The Deep State Takes Control of America

By

M. Richard Maxson


This series of articles continues to examine what the shadow government and the deep state are and how they have gained so much control over the U.S. government and society in general.

      In Truman’s view, misuse of the CIA began in February 1953, when his successor, Dwight Eisenhower, named Allen Dulles as CIA director. 

 

EISENHOWER

      After their successful coup in Iran, Dulles and his cohorts had allowed themselves no restraints. Along with his brother Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, they partnered up with those who comprised the Shadow Government, and working in concert they began launching violent campaigns against foreign leaders they saw as threats to the United States. President Eisenhower, relying on the brothers, was kept partially in the dark and was not given all the details of their operations but with a glance, a nod, and a few words, to the president, the brothers could mobilize the full power of the United States anywhere in the world as it suited them. The Deep State had exploded.

      The major covert campaigns under the Eisenhower administration were:

• 1953 - Iran – CIA overthrows the democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh in a military coup, after he threatened to nationalize British oil. The CIA replaces him with a dictator, the Shah of Iran, whose secret police, SAVAK, is as brutal as the Gestapo.
  
• 1954 - Guatemala — CIA overthrows the democratically elected Jacob Arbenz in a military coup. Arbenz has threatened to nationalize the Rockefeller-owned United Fruit Company, in which CIA Director Allen Dulles also owns stock. Arbenz is replaced with a series of right-wing dictators whose bloodthirsty policies will kill over 100,000 Guatemalans in the next 40 years.
  
• 1954-1958 - North Vietnam — CIA officer Edward Lansdale spends four years trying to overthrow the communist government of North Vietnam, using all the usual dirty tricks. The CIA also attempts to legitimize a tyrannical puppet regime in South Vietnam, headed by Ngo Dinh Diem. These efforts fail to win the hearts and minds of the South Vietnamese because the Diem government is opposed to true democracy, land reform and poverty reduction measures. The CIA’s continuing failure results in escalating American intervention, culminating in the Vietnam War.
• 1957- Laos — The CIA carries out approximately one coup per year trying to nullify Laos’ democratic elections. The problem is the Pathet Lao, a leftist group with enough popular support to be a member of any coalition government. In the late 50s, the CIA even creates an "Armee Clandestine" of Asian mercenaries to attack the Pathet Lao.
  
  

      These campaigns helped push countries from Guatemala to the Congo into long spirals of violence, led the United States into the Vietnam War, and laid the foundation for decades of hostility between the United States and countries from Cuba to Iran. The Deep State was formed and it's forte became overthrowing governments (in current parlance, “regime change”) and they were quite good at it.

      Towards the end of his term, after battling health problems which allowed Richard Nixon to run the country for a while, President Eisenhower grew extremely wary of what he was seeing develop inside the government. On January 17, 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower closed out his second term and delivered his farewell speech on live TV and warned Americans of a threat far more deadly than the Soviets and the Chinese. He issued an unprecedented warning that almost no one paid attention to at the time. He warned of a behind-the-scenes shift in Washington DC that had “grave implications ” for America. He revealed the dark side of American power…a shadow government… a group of unelected insiders that threatened to take full control of the U.S.

      He revealed to the American public that because of our previous wars - “We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security alone more than the net income of all United States corporations.” Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence—economic, political, even spiritual—is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet, we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society.”

      “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.” 

– Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States, January 1961

      He warned us although of the danger that was becoming, although he did not fully comprehend the size and scope of the monster that had been created. Eisenhower did not fully realize that the Dulles' brothers “Deep State”had all but taken clandestine control of US foreign policy. It was as an adolescent, and with it's success at undermining regimes around the world and working together, with the elitist shadow government it was growing at a rapid rate - as a cancer would.

      The new government within a government spurred on more covert activities in order to intercept possible challenges to, in the Dulles' brothers mind, and maintain dominance of, the United States – without congressional or the public's ability to regulate or approve of their actions. Cuba was the next big prize on the brothers agenda. America did not realize that it's elected representatives had lost control over their own foreign policy.