ALBANIAN SATIRCALTREVIEW DISCUSSES CIA ACTIVITIES

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• Document Release Date: April 24, 2000
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ALBANIAN SATIRICALYMVIGW DISCUSSES CIA ACTIVITIES
(Article; Tirana, H osteni, Albanian, 12 April. 1972,.p
In 1947 Truman created the Central Intelligence Agency to. organize
modern coups d'etat everywhere in the world, while financing wars and
supporting politicians reedy to be bought with dollars.
While the FBI follows and shadows-US citizens , the CIA goes a little
further and makes high international policy, setting 1?bbutu up in the
Congo, Suharto in Indonesia, and Lon Nol in Cambodia, and sending Green
Berets to Vietnam.
Of the 5 billion dollars which the US spends for espionage, the CIA
use one-fifth, a billion dollars a year. The US armed forces have special
espionage services and the Atomic Energy Commission is also active in
this field. Nevertheless, the CIA, with its 20,000 agents, remains in the
forefront. It deserves this honored ppot because of the various plots
which it continues to execute in Africa, Asia, and South America.'TIe
US ambassador to Guatemala, Mr. Peurifoy, who organized the coup d'etat
in Guatemala during Eisenhower's presidency, was a trained CIA agent.
No clever US ambassador fa.;ls to prise the CIA for its special services.
The new CIA building in Virginia, 13 kilometers from Washington,
hidden in a park of 304 hectares, was opened in the fall of x.961. The
location of the CIA is not a secret but the building is encircled with
barbed wire. It cost 46 million dollars and it might have cost even more.
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