Killing Hope

U.S. Military and CIA

Interventions Since World

War II – Part I

William Blum

Contents
PART I
Introduction 6
1. China 1945 to 1960s: Was Mao Tse-tung just paranoid? 20
2. Italy 1947-1948: Free elections, Hollywood style 27
3. Greece 1947 to early 1950s: From cradle of democracy to client state 33
4. The Philippines 1940s and 1950s: America's oldest colony 38
5. Korea 1945-1953: Was it all that it appeared to be? 44
6. Albania 1949-1953: The proper English spy 54
7. Eastern Europe 1948-1956: Operation Splinter Factor 56
8. Germany 1950s: Everything from juvenile delinquency to terrorism 60
9. Iran 1953: Making it safe for the King of Kings 63
10. Guatemala 1953-1954: While the world watched 71
11. Costa Rica mid-1950s: Trying to topple an ally, part I 82
12. Syria 1956-1957: Purchasing a new government 84
13. The Middle East 1957-1958:
The Eisenhower Doctrine claims another backyard for America 88
14. Indonesia 1957-1958: War and pornography 98
15. Western Europe 1950s and 1960s: Fronts within fronts within fronts 103
16. British Guiana 1953-1964: The CIA's international labor mafia 107
17. Soviet Union late 1940s to 1960s: From spy planes to book publishing 113
18. Italy 1950s to 1970s:
Supporting the Cardinal's orphans and techno-fascism 119
19. Vietnam 1950-1973: The Hearts and Minds Circus 122
20. Cambodia 1955-1973:
Prince Sihanouk walks the high-wire of neutralism 133
21. Laos 1957-1973: L'Armee Clandestine 139
22. Haiti 1959-1963: The Marines land, again 145
23. Guatemala 1960: One good coup deserves another 146
24. France/Algeria 1960s: L'etat, c'est la CIA 148
25. Ecuador 1960-1963: A textbook of dirty tricks 153
26. The Congo 1960-1964: The assassination of Patrice Lumumba 156
27. Brazil 1961-1964:
Introducing the marvelous new world of death squads 163
28. Peru 1960-1965: Fort Bragg moves to the jungle 172
29. Dominican Republic 1960-1966:
Saving democracy from communism by getting rid of democracy 175
30. Cuba 1959 to 1980s: The unforgivable revolution 185
31. Indonesia 1965:
Liquidating President Sukarno ... and 500,000 others
East Timor 1975: And 200,000 more 194
32. Ghana 1966: Kwame Nkrumah steps out of line 199
33. Uruguay 1964-1970: Torture—as American as apple pie 201
34. Chile 1964-1973:
A hammer and sickle stamped on your child's forehead 207
Notes PART I 217
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PART II
35. Greece 1964-1974:
"Fuck your Parliament and your Constitution,"said the
President of the United States 215
36. Bolivia 1964-1975:
Tracking down Che Guevara in the land of coup d'etat 221
37. Guatemala 1962 to 1980s: A less publicized "final solution" 229
38. Costa Rica 1970-1971: Trying to topple an ally, part II 239
39. Iraq 1972-1975:
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work 242
40. Australia 1973-1975: Another free election bites the dust 244
41. Angola 1975 to 1980s: The Great Powers Poker Game 249
42. Zaire 1975-1978: Mobutu and the CIA, a marriage made in heaven 257
43. Jamaica 1976-1980: Kissinger's ultimatum 263
44. Seychelles 1979-1981: Yet another area of great strategic importance 267
45. Grenada 1979-1984:
Lying—one of the few growth industries in Washington 269
46. Morocco 1983: A video nasty 278
47. Suriname 1982-1984: Once again, the Cuban bogeyman 279
48. Libya 1981-1989: Ronald Reagan meets his match 280
49. Nicaragua 1978-1990: Destabilization in slow motion 290
50. Panama 1969-1991: Double-crossing our drug supplier 305
51. Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991:
Teaching Communists what democracy is all about 314
52. Iraq 1990-1991: Desert holocaust 320
53. Afghanistan 1979-1992: America's Jihad 338
54. El Salvador 1980-1994: Human rights, Washington style 352
55. Haiti 1986-1994: Who will rid me of this turbulent priest? 370
56. The American Empire: 1992 to present 383
Notes PART II
Appendix I: This is How the Money Goes Round
Appendix II: Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-1945
Appendix III: U.S. Government Assassination Plots
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Above list ends on 1994
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Gulf War begins on August 2, 1990 and ends on February 28, 1991.
Sanctions against Iraq
They began August 6, 1990, four days after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, stayed largely in force until May 2003 (after Saddam Hussein's being forced from power)
US Sponsored Genocide Against Iraq 1990-2012. Killed 3.3 Million, Including 750,000 Children
Statement by Professor Francis Boyle, Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal
The great Iraq War lie. The pictured girl told the world under tears that she saw how Saddam Hussein's soldiers took babies out of their incubators and let them die on the cold floor.
In Novembre 1990 Bush41 told this lie to the poor soldiers.

