The Winds of a Coup

 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 the 1950s, the Dulles brothers, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and CIA Director Allen Dulles were running U.S. foreign policy. They withheld much of what they were doing from President Eisenhower. He wasn't quite sure what was really going on but he knew something wasn't right. Across the globe the agencies were out of control. Because of his health problems and his commitment to a lifetime of military service he reluctantly went along with the vanilla reports and plans that were presented to him. They were presented as fact. That was not always the case. The brothers had a massive anti-communist agenda.

     After Fidel Castro's successful overthrow of the Cuban government, on March 17, 1960, the Eisenhower administration, at the insistence of the intelligence community, instructed the CIA to organize a paramilitary unit composed of Cuban exiles with the purpose of defeating the Fidel Castro regime without implicating the United States. It had to look like an uprising organized by Cuban dissidents. The incoming President Kennedy had inherited the this and other ongoing operations of the agencies. One that became famously known to history as “The Bay of Pigs”

      The agencies, knowing their plan was not viable as it stood, demanded the president provide U.S. Air cover for the attack. He declined stating that it had to look like an uprising organized by Cuban dissidents, not the U.S. invading. The last thing he wanted, he said, was “direct, overt” intervention by the American military in Cuba: The Soviets would likely see this as an act of war and might retaliate. However, CIA officers told him they could keep U.S. involvement in the invasion a secret and, if all went according to plan, the campaign would spark an anti-Castro uprising on the island. The attempted coup was a failure. The invaders surrendered on the afternoon of April 19. More than 200 people been killed; another 1,197 were taken captive. On April 20, Kennedy told the American Society of Newspaper Editors that the episode was Cubans fighting Cubans and that the U.S. had not been involved. President Kennedy did not like having to lie to the American public and the world.

     Kennedy had inherited this shaky operation and against his better judgment, not long after entering the White House, he gave it the green light the behest of a Washington security and intelligence establishment he would soon come to mistrust and disdain. He did so while refusing to commit US air support, a decision later held up by the plotters as key to the operation’s failure. It was an immediate failure. A few months later, the three responsible for planning the invasion — Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) Allen Dulles, Deputy Director of Operations Richard Bissell, and Air Force General Charles Cabell— were fired.

      Allen Dulles had continuously tried to trick President Kennedy into sending U.S. forces, not only to rescue the group of invaders who had landed on the beach at the Bay of Pigs, Cuba, in April 1961 with no chance of success, but also to Vietnam where their newest plan could be undertaken. More on that later.

     CIA director, Allen Dulles, had been offended when young President Kennedy had the audacity to ask in depth questions about their operations. When Kennedy made it clear he would NOT approve the use of U.S. combat forces, Dulles set out, with supreme confidence, to ambush the President politically. But Kennedy stuck to his guns and told a friend that he wanted to “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.” The outrage was very obviously mutual.

       In the minds of some leaders in the [US] military and intelligence community Kennedy was…guilty of treason, a slanted point of view that does not hold up in law. He was supposedly guilty for not following through in the Bay of Pigs, dis-empowering the CIA and firing its leaders…concluding the atmospheric test ban treaty, planning to disengage from Vietnam, flirting with ending the Cold War, encouraging Third World nationalism, and, perhaps most damningly, accepting a negotiated settlement in the Cuban Missile Crisis.”

     Looking back 55 years later on JFK’s attempt to end the Cold War, we are compelled to consider how the world may have looked if he’d been spared and gone on to serve a second term. Sadly, for the generations that came after, Kennedy lost and the ‘deep state’ won.

 

 NOTE: U.S. assassination plots.

 

 

 

 

 

When Did We Loose Our Country?

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.

       When did we as citizens loose control of this nation? Some, like Ron Paul (L), has stated that it happened with the coup in 1963.* The assassination of our President by those in the CIA. Our research says that it happened earlier, in the mid 1950s and that they emphasized their control in 1963 by assassinating the President. It was meant as a clear warning to other officials in the future of what could happen to them if they got in the way of the Deep State.

*  Ron Paul Says The CIA Murdered JFK In A Successful ‘Coup’

       In our series from 2018 on the origins of the Deep State** we attempted, in a short series, to lay out what they were and how they operate. A short series turned into eight articles and they only covered 1946-1962. The massive amount of information we uncovered, just on activity in the 1950s, was staggering. We were told our conclusions on the assassination were dangerous and we ended the series. This was before the latest release of JFK files by President Trump showing the proof of the CIA’s involvement. Some Kennedy files are still being withheld. You can guess why.

