Central Intelligence Agency

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Seal of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a secret police and state terrorist organization operated by the government of the United States. Since its formation in 1947, the CIA has committed numerous atrocities and crimes against humanity in the interests of American imperialism, including organizing coup d'états to overthrow elected governments,[1] physical and psychological torture,[2] human experimentation,[3] supporting fascist and anti-communist terrorist organizations and dictators,[4] rehabilitating and empowering Nazi officials and war criminals,[5] performing mass-surveillance,[6] and repressing socialist and left-wing movements.[7]

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  1. ↑ J. Dana Stuster (August 20, 2013). "Mapped: The 7 Governments the U.S. Has Overthrown". Foreign Policy. Retrieved October 6, 2024. Archived from the original.
  2. ↑ Carol Rosenberg (December 4, 2019). "What the C.I.A.’s Torture Program Looked Like to the Tortured". New York Times. Retrieved October 6, 2024. Archived from the original.
  3. ↑ "Results of the 1973 Church Committee Hearings, on CIA misdeeds, and the 1984 Iran/Contra Hearings....". Retrieved October 6, 2024. Archived from the original.
  4. ↑ John Stockwell (October 1987). The Secret Wars of the CIA. Retrieved October 6, 2024. Archived from the original.
  5. ↑ Simpson, Christopher (2014). "eight". In Mark Crispin Miller (ed.). Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy (first ed.). New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 103–4. ISBN 1-555-84106-6.
  6. ↑ Elizabeth Goitein (February 15, 2022). "How the CIA Is Acting Outside the Law to Spy on Americans". BC. Retrieved October 6, 2024.
  7. ↑ Orisanmi Burton; Targeting Revolutionaries: The Birth of the Carceral Warfare Project, 1970–78. Radical History Review 1 May 2023; 2023 (146): 11–31. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-10302807
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