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What Was the Northwoods Conspiracy There are many conspiracy’s that were and to this day, still operated by the government that cause major disruption in the United States. Conspirators and other similar persons around them began to wonder what the government was really up to behind closed doors. The Conspiracy of Operation Northwoods, a false flag Operation, was a proposition presented to President Kennedy via the DOD and JCS; Operation Northwoods was going to be used to gain political support for a war against Cuba – Northwoods was a conspiracy of which terrorist attacks were going to be planned to kill innocent Americans and Cubans in the United States and place blame on Cuba; In connection, the terrorist attack of September 11th were said to be conducted by the United States but was blamed on al Qaeda; Operation Northwoods seemingly shows how ruthless, cruel and the distance the government is willing to go in order to gain political support by attempting to start wars with foreign communist countries.

The Power of the Mind America is known as the land of the free. Does being given illegal drugs without your knowledge by your own government sound like freedom? What about being treated with dangerous electroshock therapy for a minor mental ailment? Although these sound like plots from a terrifying science fiction novel, it is what the CIA experimented with from 1953-1964. As the fear surrounding threats of Communism and the Cold War intensified, American citizens and the government looked for steadfast ways to ensure the safety of the country. The CIA launched a highly secretive mission called MKULTRA in order to help achieve its goal. All over the Communist world, speculations were being made about “brainwashing” (Louis). The CIA felt

The CIA Involvement Theory The CIA’s involvement in the killing of JFK is one of the popular theories put forward by conspiracy theorists. President Kennedy was said to have told an official in his administration, “I want to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds” (McGovern, 2013, para. 3). Many of the individuals who disliked Kennedy believed he was the reason for the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. They also believed that he would reduce the size of the military industrial complex and that he was not going after communism hard enough. The CIA was involved

“One of our greatest assets is that all men aspire to be equal and free. This fact haunts the rulers of the Kremlin today for they cannot change the law of nature and they know it.” stated Allen Dulles, the fifth director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Cold War,

Before the invasion happened, the CIA had to train Cuban exiles to hate and destroy the Cuban government and economy. The reason they started training these Cuban exiles is because Fidel Castro overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista with an armed revolt. This made the CIA really mad because Batista was good allies with the US and Castro wasn’t. The CIA set up training camps in Guatemala in 1960, and in November the operation had trained a small army for an assault landing and guerilla warfare (jfklibrary.org). After a while, Kennedy confirmed the invasion plan, and was determined to disguise US support. The plan called for two airstrikes against Cuban air bases, a 1,400-man invasion, paratroopers would drop in before the invasion happened, and time after time, small forces would land on the

Espionage, the use of spying to obtain secret information regarding the intentions and capabilities of other persons, groups, organizations, or states is largely seen as a modern twentieth-century phenomenon (Burds, 2012). In reality, it is one of the oldest political and military acts, appearing in historical and literary accounts since the beginning of recorded history. A vital tool of statecraft, espionage shapes foreign policy and changes how wars proceed. Unbeknownst to many Americans, subterfuge and secrecy would play an important role in the Revolutionary War. George Washington, commander of the Continental Army, was well aware that he needed reliable intelligence to triumph over British forces which outmatched and often outnumbered his own. To achieve this, Washington would establish numerous spy networks over the course of the war, the most successful being the Culper Spy Ring.

In the popular TV show, “The Americans,” Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings, two KGB agents, steal secrets from military and scientific areas of the United States in order to help the Soviet Union compete with the United States in the Cold War. While most of the show’s drama is fictional, the concept of the Cold War and negative relations between the Soviet Union and the United States were based on reality. After the end of World War II, the Soviet government attempted to control most of Europe by placing puppet governments in freed countries such as Poland, East Germany, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. Furthermore, the Soviets infiltrated countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, inspiring people to fight against unfair regimes. As Russians

Now that after America and the Soviet Union where both partaking in the space race they both had suspicions about each other. Eisenhower, on the other hand, saw satellites as “pointless unless they provided something useful back on Earth” (DeGroot 5). “ A spy satellite, on the other hand, could provide accurate pictures of Soviet military capabilities, thus enabling the United States to spend its defense budget wisely, without wasting huge sums on challenging phantom forces” (DeGroot 5). America was worried about the Soviets spying on America because of security issues so America wanted to pursue on building themselves a satellite to “provide accurate pictures of Soviet military capabilities” (DeGroot 5). The only problem was that “ Flying over another nation’s territory without permission was, however, illegal under international law. What was not clear was whether the law applied to satellites” (DeGroot 5). America and the Soviets were in a battle to see which world power could be the best. The

