From: ww@wwpublish.com
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
Subject: CIA Won't Declassify
Message-ID: <89b83ca0&199604271950.PAA13102@nyxfer.blythe.org>
Date: 27 Apr 1996 12:57:53

From: NY Transfer News Collective <nyt@blythe.org>

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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the May 2, 1996
issue of Workers World newspaper
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CIA WON'T DECLASSIFY: KEEPING OLD SECRETS--AND NEW

By Deirdre Griswold

The CIA wants everyone to think it's warm, cuddly and 
open. Why, can't you get a CD-ROM disk with CIA data on 
every country in the world? And doesn't this prove that the 
CIA is doing what its name says, providing people with 
intelligence?

However, there are a few things the CIA doesn't want you 
to know. Like how it organized the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion 
of Cuba. How it overthrew the elected government of 
Guatemala in 1954, setting off a long and bloody struggle 
that continues to this day. How it overthrew the progressive 
and secular government of Iran and put in the Shah, who 
decimated the left--so that the only force in Iran strong 
enough to take power when the Shah was overthrown in a 
popular revolution was the fundamentalists led by Khomeini.

CIA documents on all these events remain classified, 
despite much fanfare over "openness" since the end of the 
cold war. In fact, the CIA has so many old classified 
documents that, if stacked up like pancakes, they would rise 
higher than 50 Washington Monuments! (New York Times 
editorial, April 20)

In the 1930s, when the workers' movement in the U.S. was 
growing and people were defecting from mindless loyalty to 
imperialism, retired Marine Gen. Smedley Butler confessed he 
had acted as a "gangster" for U.S. big business when he 
commanded earlier invasions of Mexico and Nicaragua.

It's no different now. And that's what the CIA doesn't 
want people to know. They grabbed Iran for the oil 
companies. Guatemala for United Fruit. They tried to return 
Cuba to U.S. sugar companies.

And today? Which billionaire outfits expect to wring juicy 
profits out of the areas torn from Yugoslavia? What rich 
areas in Africa are the target of CIA machinations? How 
active is the agency in bankrolling pro-"democracy" 
movements in China?

Next time you see a stirring image of the Washington 
Monument, think of all those classified documents. They 
catalogue the crimes of U.S. big business around the world, 
crimes so foul that they must be kept under the most high-
tech lock and key.

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