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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]JonLP24
(29,322 posts)For the U.S. audience, the CIA hoped to plant articles in U.S. newspapers saying that Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi's return to govern Iran resulted from a homegrown revolt against what was being represented to the U.S. public as a communist-leaning government. The CIA successfully used its contacts at the Associated Press to put on the newswire in the U.S. a statement from Tehran about royal decrees that the CIA itself had written.[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions#Iran_1953
Basically COINTELPRO in another country but a lot of the evidence the CIA did in Iran & many other places they destroyed so a lot of what they did isn't known & the Nazis were working for the CIA
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At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, law enforcement and intelligence leaders like J. Edgar Hoover at the F.B.I. and Allen Dulles at the C.I.A. aggressively recruited onetime Nazis of all ranks as secret, anti-Soviet assets, declassified records show. They believed the ex-Nazis intelligence value against the Russians outweighed what one official called moral lapses in their service to the Third Reich.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/us/in-cold-war-us-spy-agencies-used-1000-nazis.html?_r=0
Another poster in another thread wisely pointed out that we treat war criminals as wise elders (or something similar) so continuing to treat them as credible which Hillary Clinton did but it isn't the only thing there is a record we can point to just as we can with Warren or anybody else with a history in politics.
US diplomats spied on UN leadership
A classified directive which appears to blur the line between diplomacy and spying was issued to US diplomats under Hillary Clinton's name in July 2009, demanding forensic technical details about the communications systems used by top UN officials, including passwords and personal encryption keys used in private and commercial networks for official communications.
It called for detailed biometric information "on key UN officials, to include undersecretaries, heads of specialised agencies and their chief advisers, top SYG [secretary general] aides, heads of peace operations and political field missions, including force commanders" as well as intelligence on Ban's "management and decision-making style and his influence on the secretariat". A parallel intelligence directive sent to diplomats in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi said biometric data included DNA, fingerprints and iris scans.
Washington also wanted credit card numbers, email addresses, phone, fax and pager numbers and even frequent-flyer account numbers for UN figures and "biographic and biometric information on UN Security Council permanent representatives".
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/28/us-embassy-cables-spying-un