28-04-2019, 07:09 PM
James Lateer Wrote:Wouldn't it be nice if our government operated out in the open? There are probably some places where that is the case. Maybe in Denmark. Maybe in Iceland.
For those who are interested in Gehlen, his memoir called "The Service" offers a lot of his really, really expert opinions about the intelligence function in general. Also with an outline of how the "West" got to where we are with a gargantuan National Security State.
Many of the contemporaries to Gehlen felt that he was not all that great of an intelligence functionary or executive. I personally am not sure that he was involved in the JFK assassination or (for that matter) all that many covert operations.
It would be great if someone has written a history of Gehlen's German BND. Maybe someone has. Something to look into.
James Lateer
Even the biased attempts at it have apparently been censored... https://www.bnd.bund.de/EN/About_us/Hist..._node.html
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass