The CIA As Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America And The World
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It was a tremendous honor...but frankly bewildering. Why would an agency dedicated to intelligence name their headquarters after someone who celebrated his 75th birthday by jumping out of a perfectly good airplane at 12,000 feet?
Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the Central Intelligence Agency naming their headquarters after former President (and former CIA Director) George H.W. Bush, who made seven parachute jumps after his 75th birthday.
Despite being wheelchair-bound with a form of Parkinson’s disease, President Bush’s final skydiving experience took place on his 90th birthday in 2014 near his family’s vacation home in Kennebunkport, Maine. When Mrs. Bush learned that the landing zone for President Bush’s parachute jump was the grounds of a nearby church, she only half-jokingly said, “Well, if it goes wrong, we’ll just carry him inside and have the funeral.”
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amazing, no notes, happy Pride.
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Mossadegh & Arbenz & Lumumba & Sukarno & Allende... shirts — a primer on #CIA coup history:
Iran (1953) | Mohammad Mossadegh
Guatemala (1954) | Jacobo Arbenz
Congo (1960) | Patrice Lumumba
Indonesia (1965) | Sukarno
Chile (1973) | Salvador Allende
100% cotton top quality unisex shirts screen printed with water based ink. Limited edition.
The Mossadegh Project
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Every picture is actual size.
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“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
— William Casey, CIA Director (from 1st staff meeting in 1981)
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