there's a question a reasonable question of ok here's this agency and it's engaged in criminal activities around the world some of which are quite deadly so which are quite provocative in the sense of laying the groundwork for a large scale military conflict and it's happening in a lot of countries this is not unique to the united states the united states learned some of this from the british who learned it interned during the one nine hundred century where they were a dominant imperial power around the world they cut their teeth on the stuff the and the other major powers are definitely engaged and capable of the same types of operations and small powers as well israel's an example the cia grew out of the o s during world war two which had been established during world war two its earliest years are interesting because the new president harry truman did not trust the u s s because he felt it was too dominated by parts of the democratic party that he that he didn't align himself with so he abolished the o s s then they first created a smaller intelligence agency from the remains of the old o s s called the central intelligence group and that was focused on analyzing intelligence and wasn't a covert operations agency what truman wanted was to have one place one inbox in those days years after that many of the agents who had worked on the covert operations side the paramilitary warfare operations black operations that sort of thing  really established in an outfit called the office for policy coordination and this office quote unquote eventually grew to have about five thousand agents in the early cold war years  the the and the existence of this office was itself entirely top secret it had no open existence at all and it wasn't until some years later that the office of policy toward national was f covert operators were in the wilderness for a little while but some of them had been leading wall street bankers and lawyers and there's a certain logic there because prior to the war the people in gage didn't international trade in international law were relatively small number of people and they were the specialists in international affairs for the united states so for example the man who was later to become chief of covert operations black operations for the cia was a man named frank wisner quite a prominent wall street lawyer the man who later became the director of the cia was allen dulles his career wired world war two was basically an international law on cutting deals across order with trade partners around the world some of the trade partners included fascist some aspects of nazi germany for companies associated with nazi germany italy part of the war in world war two in poland there'd been a military dictatorship very authoritarian country allen dulles was made part of his living by finance helping to finance deals that kept that government in power in this many other examples on the scene during the war they went into covert operations for the u s government because they had x some expertise in dealing with foreign countries after the war they went back to wall street for short time and then by the late one nine hundred forty three or back in the intelligence complex in the two examples that i mentioned top ivy league university get a snap history professor at yale that yale his influence the central intelligence agency more than any other university giving the cia the atmosphere during the two thousand and four presidential election when it was revealed that the republican candidate george w bush as well as the democratic candidate senator john kerry recently seen secret society manifest i think the role of most of the secret societies like skull and bones they have histories as i say in terms of the splits within the class and also class had to monica i think when you recruit people and you get them to do something illegal  it's similar to what the mafia does the inculcate somebody who is going bones pick each year have to go and pick someone up out of a grave and commit a criminal act they're required in their inefficient to admit to criminal acts of they've been part of or sect well actually been part of it so i think it's more that the class uses these secret groups in order to get loyalty and to control the coming generations and other participants in the class operations rather than the other way around that there's fifteen people running the world they do put those people once they're chosen into positions of power and that kind of choosing goes on with or without the secret societ kennedy truman actually wrote an op ed that was published in the washington post in which he revealed this and he said i never intended for it to become what it has become and this is very interesting because that op ed appeared in the early edition of the washington post and then it was excised from all the later additions that day allen dulles perhaps the most important of the cia director's flew out to independence missouri to try to get truman to retract what he had written and doing it for the benefit of the public good but it also institutionalized this new dynamic where covert action would also be much more kind of interesting as a way of doing it because again the public would be aware of it bypassing the us congress a sea order that the new operations be deniable meaning planned and executed so that any u s government responsibility for them is not evident to an authorized persons and that for those uncovered the us government some future deniability for the president if it ever leaked out but there was no denying that the president's men knew what was in the president's murder and he had been very adamant at the time that he says look i don't want to pull our support for the contras for any reason this is this would be an unacceptable option isn't there something that i could do unilaterally unilaterally in other words