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DeSwiss

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6. Humor, from the Ministry of Truth.

Reply to truebluegreen (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 12:08 PM

Jun 2014

- K&R

''The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.''

~George Orwell, 1984

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The CIA is not that cute. [View all] truebluegreen Jun 2014 OP

Cute like withholding JFK assassination records and obstructing justice for 50 years. Octafish Jun 2014 #1

Yup. truebluegreen Jun 2014 #2

CIA has set back Democracy around the world and at home. Octafish Jun 2014 #3

It wasn't really a surprise truebluegreen Jun 2014 #5

Oops--I see kpete already posted this truebluegreen Jun 2014 #4

Humor, from the Ministry of Truth. DeSwiss Jun 2014 #6

+1 truebluegreen Jun 2014 #7

Once the CIA started down the junta path they could not stop. Enthusiast Jun 2014 #8

IMO they were "out of bounds" almost from the beginning... truebluegreen Jun 2014 #9

Harry S Truman's CIA Op-Ed MinM Jun 2014 #10

+100 Thanks for the links. truebluegreen Jun 2014 #13

The internal weakness of the Soviet Union was a story Enthusiast Jun 2014 #11

It is the never-ending story isn't it? truebluegreen Jun 2014 #12

Oh, that's what it is. Enthusiast Jun 2014 #14