If you want to get a sense of what life was like in the United States during the Cold War, take all the national-security hoopla surrounding the вЂњwar on terrorismвЂќ and multiply it by about a thousand.ДЄfter World War II, the federal government was converted from a limited-government republic to a national-security state, a type of totalitarian governmental structure with omnipotent, dark-side powers, such as the powers to assassinate, kidnap, and torture suspected communists.ДЇor example, unbeknownst to the American people at the time, the CIA entered into a secret conspiracy with the Mafia to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro, even though Cuba had never attacked the United States or even threatened to do so. Even Republican President Dwight Eisenhower was suspected in some circles of being a communist agent. Suspected communists were hauled before Congress and asked whether they had ever been a member of the Communist Party. People were looking for communists in the State Department, the military, Congress, Hollywood, and lots of other places. The American people were exhorted to be on the constant lookout for communists. national security establishment was 100 percent convinced that there was a worldwide communist conspiracy to take over the United States and the rest of the world, a conspiracy that was supposedly based in Moscow, Russia. Remember: This was the Cold War, when the U.S. national-security apparatus wanted them to do - eradicate the threat of communism in the Americas! The Cold War One of the most laughable parts of the secret documents are ones that imply that the CIA struggled on whether it should do anything about the abuses.Д«ecause it is clearly nothing more than a вЂњcover ourselvesвЂќ protection in the event that Operation Condor ever was uncovered.Д«ecause the Operation Condor goons were doing precisely what the U.S. The Post article make it clear that the CIA was fully aware of the horrific human-rights abuses that the Latin America military regimes were engaged in and said and did nothing to prevent them. Over the years, I have written about Operation Condor, and FFF has linked to many article detailing this sordid, dark-side conspiracy.

The documents confirm that the CIAвЂ™s role in the operation was to provide communications equipment to the ring, which enabled them to coordinate cross-border efforts to kidnap, torture, and kill suspected communists, which, of course, were nothing more than people who believed in socialism or communism.

The Washington Post is reporting today that top secret documents confirm the role that the CIA played in Operation Condor, the international state-sponsored assassination, kidnapping, torture, and murder ring run by U.S.-supported military dictatorships in South America in the late 1970s.

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