i doubt congressional approval accusations and that's really what plausible deniability is about possible tonight build it gives the people at the top of these agencies and most particularly the political leadership of the country which gives orders to these agencies the opportunity to disavow what has in fact been carried out on the basis of orders that have come from the president all the people on the ground in el salvador for example you know darn people in washington in congress for example they are told that there is no association between the u s government and the de what was the role of the people down here well that was a little more complicated so what the u s military advisors do is to teach the people in the country how to organize themselves and wasn't quite the american advisors said thou shall create death squads and you're going to report to me what they said was here's how to organize yourself to conduct a mission it's and don't report to me because i don't want to know and that's how it's done and then in washington back in washington the guys who or are women too certainly who are in charge of managing these little units these paramilitary units around the world they're saying basically the same thing go take care of business and also the door and don't tell me about it because i don't we don't talk about those cities in country to quit making national heroes out of those who steal secrets and publish him in the newspaper he became a household name daniel ellsberg a high ranking pentagon official leaked a treasure trove of secret documents to the new york times the publication of the pentagon papers seemed to affirm a widely held view no matter how hard you try you cannot keep secrets in washington the very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society yet ellsberg himself has a radically different take he states that the myth of transparency is a cover story made flattering in misleading journalists of the greatest import can be kept from them reliably for decades by the executive branch even though they are known to thousands of insiders one of the most remarkable demonstrations of this capability was the manhattan project  fact of creating compartments in which particular operations are carried out and these operations on the one hand may have even within the cia you know the entire career that i spent in the cia i was in the analysis half of the cia the other half being the operational  or you could call it the dirty tricks satch you could call it just the half that did things rather than i only talked about things and wrote about things i was in the analytical half of the agency very seventies for two and a half years in vietnam if you just stayed in washington as an analyst with the cia you real we were pretty fully compartmentalized away operational work done in the agency you did not have a need to know and the discipline in the agency was pretty darn good like most pure ocracy so there's tension between the people at the top of the organization and those from the top the what the compartmentalisation in some instances creates a means for different political factions to write their own horn polls one of the reasons we have trouble understanding how things actually happen behind the scenes is because of compartment intelligence organizations and so even within a very secret operation there are many more secret levels there are many more cells competing factions and what have you and there are fascinating stories for example about how o p c the office of policy coordination which really became the hub of the covert operations the cia would do all over the world very often we had situations where the cia was investigating something c was actually doing something and hiding it from the rest of cia and putting false material into the files event discovery and so this is very complex very deep very profound material it's something we need to do much much more research on an important compartment of the u s intelligence bureaucracy is the engineer or non governmental organization the majority of these groups american or otherwise are exactly as advertised organizations set up independently of the state but not all n g o s live up to their title like the traditional front company a seemingly legitimate business run in staffed by criminals or spies some foundations calling them by impressive sounding of meaningless names their sole function was the channel money from the cia still a second kind of foundation now these foundations will reveal some obscure some well known all involved in legitimate philanthropy but now in addition they agreed to become a conduit for central intelligence mixing up the government money with their own and then passing it on to the ever growing list of private organizations which during the saudis that is in the sixty's were climbing aboard the cia payroll let's take a closer look at those legitimate foundations which became c i a payout agencies they are among the fifteen thousand charitable funds that have sprung up in america in response points later those social consciences of the rich part of the structure of our tax laws they are the operative arms of what is commonly called the american establishment the power structure of moneyed families all gas law firms prestigious universities which have so much influenc shaping american life and national policy since world war two c b s newsman norman global reports on some of the foundations which channeled money for the cia this building is seventy three treatment street boston just under its windows lies the historic old granary burial ground last resting place of such revolutionary patriots of samuel adams and paul revere the building directory doesn't list it but tax reports of the granary fund show its home is room three twenty nine which turns out to be the law firm of hemingway and barns no one there