Update from General Michael Thomas Flynn.

 

Tools of Tyrants CIA Operations and Projects — Part One ­ December 30, 2024 ­

The original mission of the Central Intelligence Agency, when created by the National Security Act of 1947, was collecting intelligence, but for 77 years, it has conducted covert and para-military operations around the world. Many believe that the CIA is the heart of the Deep State which runs our government, irrespective of whomever “we the People” may elect to office. The techniques the CIA developed and perfected overseas — including toppling governments — are usually described as “Operations” or “Projects.” Although highly classified at the time, the public has learned about many of those activities, which are summarized here as best as they can be reconstructed from public sources, beginning with the effort to topple President Assad, which recently succeeded. Today’s article covers the CIA’s operation opposing the Assad regime in Syria and five other projects or operations from the past. Next week’s article will cover many additional CIA operations or projects which have been disclosed to the public. Operation Timber Sycamore (2013-2017) This operation against the Syrian government, begun more than a decade ago, may have been “the most expensive covert operation since the Cold War ended.” “From 2013 to 2017, the CIA spent over $1 billion trying to strengthen ‘moderate rebels’ against both Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and anti-American extremists in the opposition.” One of the oft-repeated accusations against Assad was that he was so cruel that he had “gassed his own people.” Like most information about targets of our Deep State, this turned out to be false. Even Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in 2018 admitted “[w]e do not have evidence of it.” Nevertheless, to justify the continuing operation against Assad, the charge continues to be made by neocons in the press six years later. Just this month, CIA has achieved the toppling of the government of Syria led by President Bashar al-Assad, leaving a power vacuum that is being filled by Islamists led by HTS. While President Biden has taken credit for and gloated about the end of what is always called the “Assad Regime,” the truth is that the actions of the CIA have led to the installation of a radical Muslim government headed by a former terrorist, on whose head (Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani) the United States had placed a $10 million bounty. The results have been brutal. Videos have shown surrendering Syrian soldiers being gunned down by Islamists. The country of Syria appears is being partitioned, with Israel and other neighboring countries taking land from the Syrians. The fall of Assad could result in an unmitigated human catastrophe for Christians. President Trump has stated on social media “THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT.” A UN report published in August 2024 stated: “HTS detained men, women, and children as young as seven. They included civilians detained for criticizing HTS and participating in demonstrations,” and cited “reasonable grounds” that HTS committed “acts of torture and cruel treatment, as well as passing sentences and carrying out executions” without a proper legal process. A Greek Levantine Christian activist says, “The situation is dire and two of our largest towns, which amount to a population of approximately 50,000 people, have been evacuated ... Christians in Syria need urgent help ... for now, it seems they are still alive, but the last time the city of Aleppo was besieged, they were targeted and killed.” He also claimed “mainstream media has always claimed they are ‘moderate rebels’ when in fact we know they are neither moderate nor rebels. They are the same militants that beheaded women and children, just rebranded with new names.” Operation Paperclip In the fall of 1944, the U.S. launched a secret mission to secure German weapons, including biological and chemical agents, as well as recruit top Nazi doctors, physicists, and chemists. “Roughly 1,600 of these German scientists (along with their families) were brought to the United States to work on America’s behalf during the Cold War.” President Truman had banned recruiting any Nazi members or active Nazi supporters, but U.S. Government agents “bypassed this directive by eliminating or whitewashing incriminating evidence of possible war crimes from the scientists’ records.” Operation Mockingbird The CIA ran Operation Mockingbird, a program to influence the domestic American media, by placing CIA operatives within news organizations and cultivating relationships with prominent journalists. Overseen by CIA Director Dulles, Mockingbird had a major influence in over 25 newspapers and wire agencies, including CBS, Time and Life Magazines, the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the New York Post, and the Washington Post, and Hollywood film companies. The Church Committee identified over 50 U.S. journalists who were employed directly by the Agency, and claimed many more enjoyed a very close relationship with the CIA, who were “being paid regularly for their services [or provided] occasional gifts and reimbursements from the CIA.” Although Mockingbird officially ended in 1976, in 1996 Congressional testimony, Ted Koppel, ABC News Anchor, said “the Agency has ... broken American laws in the past, and I have no doubt that it will continue....” Operation Bloodstone (1948-??) This covert operation sought out Nazis and collaborators living in Soviet-controlled areas to work undercover for U.S. intelligence. “In reality, many of Bloodstone’s recruits had once been Nazi collaborators who were now being brought to the United States for use as intelligence and covert operations experts.” The Bloodstone recruits were not low-level Nazis, but leaders, intelligence specialists, and scholars who had been key to the Nazi cause. “Some of them eventually became U.S. agent spotters for sabotage and assassination missions.” State Department official George F. Kennan testified many years later, “it did not work out at all the way I had conceived it.” Documents about this project were released in April 2021. Operation Aerodynamic / PdDynamic (1949-91) The CIA has long been involved in directing events in Ukraine. Project Aerodynamic, renewed as PdDynamic, continued until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. A CIA document declassified in 2007 states: “The purpose of Project AERODYNAMIC is to [support] the Anti-Soviet Ukrainian resistance movement for cold war and hot war purposes.” Going back decades, the CIA has trained Ukrainian intelligence units to try and shore up an independent Kyiv. Then, current “CIA training of Ukrainian special operations forces and other intelligence personnel” in the U.S. and Ukraine has been ongoing since 2015, and a former CIA official said “The United States is training an insurgency ... to kill Russians.” Operation Ajax (1953) The CIA planned and supported the coup against Iran’s elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. The effort was led by senior officer Kermit Roosevelt Jr., the grandson of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. “Over the course of four days in August 1953, Roosevelt would orchestrate not one, but two attempts to destabilize the government of Iran, forever changing the relationship between the country and the U.S.” The U.S. government long denied involvement in the coup, which installed the brutal Shah of Iran Mohammed Reza Pahiavi, but eventually admitted CIA’s role in the coup. In only a month we will begin to learn whether President Trump’s swearing in will result in a major change in the mission and activities of the CIA.