Thursday, February 04, 2010

Why Obama Dodges CIA Reform

By Melvin A. Goodman
February 4, 2010

New presidents (and President Barack Obama is no exception) fall in love with three Washington institutions: the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency and Camp David.

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Anonymous said...

The question that may never go away: Who really is Barack Obama?

In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Fathers", Barack Obama writes of taking a job at some point after graduating from Columbia University in 1983. He describes his employer as "a consulting house to multinational corporations" in New York City, and his functions as a "research assistant" and "financial writer".

The odd part of Obama's story is that he doesn't mention the name of his employer. However, a New York Times story of 2007 identifies the company as Business International Corporation.10 Equally odd is that the Times did not remind its readers that the newspaper itself had disclosed in 1977 that Business International had provided cover for four CIA employees in various countries between 1955 and 1960.11

The British journal, Lobster Magazine – which, despite its incongruous name, is a venerable international publication on intelligence matters – has reported that Business International was active in the 1980s promoting the candidacy of Washington-favored candidates in Australia and Fiji.12 In 1987, the CIA overthrew the Fiji government after but one month in office because of its policy of maintaining the island as a nuclear-free zone, meaning that American nuclear-powered or nuclear-weapons-carrying ships could not make port calls.13 After the Fiji coup, the candidate supported by Business International, who was much more amenable to Washington's nuclear desires, was reinstated to power – R.S.K. Mara was Prime Minister or President of Fiji from 1970 to 2000, except for the one-month break in 1987.

In his book, not only doesn't Obama mention his employer's name; he fails to say when he worked there, or why he left the job. There may well be no significance to these omissions, but inasmuch as Business International has a long association with the world of intelligence, covert actions, and attempts to penetrate the radical left – including Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)14 – it's valid to wonder if the inscrutable Mr. Obama is concealing something about his own association with this world.

http://killinghope.org/bblum6/aer65.html

Tue Feb 09, 05:51:00 PM 2010
Tony Bonn said...

good god almighty....you state that obama dodges cia reform as though he might have an interest in it yet avoids it for whatever reason....obama was and is a usa intelligence agent - he is not about to bite the hand that feeds him....besides, opposing the cia is dangerous to one's health....ask john kennedy....

obama was on an intelligence trip to pakistan c. 1982 which was off limits to usa citizens though not to indonesian citizens...

obama is also a creature of the rockefeller plutocracy whose water he will carry as told....

no one is going to reform the cia which is sealing his embarrassing records - which is ALL of them - tighter than a witch's mike hunt....

the cia controls every single branch and department of federal government....it is untouchable...

until the lord brings another frank church on steroids there will be no reform of that godforsaken den of iniquity...

anyone interested in a side show of the cia should watch this fascinating video about confessions of an economic hitman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTbdnNgqfs8

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