
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:37,020
Committee

1422
00:33:37,020 --> 00:33:37,620
to do the same

1423
00:33:37,620 --> 00:33:38,000
on the Senate

1424
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:38,320
side

1425
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:39,980
and this is

1426
00:33:39,980 --> 00:33:40,520
Frank Church

1427
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:41,360
here on the left

1428
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:42,120
holding up the

1429
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:43,340
famous heart attack

1430
00:33:43,340 --> 00:33:43,660
gun

1431
00:33:43,660 --> 00:33:45,380
which was in

1432
00:33:45,380 --> 00:33:45,940
the CIA

1433
00:33:45,940 --> 00:33:47,200
assassination guide

1434
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:48,460
and in their

1435
00:33:48,460 --> 00:33:50,120
research and

1436
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:50,540
development

1437
00:33:50,540 --> 00:33:52,160
they were

1438
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:52,980
assassinating

1439
00:33:52,980 --> 00:33:53,620
world leaders

1440
00:33:53,620 --> 00:33:53,980
they were

1441
00:33:53,980 --> 00:33:54,680
assassinating

1442
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:55,640
political dissonance

1443
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:56,200
all over the

1444
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:56,440
world

1445
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:57,680
and they were

1446
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:58,380
working on

1447
00:33:58,380 --> 00:33:58,920
ever more

1448
00:33:58,920 --> 00:33:59,820
extreme ways

1449
00:33:59,820 --> 00:34:00,580
to kill people

1450
00:34:00,580 --> 00:34:01,040
and get away

1451
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:01,440
with it

1452
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:02,220
in order to

1453
00:34:02,220 --> 00:34:02,820
adhere to

1454
00:34:02,820 --> 00:34:03,260
their government

1455
00:34:03,260 --> 00:34:03,900
license to

1456
00:34:03,900 --> 00:34:04,740
plausible deniability

1457
00:34:04,740 --> 00:34:05,660
and so the

1458
00:34:05,660 --> 00:34:06,500
heart attack gun

1459
00:34:06,500 --> 00:34:07,220
was the

1460
00:34:07,220 --> 00:34:08,440
you can look

1461
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:08,860
this up on

1462
00:34:08,860 --> 00:34:09,100
YouTube

1463
00:34:09,100 --> 00:34:09,520
it's a

1464
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:10,020
fascinating

1465
00:34:10,020 --> 00:34:10,820
congressional

1466
00:34:10,820 --> 00:34:11,220
clip

1467
00:34:11,220 --> 00:34:11,740
this was done

1468
00:34:11,740 --> 00:34:12,320
in open

1469
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:13,320
hearing of

1470
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:13,660
Congress

1471
00:34:13,660 --> 00:34:15,360
with the

1472
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:15,860
director of

1473
00:34:15,860 --> 00:34:16,180
the Central

1474
00:34:16,180 --> 00:34:16,540
Intelligence

1475
00:34:16,540 --> 00:34:16,940
Agency

1476
00:34:16,940 --> 00:34:17,700
testifying and

1477
00:34:17,700 --> 00:34:18,280
explaining this

1478
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:18,980
heart attack gun

1479
00:34:18,980 --> 00:34:19,780
which was that

1480
00:34:19,780 --> 00:34:20,920
it would fire

1481
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:21,820
essentially a

1482
00:34:21,820 --> 00:34:22,500
kind of dart

1483
00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:23,280
so that the

1484
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:23,900
cause of death

1485
00:34:23,900 --> 00:34:24,880
it would induce

1486
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:25,480
a heart attack

1487
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:25,900
so that the

1488
00:34:25,900 --> 00:34:26,540
cause of death

1489
00:34:26,540 --> 00:34:27,500
would look like

1490
00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:28,000
it came from

1491
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:28,600
a heart attack

1492
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:29,400
rather than

1493
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:30,000
a murder

1494
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,560
on the right

1495
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:31,900
here

1496
00:34:31,900 --> 00:34:32,700
this is

1497
00:34:32,700 --> 00:34:33,440
Christopher Pyle

1498
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,240
Christopher Pyle

1499
00:34:35,240 --> 00:34:35,780
was one of the

1500
00:34:35,780 --> 00:34:36,420
first people

1501
00:34:36,420 --> 00:34:37,780
to get this

1502
00:34:37,780 --> 00:34:38,340
ball rolling

1503
00:34:38,340 --> 00:34:40,040
not from the

1504
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:41,120
CIA side

1505
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:41,460
but from the

1506
00:34:41,460 --> 00:34:41,940
US Army

1507
00:34:41,940 --> 00:34:43,160
at that time

1508
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:44,000
he was a

1509
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:44,560
whistleblower

1510
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:45,740
who had provided

