Following the repots that Mohammed Zia Salehi, a top Afghan security official charged with corruption, had secretly been on the CIA payroll for many years, US officials have leapt to his defense by noting that actually quite a few top Afghan officials are on the CIA’s payroll.
In fact analysts say the CIA has “long-standing” relationships with a number of top Afghan officials, including President Karzai himself. The CIA declined to comment directly on the matter, but warned that questioning its ties to Afghan officials was “dangerous and counterproductive.”
Still Salehi’s corruption charge and Karzai’s quick action to bail him out has raised questions about the seriousness of the government’s pledges to fight corruption.
But even this might be missing the bigger point, that even as the US presses for Afghanistan to “fight corruption” it is busily corrupting those same officials. One could scarcely call a security official who is openly on the take from a foreign spy agency anything but corrupt, and it leaves one wondering how the US even hopes to end this culture of payola when it engages in the same strategy as a matter of course.
That is the way to rule an empire, especially the American one. You have lots of civil "informers" or "agents" that might e.g. spread rumours to scandalize some migt-become-threats-in-some-way social movement, like formerly labour unions, or german speaking citizens, or japanese borns, or socialist organizations – in the latter case also targeting anybody even ORIENTING themselves by e.g. participate in a meeting, which is suspected to appeal to wrong perspectives..
It is very expensive to play by the rules. Much better to disinform the public and let them on their (guided) own fight the "evils" – no matter their actual legal status.
So therefore it is very much NECESSARY and for the informed leaders EVIDENT, that public opinion be under control.
In contrast to animals man is weak to bluff, or spiritual deception. So that is the basis for a multi-faceted society, proudly boasting of its freedom, while in fact people are not just controlled tightly, but also reduced to falsified humans in a pseudo reality.
You forgot to mention the Arabs & Muslims.
I'm not surprised, the same was here in Europe after the second world war. Even German writers like G. Grass and H. Boell were secretly undercover supported by the CIA. We know that now by facts!!
What I really wait for are some papers Wuikileaks could come up showing which European politicians are CURRENTLY on CIA payroll. That would be fun. I can imagine some, like the German defense minister Guttenberg and the chancellor Merkel who obviously has no Stasi records even though she and her father were very actively involved in East Germany.
They really have a long relationship with the Afghans officials.
Jane
JFK was going 'to break up the CIA into 1000 pieces" after the Bay of Pigs fiasco as he recognized the total incompetence of the CIA. Sadly – that cost him his life.
When has the CIA got anything right?