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CIA Was Always Dumb

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Friends, this is too funny. Turns out the CIA was always a useless bunch of fools:

‘[The novel Dr Zhivago] has great propaganda value, not only for its intrinsic message and thought-provoking nature, but also for the circumstances of its publication,’ declared a memo to all the branch chiefs of the CIA Soviet Russia Division; ‘we have the opportunity to make Soviet citizens wonder what is wrong with their government, when a fine literary work by a man acknowledged to be the greatest living Russian writer is not even available in his own country in his own language for his own people to read.’

Lara, Anna Pasternak

I’ll never stop laughing, somebody help.

9 responses to “CIA Was Always Dumb”

  1. Bg Avatar
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    If you are reading Lara, better to read легенды потаповского переулка, which is a more genuine story and not written by someone trying to exculpate family guilt over having mistreated Ivinskaia.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Mistreated her?? Oh, I had no idea there was a narrative that this horrible person was some sort of a victim. Interesting!

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        Clarissa

        Also, what an abused daughter has to say in order to justify the abuse is interesting to her psychiatrist but not that much otherwise.

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    methylethyl

    Tangential: on sketchy US state dept ops directed at foreign countries:

    https://x.com/TheRedactedInc/status/1867547520542683330

    TL:DL: This guy is talking about US meddling in Guatemalan elections, plus human trafficking etc. there.

    Coincidentally, Guatemala is, percentage-wise, the most Orthodox country in the New World. Odds good some of those kidnap-ees are ours.

    Anybody know any sources, English or Spanish, that verify any of this?

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      Clarissa

      I don’t know about this organization or the investigation but the plan to take away the visas of the children of Latin American politicians is fantastic. Why are they all studying in the US and not in the countries they will rule?

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      Avi

      Dear methlylethyl, thank you for bringing this information to readers’ attention.

      I have for long thought that NGOs are some of the most devastating actors currently at work in the world, and Save the Children one of the worst at that, but even I could not have envisaged the scope and extent of their devilish ways.

      I am thinking of the anguish and agony of all those parents whose children are missing and who will presumably never see them again and it makes me sick to my stomach. It is unbearable.

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        methylethyl

        It’s one of those weird Q-sounding things, where… hard to tell how much is true, how much is tacked on later. Would like to be able to round up some different sources on it. The US does have a sordid history of meddling in Latin American elections, so that part sounds completely plausible. It is also true that the big NGOs are often really, really shady money-laundering/CIA ops.

        But again… the people outing that stuff are also not always telling the truth. So always looking to see who, if anyone, else is talking about it, and what they’re saying.

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    Mitchell Porter

    One of the secret histories of the world, is the role that intelligence agencies have played in artificially elevating aspects of culture and politics. Although these days one might think that it’s always a billionaire, rather than a “three-letter agency” (NSA CIA FBI), who secretly stands behind everything.

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    oldcowboy3

    Yeah, you have to be careful. My late wife always volunteered bookkeeping at the Salvation Army and helped during their Thanksgiving and Christmas programs. We eventually essentially ended up tithing because she wept and said “the need was so great.” But then the SallyAnn went woke, so I switched to St Peters, then I heard about the Catholic NGO efforts to bring in illegal aliens. Now I only help the local Loaves&Fishes efforts, if anything the need is greater, but who else you can trust?

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