• thesmokingman
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    6 months ago

    I think the Medium article is bullshit. It doesn’t provide anything more than the Wikipedia for its sources and all Wikipedia says is what you quoted. Direct organization funding by the CIA does not mean an employee is a CIA agent. Lots of DARPA projects that we use for radical things were made by radicals that vehemently opposed everything but government grants (many others were either agents or supporter; Surveillance Valley is a great read).

    She’s totally a fucking stooge though. There’s no fucking way you say that about the CIA then (or in hindsight about then when she wrote her biography given all the other things that came out since then) without being a fucking stooge. I don’t think we can conclude anything more than that without more context, which I’ve yet to find.

    • delirious_owl@discuss.online
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      6 months ago

      You’re right that the coffee purchased by the CIA isn’t inherently evil just because it was bought with CIA dollars.

      I’d guess 99% of the dollars spent by the CIA were for bad things, however.