MM Suarez’s Reviews > Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA > Status Update
MM Suarez
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“American marines were siding with the Christians, American jets were dropping bombs on Muslims, and American ships were lobbing one-ton shells into the hills of Lebanon without knowing what they were hitting. The White House had gone to war in the Middle East with no idea of what it was getting into.”
— 11 hours, 40 min ago
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MM Suarez
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“Throughout 1969 and 1970, Nixon and Kissinger focused the CIA on the secret expansion of the war in Southeast Asia. They ordered the agency to make $725,000 in political payoffs to President Thieu of South Vietnam, manipulate the media in Saigon, fix an election in Thailand, and step up covert commando raids in North Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.”
— Aug 17, 2026 07:46PM
MM Suarez
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“We harvested a lot of lies,” said Robert Barbour, the deputy chief of the American embassy’s political section. “Some of them we knew were lies. Some of them we didn’t.”
— Aug 16, 2026 07:09AM
MM Suarez
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“We came to power on a CIA train,” said Ali Saleh Sa’adi, the Ba’ath Party interior minister in the 1960s. One of the passengers on that train was an up-and-coming assassin named Saddam Hussein.”
— Aug 15, 2026 04:46AM
MM Suarez
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“The CIA’s practice of purchasing elections and politicians with bags of cash was repeated in Italy—and in many other nations—for the next twenty-five years.”
— Aug 13, 2026 04:34PM
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Amateur hour diplomacy wise. Marines were neutral until the administration made choices that endangered the force. Then when attacked we turned tail and ran away.
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The whole thing is so sad.