1511
00:34:45,740 --> 00:34:46,400
very damning

1512
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:47,120
evidence that

1513
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:48,300
in his words

1514
00:34:48,300 --> 00:34:49,520
any public

1515
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:50,100
meeting that

1516
00:34:50,100 --> 00:34:50,680
happens in the

1517
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:51,260
United States

1518
00:34:51,260 --> 00:34:52,260
with 20 or

1519
00:34:52,260 --> 00:34:52,840
more people

1520
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:54,540
the US military

1521
00:34:54,540 --> 00:34:56,020
wants to know

1522
00:34:56,020 --> 00:34:56,400
what they're

1523
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:57,080
talking about

1524
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:58,680
and has

1525
00:34:58,680 --> 00:34:59,800
active operations

1526
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:00,460
to survey

1527
00:35:00,460 --> 00:35:01,480
and infiltrate

1528
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:02,660
any mass

1529
00:35:02,660 --> 00:35:03,440
gathering of

1530
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:04,240
any political

1531
00:35:04,240 --> 00:35:04,720
group

1532
00:35:04,720 --> 00:35:06,000
right, left

1533
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,820
mothers knitting

1534
00:35:07,820 --> 00:35:08,620
groups, religious

1535
00:35:08,620 --> 00:35:09,040
groups

1536
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:09,900
and he came

1537
00:35:09,900 --> 00:35:10,500
forward with

1538
00:35:10,500 --> 00:35:10,920
troves of

1539
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:11,720
documents around

1540
00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:12,720
this that the

1541
00:35:12,720 --> 00:35:13,520
US perceived

1542
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:14,060
that it was

1543
00:35:14,060 --> 00:35:14,620
necessary

1544
00:35:14,620 --> 00:35:15,140
that the US

1545
00:35:15,140 --> 00:35:16,500
military perceived

1546
00:35:16,500 --> 00:35:16,940
that it was

1547
00:35:16,940 --> 00:35:18,220
necessary to

1548
00:35:18,220 --> 00:35:19,060
maintain political

1549
00:35:19,060 --> 00:35:19,800
control over the

1550
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:20,560
civilian class

1551
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,400
in order to

1552
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,140
prevent any

1553
00:35:24,140 --> 00:35:25,840
popular bills

1554
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:26,180
from getting

1555
00:35:26,180 --> 00:35:26,640
passed or

1556
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:27,080
people from

1557
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:27,600
getting elected

1558
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:28,040
who might

1559
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:29,340
undermine the

1560
00:35:29,340 --> 00:35:30,420
military agenda

1561
00:35:30,420 --> 00:35:31,240
so a basic

1562
00:35:31,240 --> 00:35:32,800
total usurpation

1563
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:33,860
of the concept

1564
00:35:33,860 --> 00:35:34,380
that we have a

1565
00:35:34,380 --> 00:35:35,080
democracy with a

1566
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:35,560
civilian run

1567
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:35,940
government

1568
00:35:35,940 --> 00:35:37,580
at that time

1569
00:35:37,580 --> 00:35:38,900
people who

1570
00:35:38,900 --> 00:35:39,260
were thought

1571
00:35:39,260 --> 00:35:39,920
leaders in

1572
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:40,800
this targeted

1573
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:41,920
section of the

1574
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:42,640
democrat party

1575
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:43,840
became to be

1576
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:44,940
aware because of

1577
00:35:44,940 --> 00:35:45,580
these disclosures

1578
00:35:45,580 --> 00:35:46,200
that basically

1579
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:46,840
everything in the

