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Can the CIA be manipulating American society when we have movies like this ?


I live a few miles away from San Jose where this story
about Gary Webb and the CIA / cocaine happened. From
what I read and heard it seems like it was documented
very well. I don't know how to tell of verify that, but I
think it is probably true in some form. Later reports on
Webb's work seem to have vindicated his reporting.

One thing that makes it seems more likely is that Gary
was found dead with two bullets to the head, and his death
was ruled a suicide. That seems impossible. Unless perhaps
he somehow was trying to kill himself and missed and still
had the power to shoot again. How can that be? How often
does that happen.

Currently I am reading a book called "Propaganda and
Molding the Mass Mind" that goes into a lot of different
subjects like this. So I have to wonder, when we have
reporting like this, and we hear stories like this, journalistic
reports, published by a newspaper with verified sources,
how can we believe there is a totalitarian CIA, or that it is
competent or believable?

We do have the damning COINTELPRO, but these are all
papers and words. Could the stories themselves be the
object, that is to get people to believe that the CIA is
watching them and ready to punish or kill, as in the past
the Church created a reality where a rather stodgy God
was watching everything we did and keeping track?

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No, they're not the Illuminati. That's the Vatican :P.

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Yes, they do it through social media.

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