It stands to reason that the masses around the world began to favor #communism after #WWII — out of gratitude to the Soviets for saving them from #fascism.
Evidently this scared the hell out of the fascists in the US government intelligence agencies. 😟
So we had a #ColdWar about it — for the next half century.
These documents were not declassified until 1997.
Quite a fetching read!
cryptome.org/2012/05/cia-op…
CIA be like: “we don’t care if you’re #Nazis — if you’re against #communists, we stand with you!
How much money & weapons would you like?”
In September 1946, Truman’s aide Clark Clifford prepared a memo that outlined future #ColdWar policy and the creation of what would become #NATO.
I call it the “my way or the Highway memo.” 🇺🇸
US leaders were alarmed by the rapid rise of #communism in all parts of the globe — especially in Western Europe — as it threatened their own plans for running the New World Order.
President Truman was planning to settle the issue with nuclear first strikes against the #USSR — the only thing that stopped him was he didn’t have enough bombs!
Then, in 1949, #Russia developed its own nukes; the US would no longer have a nuclear monopoly.
The solution? Covert ops…
Even though this document was declassified 26 years ago, parts of it remain redacted to this day.
Large sections are blacked out, making it difficult for historians to analyze what the hell the CIA was actually up to, even now.
One of the Agency’s favorite tools was “Radio Free Europe” — which still exists, and continues to broadcast US-sponsored propaganda and disinformation about the current #UkraineRussianWar .
Even now, much of Radio Free Europe’s activities during the Cold War remain secret 🤫.
Large blocks of the document are also still redacted on the #KoreanWar and early #NATO.
“#Korea provided a testing ground for conventional warfare w/ unconventional methods.
“The #USA had learned a great deal about unconventional offensive tactics in #WWII but the #communists learned from the Soviets a great deal about defensive tactics.”
What those tactics were, exactly, remains unknown.
The next 2 pages are completely redacted!
The OPC merged with CIA in August 1952, and thus began the militarization of the Agency’s covert ops in the war against #communists.
We were going past the propaganda stage into actual (secret) warfare.
In concluding this introduction to the history of our battle against the Soviets in the covert action field, the US government admits here that #Russia had a clear and undeniable advantage — and that we were scrambling to catch up.
If you’re curious to learn more about these secret operations (of which some details remain secret to the present day), start at page 26 of this document:
cryptome.org/2012/05/cia-op…
While the US government had qualms about aligning itself with Ukrainian #Nazis like Stepan #Bandera in the 1940’s, they have no such reservations now!
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