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From: michael@ucbiris.BERKELEY.EDU (Tom Slone [(415)486-5954])
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: CIA
Message-ID: <403@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 15:35:38 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  4 15:35:38 1986
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In article <377@ukecc.UUCP> you write:
>I have a question for all that care to answer. To what extent should let the
>CIA "loose" on the world at large.
The CIA should be eliminated altogether.  A truly democratic society should
have no need for such an organization of official thugs.  The NSA and the FBI
should be quite sufficient to meet our national needs.

>Should we try to "actively" steal other countries secrets I think yes.
Stealing is reprehensible within our country, why shouldn't it be reprehensible
outside of our country?

>Should we have poeple assassinated (under very extreme conditions "yes")?
The problem is that when the CIA has been allowed to assinate people, the have
done so wantonly.  Consider in particular, the late President Salvadore Allende
of Chile whose assassination was the responsibility of the CIA.  President
Allende was democratically elected, and now the CIA's chosen government of
Chile, the Pinoche regime has had a reign of terror throughout its existence
(consult Amnesty International or America's Watch on this one).  Since the CIA
is under the executive wing of the government, it gets very little scrutiny
from the Congress because of so called national security being waved at every
instance.  Is it in our national security to assassinate democratically
elected world leaders?  The anti-democratic policies of the CIA continue to
this day, as it has made attempts at destabilizing the democratically elected
Nicaraguan government by mining harbors and blowing up oil storage tanks.  The
CIA not only broke international laws with these two actions, but did so
without the knowledge of the Congress (that is until the actions were already
accomplished).