Greg’s Reviews > Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act > Status Update

Sometimes I don’t believe in the history of the United States. I don’t believe that this place deserves to have any sort of moral standing in the world. As a country. It has been the source of incalculable disruption.

What the CIA accomplished under Wisner and Dulles, with Truman’s blessing, was the postwar renewal of Europe’s fascist underground. Groups of right-wingers as loose ends were paid, housed, trained, indoctrinated armed, and grouped into small ‘stay-behind’ squads, ready for action when the war with the Kremlin came.

…ruin had its own momentum.

The Detrick scientists…tried to improve on what the Japanese has planned to do to the Russians. Kill the wheat, kill the pigs, kill the chickens, kill the cattle, sicken the population. It was the only way to win the war, they believed. Big science would make up for a smaller army.

This is the basic CIA model of covert international relations that the United States has been following since 1948: sponsor disorder in order to impose a new order. It has never worked, and it has led to decades of dictatorial repression and impoverishment, and hunger and torture and corruption. This has been said a hundred times, but it must be said again.