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The CIA: In Theory and In Practice

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 December 2023

This entry was posted in History and tagged 9/11, Abd al-Rahman al-Qaduli, Abdurrahman al-Qaduli, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Maysara al-Iraqi, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Furqan, Abu Muharib al-Muhaji, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Adolf Hitler, Adolf Tolkachev, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad Chalabi, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Ahmad Shah Masud, Ahmed Chalabi, al-Qaeda, Albania, Aldrich Ames, Anatoliy Golitsyn, Augusto Pinochet, Australia, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bay of Pigs, Bosnian jihad, Cambridge spies, Camp Chapman bombing, Canada, Central Intelligence Agency, Cheka, Chile, China, Christopher Steele, Church Committee, CIA, Cold War, Communism, counter-intelligence, Cuba, Cuban missile crisis, dangle, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, defectors, Dmitri Polyakov, Donald Maclean, Donald Trump, double agent, Dr. Wael al-Rawi, Duncan Chaplin Lee, Edward Lee Howard, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fidel Castro, FISA, FISC, Five Eyes, Florentino Aspillaga Lombard, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Frank Church, George Blake, George Tenet, GRU, Guatemala, Guy Burgess, Haqqani Network, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, HUMINT, Illegals, Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, invasion of Iraq, IRA, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraqi National Congress, IRGC, Irish Republican Army, ISI, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Israel, J. Edgar Hoover, Jacobo Arbenz, Jalal Talabani, James Jesus Angleton, Jihadi John, Jordan, Josip Broz Tito, KDP, KGB, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Kim Philby, Korean War, Kurdistan Democratic Party, Magnificent Five, Marshal Tito, Masud Barzani, MI5, MI6, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mohammed Emwazi, MOSSAD, National Security Agency, NATO, Nawaf al-Hazmi, North Korea, Northern Alliance, NSA, nuclear weapons, Office of Strategic Services, Oleg Gordievsky, Oleg Penkovsky, Omar Bradley, Operation REDCAP, Operation ZAPATA, Osama bin Laden, OSS, Pakistan, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Pete Bagley, Philip Agee, Pike Commission, Prague Spring, Provisional Irish Republican Army, PUK, Pyotr Deriabin, Pyotr Popov, Rolando Cubela Secades, Ronald Pelton, Russia, Saddam Hussein, Salvador Allende, Secret Intelligence Service, Security Service, Shah, Sharif Ali bin Zeid, SIGINT, SIS, Soviet Union, spies, Steele Dossier, Syria, Taha Falaha, Taha Subhi Falaha, Tal’at Fu’ad Qasim, Taliban, Tennent Bagley, terrorism, Turkey, ULTRA secret, Usama bin Laden, Vasili Mitrokhin, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vitaly Yurchenko, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, Wael al-Ta’i, Wafiq Samaraii, weapons of mass destruction, Wild Bill Donovan, William Colby, William Donovan, William F. Buckley, Winston Churchill, WMD, Yugoslavia, Yuri Nosenko on December 31, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The 1954 Coup in Guatemala: A More Interesting Story Than American “Economic Imperialism”

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 November 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Adolph Eichmann, African National Congress, Agitation and Propaganda Department, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Alfredo Guerra Borges, Allen Dulles, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Anastasio Somoza Garcia, ANC, Angola, Archbishop Mariano Rossell y Arellano, assassination, banana republic, Bernrado Alvaro Monzon, Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Bolshevism, bourgeois nationalist, Carlos Castillo Armas, Central Intelligence Agency, Che Guevara, Chetniks, Chile, Christianity, CIA, Cold War, Communism, Contras, Costa Rica, covert action, Crusade, Czechoslovakia, Decree 900, Derg, Dick Cheney, Dominican Republic, Dragoljub Mihailovich, Dragoljub Mihailović, Draža Mihailović, Dwight Eisenhower, Edmund Whitman, El Jefe, El Salvador, Ernesto Guevara, Ethiopia, Fazlollah Zahedi, FDR, FLN, Francisco Franco, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, General Franco, Georgi Malenkov, Guatemala, Guatemalan Party of Labour, Guinea, gunboat diplomacy, Haiti, Halliburton, Harry Truman, Henry Cabot Lodge, Honduras, Hungary, ideology, Imperialism, International Railways of Central America, Iran, IRCA, J. Henry Schroder Banking Corporation, Jacobo Arbenz, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, Jeremy Corbyn, Jesús Maria de Galindez, Jesuits, John Foster Dulles, John Peurifoy, Jorge Toriello, Jorge Ubico, José Fortuny, José Manuel Fortuny, Joseph Mengele, Joseph Stalin, Juan Córdova Cerna, Juan José Arevalo, Juan Manuel Galvez, Juan Peron, Jugoslavija, Kermit Roosevelt, KGB, Korean War, Kwame Nkrumah, Latin America, League of the Militant Godless, Mali, Mario Silva Jonama, Marshal Tito, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Mexico, Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, Modibo Keïta, Mohammad Mossadeq, Monroe Doctrine, Mozambique, MS Alfhem, Namibia, National Liberation Front, national liberation movements, Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, NATO, Nazis, Nazism, Nicaragua, Nikita Khrushchev, North Korea, O. Henry, OAS, Operation AJAX, Operation BOOT, Operation PBFORTUNE, Operation PBSUCCESS, Operation WASHTUB, Organisation of American States, Oscar Osorio, peasants, PGT, Piero Gleijeses, PNPR, Portugal, psychological warfare, radicalism, Rafael Trujillo, Red China, Rhodesia, Robert Hill, Roman Catholic Church, Romulo Betancour, SACP, Salma uprising, Salvador Allende, Sandinistas, Schroder Banking Corp., secret police, Shah, Somalia, South African Communist Party, Soviet Union, Spain, STASI, StB, Stephen Kinzer, Stephen Schlesinger, Sullivan and Cromwell, terrorism, The Boss, Tiburcio Carias Andino, totalitarianism, Tudeh, UDBA, UFCO, United Fruit Company, Ustasha, Ustaše, Venezuela, Victor Manuel Gutierrez, Vladimir Lenin, Walter Bedell Smith, William Sydney Porter, Yankee imperialism, Yugoslavia, Četniki, Četniks on November 30, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Terrorism Returns to France and Belgium

