Serving the Interests of the Capitalist Class

[Tracey]

In the end..this is what its all about... in the best interest of WHO our government serves. Here is an illuminating quote by an ex-CIA agent, who after all was said and done..was somehow able to emerge with some level of consciousness.

"The CIA is nothing more than the secret police of American capitalism, plugging up leaks in the political dam night and day so that shareholders of US companies operating in poor countries can continue enjoying the rip off. The interests of the privileged minorities in poor countries lead back to, and are identified with, the interests of the rich and powerful who control the US & US national security, as preached by US leaders, is the security of the capitalist class in the US, not the security of the rest of the people - certainly not the security of the poor, except by way of reinforcing poverty. It is from the class interests in the US that our counter-insurgency programmes flow, together with that more fundamental of American foreign policy principles; that any government, no matter how bad, is better than a communist one - than a government of workers, peasants and ordinary people. Our government's support for corruption and injustice in Latin America flows directly from the determination of the rich and powerful in the US to retain and expand these riches and power. Reforms of the FBI and CIA, even removal of the President from office cannot remove the problem. American capitalism, based as it is on exploitation of the poor, with its fundamental motivation in personal greed, simply cannot survive without force - without a secret police force. The argument is with capitalism and it is capitalism that must be opposed, with its CIA, FBI and other security agencies understood as logical, necessary manifestations of a ruling class' determination to retain power and privilege. Now, more than ever, each of us is forced to make a conscious choice whether to support the system of minority comfort and privilege with all its security apparatus and repression, or whether to struggle for real equality of opportunity and fair distribution of benefits for all of society, in the domestic as well as in the international order. It's harder now not to realise that there are two sides, harder not to understand each, and harder not to recognise that, like it or not, we contribute day in and day out to the one side or the other."


PHILP AGEE, ex-CIA agent