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Subject: Part III, DANIEL SHEEHAN: CIA Agents Infest U.S. Mass Media
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        I made the following transcript from a tape recording
        of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station
               WBAI-FM (99.5)
               505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl.
               New York, NY 10018       [phone]

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                        (continuation)
DANIEL SHEEHAN:
And that, of course, was what were the high halcyon days of this
under George Bush, when he was the Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency, and a little bit earlier when Richard Nixon
was the President of the United States. And when you have that kind
of attitude toward the rest of the world, it becomes inevitable, of
course, that that kind of infection tends to feed back into the
domestic policies of the United States, such that you have Richard
Nixon engaging the "Plumbers" unit, and the others who began to use
espionage and basically terrorist tactics against the domestic
citizenry of the United States: infiltrating Black civil rights
organizations, the feminist organizations, the anti-war groups.
And, in fact, they began playing dirty tricks on them: writing
false memos, accusing the leaders of certain movements of
committing adultery, or of having affairs with other people inside
[their organizations]; consciously attempting to disrupt and to
destroy any type of democratic [any LEGAL] citizens' organization
that took a position that was contrary to the position advocated
SECRETLY by the Central Intelligence Agency.

That's the kind of infection that is at the heart of the democratic
principles of our nation that we still see manifesting in things
like the Iran-Contra Scandal with Oliver North and Richard Secord
and the others who, in fact, secretly defied all of our democratic
institutions: the resolutions of the Congress, the clearly
enunciated voice of the majority of the people of our country who
did not want to support the Contras in Latin America who were the
former military national guard officers of the dictator Anastasio
Samoza in Nicaragua. And so, these men went underground and
undertook criminal covert warfare which inevitably led them into
seeking illicit sources of money, since they couldn't get it from
the tax monies of the American People. And they ended up
establishing alliances with the Colombian cocaine cartel, that is
still in the news, even as of this morning, with Pablo Escobar
fighting his way out of his own luxury prison to escape.

We have this kind of history, tracking all the way from the end of
the Second World War in 1945 and 1946, all the way up to today, the
very day that we're speaking here, with manifestations of this type
of criminal undercover alliance that they have. And it is hacking
at the very heart of the institutions of democracy.

GARY NULL:
Thank you, Dan, for that explanation.  I'm wondering at what point
we will also begin to connect the corporate structures that function
as a government policy think-tank, frequently in the multi-national
corporations in different countries, that decide that THEIR use of
the natural resources, THEIR use of the cheap labor, THEIR use of
the local population, THEIR general support of the dictators,
all of this is in THEIR economic best interests. And then, if there
is any dissent .... if there is any journalistic dissent, political
dissent, social dissent, that they can then contact THEIR friends
in OUR State Department who then use OUR Defense Department as a
weapon of foreign policy to protect the interests of these
multi-national corporations.

Then they whip the media into a frenzy, always showing THEIR side.
But it is never an honest projection, so that when we do intervene,
we can violate the national sanctity of other countries, just like
we did with Grenada and Nicaragua and El Salvador [worst of all,
with Panama and Iraq] and these other countries.

DANIEL SHEEHAN:
Well, there are a number of very stark examples of this, of course.
Historically, Gary, one of the most transparent is the action
taken against Guatemala in 1954 wherein the United Fruit Company,
a member of the board of directors of which was the Director of
the Central Intelligence Agency, Allen Dulles, the brother of John
Foster Dulles who, in fact, was the Secretary of State of the
United States [under Eisenhower]. His brother, Allen was the
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and a member of the
board of Directors of United Fruit Company, which owned VAST land
holdings in the country of Guatemala, which had been SEIZED from
the peasants by a major military government that was basically
installed and kept in power by covert means of the Central
Intelligence Agency.

When, in fact, the citizenry of Guatemala had organized themselves
and had, in fact, installed a democratic government in Guatemala
under Arbanes[sp], the Central Intelligence Agency coordinated a
major covert alliance with elements of the military in Guatemala
and undertook a military seizure of the government in 1954.
That was coordinated by E. Howard Hunt [paymaster to the assassins
of President Kennedy].

Now, that overthrow was, for one of the major reasons, to reinstall
the United Fruit Company because the new democratic government
under Arbanes had begun to question the legitimacy of the United
Fruit Company to hold hundreds of thousands of acres of irrigatable
land under the control of growing bananas for export, instead of
allowing the peasants -- who had originally owned all of that land
which had been illegitimately seized by the military government --
to be reinstated with the possession of their land.

So, it was very clear, in that particular instance, that there is a
direct relationship between the economic interests of a privately-
owned, profit-making company, the United Fruit Company, and American
foreign policy, which was undertaken covertly and criminally by the
Central Intelligence Agency, at the helm of which was a member of
the board of directors of the United Fruit Company.

Now, those things have happened again and again. We have examples
in Panama. We have examples in, of course, El Salvador, and we have
examples in Nicaragua. There's some very unheralded writing in
books about this. There's a former general of the United States
Marine Corps, a man named Smedley Butler, who led three of the
expeditionary forces of the United States Military into Nicaragua
back during the 1930s. And he eventually -- from direct experience
on the ground -- came to his own personal conclusion that he could
no longer participate in doing those kinds of things because, as he
said, he realized that he was just a gun-thug for Brown Brothers-
Harriman, the major American capital investment corporation.
                    (to be continued)
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        Right now, Daniel Sheehan and the Christic Institute are trying
        to recover from a one-and-a-half million dollar fine imposed on them
        by the criminals in the Government who were being targeted by a
        Christic lawsuit charging CIA officer John Hull with the terrorist
        LaPenca bombing which killed American journalist Linda Frazier
        and wounded another American journalist, Tony Avirgan.

        Please help the Christic Institute to get back on its feet and
        continue fighting in defense of ours and our children's Constitution.
        Please call them in Los Angeles at 1(310) 287-1556,
        if only to voice your moral support.

           John DiNardo