'THE COMPANY' IS THEIR NAME AND TERRORISM IS THEIR GAME

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2010
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• Publication Date: November 21, 1980
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MASSACHUSETTS DAILY COLLEGIAN
University of Massachusetts
21 November 1980
errorlsm `is their game
What do the Phillipines, South Korea, South Vietnam,
Iran under the -Shah, Saudi Arabia, - Nicaragua under,
Somoza; Brazil,- Bolivia,-'Argentina, Indonesia, Uraguay
South Africa, and'13 other countries all-have in common?
They are the 26'countries of Amnestylnternational's.tap`
35 systematic Human. Rights violaters who have been sup
plied with United, States military and .economic aid-,". and;
.QS "police"training for many if the list- 25 years And
what do -.anyof .these countries share= with Angola
(mid-70's)', the.Xbngo- (1961) , Iran 111953 Guatemala
(1964), Chile (1973) and ma-~y others? r
Sven, guess who's coming to=recruit on"campus, today
and-Friday?,The CIA.; Aside fromhaving participated in
coups, interventions, murders,, torture, 'a-rid economic
ruination of many of the above countries, what's so bad
about the CIA recruiting on campus? Actually, the CIA is
here recruiting covertly every day.,.Under the'sacred'doc-
trine of "academic freedom" there are professors current-
ly clandestinely engaged in unclassified research for, the
CIA. To them, it is their intellectual:"right" to engage in
any research regardless of its immoral or racist character
or regardless of the ways that the. research will, be 'used.
Under this. protective philisophical."doctrine the agency-
and academia have long been intimately involved. , .
In 1976, Frank. Church's Senate committee in-
vestigating the CIA found they were currently employing
several hundred academics (not to mention journalists,
politicians, and religious persons). in hundreds of univer-
sities.. In 1976, Rampart magazine upset their previously
untarnished' "understanding". with the.CIA by exposing
'the millions of CIA. dollars that-were being funneled.into
the National Student Association (NSA) This finally caus-
ed an uproar.and' :a`?Senate:'investigation that unveiled
For example,-under the blanket of."national security" a
frigbtening? pattern -_of 'behavior hail- been in practice: ,
Drug, bacterial, chemical and sexual. experiments on un-
suspecting American citizens were-carried out which
resulted in grave peisonal'harm; of deaths- which' were'
subsequently covered up. The Senate Committee to Study
Governmental Operations revealed that on Nov. 27, 1953
Dr. Frank Olson fell from a tenth story window,..due to
having been given, without prior consent or knowledge, 70
micrograms of LSD. Dr. Robert Lashbrook, the CIA of-
ficer who killed'Olson,4as given CIA cover'for his'ac-
tions.
Similar experiments took place until 1963. In 1973,19 of.
the 73 "Mkultra" records were destroyed by the Technical
Service Division by the Director Richard Helm's orders.'
Many people are. unaware - that the CIA engages in,
massive spying 'on American. citizens,. contrary to their
charter, in addition .to participating in the -disruption,
blackmail, wiretapping and mail opening of legal citizens'
groups throughout the USA. This is thesagency that will
,be recruiting on campus Thursday and Friday
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Is wiretapping too tame for you to be concerned about?-
Consider the following thesis from Noam Chomsky's'
book, The Washington Connection and Third World
Facism: There is a direct connection between CIA involve-
ment in a country; increased multinational corporate
presence there (the "favorable" 'business climate rakes
super-profits sometimes totaling up to 10 times the level
of investment) and a decrease in "human rights" meaning
an.increase in torture-levels and repression. Repression
and. dictatorships are a necessary 'part of this process
because the MNCs-(mutinationals) need assurances o
stability-workers must be kept at subsistance wage
-levels, political and - union freedoms suspended, etc. _The
CIA coup that placed that Shah in power in 1953 is a good
example of how MNC's benefit from CIA interventions.
While millions of Iranians were impoverished, the Shah
purchased 30 billion dollars in sophisticated weapons and
allowed agribusiness to plunder a formerly self sufficient I
land (planting luxury export crops instead) until it was 90
percent dependent on imports for basic foodstuffs.
Along the same vein, is it surprising that today 80 per-
cent of the most desperate cries for human rights come
form. Latin America, 'when you consider the number, of
U.S. backed military-dictatorships there? Take into ac=
count also the 19 billion 'dollars of U.S- exports yearly to?
Latin America, and the rich resources and high profits
that the corporations'extract from there and you begin to
understand for whom the CIA exists. It-really is not dif-
ficult to prove, with a careful study of history as the rest of
The CIA is not.'simply an intelligence gathering opera-
tion. In the past people have ignored such accusations as
the' ravings of wild eyed radicals. But the proof to the con
.trary can be -found with in -our own.. government;'
documents and the testimonies of ex-CIA and government
workers. The Senate Select Interim Report of Nov. 20,-
1975 outlined incredible CIA plots against foreign leaders:
The first legitimate .president.` of': the Congo, Patrice
fell into the hands of CIA hencemen on Feb.
Lumumbo
,
13, 1961 under "Operation Mongoose."
The CIA has tried to kill Castro 12 times since 1959.
They succeeded in murdering the democratically elected
president of Chile, Salvador Allende, installing in his place
one of the world's bloodiest dictators. In Uruguay the CIA
conducted one of their most. "successful" . operations--
under the despised agent Dan Mitrone, who was latex kill-.
ed--by . the 'Tupumaro._:guerillas. -Mitrone supervised
Uruguayan torture training sessions for hundreds of of
ficers at a time: Other South American "security" forces.;
were , trained -.in torture. at the International Police
Academy in Washington, D C ;=while, others attended the
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InterAmerican Police Academy in Panama
where their teachers assured them, "Some
of `the`" prisoners do : not' feel- the pain".
(Langguth, Hidden Terrors; 1978). One of
every 500 people in Uruguay is a political
: prisoner and one fourth of the population '
has fled the country. That is a CIA "suc-
cess. "Operation Phoenix" in Vietnam
` "neutralized" 30,000 Vietnamese women
and children; U.S. trained SAVAK police
in Iran mutilated or killed up to 100,000
civilians, to the fortune of the oil com-
panies. Gulf Oil rewarded.the CIA officer
in charge of, the 1953. coup, Kermut
Roosevelt, with the vice-presidency of Gulf.
But in the U.S.; the Shah was known as the
great "modernizer.
?The ~-case ~--against"-CIA interventions
abroad is a strong one. But lest we be fool
ed, we should realize that 'a goverment
which actively _ promotes international,
institutionalized terrorism abroad,.
of the CIA 'variety' is not and
cannot be capable of drawing the lines of morality on they'
domestic; front either. We have experienced hysterical,
anti-Communist rallying during the 50's in this country;
we watched the FBI and CIA conduct illegal activities;
against -this country's strongest Black 'and progressive -
leaders itrthe 60'sx We live daily with institutionalized ter-'
ror when six NAZI/KLAN murderers can be aquitted_ of
killing five demonstrators in North Carolina; when police
violence against defenseless black youths goes uncharged;
when 15 black children are murdered in one city alone;.
when `near slave ,conditions* exist' for thousands of "un-
documented" or migrant-laborers in the Southwest.
The "Naming of Names" bill, H5615, was supposed to
go before the House yesterday which would make it illegal
to name past and present CIA and FBI agents, even if
their names are already declassified information. This bill .
most likely will be postponed until the new Congress is
seated, because some Senators want to add new condi-
tions to the bill which will increase the penalty to treason.
The CIA is closer to home than you think and it's time to
clean house. The CIA is not a harmless recruiting
organization It' perpetuates oppression .and racism
throughout the - world for the benefit of "national
interest."' Its presence violates every concern for justice,
decency, and democracy that a university campus is sup-
posed to represent. Would we allow the. KKK or the Nazi's
to recruit on our campus? Don't let our concerns for
"academic freedom" and fundamental democracy lead us
to sanction an organization like the CIA.
Laurie Kellogg is a member of the -Ad Hoc Coalition
Against the C.I.A..
Tony Crayton is "director of the Office of Third World Af {
fairs-
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