1580
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:47,260
world around

1581
00:35:47,260 --> 00:35:48,220
them was not

1582
00:35:48,220 --> 00:35:48,480
real

1583
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,240
their media

1584
00:35:50,240 --> 00:35:51,180
their culture

1585
00:35:51,180 --> 00:35:52,780
their music

1586
00:35:52,780 --> 00:35:53,840
all of these

1587
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:54,260
things were

1588
00:35:54,260 --> 00:35:54,980
actually being

1589
00:35:54,980 --> 00:35:55,480
used as

1590
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:56,060
instruments of

1591
00:35:56,060 --> 00:35:56,640
statecraft

1592
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:58,920
and in many

1593
00:35:58,920 --> 00:35:59,820
cases against

1594
00:35:59,820 --> 00:36:00,420
them directly

1595
00:36:00,420 --> 00:36:01,720
so what I have

1596
00:36:01,720 --> 00:36:02,360
here on the

1597
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:03,260
left is from

1598
00:36:03,260 --> 00:36:03,860
the senate

1599
00:36:03,860 --> 00:36:04,240
intelligence

1600
00:36:04,240 --> 00:36:04,600
committee

1601
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:05,180
notes from

1602
00:36:05,180 --> 00:36:05,820
the church

1603
00:36:05,820 --> 00:36:06,400
a memo from

1604
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:06,640
the church

1605
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:07,160
committee hearing

1606
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:08,480
CI's use of

1607
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:09,220
journalists and

1608
00:36:09,220 --> 00:36:09,880
clergy in

1609
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:10,260
intelligence

1610
00:36:10,260 --> 00:36:10,880
operations

1611
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:11,240
so again

1612
00:36:11,240 --> 00:36:11,700
working with

1613
00:36:11,700 --> 00:36:12,340
religious groups

1614
00:36:12,340 --> 00:36:13,660
the center

1615
00:36:13,660 --> 00:36:14,400
picture is

1616
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:14,880
something called

1617
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:15,320
the congress

1618
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:15,780
for cultural

1619
00:36:15,780 --> 00:36:16,120
freedom

1620
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,120
which was a

1621
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,260
giant network

1622
00:36:20,260 --> 00:36:21,220
of CIA

1623
00:36:21,220 --> 00:36:22,620
funded and

1624
00:36:22,620 --> 00:36:23,300
directed

1625
00:36:23,300 --> 00:36:25,700
cultural and

1626
00:36:25,700 --> 00:36:27,460
media institutions

1627
00:36:27,460 --> 00:36:29,300
primarily in

1628
00:36:29,300 --> 00:36:30,000
Europe but would

1629
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:30,580
come to extend

1630
00:36:30,580 --> 00:36:31,460
effectively all over

1631
00:36:31,460 --> 00:36:31,880
the world

1632
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,700
where the CIA

1633
00:36:33,700 --> 00:36:35,420
basically co-opted

1634
00:36:35,420 --> 00:36:36,160
not just thought

1635
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:37,120
leaders in

1636
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:37,860
leading magazines

1637
00:36:37,860 --> 00:36:38,780
but also

1638
00:36:38,780 --> 00:36:39,560
musicians

1639
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:40,580
poets

1640
00:36:40,580 --> 00:36:41,720
they would even

1641
00:36:41,720 --> 00:36:42,820
host musical

1642
00:36:42,820 --> 00:36:43,800
events to

1643
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:44,760
attract people

1644
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:45,640
in dozens

1645
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:46,360
of countries

1646
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:47,340
and then

1647
00:36:47,340 --> 00:36:48,780
essentially use

1648
00:36:48,780 --> 00:36:49,460
that as a

1649
00:36:49,460 --> 00:36:50,060
way to get

1650
00:36:50,060 --> 00:36:50,800
them aligned

1651
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:51,160
like a

1652
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:52,200
magnet with

1653
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:52,980
the US

1654
00:36:52,980 --> 00:36:53,580
state department

1655
00:36:53,580 --> 00:36:54,160
agenda

1656
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:55,040
and very

1657
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:56,340
famous senior

1658
00:36:56,340 --> 00:36:56,880
folks were

1659
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:57,400
involved in

1660
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:58,580
this including

1661
00:36:58,580 --> 00:36:59,180
many in

1662
00:36:59,180 --> 00:36:59,900
spaces that

1663
00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:01,000
you might not

