Backward to the Future

  A speech by Mr. John Millis, the Staff Director of the House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) bodes ill for the body politic.
In his speech to the Central Intelligence Retirees' Association on
5 October 1998, he outlined Congressional plans for the future of the
Intelligence Community (IC) -- especially the CIA.

  His report should frighten every informed American as it plunges the
United States into a repeat world of "Newspeak,"  "New War," and a vastly
expanded role for the ever-failing CIA.

  Terrifyingly the HPSCI plans the rebirth of the Mighty Wurlitzer AKA
Wisner's Wurlitzer, along with increased covert action, and paramilitary
attacks on other countries. It recreates the glory days of the CIA when
it regularly overturned unpopular -- to the U.S. -- governments -- while
creating false evidence, subverting America's academia and the press; and
wholesale lying to everyone. The Vietnam and Laotian Wars being just one
manifestation of the Intelligence Community's (IC) power to create and
dictate public opinion.

  Selected cites from his speech with commentary follows. Following
that is information from CIABASE.

Ralph McGehee
http://come.to/CIABASE