Thread by @GeorgeProust

In which the CIAMafia helped make the best situation out of a losing situation: the fall of their Shah.

So they work with the lieutenants of the Iranian Revolution, and all the while do propaganda back home in America that "Iran is our enemy".

Iran/Contra then happens,

https://twitter.com/craigunger/status/2027773788746584388

enriching the CIAMafia.

"Hey! We can sell weapons to both sides! Just like we did before America entered WW1. Big bucks!"

"Yes, once the Bolsheviks took over in Russia, we had to jump into the war to influence the outcome. We then ensured a ruinous future for Germany

with the Treaty of Versailles...but offered sympathy to the German industrialists...who were then friendly to our overtures to stave off bankruptcy."

"Heck, our member Prescott Bush pushed this a little too far, still working with the Nazis until 1944...until FDR seized his

banks and companies under the Trading with the Enemy Act."

"But he got them back. And then we created the CIA, a perfect spy-on-America agency within the federal govt, to get our revenge on FDR and his policies."

"JFK could see what we were up to, but we whacked him before he

could whack us."

"Every major turn since then was because of our machinations. Nixon thinking he was in control? We outed his VP (Spiro Agnew) and got our replacement as VP (Ford), and then outed Nixon...so that our man was then in control."

"Our own guy, GHW Bush, thought he could do his own thing too, so we hired Ross Perot to split the vote. Whose side do you think Clinton was secretly on?"

"It's all pretty easy when you control both parties, and nobody knows that you exist."

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