Wikileaks could be work of CIA
Sep 22, 2011
THE Ugandan media is relishing Wikileaks, a series of leaked diplomatic cables hitherto secret and confidential dealings between the US government officials, agents, and open source intelligence about foreign governments.
THE Ugandan media is relishing Wikileaks, a series of leaked diplomatic cables hitherto secret and confidential dealings between the US government officials, agents, and open source intelligence about foreign governments.
Let it be known that the US State department, US military, Central Intelligence Agency, and the New York States University jointly fund and run what is called the Open Source Enterprise on behalf of their country. And American diplomatic missions always deny they are involved in spying, a clandestine work which involves breaking all the rules, if necessary.
While on the surface, these could be ordinary ‘leaks’, underneath it may be the dirty work of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), to use Wikileaks to name, shame and embarrass without bringing the US government into negative spotlight, as they did during the Cold War with Radio Free Europe, or the strategy in eastern Asia against China, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Japan or in Latin America, and so, no surprise the US embassy has refused to comment on Wikileaks.
One recent book, Legacy of Ashes, The History of the CIA, would be a good read. Incidentally, the CIA has ever been reported to have ‘stolen’ the secret codes of the Pope, and even the credit card and DNA details of the UN Secretary General.
Those who don’t know the US system are shaken at what is going round the world. But there is a well laid background, reason and calculated goals to it.
In particular, MP Mike Mukula and presidential adviser John Nagenda may be very embarrassed by the Wikileaks, but I think it is the Americans who will be the net losers because their future ’sources’ will have to be very discreet and apprehensive fearing to be foxed out again.
As they say, wine can loosen the tongues, and one hopes that our officials who frequent diplomatic cocktails will from now learn to be guarded, because, there are no secrets that time does not reveal.
The US embassy in Uganda has, at least for now, lost informants from within NRM government systems although some of them are not very reliable since the information they peddle are half truths, deliberately inaccurate, exaggerated, and sometimes tinged with political partisan sour-grapping. Some of the leaks are patch-wok of known talented liars.
The most crucial link of the US government and the rest of the world is its CIA, originally called the Strategic Services Unit (SSU) whose main objective of secret action aimed at understanding or subverting what goes on abroad on behalf of the US. President Harry Truman in his briefing notes in 1946 called it “Cloak and Dagger Group of Snoopers.â€
It started as a SSU until being renamed by the National Security Act on September, 18, 1947. During the cold war it engaged in murders of foreign leaders, staging coups, bribing political and business leaders. It was the CIA that bought off former fascists and war in Japan who were in jail after World War 2 and helped build the corrupt Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) that ruled Japan for over five decades. In Italy, under the guise of fighting the communists, the CIA bought off the elections of 1948 with suitcases of cold cash in four stars hotels in Rome and the Vatican. The CIA’s standard operating procedures in peace times have been exchanging information for money, wine and food at cocktails and dinners, paid foreign trips especially to their preferred countries.
The most critical interaction between the CIA and foreign politicians has been paid relationships with promising young men like the Uganda Young Democrats, UPC Youth Wingers, PAFO, and now FDC who eventually become, generation later, members of parliament, ministers, business executives, and statesmen and women. During elections, the US and British systems have formed the so-called “democracy and good governance,†Non-Governmental Groups (NGOs) to conduct civic education and monitor and supervise elections in Africa.
Quite often they even source, recruit, train, and fund political followers and parliamentary candidates, under the banner of a democratic and legitimate opposition group, on a seat-by-seat basis with the ruling party like the NRM.
It is the reason nearly every parliamentary seat in the last constituency had a contest, although due to the overwhelming support of the NRM at the grass-roots these groups were defeated.
In fact some politicians who knew they could not succeed on open opposition ticket came into the NRM or stayed as ‘Independent’ to cause trouble, and some that are not smarter and patient are already exposing themselves as agents of interest other than their official party, the NRM, and you could call them fifth columnists.
With political party activism and parliament becoming the flush point, it may be necessary to closely follow the antics of our MPs and other leaders to know whose interests they champion and the other sources of funding.
The writer is the NRM deputy spokesperson, chairman URTAF
Let it be known that the US State department, US military, Central Intelligence Agency, and the New York States University jointly fund and run what is called the Open Source Enterprise on behalf of their country. And American diplomatic missions always deny they are involved in spying, a clandestine work which involves breaking all the rules, if necessary.
While on the surface, these could be ordinary ‘leaks’, underneath it may be the dirty work of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), to use Wikileaks to name, shame and embarrass without bringing the US government into negative spotlight, as they did during the Cold War with Radio Free Europe, or the strategy in eastern Asia against China, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Japan or in Latin America, and so, no surprise the US embassy has refused to comment on Wikileaks.
One recent book, Legacy of Ashes, The History of the CIA, would be a good read. Incidentally, the CIA has ever been reported to have ‘stolen’ the secret codes of the Pope, and even the credit card and DNA details of the UN Secretary General.
Those who don’t know the US system are shaken at what is going round the world. But there is a well laid background, reason and calculated goals to it.
In particular, MP Mike Mukula and presidential adviser John Nagenda may be very embarrassed by the Wikileaks, but I think it is the Americans who will be the net losers because their future ’sources’ will have to be very discreet and apprehensive fearing to be foxed out again.
As they say, wine can loosen the tongues, and one hopes that our officials who frequent diplomatic cocktails will from now learn to be guarded, because, there are no secrets that time does not reveal.
The US embassy in Uganda has, at least for now, lost informants from within NRM government systems although some of them are not very reliable since the information they peddle are half truths, deliberately inaccurate, exaggerated, and sometimes tinged with political partisan sour-grapping. Some of the leaks are patch-wok of known talented liars.
The most crucial link of the US government and the rest of the world is its CIA, originally called the Strategic Services Unit (SSU) whose main objective of secret action aimed at understanding or subverting what goes on abroad on behalf of the US. President Harry Truman in his briefing notes in 1946 called it “Cloak and Dagger Group of Snoopers.â€
It started as a SSU until being renamed by the National Security Act on September, 18, 1947. During the cold war it engaged in murders of foreign leaders, staging coups, bribing political and business leaders. It was the CIA that bought off former fascists and war in Japan who were in jail after World War 2 and helped build the corrupt Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) that ruled Japan for over five decades. In Italy, under the guise of fighting the communists, the CIA bought off the elections of 1948 with suitcases of cold cash in four stars hotels in Rome and the Vatican. The CIA’s standard operating procedures in peace times have been exchanging information for money, wine and food at cocktails and dinners, paid foreign trips especially to their preferred countries.
The most critical interaction between the CIA and foreign politicians has been paid relationships with promising young men like the Uganda Young Democrats, UPC Youth Wingers, PAFO, and now FDC who eventually become, generation later, members of parliament, ministers, business executives, and statesmen and women. During elections, the US and British systems have formed the so-called “democracy and good governance,†Non-Governmental Groups (NGOs) to conduct civic education and monitor and supervise elections in Africa.
Quite often they even source, recruit, train, and fund political followers and parliamentary candidates, under the banner of a democratic and legitimate opposition group, on a seat-by-seat basis with the ruling party like the NRM.
It is the reason nearly every parliamentary seat in the last constituency had a contest, although due to the overwhelming support of the NRM at the grass-roots these groups were defeated.
In fact some politicians who knew they could not succeed on open opposition ticket came into the NRM or stayed as ‘Independent’ to cause trouble, and some that are not smarter and patient are already exposing themselves as agents of interest other than their official party, the NRM, and you could call them fifth columnists.
With political party activism and parliament becoming the flush point, it may be necessary to closely follow the antics of our MPs and other leaders to know whose interests they champion and the other sources of funding.
The writer is the NRM deputy spokesperson, chairman URTAF