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 November 2023

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This entry was posted in Islamic State Terrorist Attacks, Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abd al-Salam al-Muhajir, Abdesalem Lassoued, Abdul Salam al-Muhajir, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, al-Naba, Amaq News Agency, Antisemitism, Bataclan theatre, blasphemy, Britain, Brussels, caliphate, Charlie Hebdo, Chérif Chekatt, Chechnya, Christians, DGSI, Dominique Bernard, Europe, Gaza, HAMAS, Ibrahim Boudina, invasion of Iraq, Iran, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jews, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, lone wolves, media, Mehdi Nemmouche, Mohamed Mogouchkov, NATO, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Paris, PIJ, PKK, propaganda, radicalisation, Russia, Stephen Paddock, Sweden, Taha Falaha, terrorism, Turkey on November 5, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Calls for a Global War Against Jews

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 November 2023

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This entry was posted in Israel, Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, al-Naba, America, Antisemitism, Arabs, Britain, conspiracy theories, Egypt, Gaza, Gulf States, HAMAS, HAMAS Covenant, Holocaust, international law, Iran, IRGC, ISIS, Islam, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Israel, Jews, Jihadi-Salafism, Jordan, Muslims, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Palestinians, PIJ, Salafi-jihadism, Taha Falaha, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion on November 4, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Cold War Roots of the Media Fiasco Over Israel

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 19 October 2023

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This entry was posted in Iran, Israel, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged academia, African National Congress, Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, Al-Ahli Hospital, al-Jazeera, ANC, Antisemitism, atrocities, Barrack Obama, Black Lives Matter, CIA, Cinema Rex fire, Donald Trump, Edward Said, Gaza, Gaza Health Ministry, HAMAS, IDF, IRA, Iran Deal, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, Irish Republican Army, Islamic Resistance Movement, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israeli Defence Force, Jews, journalists, Kfar Aza kibbutz, KGB, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Lebanon, Mahmoud Abbas, Mahmud Abbas, Margot Haddad, Marxism, media, moral clarity, mostafeen, Munich Olympics, national liberation movements, Orientalism, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Palestinians, PIJ, PKK, PLO, pogrom, propaganda, Ruhollah Khomeini, SAVAK, Shah, Sinn Fein, Soviet Union, terrorism, war crimes, ZAKA, Zionism on October 19, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Iran Was Behind the Massacre in Israel