1664
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:01,780
expect Gloria

1665
00:37:01,780 --> 00:37:02,400
Steinem for

1666
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:02,980
example the

1667
00:37:02,980 --> 00:37:03,600
famous feminist

1668
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:04,760
was funded by

1669
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:05,640
the congress

1670
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:06,160
for cultural

1671
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:06,540
freedom

1672
00:37:06,540 --> 00:37:07,100
this was at

1673
00:37:07,100 --> 00:37:07,820
the time when

1674
00:37:07,820 --> 00:37:09,480
our state

1675
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:10,060
department was

1676
00:37:10,060 --> 00:37:10,820
beginning to

1677
00:37:10,820 --> 00:37:12,040
project that as

1678
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:12,840
a means to

1679
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:14,000
win the cold

1680
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:15,000
war by getting

1681
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:15,820
people in

1682
00:37:15,820 --> 00:37:16,320
central and

1683
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:16,960
eastern Europe

1684
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:18,820
to become more

1685
00:37:18,820 --> 00:37:19,500
feminist in

1686
00:37:19,500 --> 00:37:20,080
order to

1687
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:21,180
oppose and

1688
00:37:21,180 --> 00:37:21,980
angry them up

1689
00:37:21,980 --> 00:37:22,660
against the

1690
00:37:22,660 --> 00:37:23,740
patriarchal

1691
00:37:23,740 --> 00:37:25,200
substructures of

1692
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:26,540
society in

1693
00:37:26,540 --> 00:37:28,240
everywhere east

1694
00:37:28,240 --> 00:37:29,000
of Germany

1695
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:33,340
oh no

1696
00:37:33,340 --> 00:37:33,900
okay

1697
00:37:33,900 --> 00:37:35,320
wait

1698
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:35,520
we

1699
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:37,160
just

1700
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:37,380
can't

1701
00:37:37,380 --> 00:37:37,600
start

1702
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:38,020
okay

1703
00:37:38,020 --> 00:37:38,460
oh shoot

1704
00:37:38,460 --> 00:37:38,880
okay

1705
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:39,920
until 19

1706
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:40,300
we haven't

1707
00:37:40,300 --> 00:37:40,560
got to

1708
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:40,720
19

1709
00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:41,080
okay

1710
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:41,840
all right

1711
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:42,360
well look

1712
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:43,180
on the left

1713
00:37:43,180 --> 00:37:44,020
here is again

1714
00:37:44,020 --> 00:37:44,820
all this involves

1715
00:37:44,820 --> 00:37:45,740
lying to the

1716
00:37:45,740 --> 00:37:46,320
American people

1717
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:47,100
even in the

1718
00:37:47,100 --> 00:37:48,120
1960s this

1719
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:49,060
labyrinthian money

1720
00:37:49,060 --> 00:37:49,680
laundering and

1721
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:50,400
hiding it from

1722
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:51,200
public accountability

1723
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:52,340
was already very

1724
00:37:52,340 --> 00:37:52,740
robust

1725
00:37:52,740 --> 00:37:53,720
so

1726
00:37:53,720 --> 00:37:55,540
okay I'll just

1727
00:37:55,540 --> 00:37:56,080
I'll speed run

1728
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:57,480
so basically what

1729
00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:58,000
ends up happening

1730
00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:58,700
the church committee

1731
00:37:58,700 --> 00:37:59,480
pops off

1732
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:00,760
Jimmy Carter wins

1733
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:01,860
in 1976

1734
00:38:01,860 --> 00:38:04,120
coasting off of

1735
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:05,320
this popular

1736
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:06,240
resentment against

1737
00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:06,840
the intelligence

1738
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:08,200
state that existed

1739
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:08,960
at that time

1740
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,100
he was fiercely

1741
00:38:10,100 --> 00:38:10,720
opposed by the

1742
00:38:10,720 --> 00:38:11,500
intelligence state

1743
00:38:11,500 --> 00:38:12,380
and he conducted

1744
00:38:12,380 --> 00:38:13,160
what came to be

1745
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:13,440
called the

1746
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:14,260
Halloween massacre

1747
00:38:14,260 --> 00:38:14,960
where he fired

1748
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:16,240
30% of the CIA

1749
00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:17,240
operations division

1750
00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:18,040
in a single night

1751
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:19,520
dramatically cut

1752
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:20,540
the agency's budget

