From the Memory Hole: John Stockwell - CIA

John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush. He spent 13 years in the agency. John Stockwell is the highest-ranking CIA official ever to leave the agency and go public. He ran a CIA intelligence-gathering post in Vietnam, was the task-force commander of the CIA's secret war in Angola in 1975 and 1976, and was awarded the Medal of Merit before he resigned.

John Stockwell

third world traveler - Stockwell Lectures




The clip is showing parts of a lecture that Stockwell gave in 1987, explaining the CIA's secret war. A war he describes as 'The Third World War'. Not because it is the thermonuclear exchange that is commonly meant, but because it was mainly waged against people in the third world countries. In Stockwell's own words:

"The six million people the CIA has helped to kill are people of the Mitumba Mountains of the Congo, the jungles of Southeast Asia, and the hills of northern Nicaragua. They are people without ICBMs or armies or navies, incapable of doing physical damage to the United States the 22,000 killed in Nicaragua, for example, are not Russians; they are not Cuban soldiers or advisors; they are not even mostly Sandinistas. A majority are rag-poor peasants, including large numbers of women and children."

Since its creation in 1947, the CIA has mounted approximately 3,000 major operations and 10,000 minor operations of this nature, every one of them illegal and many of them "bloody and gory beyond comprehension".

Here's timely example of an CIA operation that effectivley resulted into bombing Laos for almost ten years and has striking similarities to current events in the middle east.

Secret War

Back in the late '60s and '70s, the CIA funded, trained and armed so-called 'anti-Communist' Hmong rebels in Laos, a strategy that ultimately led to the US military dropping more bombs on the innocent civilians of Laos than all the bombs dropped during the second World War. From 1964 through 1973, 580,000 bombing runs were flown over Laos - one every nine minutes for ten years

abovetopsecret/2008

Ones mind boggles......its not possible to comprehend the vast fields of misery and death that have
underpinned the ascendancy of America .........The British Empire.....The Spanish Empire....The Nazi Scourge....
The Roman, The Holy Roman, The Persian, The Islamics, and on and on....
Like a river of Blood that flows through out mans history.....,
THEY, SAY " we seek PEACE",.......but WAR is all we ever get!
They tell us insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome........
How is it that EVERYONE doesn't get it yet?????
Smedly Butler said it best...".WAR IS A RACKET"

ATS.5/3 broke the OP youtube link, fixed.