Henry Wallace
May 8, 1942

In response to the article published in Life magazine by Life publisher Henry Luce pushing a plan by the Council on Foreign Relations for a post-war American Empire, Vice President Henry Wallace issued a rejoinder to Luce with a speech entitled “The Century of the Common Man.”

“No nation will have the God-given right to exploit other nations. Older nations will have the privilege to help younger nations get started on the path to industrialization, but there must be neither military nor economic imperialism. The methods of the nineteenth century will not work in the people's century which is now about to begin. India, China, and Latin America have a tremendous stake in the people's century. […] There can be no privileged peoples. We ourselves in the United States are no more a master race than the Nazis. And we cannot perpetuate economic warfare without planting the seeds of military warfare. We must use our power at the peace table to build an economic peace that is just, charitable and enduring.”

Guest: Mark Lane
Host: Buckley, William F., Jr.
Date: December 1, 1966

While many people had been skeptical of the Warren Report's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of President Kennedy, Mr. Lane's book was the first to lay out the argument seriously. He defends himself ably in this spirited exchange.

ML: "I take really the same position Alfreda Scoby, one of the lawyers for the Warren Commission, takes, and that is, had Oswald lived, he could not have been proven guilty, had he faced trial, based upon the evidence the Commission was able to secure."

WFB: "And of course Warren says that he was a practicing district attorney for ten or twelve years and he could have gotten a conviction in 48 hours with the evidence. You simply disagree with him professionally."

ML: "That's nonsense. It would take longer than that to pick a jury, of course."

WFB: "Do you think Warren should be impeached?"

ML: "I don't think he should be impeached. I think the report should be impeached."

Black Op Radio
Show #828a
Original airdate: March 30, 2017
Guest: William Blum
Topics: CIA and Russia
https://williamblum.org/

Books:
Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower (2000)
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA: Interventions Since World War II (2003)
America's Deadliest Export: Democracy—The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else (2013)

The United States and the Russian devil: 1917-2017
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September 18, 1964

An audio-only recording of President Lyndon Johnson’s September 18, 1964, telephone conversation with Senator Richard Russell (R-GA) about the findings of the Warren Commission investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy. Senator Russell served on the commission, which was issuing its report in a few days.

Empire Files
Abby Martin
Oliver Stone
February 22, 2022

Mark Lane
Steve Jaffe
Roy Tuckman
March 11, 1992

Today what we refer to as the “Deep State” had its origins in the National Security Act of 1947 in which Allen Dulles played a huge part. He was instrumental in the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency, which, under his leadership (1953-1961) became, in essence, a “guns for hire” agency to serve the interests of corporations and the financial sphere, not confined only to America, but international interests as well.

Here’s how L. Fletch Prouty described the CIA:

“The choice of the word “Team” in regards to CIA is significant. It is well known that the members of a team, as in baseball or football, are skilled professionals under the direct control of someone higher up. They do not create their own game plan. They work for their coach and their owner. There is always some group that manages them and “calls the plays.” Team members are like lawyers and agents, they work for someone. The generally do not plan their work. They do what their client tells them to do.

This is true of agents in the Central Intelligence Agency. It is an “Agency” and not a “Department” and its employees are highly skilled professionals who perform the functions their craft demands of them. Thus, the members of the highest level “Secret Team” work for their masters despite the fact that their own high office may make it appear to others that they, themselves are not only the Team but the Power Elite.

It is noted in the book “Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles the author, Peter Grose cites Allen Dulles’s response to an invitation to the luncheon table from Hoover’s Secretary of State, Henry L. Stimson. Allen Dulles assured his partners in the Sullivan & Cromwell law firm, “Let it be known quietly that I am a lawyer and not a diplomat.” He could never have made a more characteristic and truthful statement about himself. He always made it clear that he did not “plan” his work, he was always the “lawyer” who carried out the orders of his client whether the President of the United States, or the President of the local bank. (L. Fletcher Prouty, The Secret Team 2011 ed. pp. 1-2, 3)

James DiEugenio
The Future of Freedom Foundation
The National Security State and JFK
June 3, 2017