Furthermore, it's wholly disregard for the integrity of the constitution, its murder of countless US citizens for private gain, and its service to the banking establishment has created a horrific monster of gigantic proportions that has already, taken over the country in every city, town, and hamlet.
By 1967 the CIA had offices
and installations all over America. It even publicly listed them in New York
City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Philadelphia, San Francisco,
Miami, Pittsburgh, Houston, St. Louis, New Orleans, Denver, and Minneapolis.
Many others existed under front companies and names. Gradually, a number of
domestic activities and operations began to surface, and American taxpayers
became aware of the range of activities that they had been unwittingly
financing.
In February 1967 (the month
following my piece on Vietnam), Ramparts published an article by Mike Wood (who
later became NCNP's on-site convention coordinator in Chicago), which revealed
the extensive relationship between the CIA and the American academic community
through a plethora of contracts and grant arrangements with American colleges,
universities, and research institutes. Wood's article focused on the
infiltration of the National Student Association, but that liaison was only the
tip of the iceberg which extended to faculty members and departments in dozens
of institutions. Peripheral to these revelations was the occasional reference to
even more deeply covert army involvement in such activity.
After Wood's disclosures it
gradually emerged that during this period the agency was involved in virtually
every segment of U.S. domestic life-business; labor; local, state and national
law enforcement and government; universities; charities; the print and press
media; lawyers, teachers, artists, women's organizations, and cultural groups.
The publicly known list alone was staggeringly extensive. [25] Grants were
given, projects were funded, covers were provided, studies were commissioned,
projects were mounted, training programs were run, and books were published. The
arrangements were wide and varied. In its 1976 report the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence Activities said that by 1967 the agency had sponsored,
subsidized, or produced over 1,000 books, with 200 being turned out in 1967
alone.
By 1967 the CIA was spending 1.5 billion
dollars a year without any effective fiscal control over individual expenditures
on operations. Covert domestic activities and operations were paid for by
"unvouchered funds" (expenditures without purchase orders or receipts) .As a
result of the 1949 Central Intelligence Act, Director Helms had the authority to
spend money "without regard to the provisions of law and regulations relating to
the expenditure of government funds." Helms's signature on any check, no matter
how large, drawn on any CIA bank ac- count was deemed to be sufficient.
Interagency cooperation, particularly with the army and/or the state department,
was frequently necessary and this was accomplished through the establishment of
Special Operations Groups (SOG) created for particular projects or missions.
