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The Secret Government: the Constitution in
Crisis
A PBS Documentary
“The
National Security Act of ‘47 gave us the National Security Council.
Never
have we had a National Security Council so concerned about the
nation’s security
that we’re always looking for threats and looking how to orchestrate
our society
to oppose those threats. National Security was invented, almost, in
1947,
and now it has become the prime mover of everything we do as measured
against
something we invented in 1947." -- U.S.
Navy Admiral Gene La Rocque in PBS Documentary "The
Secret
Government"
(view
free)
In the revealing 22-minutes of the PBS documentary The
Secret
Government available for free viewing below, host Bill
Moyers exposes the inner workings of a secret government much more
vast that most people would ever think. Though originally
broadcast in 1987, it is even more relevant today. Interviews with
respected
top military, intelligence, and government insiders reveal both the
history
and secret objectives of powerful groups in the hidden shadows of our
government.
If
you take time to watch this engaging documentary and further explore
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information on WantToKnow.info, you
will very likely come to the conclusion that there is a powerful
shadow or
secret government which manipulates global politics behind the
scenes.
Government bureaucracies are known for their inefficiency, yet it is
their
very well-organized and hierarchical military and intelligence
services through
which those involved with the secret government are able to implement
their
secret plans. The
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(view free at link provided). The intrepid BBC team clearly shows how the
War
on Terror is largely a fabrication. For those interested in very
detailed information
on the composition of the shadow or secret government from a less
well-known
source, take a look at the summary at:
http://www.drboylan.com/shadgovt2. Transcript
THE SECRET GOVERNMENT –
The Constitution In Crisis Bill
Moyers, Secret Government, PBS (Public Broadcasting Service)
1987 Moyers: “
The Secret Government is an interlocking network of official
functionaries,
spies, mercenaries, ex-generals, profiteers and superpatriots, who, for
a variety
of motives, operate outside the legitimate institutions of
government. Presidents have turned to them when they can’t win the support of the
Congress
or the people, creating that unsupervised power so feared by the
framers
of
our Constitution. Just imagine that William Casey’s dream came true.
Suppose the enterprise grew into a super-secret, self-financing,
self-perpetuating
organization. Suppose they decided on their own to assassinate
Gorbachev
or
the leader of white South Africa. Could a President control them and
what
if he became the enterprise’s public enemy Number One? Who would know?
Who would say no?”
“The history
of our secret government.”
“World War II
was over. Europe lay devastated. The United States emerged as the
most powerful nation on earth. But from the rubble rose a
strange new world, a peace that was not peace and a war that was not
war. We saw it emerging when the Soviets occupied Eastern
Europe. The Cold War had begun.”
Winston
Churchill: “An Iron Curtain
has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the
capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe.”
Moyers: “The Russians had been our ally against the Nazis, an expedient
alliance
for the sake of war. Now they were our enemy. To fight them we turned
to some of the very men who had inflicted on humanity the horrors of
Hitler’s
madness. We hired Nazis as American spies. We struck a secret bargain
with the devil.” Erhard
Dabringhaus:
“One that I know real well is
Klaus Barbie. He was wanted by the French as their number one war
criminal and somehow we employed a man like that as a very secretive
informant.”
Moyers: “Erhard Dabringhaus
was employed in the U.S. Army
Counter Intelligence Corps and assigned to work with Nazi informants
spying on the Russians. One of them was Klaus Barbie, the
‘Butcher of Lyon', who had tortured and murdered thousands of Jews and
resistance fighters. The Americans did not turn Barbie over to
the French when they finished with him. They helped him escape to
Bolivia. Other top Nazis were smuggled into the United States to
cooperate in the war against the new enemy.”
“So began the
morality of the Cold War. Anything goes. The struggle
required a mentality of permanent war, a perpetual state of
emergency. It had met a vast new apparatus of power that
radically transformed our government. Its foundations were laid
when President Truman signed into law the National Security Act of
1947.”
Admiral
Gene La Rocque: “Now that
National
Security Act of 1947 changed dramatically the direction of this great
nation.
It established the framework for a national security state.”
Moyers: “Admiral Gene La Rocque rose through
the ranks from Ensign to become a Strategic Planner for the Pentagon
and now heads the
Center of Defense Information, a public interest
group.”
