Secret Wars of the CIA: John Stockwell Lecture (Part 1)

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During the 1980s the Reagan administration sponsored an anti-Sandinista guerrilla movement known as the Contras (a proxy paramilitary based in Honduras and Costa Rica, largely consisting of northern highlanders known as the Milpas and led by former Somoza regime soldiers) against the socialist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. The resulting war killed over 50,000 people, mostly civilians.

Under the Carter Administration, the Sandinistas had received tacit U.S. support in their coup against the previously U.S.-backed right-wing military dictatorship of the Somoza dynasty, which had ruled the country for several decades. An interim coalition, Junta, took power in 1979 and in 1984 leader of the FSLN party, Daniel Ortega became Nicaragua's first elected President who ruled under the name of the Sandinista revolution. As the years progressed, the Ortega government was accused of becoming more authoritarian, with the more moderate factions of the coalition being expelled from government. Allegations of suppression of political dissent increased, as did accusations of state-sponsored human rights abuses. However, these accusations of human rights abuses were not accurate, according to Human Rights Watch: "Almost invariably, U.S. pronouncements on human rights exaggerated and distorted the real human rights violations of the Sandinista regime, and exculpated those of the U.S.-supported insurgents, known as the contras." As well, Ortega was a supporter of Fidel Castro's Cuba and many members of the Sandinista government sought to model Nicaragua along similar lines. Cuba sent doctors and technicians to Nicaragua and the Soviet Union shipped some military equipment, including some Hind helicopters.

The leftist nature of the Sandinista government and its support for Cuba distressed many in the Reagan administration, who viewed the country as a key Cold War battleground, in danger of becoming a Communist proxy state. As a result, covert support began to flow to the anti-Sandinista Contra rebels, whom Reagan had described as "the moral equal of our founding fathers."

Under the direction of the CIA, the largest Contra army, the FDN, attacked collective farms and other civilian targets, as well as murdered, tortured and mutilated civilians and committed other war crimes, as documented by human rights organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. The Contras were also accused of being involved in illicit drug-trafficking. In 1986 a CIA-written training manual detailing methods of terrorism and assassination was discovered to have been issued to the Contras.

The proxy army followed Washington orders to attack "soft targets" such as farm cooperatives and health clinics instead of "trying to duke it out with the Sandinistas directly," and to "attack a lot of schools, health centers, and those sort of things" so that "the Nicaraguan government cannot provide social services for the peasants, cannot develop its project" as explained by General John Galvin, commander of the U.S. Southern Command, who added that with these tactics, aimed at civilians lacking means of defense against armed terrorist bands, prospects for the contras should improve.

When asked in the US Congress in April 1985 to define US policy in Nicaragua, former CIA Director Stansfield Turner responded state-sponsored terrorism.

The World Court would find that this constituted state sponsorship of terrorism and an attempt to overthrow an elected government. Nicaragua decided to take their case to the World Court in Nicaragua v. United States. In an unprecedented decision in the history of world justice, the World Court sanctioned the U.S. for "unlawful use of force" for "sponsoring paramilitary activity in and against Nicaragua", ordering the U.S. government to pay billions of U.S. dollars in compensation. The World Court ordered Reagan to terminate his campaign, but the Reagan White House dismissed the ruling and then vetoed two Security Council resolutions affirming the Court ruling and calling on all nations to observe international law. The FSLN then took its case to the General Assembly and the General Assembly ruled in its favor, with only the US, Israel, and El Salvador dissenting. Father Miguel D'Escoto, Foreign Minister under the Sandinista government, supposes that the U.S. owes his country between 20 and 30 billion U.S. dollars.

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[reksub10]

at the bottom of most of the horrific things that the states do is henry kissenger ,who as far as i know has never been elected for anything by the people but he has had the ear of every president scince nixon ,this beast has to go ,dont support anything kissenger suggests ,if hes involved stay well clear ,in fact do the exact oppisite of what kissenger suggests

[arzoyan]

War is Business and business is Class War, this is the socio-economic insanity and historic limit of world capitalism. The wage slavery of immense humanity shackled in wage slavery is the template of the tyranny of the Monetary servitude and exploitation of immense humnaity.A democratic majority movement for a world of cooperation for our common needs and well being. CIA is another institution in control of the criminal ruling elite to keep their grip on power. The revolution is on

[reksub10]

@cliffworks4321 yeah they have a vested interest in the money in japan since ww2 ,plus the arguing with north korea ,kissenger(who sounds as if he gargles sperm or has done alot of time and the grove) will be putting in place and seeding the minds of the japanese to go along with uncle samuel to further the common purpose doctrine ==which is fascist capatalism

[cliffworks4321]

@reksub10 and the fucker will be here in tokyo soon!

[ExploreMan2010]

Is this guy still alive?

[BettyBarncoat]

Looks like I had a comment removed? I don't even know what comment I made that GOT removed, who removes them and is there even a way to see what WAS removed?

[hplaserjet2001]

@Richdanahuff

Part 3: Launched in 1999 by Bill Gates Foundation with $754 million; $1B committed, $12-15B goal; global alliance for vaccination (GAVI) comprised of gov't agencies, ngos, world bank, WHO, UNICEF, Gates Foundation, private foundations and pharma.

[hplaserjet2001]

@Richdanahuff

Part 2: Goals 1: Replacement fertility in developing countries by 1985 and replacement fertility in the lessor developed countries by 2000. Accomplished by legalized abortion, birth control, vaccines, financial incentives, propaganda and coersion.

Goals 2: Improve health in poorest 70 nations via vaccines for HiB, DTP, HepB, yellow fever, OPV, HIV, rotavirus, pneumococcal, TB, etc.

Note: Tetanus vaccines with HCG cause sterility and miscarriage in women.

[hplaserjet2001]

@Richdanahuff

Part 1: "Wherever a lessening of population pressures...can increase the prospects for such stability, population policy becomes relevant to resource supplies and to the economic interests of the United States." - Henry Kissinger, National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM 200), April 24, 1974, Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for US Security and Overseas Interests

[hplaserjet2001]

@Richdanahuff

Great idea, but we are up against politicians (puppets) who do their best to destroy and spend our hard earned money as wastefully as possible.

They have a plan (Agenda 21) to dramatically reduce the population of the planet.

World Depopulation Top NSA Agenda - Club of Rome (UN NGO)

National Security Council's Adhoc Group on Population Policy

State Department's Office of Population Affairs established by Henry Kissinger in 1975.

[Richdanahuff]

@hplaserjet2001 Agreed water is a basic human right, just think all the money spent on secret wars and weapons there would be money left for research on how to attain potable water from the Ocean