1753
00:38:20,540 --> 00:38:21,300
and when

1754
00:38:21,300 --> 00:38:21,800
and

1755
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,340
and there was

1756
00:38:23,340 --> 00:38:24,540
this brief moment

1757
00:38:24,540 --> 00:38:25,260
when there was

1758
00:38:25,260 --> 00:38:26,260
actually accountability

1759
00:38:26,260 --> 00:38:27,460
and a

1760
00:38:27,460 --> 00:38:28,420
and a peel back

1761
00:38:28,420 --> 00:38:29,040
of these

1762
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:30,080
plausibly deniable

1763
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:31,840
octopus yarn

1764
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:33,120
of operations

1765
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:33,480
against the

1766
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:34,120
American people

1767
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:35,720
but Ronald Reagan

1768
00:38:35,720 --> 00:38:36,640
then came to power

1769
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:37,740
and in 1983

1770
00:38:37,740 --> 00:38:40,780
he embarked on this

1771
00:38:40,780 --> 00:38:41,820
structural change

1772
00:38:41,820 --> 00:38:42,280
to the way the

1773
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:43,020
intelligence state

1774
00:38:43,020 --> 00:38:44,200
works in order to

1775
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:45,280
get back the powers

1776
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,140
that the CIA had

1777
00:38:47,140 --> 00:38:48,720
lost during the

1778
00:38:48,720 --> 00:38:49,260
Jimmy Carter

1779
00:38:49,260 --> 00:38:49,920
administration

1780
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:51,460
including him

1781
00:38:51,460 --> 00:38:52,840
signing into law

1782
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:53,560
the bill that

1783
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:54,140
established the

1784
00:38:54,140 --> 00:38:54,700
National Endowment

1785
00:38:54,700 --> 00:38:55,320
for Democracy

1786
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:55,940
which is now

1787
00:38:55,940 --> 00:38:57,120
today's premier

1788
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:58,260
CIA cutout

1789
00:38:58,260 --> 00:38:58,900
but basically

1790
00:38:58,900 --> 00:38:59,400
what happened

1791
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,300
was is the CIA

1792
00:39:01,300 --> 00:39:03,220
became less visible

1793
00:39:03,220 --> 00:39:04,900
because of its

1794
00:39:04,900 --> 00:39:05,680
previous scandals

1795
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:06,560
and it diffused

1796
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:08,440
itself into a

1797
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:09,760
liaison role

1798
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:11,540
of a public facing

1799
00:39:11,540 --> 00:39:13,100
network of publicly

1800
00:39:13,100 --> 00:39:14,920
captured institutions

1801
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,600
and we simply

1802
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:18,140
moved the

1803
00:39:18,140 --> 00:39:19,020
intelligent state

1804
00:39:19,020 --> 00:39:19,840
into the whole

1805
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:20,420
of society

1806
00:39:20,420 --> 00:39:21,120
the instruments

1807
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:22,220
of statecraft

1808
00:39:22,220 --> 00:39:23,160
that we had

1809
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:23,940
capacity built

1810
00:39:23,940 --> 00:39:26,140
previously

1811
00:39:26,140 --> 00:39:27,840
I guess

1812
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:29,680
so

1813
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:32,560
flash forward

1814
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:33,480
to 2016

1815
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:34,560
and then I'll

1816
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:34,840
wrap

1817
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,880
as our NGO

1818
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:38,300
sphere

1819
00:39:38,300 --> 00:39:39,040
and university

1820
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:39,500
centers

1821
00:39:39,500 --> 00:39:40,160
and media

1822
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:40,820
organizations

1823
00:39:40,820 --> 00:39:41,580
and union

1824
00:39:41,580 --> 00:39:42,020
groups

1825
00:39:42,020 --> 00:39:43,160
and cultural

1826
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:43,520
groups

1827
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,420
all developed

1828
00:39:45,420 --> 00:39:46,060
this favors

1829
00:39:46,060 --> 00:39:46,420
for favors

1830
00:39:46,420 --> 00:39:47,000
relationship

1831
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:48,740
this mutual

1832
00:39:48,740 --> 00:39:49,420
you scratch

1833
00:39:49,420 --> 00:39:49,860
my back

1834
00:39:49,860 --> 00:39:50,380
I'll scratch

1835
00:39:50,380 --> 00:39:50,700
yours

1836
00:39:50,700 --> 00:39:51,860
I'll do

1837
00:39:51,860 --> 00:39:52,320
what you want

1838
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:52,760
on this thing

1839
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:53,260
and I'll get

1840
00:39:53,260 --> 00:39:53,660
a grant

1841
00:39:53,660 --> 00:39:53,960
from the

1842
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:54,520
state department

