70 years ago on September 18, 1947 the CIA was formed under the National Security act of 1947
1. Operation Paperclip
In operation paperclip, the CIA employed Nazi scientist both inside and outside of the United States to gain an advantage over the USSR. The aim was to find and utilize German weapons, including biological and chemical agents. Including Wernher von Braun, who went on to design the rockets that took man to the moon.
2.Toppling governments around the world
The CIA is best known for its first coup, Operation Ajax, in 1953, in which it ousted the democratically elected leader of Iran, Mohammed Mossadegh. To reinstating the Shah, who favored western oil interests. This ultimately lead to the revolution of 1979 and U.S hostage crisis. Relations between the U.S. and Iran remain more than shit to the current day.
But of course, the toppling did not stop in Iran, soon after Guatemala, Congo, Dominican Republic, South Vietnam, Brazil, Chile and many others followed.
3. Operation CHAOS
By now it is or should be widely known that the CIA executed plans to undermine the communist movements in 1950, as well as the black power and anti-war movements. President Lyndon B. was convinced that the peace movement was controlled and funded by the Russians. He ordered the secret surveillance of 7200 citizens. Elven CIA officers even grew long hair and went undercover as "Hippies!"
(Hmm... well I never heard that one before)
4. Infiltrating the media Operation Mockingbird
The CIA and the US military intelligence agencies have influenced over 1,800 movies and TV shows.
Journalist Carl Bernstein reported on publications with CIA agents in their employ, as well as “more than 400 American journalists who in the past twenty-five years have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency.
5. Drug -induced Mind Control
In 1950 the CIA experimenting with drugs. The aim was it to find better ways of extracting information from subjects in an interrogation. “The project, which continued for more than a decade, was originally intended to make sure the United States government kept up with presumed Soviet advances in mind-control technology. It ballooned in scope and its ultimate result, among other things, was illegal drug testing on thousands of Americans.”
6. Arming Radicals Terrorists
This one should be known to all of us by now. The CIA has a decade-long habit of arming and training radical extremist groups, that every Person from a Western Society sees as a threat and as an enemy.
Though some speculate the CIA directly armed Osama bin Laden, that is yet to be fully proven or admitted. What is clear is that western media revered him as a valuable fighter against the Soviets, that he arrived to fight in Afghanistan in1980, and that al-Qaeda who were beneficiaries of the CIA’s program.