i mean the trail of drugs follows the trail of medicine operations and there's a very good reason for that if you're carrying a clandestine operations you need black money and unique or operation from criminals right cia headquarters had no idea what was going on on the ground in laos their agents in laos had to keep the local drug traffickers happy in return for their support so the cia got their secret army by turning a blind eye to but they didn't worry about the fall of what happened downstream it was somebody else's the white house did a survey after vietnam and they discovered that in one nine hundred seventy one one third of all u s combat forces fighting in vietnam were their own i guess if you do the calculus ok there were  army in south vietnam than there were in the united states assassination program responsible for tens of thousands of deaths but first let's take a look at how the cia turned a man from cuba into an icon by mistake know i could be the father of my baby so the cia decided it was time to get rid of cheney and they did their very best to assassinate him in those days c sponsored assassinations when jobs executive action whatever you call it were allowed and they caught up with him eventually in bolivia so the cia came up with a plan to get rid in the minds of the cia and the people around them a dead cheney would be one danger mess he would be eliminated from the scene to look around the world in the in the beginning of the twenty first century and see to what extent the image ironically a dead shade go viral became a much bigger problem for the cia than the live one instead of dying away quietly show use face quickly became one of the most recognizable and iconic images in the world and it still is today those kind of sexy green fatigues and didn't represent a threat to the western world but in the warped mind of some cia people policymakers they thought this man is potentially very dangerous you know he could inflame the when the usa became involved in the vietnam war everyone in america was convinced that to be a short easy war and that they'd quickly beat the communists but despite having much more money guns and bombs the americans couldn't win the war in vietnam their opponents in the vietcong didn't play by the rules instead they perfected the rules of insurgent fighting still being used today in iraq  johnson turned to william colby the director of the cia for a top secret answer to the vietnam problem the cia's idea wet jobs using the viet cong zone tactics on itself and making lightning guerilla writes to kill key viet cong leaders it was cold the phoenix program it was a program of assassination some of the strategies employed by phoenix operatives might be the sort of potential is throw in the nice  throwing various suspected to be a con out of helicopters you have two of them you get one of them to talk about throwing the other one out of the helicopter to his death starving a suspected viet cong operative to death a lot of procedures that  while they were excused at the time and in retrospect by people as being absolutely necessary given the ugly nature of the conflict i think it's easy to see why so many americans were uncomfortable with this program and wife became a target for anti war critics at the time work first of all because obviously the united states lost the war to be a con infrastructure was not eliminated even more than that i think it turned many vietnamese against the united states when they saw the tactics being employed either by americans themselves or by south  were drawing their paychecks from the united states i think it killed our image william colby the head of the cia later testified before the us congress that there were more than twenty thousand extrajudicial executions done by the united states in the phoenix program that's to say we summarily executed more than twenty thousand people how many roughly would you estimate were eliminated so twenty eight thousand had been captured some twenty thousand had been killed and some seventeen thousand had actually rally at that time the phoenix program was a disaster on every single level it horrified the american public and helped turn them against the wall and what's more it simply didn't reduce the viet cong as military capability  the prospect of a cease fire has made the position of the vietnamese in the battle areas any easier indeed it's made it much more difficult impact of the vietnam war on america was was absolute officer it was the one war that the americans actually actually lost  and that was a huge shock to the system socialist prime minister salvador allende i n d was the people's choice but he wasn't the cia's choice so they spent eight million dollars to get rid of him us to keep our free we're going to keep our copper and we're going to distribute it more equally here was somebody who at last came to power through the ballot box and he was somebody who was defeated not through the ballot box but by violence the agency started to pour money into a series of covert operations to discredit i ended a poor money into the political parties worked closely with chilean military to build up our influence there conduct operations to kind of divide and upset again days ruling coalition and then a major propaganda operation and that was pouring millions of dollars into the leading  eleventh one nine hundred seventy three general augusto pinochet and his army marched on santiago the capital of chile and stormed the palace salvador allende was killed in the process with pinochet in power violence corruption and torture quickly spread throughout chile new documents show that in the weeks after the coup pinochet's troops arrested around one hundred thirty thousand people and imprisoned them without trial shade did was kill thousands of people hundreds were executed in the football stadium one of the favorite ways of dealing with with dissidents was to take them out in the oval see the helicopter and drop them into the with people they will point out to you every now and then my house