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 October 2023

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This entry was posted in Iran, Israel and tagged Ali Akbar Velayati, AMIA, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Antisemitism, Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Cold War, Gaza, HAMAS, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Houthis, Huthis, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, IRGC Network, Islamic Resistance Movement, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Ismail Qaani, Israel, Jews, Khobar Towers bombing, Lebanon, media, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Palestinians, PFLP, PIJ, pogrom, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, propaganda, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Qods Force, Quds Force, Ruhollah Khomeini, Saleh al-Aruri, Soviet Union, Syria, terrorism, Ziyad al-Nakhala on October 10, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Iran Admits Responsibility for the 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 October 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Iran, Iran and Sunni jihadis and tagged Abd al-Salam Arif, Abolhassan Banisadr, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur, Ali Khamenei, Amal movement, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, ASALA, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ba'ath Party, Baader-Meinhof Gang, Ba’th Party, Bekaa Valley, Black September, Captive Nations, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Colonel Gaddafi, Communism, Cuba, drones, East Germany, fedayeen, Fidel Castro, Guardianship of the Jurist, Hafez al-Asad, Hafez al-Assad, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hossein Dehghan, Houthis, Husayn al-Musawi, Huthis, Imad Mughniya, Imad Mughniyeh, Imam Musa al-Sadr, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, IRNA, Islam, Islamic Government, Islamic Republic News Agency, Islamic Republic of Iran, Islamic Republic Party, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Issa Tabatabai, Japanese Red Army, jihadism, KGB, Khobar Towers bombing, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Lebanon, Libya, Masoud Rajavi, Masud Rajavi, MEK, Mojahedeen-e-Khalq, Mojahedin-e-Khalq, Mostafa Chamran, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Beheshti, Musa Sadr, Mustafa Badreddine, Operation DESERT STORM, Osama bin Laden, Palestine Liberation Organisation, People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PFLP, PKK, PLO, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ruhollah Khomeini, Russia, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Shah, Shi'a militias, South Yemen, Soviet Union, Special Groups, Syria, the Party of God, Tudeh, Turkey, Ukraine, Usama bin Laden, Vanished Imam, velayat-e faqih, VEVAK, White Revolution, wilayat al-faqih, Yasser Arafat, Yemen on October 4, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

America Sold Out Taiwan Before Conceding to Red China

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 1 October 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Anatoly Dobrynin, Battle of Dien Bien Phu, Cambodia, CCP, Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek, China lobby, Chinese Communist Party, Christianity, CIA, Cold War, COMINTERN, Communism, Containment Doctrine, Cultural Revolution, détente, Deng Xiaoping, Doctrine of Containment, Douglas MacArthur, France, French Revolution, Gang of Four, George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Great Leap Forward, Guomindang, Henry Kissinger, Ho Chi Minh, ideology, Indochinese Communist Party, Israel, Joseph Stalin, journalists, KGB, Korean War, Kuomintang, Laos, Lyndon Johnson, Mao Zedong, Marvin Liebman, media, Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Nazi Germany, Nelson Rockefeller, Nicolae Ceausescu, Nikita Khrushchev, North Vietnam, Protestantism, Red China, Republic of China, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Second World War, Sino-Soviet split, South Vietnam, Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Spiro Agnew, Taiwan, Tiananmen Square massacre, totalitarianism, Viet Cong, Vietnam War, Vietnamization, William F. Buckley, Yom Kippur War, Zhou Enlai on October 1, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Strange, Strange Story of Colonia Dignidad in Chile

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 September 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged American televangelists, Argentina, assassinations, Augusto Pinochet, Baptism, Bavarian Village, Bible, Boris Weisfeiler, Charles Horman, Chile, Christianity, Colonia Dignidad, Costa Gavras, cult, Dignity Colony, DINA, Evangelical Free Church, Frank Teruggi, Germans, Germany, Guyana, Hartmut Hopp, Hugo Baar, Intensive Boarding School, Jim Jones, Jonestown, Jorge Alessandri, Jorge Zepeda, Joseph Mengele, los desaparecidos, National Intelligence Directorate, Nazis, Patricio Aylwin, Paul Schäfer, Pentecostalism, Peoples Temple, Reinhard Döring, Second World War, secret police, Soviet Union, Villa Baviera, Werner Schmidtke, West Germany, Wilhelmine Lindeman, William M. Branham on September 25, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

“The American Coup in Chile”: A Myth That Will Never Die

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 September 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged assassination, Augusto Pinochet, Black September, Camilo Valenzuela, Carlos Prats, Central Intelligence Agency, Chamber of Deputies, Che Guevera, Chile, Christian Democrats, Church Committee, CIA, Cold War, Communism, cordones industriales, Cuba, Dawson’s Field, Eduardo Frei Montalva, Ernesto Guevera, false flag, Fidel Castro, First Chief Directorate, Group of Personal Friends, Grupo de Amigos Personales, Henry Kissinger, Imperialism, Jeremy Corbyn, Jorge Alessandri, KGB, Luis Corvalán, Marxism, Nathaniel Davis, Palestine Liberation Organisation, PLO, René Schneider, Revolutionary Left Movement, Richard Nixon, Roberto Viaux, Salvador Allende, secret police, Servicio de Investigaciones, Socialist Party, Svyatoslav Kuznetsov, terrorism, Thomas Karamessines, totalitarianism, Unidad Popular, Vietnam, Yom Kippur War on September 23, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

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