1843
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:55,260
or USAID

1844
00:39:55,260 --> 00:39:55,440
or the

1845
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:55,980
National Science

1846
00:39:55,980 --> 00:39:56,440
Foundation

1847
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:59,400
as what we

1848
00:39:59,400 --> 00:39:59,980
are up against

1849
00:39:59,980 --> 00:40:01,100
here is actually

1850
00:40:01,100 --> 00:40:02,300
this network

1851
00:40:02,300 --> 00:40:03,800
this blob

1852
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:05,520
this congealed

1853
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:06,200
shape

1854
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:07,260
that where

1855
00:40:07,260 --> 00:40:07,900
you have

1856
00:40:07,900 --> 00:40:08,660
the intelligent

1857
00:40:08,660 --> 00:40:09,360
state is

1858
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:10,360
actually serving

1859
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:11,160
the public

1860
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:11,980
facing functions

1861
00:40:11,980 --> 00:40:12,420
of government

1862
00:40:12,420 --> 00:40:13,020
it is simply

1863
00:40:13,020 --> 00:40:13,960
the CIA is

1864
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:14,820
simply a support

1865
00:40:14,820 --> 00:40:16,060
agency for the

1866
00:40:16,060 --> 00:40:16,620
state department

1867
00:40:16,620 --> 00:40:17,300
on national interest

1868
00:40:17,300 --> 00:40:17,660
grounds

1869
00:40:17,660 --> 00:40:18,320
and the

1870
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:18,700
pentagon

1871
00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:19,240
on national

1872
00:40:19,240 --> 00:40:19,660
security

1873
00:40:19,660 --> 00:40:20,080
grounds

1874
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:21,280
and so

1875
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:22,420
when you

1876
00:40:22,420 --> 00:40:23,340
see the

1877
00:40:23,340 --> 00:40:24,000
CIA do

1878
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:24,180
something

1879
00:40:24,180 --> 00:40:24,360
or the

1880
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:24,840
intelligence

1881
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:25,520
state do

1882
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:25,940
something

1883
00:40:25,940 --> 00:40:26,780
understand

1884
00:40:26,780 --> 00:40:27,440
that this

1885
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:28,800
is to

1886
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:29,940
serve a

1887
00:40:29,940 --> 00:40:30,920
state department

1888
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:31,260
official

1889
00:40:31,260 --> 00:40:31,980
or a pentagon

1890
00:40:31,980 --> 00:40:32,360
official

1891
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:33,380
or the

1892
00:40:33,380 --> 00:40:34,180
stakeholders

1893
00:40:34,180 --> 00:40:34,700
around that

1894
00:40:34,700 --> 00:40:35,140
it is really

1895
00:40:35,140 --> 00:40:35,880
not a rogue

1896
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:36,420
agency

1897
00:40:36,420 --> 00:40:37,420
in the sense

1898
00:40:37,420 --> 00:40:37,960
that it

1899
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:38,900
answers to

1900
00:40:38,900 --> 00:40:39,340
the state

1901
00:40:39,340 --> 00:40:39,780
department

1902
00:40:39,780 --> 00:40:40,640
and it

1903
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:41,080
does the

1904
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:41,680
dirty work

1905
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:42,200
maybe I'll

1906
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:43,160
close with a

1907
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:44,740
I guess I'll

1908
00:40:44,740 --> 00:40:45,160
close with a

1909
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:45,580
Sopranos

1910
00:40:45,580 --> 00:40:45,900
reference

1911
00:40:45,900 --> 00:40:46,360
since my

1912
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:47,120
mother and

1913
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:47,520
father are

1914
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:47,700
here

1915
00:40:47,700 --> 00:40:49,020
and I

1916
00:40:49,020 --> 00:40:49,520
think the

1917
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:49,920
best way to

1918
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:50,500
understand it

1919
00:40:50,500 --> 00:40:51,000
is if you're

1920
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:51,660
familiar Tony

1921
00:40:51,660 --> 00:40:52,400
Soprano is

1922
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:53,960
running this

1923
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:54,820
mafia outlet

1924
00:40:54,820 --> 00:40:56,860