which might look quite innocent now but which is remembered by one generation as a place of torture and horror when fifteen or twenty years ago you could hear the screams from this building that's the memories and it takes a very long time for that memory to fade especially while those who are responsible for those crimes s you know change really became a focal point for international condemnation of human rights violations in latin america and international condemnation of the united states of america for both openly and through the cia supporting regime cambodia was a hot spot at the time because of the ongoing war in vietnam right next door prince sihanouk cambodia's ruler wouldn't play ball with the americans and join in the vietnam war he was determined to stay neutral cambodia would not open its doors to american troops so the cia did what it always does in these situations it found someone who would let them into cambodia and then help them into power and this person was  the economy failed people went hungry and the south of the country got bombed by the americans within a few days the communists will be taking my first memory of the war coming to my home was when the soldiers and their trucks poured into the city and my family along with two million cambodians living in the city of non pan were evacuated in seventy two hours after years of development or modern influences were dismantled or destroyed electricity was unnecessary in the new society so why are we removed to be used for lawyers the architect the civil servants the politicians so they sent out these soldiers into the countryside and they collected these people and executed  of three years eight months and twenty one days of clean the lines from one point seven to two million cambodians among the victims were both my parents my two sisters and twenty other relatives where they've located over twenty thousand mass graves and they were killed with a blunt instrument the back of their hands angolan civil war began in one nine hundred seventy five and didn't end until twenty seven years later in two thousand and two years of fighting between warring tribes left seven hundred fifty thousand i'm down instead and a further five million more as refugees there's no doubt that the cia's involvement in this conflict helped keep the civil war going and cause thousands of deaths and all this to protect american interests in africa or was one of the few examples of u s interventions where the soviet union was actually involved there were three guerrilla groups fighting against portuguese rule for many years the soviets were back in one of them the u s and china well back in the other two and it turned out to be one big  africa was on the side of the u s which in the minds of the rest of africa was a big scandal that the u s was fighting alone for i think you have to go it was very difficult for the the americans to promote take a positive image of themselves in africa as long as they had ties to the apartheid regime so the americans were never going to be popular in africa as long as that situation prevailed the cia chose to influence the conflict in the most convenient way it could it spread propaganda and pumps money into angola millions of dollars were provided for mercenaries and the early one hundred agents were sent to the country thought iran was a success story back in the fifty's they'd installed the shah of iran into power and had spies running all over the country but the spies didn't do a very good job cia had no idea whatsoever that one of the biggest events of the late twentieth century  was about to occur in iran in february nine hundred seventy nine the iranian people staged the first ever islamic revolution which not only changed the face of iran but changed the face of the entire middle east and the cia had no idea that any of this was going to happen iran was a major warning but iran was also a major intelligence failure and at least cia director had no turner at that time very honestly admitted that this was a failure that he couldn't even understand our experts on iran just were not clued in they just did not have a sense of the culture the sense of what was going on in that country it certainly was a big gap in our coverage and idea that this whole cleric could come and overthrow thirty years of the most powerful western ally in the middle east didn't make any sense i mean americans like most westerners i don't think are terribly vendor the force nine hundred seventy nine the u s embassy in iran was invaded by islamic militants sixty five american citizens including many cia officers were taken hostage and were held for incredible four hundred forty four days by failing to understand the degree of hatred of the people in the streets i think they failed to predict the invasion of the embassy and the hostage taking crisis which which was probably one of the most humiliating things top secret military mission to rescue the hostages which had been planned by the cia collapsed in failure and caused the deaths of eight american soldiers it was unbelievable that such things could happen to the usa the world's greatest super power and the impact is still being felt today americans have still got this dream about being american and what the iranians did not see was to humiliate people who don't believe they can be defeated and it's the americans have never got over they have never got over now when things go wrong at the cia they go wrong in a pretty big way and one of the very public mistakes they made in the one nine hundred eighty s and becoming the biggest political scandal of ronald reagan's presidency the u s government the military and with some help from the cia started selling arms to iran illegally and using some a prop it's of those exorbitant sales to fund the conference wars it was clearly an illegal action and the cia participated in the out by facilitating the shipment of arms through private hands this operation wasn't only against the law it was also money the cia generated from these weapons sales is still