George Tenet and the Last Great Days of the CIA George Tenet was the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1997-2004. He was good at what he did; he was so good that he was asked to stay on as the Director of the CIA when President Bush won the Presidency. The one thing Tenet experienced with the Bush administration that he did not experience with the Clinton Administration is he became part of the President’s inner circle. Once George Tenet experienced the inner circle, he no longer was able to focus on rebuilding the agency (Stillman 2000). In George Tenet and the Last Great Days of the CIA, Richard White, Jr. gives us the rise and fall of the CIA under CIA Director George Tenet.

The CIA is recognized as an intelligence-driven and threat-focused national security organization that works with confidential fiscal and administrative procedures, although have fallen through loop holes and broken some rules and regualtions. The case of CIA v. Wesley Swearingen will aid in conducting towards proving that the CIA is corrupt. Wesley Swearingen, an ex-FBI agent from 1951 until he retired in 1977 perpetrated and witnessed numerous violations of law by FBI and CIA agents and their operatives, heard revealing statements by other agents about their illegal activities, and read files that had documented violations of the rights of American citizens. Swearingen states that “activities of FBI agents and their ‘informers’ included warrantless

The astounding death of President Kennedy astounded the United States on November 22nd, 1963. The government has stated numerous times the perpetrator, Lee Harvey Oswald, was the sole murder of the esteemed President Kennedy. Yet, I think not, there is an insurmountable power which dictated the death of a

The United States has involved itself in several missions shrouded in secrecy throughout the nation’s short history. Operations, like the Iran-Contra Affair, and the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) role in Afghanistan are just two examples of these types of secret government missions, which have become public knowledge. Both operations occurred under the helm of President Reagan, who outlined a clear agenda, promising to fight the spread of the Soviet social influence of communism. Moreover, other similarities are observed between the two covert missions, like providing armaments, equipment, and training to foreign rebel forces to assist in combating communist influences (National Security Archive 2006, Johnson 2011). Moreover, various government agencies were used in the operations for distinct purposes. The comparison of the Iran-Contra Affair and the CIA’s role in the Afghanistan war, aid in revealing a picture of how covert operations were used in the 1980s, in combat communism, while achieving other presidential agenda items, like securing American hostages (PBS n.d.).

One was to plant a bug in a Soviet Embassy car which was successful for a few hours, until the car was returned to the Embassy and searched for bugs. Ames later found out that it was common practice for the Soviets to search all of their vehicles for bugs every day. The second operation was to search travel records of anyone with a TOP SECRET clearance who was traveling to Mexico for a short period of time. It didn’t produce any information and was scrapped after a few months when CIA lawyers weren’t sure if the project was legal. Despite the ineffectiveness of the operations, Ames was rewarded for his initiative with a promotion to GS-14. The irony about the promotion is it came from Dewey Clarridge, the same senior officer who had almost ruined Ames’s career in its early stages. Ames was enjoying his time in Mexico and started to believe his career was back on track. (Earley, 1997) His marriage however was in shambles, he and Nancy never met up like they planned to and Ames routinely had affairs in Mexico City. One New Year’s Eve Ames decided to fly to New York and surprise Nancy, when he arrived at her apartment she was leaving to meet with her friends and she didn’t invite Ames to go with her. Ames spent New Year’s Eve alone drinking in Nancy’s apartment and flew back to Mexico City in the morning. Ames knew the marriage was over, but was reluctant to mention divorce to Nancy. The station chief changed half-way through Ames’s tour due to the political situation in Nicaragua. Ames’s career began spiraling downwards once again as he was reprimanded for drinking on the job and crashing his car after a night of heavy drinking. His attitude towards the CIA soured further when he discovered a mole in the CIA’s special support team in Mexico City. The special support team was a team of ten Mexican citizens who were supposed to be loyal to the

The Space Race What effect did The Cold War have on technological advancement during The Space Race? Jack Mazac - January 2, 2018Introduction After WWII, the US and the Soviets were superpowers. As space and rocket tech advanced, both countries set out to getting to and controlling space. Thus, the US and

The importance of democracy took a backseat to economics and national pride when the CIA orchestrated an elaborate coup to overthrow the government of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddeq. In the beginning of the Cold War, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddeq, passed the oil nationalization agreement, which nationalized