Thread by @pslweb

The CIA is the deadliest terrorist organization in the world, bar none. In its 73-year existence, the CIA has been responsible for the murder of millions and the destruction of progressive movements and governments in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. #AbolishTheCIA

The CIA engineered or assisted coups in Iran, Guatemala, Congo, Iraq, Indonesia, Greece, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and more, and brought to power regimes that used extreme brutality in the interests of U.S. corporations and local elites.

CIA torturers beat detainees at Guantanamo and held them in stress positions literally for days, sometimes treating their wounds in such a way as to prolong the pain.... some prisoners were kept awake for 180 hours—in other words a week.

liberationnews.org/senate-torture…

The CIA under the leadership of Allen Dulles recruited more than 1,000 Nazis as spies in the Cold War against the Soviet Union. Many of these fascists were war criminals from the highest ranks of the Nazi command, and received U.S. govt protection.

liberationnews.org/records-reveal…

CIA carried out brazen terror plots to bomb, starve, and sabotage the Cuban Revolution. Preparations were in place to incentivize the murder of Cuban communists through a “system of financial rewards .... for killing or delivering alive known communists”

liberationnews.org/cia-terror-plo…

The CIA is playing a more direct role in U.S. wars than ever before. The CIA has its own personal air force, commanding and piloting drones that are now being regularly used all over the world, bombing Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, elsewhere.

liberationnews.org/10-01-12-cias-…

CIA support for torture in Latin America was equally extensive. In Chile, the CIA-supported coup which brought Pinochet to power brought with it the torture and murder of thousands of activists. The head of Chile’s secret police was a CIA asset.

liberationnews.org/u-s-didnt-star…

In 1953 the CIA overthrew the govt of Iran. The CIA organized right-wing military leaders, financed groups of criminals to attack parliament. CIA-designated generals arrested Mossadegh and declared Martial Law. The Shah was put on the throne as a tyrant with absolute power.

In 1978, the communist party and progressive members of the Afghan military overthrew the monarchy. Immediately following the revolution, the CIA organized counter-revolutionary mercenaries supported by feudal landowners. This militia called itself the Mujahedeen.

The CIA and NSA spy services worked at all levels for apartheid and against the African National Congress activists who were routinely murdered, tortured and sentenced to life in the hell holes of South Africa.

liberationschool.org/cia-helped-jai…