    ** The Shadow Government and The Deep State

      In 1947 President Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947, creating the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Council. The CIA is accountable to the president through the NSC — there is no democratic or congressional oversight. Its charter allows the CIA to "perform such other functions and duties… as the National Security Council may from time to time direct." This loophole opens the door to covert action and dirty tricks.

      With this loophole the CIA creates a covert action wing, innocuously called the Office of Policy Coordination, led by Wall Street lawyer Frank Wisner. According to its secret charter, its responsibilities include "propaganda, economic warfare, preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti sabotage, demolition and evacuation procedures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, and support of indigenous anti-communist elements in threatened countries of the free world." In other words, they will form into a covert government within the government.

Still directing operations at CNN

      Without supervision or accountability and with deniability this Deep State began interfering with other countries around the world for political reasons, known only to them, and/or profit. In order to cover-up and mislead not only the world but our own legitimate (at that time) government. To accomplish this Operation MOCKINGBIRD*** was launched and continues to this day. It is the planting of Deep State assets in EVERY media outlet and film producer in the country with the intent on shaping opinion to fit their narrative, not truth.

  ***Inside Operation Mockingbird — The CIA’s Plan To Infiltrate The Media

      With the world being gas-lighted, they began a massive assault on what they saw as targets around the world. These are just a few of the main ones partaken in the 1950s.

• Italy — The CIA corrupts democratic elections in Italy, where Italian communists threaten to win the elections. The CIA buys votes, broadcasts propaganda, threatens and beats up opposition leaders, and infiltrates and disrupts their organizations. It works -- the communists are defeated.

• 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.

• 1957-1973 - 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. After the CIA’s army suffers numerous defeats, the U.S. starts bombing, dropping more bombs on Laos than all the U.S. bombs dropped in World War II. A quarter of all Laotians will eventually become refugees, many living in caves.

       After the election in 1960 the outgoing President Eisenhower had made his concerns about the Deep State known to the world in his farewell address. He warned of a behind-the-scenes shift in Washington DC that had “grave implications” for America.. He spoke of a group of unelected insiders that threatened to take full control of the U.S. government. He revealed a shadow government that had already taken over. "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,” he stated. He relayed his fears of a rising force within the government that was taking over foreign policy to the incoming president and the U.S. government.

      What President Eisenhower failed to grasp is that it was already too late. We, at The American Constitutionalist, believe that the mid to late 1950s is when we, the people, lost control of our country without even knowing it. To this day many Americans don’t understand that they are living a fantasy wrapped in red, white, and blue. Can something be done? We will continue this discussion soon.

A Colonial Tale

by

       George Sontag

      In the fall of 1776 John Adams and Benjamin Franklin rented out a room for the night at a New Jersey tavern. They were headed to Staten Island from Philadelphia to engage in what would be failed peace talks with a British Admiral. The inn was busy that night, and only two rooms were available. Another man whom they were traveling with, Edward Rutledge, rented the other room forcing Adams and Franklin to share the same room. Adams and Franklin chose to share a bed in a room without a chimney and with only one small window. That small window proved to be a big problem for the two.

      The two men "argued fiercely" over whether or not to keep a window open that night. "The Window was open, and I, who was an invalid and afraid of the Air in the night blowing upon me, shut it close," Adams wrote in his diary. "Oh! says Franklin don’t shut the Window. We shall be suffocated. I answered I was afraid of the Evening Air. Dr. Franklin replied, the Air within this Chamber will soon be, and indeed is now worse than that without Doors: come! open the Window and come to bed."

      The two men bickered back and forth about the conditions, with Adams citing his frail nature and Franklin referring the younger man to his own "Theory of Colds" which held that, "Nobody ever got a cold by going into a cold church or any other cold Air." Eventually the two men agreed to disagree, with Adams falling asleep to the sounds of Franklin's "harangue, upon Air and cold and Respiration and Perspiration."

      Franklin insisted to Adams that the only way to catch a cold is to be around someone else who was already sick. This was not a commonly held view at the time. After more bickering the window was left open and Adams crawled into bed with Franklin and went to sleep. Thus ended their quarrel over a window remaining open.