What would happen if the CIA staged a coup in America? The CIA wouldn’t be able to stage a coup
through a color revolution, kill or remove the elected leader and install a
more ameliorable leader. No, it would
have to be more like boiling frogs in America, gradually increasing the heat so
that by the time the people realize what has happened they are already being boiled
to death.
A recently declassified 1944 CIA manual called “Simple
Sabotage Field Manual” describes how to destabilize and overthrow foreign
governments through bureaucracy. The
article made me think about the state of America today.
In the CIA’s Field Manual they describe using operatives
which they call a “curious breed of citizen-saboteurs” to disrupt and
demoralize elected government and police eventually turning the government into
a dysfunctional mess. But what if instead of citizen saboteurs, the
CIA used political saboteurs and media saboteurs?
Pivotal to overthrowing the government is controlling the media. Looking back at the history of the
protections provided to ensure an independent fourth estate in America two
examples come to mind. First there was
the Communications Act of 1934
and the Fairness Doctrine of 1949.
The Fairness Doctrine was eliminated by the Federal
Communication Commission in 1987 and the Communications Act of 1934 was
replaced with the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Since 1987 the consolidation
of the media with a synchronized message has dumbed down Americans to such a
degree that 30% of Republicans want to bomb a fictional country called Agrabah.
In a Public Policy Poll of 532 likely Republican primary
voters, 30% would support bombing Agrabah, a fictional country in Disney’s Aladdin. The media monopoly along with the political
duopoly have birthed a government in America wherein the three branches not
only violate the constitution continually but commit treason with no
accountability.
For example since 2008 a Turkish religious movement funded200 trips to Turkey for congressional members and their staff, which is a
violation of House Rules and quite possibly Federal law. The religious movement is led by Fethullah Gülen,
who coincidentally operates charter schools across the United States.
Because of legislation like Bush’s No Child Left Behind and Obama’s
Race to the Top, public schools have been closed to fund charter schools. Gülen schools are the largest charter network
in the U.S. and receive about $150 million a year in taxpayer money. Not a bad return of their congressional investment.
And while American teachers lose their jobs the majority of
teachers in the 130 Gulen schools are from Turkey. Not only are the teachers from Turkey but the
contracts for construction and operations go to Turkish businesses.
Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel who served as Barack Obama’s
Chief of Staff was pivotal in passing the Race to the Top legislation. As Chicago’s Mayor, Emanuel closed 54 publicschools diverting funds to charters many affiliated with Gulen. The FBI is currently investigating the nearly
$1 million paid to contractors for work at three of the Gulen Concept Schools in
Chicago.
Fethullah Gulen who is on Turkey’s most wanted terrorist
list along with ISIS said in a sermon “You
must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence
until you reach all the power centers … until the conditions are ripe.”
And ripe the conditions are.
So I wonder why the CIA has declassified the “Simple Sabotage Field
Manual” and why now? Is it because as
Fethullah Gulen says, the conditions are ripe, or is it because the frogs are
already boiling.
By Patricia Baeten
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