Just curious. As far back as I remember I only hear about them destabilizing countries that aren’t fully in the pocket of American powerplayers. Sometimes they assassinate people, sometimes instigate coups, subvert media… and the #1 way to encounter them seems to be to try and take back control locally of one’s country’s oil and other valuable resources.
So my question is, have they ever done anything good?
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Depends on the context. Covert operations and operators usually means that someone is bound to be negatively affected for the positive outcome of someone else.
There are no good guys or bad guys in geopolitics just interests. Sometimes those interests align with what most people consider good or bad. Read the field manual FM3-24 and learn about shaping and you will see what the CIAs bread and butter of their job entails.
I just read about shaping. It’s everything I knew they were doing but given a name.
Thanks for the tip.
You’re asking this in Lemmy.ml 🤣
what’s the actual answer to that question tho?
Betteridge’s law suggests no
Financing art is a pretty good thing imo: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html
They made a pretty good case through a series of generally ethical experiments to prove that at least some forms of psychic phenomena like remote viewing are almost certainly real, if not exactly reliable or common. I thought that was pretty neat.
Other than that, no, I can’t think of much.
Wow people really want to believe magic is real and random YouTube videos and cia quacks are a good source
I mean, these are all real CIA documents being referenced, you can go read them yourself. It’s trustable in as much as you can trust the CIA to be straightforward within their own documentation that wasn’t declassified until 20 years later.
Edward snowden would love to interject this
The precursor to the CIA, the OSS, did some work against nazi germany during ww2. But the CIA has only existed to establish and mantain US hegemony and is explicitly a reactionary institution.
Never.
The CIA is a constituent part of the military-propaganda-industrial complex, which works for the capitalist class, not the working class, so whatever “good” it may have done was coincidental.
I think that’s what OP is looking for though.
No
Not really, no. I’m sure someone can cherry pick one individual instance where a CIA agent saved a puppy or something, but the function of the CIA is to serve as the covert arm of the US Empire and do what would even make the US public question the US’s position on the global stage. I recommend everyone listen to Blowback.
Conclusion: Yes they have done maybe as many as 3 somewhat minor things that were not atrocious.
that dolphin had a bit of fun, tho that didn’t end well for him so I guess nope
good for whom?
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