"Inside the CIA: On Company Business" 
"Part I: The History" 
58 minutes, 1987


See also, "Part II"

Through interviews with seven former CIA agents, 
task force leaders and directors, we learn the 
history of the CIA right from the horses' mouths. 
MIM recommends this whole series of videos.

Phillips and Colby defend the CIA and Agee, 
Stockwell and Marchetti give it criticism. Viewers 
unable to follow what is happening should simply 
replay on their VCRs.

One of the things that the videos do not do is 
answer "why do they do that?" We learn the details 
of the things the CIA has done, but for many 
viewers new to politics the answer to "why do they 
do that" will be lacking. The CIA defenders will 
say it is the national interest to do what the CIA 
does, but viewers may want to know what the 
national interest is as a result.

Viewers do need to understand that presidents 
order the activities of the CIA. The reason they 
get involved in assassinations and overthrowing 
whole democratically elected governments is that 
the president seeks to create foreign puppets of 
Uncle $am who will do the bidding of U.$.-based 
multinational companies. Thanks to U.$. based 
copper companies, the CIA gave money and aided 
opposition to a presidential candidate in Chile 
and then subsequently assassinated the elected 
mushy socialist president and overthrew his whole 
government. (This is seen in detail in part III.) 
Thus the answer "why" do they do those things is 
the business interests of large companies.

One defense of the CIA is that if it did not 
exist, the president would create his own. The 
implication is that presidents like Nixon who 
directed Watergate burglars would do the same 
thing for all matters if the CIA did not exist. Of 
course, this is true, but a people aroused enough 
to abolish the CIA will also be able to prevent 
its political leaders from launching a similar 
organization.