Some of us are old enough to remember a time when the CIA
was seen as the super spy agency whose work inspired numerous TV series we
could not wait to watch each week. Let it be known they were supremely
entertaining and very addictive.
But we must admit they were not as spectacular as the
British James Bond series. However, the latter only delivered one episode every
few years, so we treated it like dessert to the multi-course dinner that was
served by the American series, and we devoured week after week.
Yes, the shows were captivating in their own right, but
something else was there to keep us glued to the TV sets. It was the news that
the real world looked very much like some of the things we were seeing in those
shows. These were the numerous attempts by the CIA to kill Cuba's Fidel Castro,
for example. We also heard of other attempts made by the CIA on other leaders
such as Vietnam's Diem, Africa's Lumumba, South America's Schneider, and the
Caribbean's Trujillo.
And that's not all. While the CIA tried to kill some leaders
around the world, it tried to bribe others. One of those was Egypt's Nasser who
took the money, told the world about it, and built a tower in front of the
Hilton Hotel in Cairo to remind American tourists visiting the country that
their leaders love to bribe, but Egypt's leaders cannot be corrupted. The tower
is still there, and appears in many postcards. If anything, it stands as a
monument to the reality that the CIA was never a guiltless, sweet little thing.
Let us say Nasser was lucky they did not do to him what they
did to Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran or Salvador Allende of Chile. He would have
been another statistic used by the Frank Church Committee which investigated
the practices of the CIA and put down rules forbidding the agency from
conducting those kinds of operations on foreign leaders ever again. Even the
Congress had come to realize the CIA was out of control.
Allow me to go on a tangent for a moment, my friend, because
an aside needs to be mentioned here. It is that the opportunistic Jews stepped
in at this point and fraudulently built up the reputation of the Mossad. To be
fair, it must be said that the Israelis benefited from the fact that Jews who
used to live in many countries around the world, emigrated to Israel, taking
with them information that helped the Israeli spy agency somewhat. But this
advantage lasted only a decade or so; and then the Mossad became just another
has-been.
The old-timers, such as yours truly, who lived through that
era do not take kindly to the young zealots who are eager to butcher history
just to win an argument. We get angry because we are aware of the Jewish
propensity to trivialize everything they touch. They did it to such solemn
moments as the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, transforming them into worthless
currency that cannot buy a single crocodile tear – and they'll do it to
everything that doesn't serve their purpose, including a well established
history … the sordid past of the CIA.
You see an example of such attempt when you go over the
article that came under the title: “Tall tales from Tehran,” Written by Sean
Durns and published on August 28, 2018 in The Washington Times. To be accurate,
it must be said that Durns did not rewrite history; he only used what someone
else did, and built on it.
That someone is Ray Takeyh. He wrote an article a while ago
in which he said: Yes, the CIA played a role in Iran's Mossadegh coup, but
America wasn't the only player in this drama. Others participated, he explains,
including the British and a number of local Iranians. Okay, Ray Takeyh, we hear
you, but what does that means? It means America had accomplices in the crime,
he says. Fine; we accept that. But nothing changes the reality that America did
something it should not have done any more than you can differentiate between
the guilt level of a single rapist and that of a participant in a gang rape.
Upon that, the story lay dormant for a while as we all dosed
off. Then, something noisy happened and we awoke to see Sean Durns enter the
stage while shouting: no, no, no. He explained that we're all making a mistake
believing the story of the CIA agent that took part in the Mossadegh coup. He
is Kermit Roosevelt, says Sean Durns, accusing him of exaggerating, “his and
his agency's influence” in that fiasco.
Do not believe the guy that was there and done it, says Sean
Durns; believe Ray Takeyh who wasn't even born when it all happened, but
learned about it in the so-called think tanks of America. These would be the
outfits that most people think of as no different from septic tanks.