In truth she hadn't been in Kuwait at the time. The girl was in fact the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador in Washington, USA.
The Lie That Got Us In: The Bush Administration Knew There Were No WMDs in Iraq
Over one million Iraqis have met violent deaths as a result of the 2003 invasion,
Inter Press Service, March 3, 2008

http://williamblum.org/chapters/rogue-state/united-states-bombings-of-other-countries
United States bombings of other countries
The bombing list
<up to 2011. Syria and Iraq missing 2014>
http://www.countercurrents.org/lucas240407.htm
37 VICTIM NATIONS
Afghanistan
The U.S. is responsible for between 1 and 1.8 million deaths during the war between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, by luring the Soviet Union into invading that nation.
http://www.projectcensored.org/1-over-one-million-iraqi-deaths-caused-by-us-occupation/
#1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation
The most recent coup was on February 2014 in Ukraine:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-ukraine-deception-useu-directed-coup-detat-exposes-itself.html
The Ukraine Deception: US/EU-Directed Coup D’état Exposes Itself
March 4, 2014

False Allegations and 27 million murdered ( Thanks America )

  1. Vietnam: The Gulf of Tonkin incident ( was a lie ). Led to the Vietnam war. 3 million killed. < Plus 2 million in Cambodia and Laos>
  2. Iraq 1993. Gulf war. The incubator baby killings was the trigger ( was a lie and here). The resulting victims of the war and the sanction resulted in the deaths of 1,7 million people. About one million children died. Madeleine Albright thought it was "worth it".
  3. Iraq 2003: Saddam has WMD and links to Al Qaeda. 20 lies  ( both were lies ). So far 1,5 million died.
  4. Afghanistan invasion in 2001. The Taliban had nothing to do with 911 and all they asked was some proof that Osama Bin Laden was involved in 911. The proof was never given by the USA. About 150.000 killed and almost daily drone attacks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan xx December 24, 1979 – February 15, 1989  600,000–2,000,000 killed  Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death. Thousands of cilians get killed every year. See link...
  5. The support of the paramilitary countras in Nicaragua ( 50.000 killed ) and the bombing of Nicaragua by the USA twice.. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/American_Empire/Reagan_Nicaragua_LFE.html xxxx
  6. US supported death squats in El Salavador ( Vietnam too. 40.000 murdered ):  http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/deathsquads_ElSal.html  xxxxx75,000 people dead and 8,000 "disappeared". ---> http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/05/3640    xx" Between 40,000 and 50,000 Salvadoran civilians were murdered by government forces and death squads...during the 1980s".x http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras x
  7. Guatemala: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Global_Secrets_Lies/HxGuatemala_DeathSquads.html x"tens of thousands of politically suspect Guatemalans did die at the hands of the CIA-assisted security forces" http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/story37.html xxx Operating out of the US Embassy, CIA undercover agents, secretly working with the G-2 -- a group of 2,000 elite Guatemalan Army Intelligence officers -- have trained, advised, armed, and equipped these officers to torture, assassinate and disappear thousands of Guatemalan dissidents  http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/US_Guat.html xx See also: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB15/press.html  some 160,000 people had been killed and 40,000 "disappeared" xxx
  8. CIA Support of Death Squads http://www.serendipity.li/cia/death_squads1.htm   Over 30 countries.
  9. History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America  http://www2.truman.edu/~marc/resources/interventions.html    1890 - 2009
  10. Argentina: ARGENTINE MILITARY BELIEVED U.S. GAVE GO-AHEAD FOR DIRTY WAR  http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB73/index3.htm  former Secretary of State Kissinger's "repeated high praise for Argentina's action in wiping out terrorism and his stress on the importance of Argentina may have gone to some considerable extent to his hosts' heads."
  11. Operation Condor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor  The United States provided technical support and supplied military aid to the participants until at least 1978, with Ecuador and Peru joining later in more peripheral roles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_archives  The "terror archives" listed 50,000 people murdered, 30,000 people disappeared and 400,000 people imprisoned
  12. Iraq and Afghanistan casualties. Lowest estimates: http://www.unknownnews.org/casualties.html x  At least 919,967 people have
    been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq
    since the U.S. and coalition attacks, based on lowest credible estimates as of August 10 2010.
TOTAL:
27,000,000
Doesn't count indiscriminate killings related to the 'Empire Wars": in any of the World Wars, Korea and so on.

End American Imperialism to end the killings.
From: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread282279/pg1
http://dimitrxe.pp.fi/pub/Boras/home%20page/extras/False%20Allegations.html
27 million killed exluding Korea plus 2 million in Cambodia and Laos and we can add the million from the Rwandan CIA organized genocide ( see: James Corbett for more info. Plus Libya, Syria, Iraq 2010 till present and we get a figure of  
above 30 Million