CIA Central Intelligence Agency –
“The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) /ˌsiː.aɪˈeɪ/, known informally as the Agency[6], metonymously as Langley[7] and historically as the Company,[8] is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations. The agency is headquartered in the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia.”
SOURCE: Wikipedia / List of CIA controversies
Wall Street
- Up & Down Wall Street by Alan Abelson / CIA chief’s investment policy is defended by Vernon A. Guidry, Jr, Washington Bureau of The Sun, The Baltimore Sun / The CIA gold mine by Lars-Erik Nelson – New York Daily News / CIA’s director traded milllions during bullish ’82 market rise – Associated Press, Washington Times / CIA’s chief reports big stock deals – Chicago Tribune (PDF of newspaper clippings via CIA circa 1983)
- A CIA for Wall Street? NBC, DEC 3 2008, UPDATED AUG 5 2010, Cliff Mason
- CIA moonlights in corporate world by Eamon Javers, 2/1/10
- The CIA on Wall Street by Scott Jagow Feb 2, 2010
- The Corporatist Intelligence Agency by Tim Kelly, FFF Future of Freedom Foundation, December 12, 2012
- Spies Land Wall Street Gigs – The CIA Hemorrhages Spies To Top Wall Street Firms – Business Insider, Military & Defense Team, Nov 19, 2013
- This Day in History: Wall Street Suffers Major Losses; CIA & FBI Founded By Charles Nichelson, NBC • Published July 26, 2017
- 64 Years Later, CIA Finally Releases Details of Iranian Coup by Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian (2017) Foreign Policy
- How working in the CIA prepared Mike Baker for Wall Street – New York Post (2023)
- Goldman, Lazard Look to Ex-Spies to Gain an Edge in Volatile World by William Shaw, Silla Brush, and Sonali Basak, Bloomberg, January 24, 2024
Videos
Playlist: US Empire & the Deep State series – with historian Aaron Good – Geopolitical Economy Report, 24 videos
How Wall Street gave birth to the CIA and US national security state (with historian Aaron Good) Geopolitical Economy Report (2022) Part-12
Oil
Tom Slick – San Antonio Oil Man
“Thomas Baker Slick Jr. (May 6, 1916 – October 6, 1962) was a San Antonio, Texas-based inventor, businessman, adventurer, and heir to an oil business. Slick’s father, Thomas Baker Slick Sr., a.k.a. “The King of the Wildcatters”, had made a fortune during the Oklahoma oil boom of the 1910s. He was notable for discovering Oklahoma’s then-largest oil field, the Cushing Oil Field.[1]“
“Coleman continued his study of Slick in 2002 with Tom Slick: True Life Encounters in Cryptozoology. That book mentions many of Slick’s adventures, in politics, art, science, and cryptozoology, including his involvement with the CIA and Howard Hughes.”
SOURCE: Wikipedia
Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti by Loren Coleman
* Subproject 143: MKULTRA CBW/Bacteria University of Houston-Sabotage-Microbial Growth-Petroleum Products-Aldehydes-Amines-Bacteria Stimulation-Caseian Hydrolyzate-Ketones-Microbial Degradation-Oil Coolants-Peptone-Phenols-Quaternary Ammonium Compound
{ For example, under MKULTRA Subproject #143, the Agency gave Dr. Edward Bennett of the University of Houston about $20,000 a year to develop bacteria to sabotage petroleum products. Bennett found a substance that, when added to oil, fouled or destroyed any engine into which it was poured. CIA operators used exactly this kind of product in 1967 when they sent a sabotage team made up of Cuban exiles into France to pollute a shipment of lubricants bound for Cuba. The idea was that the tainted oil would “grind out motors and cause breakdowns,” says an Agency man directly involved. This operation, which succeeded, was part of a worldwide CIA effort that lasted through the 1960s into the 1970s to destroy the Cuban economy. Agency officials reasoned, at least in the first years, that it would be easier to overthrow Castro if Cubans could be made unhappy with their standard of living. “We wanted to keep bread out of the stores so people were hungry,” says the CIA man who was assigned to anti-Castro operations. “We wanted to keep rationing in effect and keep leather out, so people got only one pair of shoes every 18 months.”
—The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, Chapter 12 }
Source: MKULTRA | McCoyote
Videos
“It’s Always About Oil”: CIA & MI6 Staged Coup in Iran 70 Years Ago, Destroying Democracy in Iran – Democracy Now! (2023)