in New Jersey

1925
00:40:56,860 --> 00:40:58,000
and he's got

1926
00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:58,600
these goons

1927
00:40:58,600 --> 00:40:59,380
these enforcers

1928
00:40:59,380 --> 00:41:00,100
who do the

1929
00:41:00,100 --> 00:41:01,320
plausibly deniable

1930
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:01,920
dirty work

1931
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:02,980
so that it

1932
00:41:02,980 --> 00:41:03,380
doesn't

1933
00:41:03,380 --> 00:41:05,360
the FBI

1934
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:06,160
who's tracing

1935
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:07,160
Tony Soprano's

1936
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:08,140
calls can't

1937
00:41:08,140 --> 00:41:08,720
say that Tony

1938
00:41:08,720 --> 00:41:09,120
did it

1939
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:09,480
and so

1940
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:10,180
there's this

1941
00:41:10,180 --> 00:41:10,980
character Furio

1942
00:41:10,980 --> 00:41:11,720
who is this

1943
00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:12,760
sort of brawn

1944
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:13,980
and he

1945
00:41:13,980 --> 00:41:14,500
breaks into

1946
00:41:14,500 --> 00:41:15,160
people's homes

1947
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:15,720
and beats

1948
00:41:15,720 --> 00:41:16,260
them up

1949
00:41:16,260 --> 00:41:17,740
and undermines

1950
00:41:17,740 --> 00:41:18,380
their democracy

1951
00:41:18,380 --> 00:41:18,880
if you will

1952
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:20,500
and it's

1953
00:41:20,500 --> 00:41:21,180
very natural

1954
00:41:21,180 --> 00:41:22,100
to look at

1955
00:41:22,100 --> 00:41:22,940
that if you

1956
00:41:22,940 --> 00:41:23,380
are in that

1957
00:41:23,380 --> 00:41:24,180
home and it

1958
00:41:24,180 --> 00:41:24,560
is your

1959
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:25,220
democracy being

1960
00:41:25,220 --> 00:41:25,560
destroyed

1961
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:26,220
it is your

1962
00:41:26,220 --> 00:41:27,000
friends and

1963
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:27,460
family being

1964
00:41:27,460 --> 00:41:27,720
arrested

1965
00:41:27,720 --> 00:41:27,940
and say

1966
00:41:27,940 --> 00:41:28,200
oh the

1967
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:29,180
CIA did

1968
00:41:29,180 --> 00:41:29,340
that

1969
00:41:29,340 --> 00:41:29,520
look

1970
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:30,360
I'm sorry

1971
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:31,320
Furio did

1972
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:31,540
that

1973
00:41:31,540 --> 00:41:32,580
but they

1974
00:41:32,580 --> 00:41:32,840
are

1975
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:33,940
what's

1976
00:41:33,940 --> 00:41:34,800
gone rogue

1977
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:35,180
is actually

1978
00:41:35,180 --> 00:41:35,680
something much

1979
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:36,360
deeper than

1980
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:36,880
just the

1981
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:37,320
intelligence

1982
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:37,780
state

1983
00:41:37,780 --> 00:41:38,700
it's

1984
00:41:38,700 --> 00:41:39,380
actually

1985
00:41:39,380 --> 00:41:39,920
the

1986
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:40,420
entrenched

1987
00:41:40,420 --> 00:41:41,300
forces in

1988
00:41:41,300 --> 00:41:41,740
diplomacy

1989
00:41:41,740 --> 00:41:43,200
and in

1990
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:43,960
defense

1991
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:45,360
that the

1992
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:46,020
CIA is

1993
00:41:46,020 --> 00:41:46,760
tasked with

1994
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:47,080
to do

1995
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:47,540
this dirty

1996
00:41:47,540 --> 00:41:47,840
work

1997
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:48,060
so

1998
00:41:48,060 --> 00:41:48,720
I guess

1999
00:41:48,720 --> 00:41:49,040
I'll stop

2000
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:49,320
there for

2001
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:49,680
questions

2002
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:50,180
or if we

2003
00:41:50,180 --> 00:41:50,420
have time

2004
00:41:50,420 --> 00:41:50,880
for Q&A

2005
00:41:50,880 --> 00:42:02,600
for

2006
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,240
to do

2007
00:42:05,240 --> 00:42:07,400
things

2008
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:09,440
you