Admiral
Gene La Rocque: “The
National Security
Act of ‘47 gave us the National Security Council. Never have we had a
National Security Council so concerned about the nation’s security that
we’re
always looking for threats and looking how to orchestrate our society
to
oppose
those threats. National Security was invented, almost, in 1947, and now
it has become the prime mover of everything we do as measured against
something
we invented in 1947. The National Security Act also gave us the Central
Intelligence Agency.” Moyers: “This is the house the Cold War built
– the CIA. The core of the new secret government. Its chief
legitimate duty was to gather foreign intelligence for America’s new
role as a world power. Soon it was taking on covert operations,
abroad and at home. As its mission expanded, the CIA recruited
adventuresome young men like Notre Dame’s 'All American,' Ralph
McGehee.”
Ralph
McGehee: “I look back
to the individual that I was when I joined the agency. I was a
dedicated Cold Warrior who felt the agency was out there fighting for
liberty, justice and democracy and religion around the world. And
I believed wholeheartedly in this. I just felt proud every day
that I went to work because I was out at the vanguard of the battle
against the international evil empire – international Communist
evil empire.”
Moyers: “
Iran, 1953: the CIA mounted its first major covert operation to
overthrow
a foreign government. The target was the Prime Minister of Iran,
Mohammed Mosaddeq.
He held power legitimately, through his country’s parliamentary process
and
he was popular. Washington had once looked to him as the man to
prevent
a Communist takeover. But that was before Mosaddeq decided that the
Iranian
state, not British companies, ought to own and control the oil within
Iran’s
own borders. When he nationalized the British run oil fields,
Washington
saw
red.”
“The
Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles and his brother Alan, Director
of
the
CIA, decided with Eisenhower’s approval, to overthrow Mosaddeq and
reinstate
the Shah of Iran.
The mobs paid by the CIA, and the police and
soldiers bribed
by the CIA, drove Mosaddeq from office.”
Newscaster: “Crown Prince Abdullah greets the Shah as he
lands at Baghdad airport after a 7-hour flight from Rome.”
Moyers: The King of Kings was back in control and more pliable than
Mosaddeq.
American
oil companies took over almost half of Iran’s production. U.S. arms
merchants
moved in with $18 billion of weapons sales over the next 20 years.But there
were losers.”
Kenneth
Love (former New York Times
reporter):
“Nearly everybody in Iran of any importance has had a brother, or a
mother,
or a sister, or a son, or a father, tortured, jailed, deprived of
property without
due process. I mean an absolutely buccaneering dictatorship in our name
that
we supported.
SAVAK was created by the CIA!”
Bill
Moyers: “
SAVAK, the Shah’s
Secret
Police, tortured and murdered thousands of his opponents.General
Richard Secord and Albert Hakim, whom we met earlier, were among those
who helped
supply the Shah’s insatiable
appetite
for the technology of control. But the weapons and flattery heaped by
America
on the Shah blinded us to the growing opposition of his own people.
They
rose
up in 1979 against him. “Death to
the
Shah!” they shouted. “Death to the American Satan.”
Kenneth
Love: “Khomeni is a direct consequence
and the hostage crisis is a direct consequence, and the resurgence of
the Shi’a is a direct consequence of the CIA’s overthrow of Mosaddeq in
1953.”
Moyers: “Guatemala 1954. Flushed with success
America’s Secret Government decided another troublesome leader must
go. This time it was Jacobo Arbenz, the democratically elected
president of Guatemala. Philip Roettinger was recruited from the
Marines to join the CIA team.”
Colonel
Philip Roettinger (Ret.) U.S. Marine Corps: “It was explained to me that it was
very important for the security of the United States that we were going
to prevent a Soviet beach-head in this
hemisphere, which we have heard about very recently of course, and that
the Guatemalan government was Communist and we had to do something
about it.”
Moyers: “
President Arbenz had admired Franklin D. Roosevelt and his
government voted
often with the American position at the United Nations. But in trying
to
bring
a new deal to Guatemala, Arbenz committed two sins in the eyes of the
Eisenhower
administration. First, when he opened the system to all political
parties he
recognized the Communists too.”
Roettinger: “Well, of course there was not even a hint
of Communism in his government. He had no Communists in his
Cabinet. He did permit the existence of a very small Communist
party.”
Moyers: “Arbenz also embarked on a massive land reform program. Less than 3 per
cent
of the land owners held more than 70 per cent of the land. So
Arbenz
nationalized
more than 1 ½ million acres, including land owned by his own family and
turned
it over to peasants. Much of that land belonged to the United Fruit
Company,
the giant American firm that was intent on keeping Guatemala, quite
literally,
a banana republic. United Fruit appealed to its close friends in
Washington,
including the Dulles brothers, who said that Arbenz was openly playing
the Communist
game. He had to go.”
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