dennis erwin

FOOD FOR THOUGHT & FOLLOW THE PEN General, with the utmost respect: you asked why we still need the CIA. The way I see it, we don't. We never have. The OSS never left. We were all told the CIA was one agency. But as the walls came down in Eastern Europe, and as more and more documents have been released over the last ten years, a clearer picture has emerged. It was truly two agencies. One part, to me, is the real CIA: the OSS, and what was left of the Culper Spy Ring. The other part, the one we know as "the CIA," is to me most likely the Gehlen network. Hitler's own intelligence chief and his organization, taken over by the U.S. Army in 1946 and run by the CIA from 1949 to 1956. That wasn't the franchise. That was the illicit franchise's intelligence agency, working from inside. That's the part that gives the rest a bad name. The same illicit franchise that Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant fought until the day they died. The same illicit franchise that worked through its allies in the Middle East from 1914 to 1918, and again from 1939 to 1945. The same illicit franchise that left Germany in 1944, when it knew the war was lost, with all the loot locked away in private Swiss banks it set up and operated. The same illicit franchise that, in 1947, infiltrated here while the world was distracted by UFOs, then moved into South America, Russia, Canada, England and Asia. The same illicit franchise the 1950s hearings put on the record, from organized-crime money running to the Havana casinos to infiltration of our government. The same illicit franchise that, in the fall of 1963, may have been complicit in the assassination of President Kennedy. The same illicit franchise that, after Franco died, left Spain in the late '70s, moved to Iran and the Middle East, and teamed up with its ally. You know them as "the Muslim Brotherhood." The same illicit franchise that threw us out of Iran in 1979. You know it as the hostage crisis. The same illicit franchise that Ghislaine Maxwell may have identified in the email she circulated weeks after 9/11, imagining "the Arabs" eradicated by 2032. I don't think she meant people. The same kind of illicit network you described in your 2008 article on hunting the insurgent networks in Iraq and Afghanistan. The same illicit franchise the 2013 Psychological Operations Handbook was upgraded for. The same illicit franchise Neil Barofsky has described many times in his testimony before Congress and in his reports to Senator Grassley, in their investigation into Credit Suisse servicing Nazi accounts until, I believe, as recently as 2021. His final report has been due since the end of July and is expected any time. I'm sure it's right around the corner. The same illicit franchise my enforcement workbook shows being taken apart: mapped, arrested, neutered, removed and forced onto clean rails. Not one boss. A franchise that keeps changing hands but never changes the playbook. And now go back to the beginning. On September 20, 1945, Truman wrote to General Donovan. By executive order, the OSS was dissolved, but its analysts were tucked into the State Department. Truman called it the start of "a coordinated system of foreign intelligence." The rest went to the War Department, and by 1947 that half became the CIA. Now you understand why Truman did it. So the way I see it, the franchise's intelligence agency inside the CIA doesn't even exist anymore. So why is it even a conversation? I'm 100% with you, General. I put my trust in the OSS, in the men trained at Fort Huachuca, and in the line that runs back to Benjamin Tallmadge and Washington's Culper Spy Ring. That's my theory. Food for thought. Connect the dots yourself. Timelines. Patterns. I am the guy on the couch, and you have been debriefed. @Homeranger17 @CouchGuy17 @GenFlynn