would talk before c b s news cameras about the ground refund or reticence which has proved universal among the foundations but grand refund reports are signed by george h kidder mr cator is listed in who's who in america among his former associations the i there's the cia going around behind the scenes and trying to manipulate the process secretly by inserting money here and instructions there and so forth they have now a psychic which is this national endowment for democracy good morning and and welcome it's good to have you all here to help celebrate the launching of a program with a vision and a noble purpose and the national endowment for democracy is just as we've been told more than bipartisan the establishment of the national endowment goes right to the heart of america's faith in democratic ideals and institutions many observers attributed this important to an ideological affinity between the ku faction and the bush administration however it soon became apparent that the coup was actually sponsored by the united states itself the national endowment for democracy and funneled millions of dollars to venezuelan dissident groups and politicians many of her ticket cabinet positions in the short lived government in the media and  popular uprising and government crackdown in reality janice at the support of the vast majority of the population this was soon made apparent when an actual uprising arose in response to according to the cia's turner agents cannot engage in secret operations of any kind within the countries of the u k australia canada and new zealand without the explicit prior approval of the host government activists and other australian citizens a slush fund was set up to provide money to the opposition parties via the new in hand bank a cia front company this was followed up by a promise to the main opposition when the new going hand bank of sydney australia collapsed in one nine hundred eighty it appeared at first glance to be just another bank failure but after australian authorities began taking a closer look they discovered a tangled web of intrigue with all the elements of a bestselling spy novel a mysterious death the body later dug up from its grave illegal currency transactions big time drug operations and the central intelligence agency we were to become  neil evans given immunity from prosecution agreed to talk about the new going to hand operation on australian television from his account and others the bank had its genesis during the vietnam war four of the original stock holders were americans who listed their addresses as air america army post office san francisco air america was the cia airline in indochina hauling men and supplies on clandestine missions and according to former cia agents even drugs out of the so called golden triangle where the borders of burma laos and thailand converge knew good hands sent neil evans to the thai city of chiang mai the commercial center of the drug trade he claims the c made millions and used the money to finance some of its secret projects and the idea was that the money would be deposited with the new can hand bank by the cia through various channels that the bag than you can handle would then be responsible for rerouting that money to an account in america but the new york bank of new can hand was not your ordinary bank they were secret numbered accounts and hardly any of its top people were bankers many were american civilians and former high ranking military officers with ties to u s intelligence when they found the body of australian businessman frank knew given the bank's chairman shot to death a few months before the bank went under they discovered in his pocket the business card of this man william colby former director of the cia a new partner was michael hand an american green berets who served two tours in vietnam one of them for the central intelligence agency he disappeared a short while after the bank collapsed and is now believed to be did australian newspapers reported a connection between new can hand and the u s navy's super secret intelligence unit known as task force one fifty seven among its top agents cia man edwin wilson now under indictment for selling arms and explosives to libyan dictator moammar gadhafi and a man named petree lumas has also been implicated he was the apparent cia knew going to hand to go between it was loomis who helped wilson recruit a team of green berets to train terrorists in libya the new going to hand affair has caused an uproar in australia where authorities are trying to find out what involvement the bank might have had in the one nine hundred seventy five downfall of the labor party government meanwhile investigators on three continents are attempting to trace fifteen million dollars in this ng from the accounts of depositors including many americans here in this country the cia denies any involvement with drug operations in indochina the new going to hand bank itself or the deaths of the two men who ran it gary sheppard c john carr dismissed with them as prime minister for disposing of unwanted foreign leaders some of the plots called for lethal basins manufactured here dr everett havel a microbiologist or dietrich for three decades worked  period is the agency's how to guide on assassination beginning with the ironic disclaimer that murder is not morally justifiable it goes on to state that killing a political leader whose burgeoning career is a clear and can be injected at the passing out sta the society that's why we defend it so that in the words of my immigrant father we can pass those values on to our children what sort of philosophy could possibly justify such carnage during the cold war the official just occasion was to prevent the spread of communism and to promote what was termed the national interest what does national interest mean to you if you have a feeling that there is some