unclear but we do know that iran paid forty seven point six million dollars into a cia controlled swiss bank account which was then handed over to the agency personnel the deputy director of the cia and a couple of other cia officials were actually found guilty in the end pardoned by the first president bush thank you god bless you being a reasonably competent and be acting within the law in this case this was neither the last great battle of the cold war was played out not in russia or in the fighters they were at war with the soviet backed people's democratic party of afghanistan and now to make explosives  money talks all over the world it talks even louder in some of the countries that the cia have to go in operating and they do carry around large bags of large dinner when they show dollar bills you can get the exact total of money the american spent to help them with having defeat the soffits but it's around the three billion mark i was in in the most realistic sense the nineteenth century british political agent and  quartermaster and so i delivered sixty thousand tons of ordinance i spent a lot of money every month you know out early providing it to afghan commanders throughout afghanistan i could get i myself had a conversation with milt bearden who was the cia operative who was controlling this operation i said bearden what are you doing you're giving this weaponry to the most fundamentalist people of them all this is not going to work for us or teaching interest over the long term and i thought bearden's reaction was interesting he said that may look we just passed them the weapons and we let god sort of out while god sorted it out and we're still dealing with that problem now let me tell you we never gave a single penny to a single arab group they themselves were bringing in up to twenty twenty five million dollars a month that was being brought in from the go off to go into the war that's their issue we were there with our goals but this is been a story that has always been too good to check for most generous journalists cia did not fund osama bin laden cia did not create the taliban the u s didn't do that and it consciously didn't do it it didn't do it as a matter of policy and  as well they were thinking is thanks very much when we've dealt with this law we'll deal with you finally withdrew the americans effectively with drew their interest in afghanistan they ceased to be concerned about what happened to it and far from continuing to interfere they effectively left the field open for the  consequence is that we understand massive damage on the country that meant to be working for and the cia has first hand knowledge of just how damaging an enemy within can be you know everything there to find your neighbor on february twenty fourth discovered the old rick james had been spying for the soviets for nearly ten years and the information he provided to the k g b left the cia in a state of chaos which they're still recovering from today one thing that everybody has learned through history is that if a person is dedicated to be training their country while they may eventually be caught it takes a while there's no immediate solution there's no and this has got to believe that with the information being provided by james the soviet leadership would change the course of events in the cold war with the united states so the stakes were high aims had one of the most sensitive jumps in american intelligence serving for three years as chief of the cia office charged with protecting cia operations from the k g b understandably this is the one place the c everything had no ideology james did this because he thought he should be making more money he wanted nice cars for the nice house he wanted a lifestyle that he wasn't able to earn on a government salary and he believed that by handing over information that  would bring him a fortune and in fact it was in excess of two million dollars and probably closer to two and a half million dollars which would have made him probably the highest paid spy in history  disaster and the response of the cia to those disasters was really almost tragic it was unable to figure out for many years how it was compromised how it was penetrated by the russian intelligence services for more than ten years old rick james handed over the hundreds of secrets to the soviets and no one in the cia had any idea he was amo older james was unquestionably the most damaging spy that the cia ever experienced it destroyed morale within the agency and it caused damage that is lasting to this day the fact that he was able to t ce so many great assets in the soviet union is despicable he had a huge betrayal in the side and  one of the defining moments of our time on september eleventh two thousand and one the unthinkable happened two thousand nine hundred ninety two people died that morning in the usa as everyone around the world watched the attack unfold live on television in the days after nine eleven it became clear that the usa in the cia knew exactly who was responsible for these attacks the cia had been watching a sound bin laden and his al qaeda network for years but had done nothing to stop them carrying out the terrorist attacks of nine eleven when the attack of nine eleven occurred i think more than anything else it was a feeling that this probably didn't have to have happened had we been more aggressive against usama bin ladin this whole operation months in the planning relatively expensive in terrorist terms didn't so involved an intricate completely don't buy that they missed it  because of x journal factors in the middle ninety's we shifted away from a kind of an exclusive look at lebanese hizbullah and other and the palestinian groups to a broader look at sunni extremism around the world and almost wherever we looked bin laden's name came up as a benefactor as an inspiration or as nuts and bolts provider of military weapons or documents strategy was going to be against the united states there were a lot of surprises and bedrock and so when you look at the analytical work at the