{"id":31915,"date":"2018-03-05T06:54:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T11:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31915"},"modified":"2018-03-05T06:54:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T11:54:03","slug":"us-meddling-in-foreign-elections-a-cia-tradition-since-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31915","title":{"rendered":"US Meddling in Foreign Elections: A CIA Tradition Since 1948"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"US Meddling in Foreign Elections: A CIA Tradition Since 1948\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2018\/03\/04\/or-40411.jpg\" alt=\"US Meddling in Foreign Elections: A CIA Tradition Since 1948\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/03\/04\/us-meddling-foreign-elections-cia-tradition-since-1948.html\">US Meddling in Foreign Elections: A CIA Tradition Since 1948<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>In a shocking display of relative independence from the post-Operation Mockingbird control of the media by the Central Intelligence Agency, a\u00a0recent article in\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0broke with current conventional pack journalism and covered the long history of CIA meddling in foreign elections. A February 17, 2018, article, titled, &#8220;Russia Isn\u2019t the Only One Meddling in Elections. We Do It, Too,&#8221; authored by Scott Shane \u2013 who covered the perestroika and glasnost for\u00a0<em>The Baltimore Sun\u00a0<\/em>in Moscow from 1988 to 1991 during the final few years of the Soviet Union \u2013 reported the US has interfered in foreign elections for decades. However, a couple of old US intelligence hands were quoted in the article as saying the US meddling was for altruistic purposes. The CIA veterans charged that Russia interferes in foreign elections for purely malevolent purposes. The belief that American interference in global elections was to promote liberal democracy could not be further from the truth.<\/p>\n<p>The CIA never meddled in foreign elections for purposes of extending democratic traditions to other nations. The chief purpose was to disenfranchise leftist and progressive voters and political parties, ensure the veneer of \u201cdemocracy\u201d in totalitarian countries, and protect the interests of the US military bases and US multinational corporations.<\/p>\n<p>In double-talk that is reminiscent of the Cold War years, the CIA considers its election interference to fall under the category of &#8220;influence operations,&#8221; while the same agency accuses Russia of &#8220;election meddling.&#8221; In truth, there is no difference between the two categories. Election interference represents intelligence service \u201ctradecraft\u201d and it has been practiced by many intelligence agencies, including those of Israel, France, Britain, China, India, and others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Meddling in Foreign Elections: A CIA Tradition Since 1948 In a shocking display of relative independence from the post-Operation Mockingbird control of the media by the Central Intelligence Agency, a\u00a0recent article in\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0broke with current conventional pack journalism and covered the long history of CIA meddling in foreign elections. 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