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From: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: October 7, 2007 10:23:28 AM PDT
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Subject: [cia-drugs] The Parts Left Out of the Good Shepherd
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an excerpt from an article:
The Parts Left Out of the Good Shepherd
High Times
November 2007
pps 42-44
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Can only release some snippets. To read full article need to see
November issue of High Times — on stands now, (Barnes & Noble
carries).
Peace,
Kris
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The Parts Left Out of the Good Shepherd
Hollywood recently released the first behind-the-curtain account of
the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency and its
relationship with a secret society at Yale University known as
Skull and Bones. HIGH TIMES asked the world's leading authority on
the group to help us separate truth from fiction.
By Kris Millegan
I hope you are lucky enough to meet someone you trust. I regret to
say. I haven't.—Dr, Fredricks [Michael Gambon] in The Good Shepherd
The Good Shepherd is Robert De Niro's effort to mine the dramatic
materials at the very real-life nexus of secret societies.
intelligence agencies and recorded history, apparently in an
attempt to forge a Godfather-style franchise.
But one is left wincing at the thought of The Good Shepherd. Part
II, given that the film begins and ends with the failed Bay of Pigs
invasion and its aftermath, with the assassination of JFK and its
attendant wilderness of conspiracy lurking just over the horizon,
Will the "right people" end up washing the blood off their hands in
a sequel, laying the action off on some mob operation gone rogue,
which then had to be covered up for "the good of the country"? All
just an honest mistake....
But I seem to be getting ahead of myself. I have often been asked.
'What do you think of the movie The Good Shepherd? And the best
response I could usually offer was: "Well. I haven't seen it yet."
I'd been aware of the film for several years, and followed its
progress to the silver screen, but I don't get out much. Then,
finally, the DVD version of the film wound its way to our local
store, and I picked up a copy to see what I could find. My first
viewing brought up a host of indignant furies, all riled at the
historical hubris of the tale and the simple fact that most of the
characters in it and even the film's central story of betrayal are
amalgamations at best, and total confabulations at worst. Don't get
me wrong: I'm not saying that you shouldn't watch this movie, As a
matter of fact. I recommend it highly — but with caveats, as will
soon become clear.
<snip>
Nonetheless, it is through the routine spy story that the movie
interjects one of its greatest truths, albeit through the lips of a
tortured Russian defector stoned on LSD:
Soviet power is a myth, a great joke. There are no spare parts;
nothing is working — nothing. It's nothing but painted rust. But
you, you need to keep the Russian myth alive to maintain your
military-industrial complex. Your system depends on Russia being
perceived as a mortal threat. It's not a threat. It was never a
threat. It will never be a threat. It is a rotted, bloated cow.
How might this sobering fact be received by the audience, coming as
it does from the mouth of an enemy agent tripped out on acid,
appearing in a fictional film based upon an unreliable chronicle?
Might it just covertly confirm the reality that many know to be
true-but without causing the uproar that such a significant
revelation should engender?
Around this real-life charade revolve some other themes of the
movie, leaving us with an insight into Napoleon's famous dictum:
History is a set of lies agreed upon. For when even "honorable" men
lie, who is trustworthy? What is real? Are our secrets safe? Do
secrets give us safety? And at what cost?
<snip>
"[M]en linked to the structures of United States intelligence" was
how an Italian Senate investigation described the perpetrators of
the 1980 Bologna train bombing, an act of terrorism that killed 85
people and injured over 200. The bombing was part of a series of
actions carried out over many years in Italy, targeting the
political left by essentially blaming and demonizing it for acts
done covertly by agents of the right. The plan, known as Operation
Gladio, sought to terrorize the populace into voting for strong
right-wing governments in order to suppress the left.
"You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children,
innocent people, unknown people far removed from the political
game. The reason was quite simple: to force ... the public to turn
to the state to ask for greater security" was how Operation Gladio
participant Vincenzo Vinciguerra put it later during his testimony
to Italian authorities.
Operation Gladio, which was initially sold as a "stay-behind force"
in case of the Communist takeover of Western Europe, was instead
used for psychological warfare and political manipulation.
Terrorism, assassination and subverting the electoral process were
just a few of the deeds carried out using fascist elements, cult
members, secret government agents, gangsters and covert military
units.
<snip>
How much of our history is simply psychological warfare, including
the traumatizing of the masses through fear, the creation of false
enemies, media manipulation, electoral theft and other terrorist
acts, all done as a means to an end?
"[A] mind-set that thrives on secrecy and deception ... encourages
professional amorality — the belief that righteous goals can be
achieved through the use of unprincipled and normally unacceptable
means," wrote ex-CIA officer Victor Marchetti in his book The CIA
and the Cult of Intelligence. And my ex-CIA father, in a 1979
newspaper interview, stated: “When you work for the CIA, the ends
justify the means."
Is that the brutal reality behind the horrific acts of Sept. 11,
2001? Was this watershed event a managed tragedy, an occult means
to invoke repression and war?
<snip>
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Peace,
K
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