cia off the plate and the failure to realize the role of al qaida in one thousand nine hundred three in the world trade center and the fact that bin laden islamic terrorists bombed the world trade center killing six people and injuring over a thousand more yet the cia still had no idea what was coming on nine eleven we did not have enough people and we did not have enough people he had declared war on al qaeda in the late one nine hundred ninety s however the investigators were able to uncover that he had only applied maybe one or two or as many as half a dozen analysts one has to question what kind of war that was by assigning only a few people to the al qaeda investigation the cia made a huge mistake but it wasn't the cia's only error in handling the bin laden they simply didn't have enough arabic speakers they didn't have an affair with speakers crucially on the ground in the middle east and they didn't have enough they're listening to all the stuff and reading all the stuff and analyzing all the stuff and so in that respect they were blind they learned the hard way are only just now beginning to start to infiltrate paying a lot of money to people and they are getting sometimes fairly good information but they're starting from nine world war one of course we now know they should have because no one has moved forward in protecting the borders of the united states it's very unlikely we can stop the next attack in america when bush and blair proposed the invasion of iraq back in early two thousand and three  insisted the only reason for the war was to stop saddam from using his weapons of mass destruction on the rest of the w they claimed this wasn't a humanitarian mission to save the iraqi people from saddam all want to secure access to iraq's rich oil reserves my fellow citizens at this hour american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger the president stood before the world and presented an intelligence report from the cia that proved saddam had weapons of mass destruction and that he was intent on using them to fast forward two years and we all now that no weapons of mass destruction have ever been found in iraq the cia either made a massive intelligence mistake or it chose to sex up its estimate to give bush the war he wanted the story is still unfolding n chief weapons inspector who worked in iraq before the war maintains the cia knew that saddam had disarmed but that they chose to ignore the facts weapons of mass destruction was a fantasy we had accounted for the production equipment we had accounted for the spare parts we accounted for the missiles and yet when i briefed the cia they rejected it they said that our work was flawed because it relied upon statements made by iraqi officials that couldn't be trusted the c i said there were up to two hundred missiles left in iraq we found nothing it didn't matter what the facts were they had no intention of allowing the inspectors ever to determine that iraq had complied  the cia turned to weapons expert robert gallucci to analyze that intelligence full of them i thought that there was a very good case even a conclusive case that iraq had regenerated its programs and chemical weapons and biological weapons i came to that conclusion i think based on assumptions about iraqi intentions it's about almost all their capabilities scientists are still there time opportunity in four years without inspectors he might have as big information showing that he did have they didn't have somebody inside their regime at a high enough level who knew exactly what the truth was and it was all satellite images it was all guys who escaped ten years earlier the information wasn't new enough the information wasn't hard enough the cia made serious errors when analyzing the intelligence coming out of iraq before the war we had is the cia lying cheating and deceiving the american people itself for the benefit of the president and that's and if that is what the cia now does then i can boil it down to one person you just hire a yes man around telling you what you want to hear making intelligence mistakes is one thing but many argue that george tenet the cia direct there's no way the director of the cia could have believed any of the intelligence information yeah it out there that there were weapons of mass destruction in iraq if you believe that he was incompetent the whole world now knows how massively the cia go to wrong on w m j trust in the cia is at an all time low the next time any western politician says believe got these really cool secret documents inside that there's a bad guy out there and we've got to go get him i mean we'd be out of office the next day i mean it's now the most comical law you can tell in politics people with good will say yeah look everyone agreed everyone agreed they had w m d but you still made a mistake why should we believe you this time whether this time is north korea whether it's iran whether it's some thing around the corner that they're trying to look at this going to come up and b whatever it is people are going to be even more skeptical and they always have been this threat to this country the threat to the world is terrorism and the handed down to terrorism is intelligence we're at war with islamist extremists and in war you have to take some extraordinary measures in order to be successful we simply have to be dealt with the osama bin laden's and the sons of people that are still out there they just simply have to be removed the cia is going to target someone if that's going to be an assassination plot we're going to bloody our own image around the world and create more terrorists and the cia is it's currently manifested not be tolerated it must be done away with we would be better off today just doing away with the cia and starting over it's a new subversive cancer of corruption  incompetence within americans as soon as he has a projection about surgeons and it's an enormous danger i'd have to say unless we have a second nine eleven the odds of the agency changing over the next twenty five years are almost zero