document that is revised every year or every couple of years some document that exists in the u s government that is headlined  national interests and every year or every other year this is gone over carefully by groups of people high in the government and approved these are our national interests that never ever once happens every single administration has and is able to make up as it goes along what it thinks the u s national interests are every single individual who works in the government may very well have in his own mind a list of what he thinks the national interests of the country are either the phrase national security or the phrase national  real meaning other than to be a political tool for keeping the public uninformed essentially the elite in its ignorance and in its obsessive desire to maintain secrecy and not be accountable to the public seeks simple explanations they seek reasons that they could use as a gene pool that will allow the public to believe in what they're doing or to ignore what they're doing what most americans don't realize is that we the people are being held accountable by foreign publics for what is done in our name i'm john perkins and i'm a former economic hitman but we can always hit men dead essentially was to create the world's first truly global empire i was recruited by the n s a while i was attending boston university back in the sixt and they put me through a series of tests and clued ng lie detector tests psychological tests and in that process they determined that i had the potential for being a good economic hit man they also discovered a number of weaknesses  character that would make it fairly easy for them to hook me into doing this job and so they they offered me a job as a trainee and it's interesting you know when you when you accept a job like that with the us they don't tell you exactly what you're going to be doing they tell you that for the next year or so you're going to be training and then at the end of that period of time they'll really determine what you're going to be doing but ultimately i ended up becoming an economic hit man we did it by using many different means but perhaps the most common was to identify a third world country with resources that our corporations covet like oil and then arrange a huge loan to that country from our in a zation like the world bank or one of its sisters but that country never actually received the money instead the money went to our own corporations to build big infrastructure projects in that country like power plants and industrial parks things that would help the very rich people in that country as well as our own corporations but not the majority of the people who are too  the don't have the skills to get jobs in industrial parks and yet they the whole country would end up holding huge debt such a big debt that they couldn't possibly repay it and i lose i pray and when i win i expect to get i don't know i was going to trust me and i don't trust anybody vote with us on the next critical un vote or send troops in support of ours to some place in the world like iraq and in that way we've created the sample on the few occasions when we cannot make it men fail the jackals go in and these are people who will overthrow governments or assassinate the leaders of the countries and the next up the loans i sailed as an economic hit man and with jaime rolled over the president of ecuador and omar panama and because i failed to corrupt them failed to bring them around failed to get them to take on these loans that were so destructive to their countries and they were both assassinated by the cia supported jackals their words economist but we would use this term economic hit man tongue in cheek and the jackals usually people who work for private sector what they call security firms or a company that will have a semi legitimate contract with some branch of the government to do something such as protect our personnel or embassy overseas or maybe protect a media crew overseas and they'll be paid to do that but they'll be one person in that organization who coming through these other channels sometimes the channels are what they call the black box money is from the cia money coming through these channels for hire this one person who is essentially an assassin on the few occasions when the we do have a group of people that i call the corporatocracy which are the people who run our biggest corporations who do fit that definition they're not elected they don't serve a limited term and they don't report to anyone they like to say they report to their boards of directors but they're all each other's boards of directors and then the board of directors basically rubber stamp but the c e o wants to do so this is the modern equivalent of the emperor they're all driven by one single motive one goal and that is to maximize profits regardless on to my grandson very names they type in ages they're the modern equivalent of the mercenary army today i can report that as promise the rest of our troops in iraq will call home by the end of the these private contractors have repeatedly rocked the us taxpayer trillions of dollars and from a military intelligence perspective they perform useful purposes they establish possible deniability they further minimize congressional oversight but has rules of war such as the geneva conventions and they create enormous profits for their benefactors a case in point is done career clients have included the drug every day the people of dine corp international are hard at work supporting defense diplomacy and development initiatives because we believe in the religious commitment that has made us a leader in providing government support solutions with twenty two thousand employees in thirty nine countries we provide total support in aviation and land systems logistics training inventory intelligence international development