#32: The CIA's Mighty Wurlitzer with Raymond Peat

Generative Energy Podcast

01:10 - Danny’s preparation for talking to Ray
03:08 - The 1933-1934 coup against FDR as described by Schmedly Butler
06:18 - Daniel Sheehan and The Christic Institute
06:47 - Controlled opposition in the JFK assassination
07:11 - "The decision to include culture and art in the US Cold War arsenal was taken as soon as the CIA was founded in 1947. Dismayed at the appeal communism still had for many intellectuals and artists in the West, the new agency set up a division, the Propaganda Assets Inventory, which at its peak could influence more than 800 newspapers, magazines and public information organisations. They joked that it was like a Wurlitzer jukebox: when the CIA pushed a button it could hear whatever tune it wanted playing across the world.” Frances Stonor Saunders
08:10 - The CIA was created by Harry Truman in 1947
09:12 - The Nazi roots of the ruling class and operation paperclip
11:10 - Were people asking questions about the Nazification of America?
13:14 - Why was it necessary to kill FDR?
13:50 - The Congress for Cultural Freedom
14:35 - "Whether they liked it or not, whether they knew it or not, there were few writers, poets, artists, historians, scientists, or critics in postwar Europe whose names were not in some way linked to this covert enterprise.” —Frances Stonor Saunders
15:14 - Did Ray keep his political thoughts to himself in seventh grade? (“Are they going to kill Raymond Peat for being a communist?”)
16:22 - Ray’s thoughts on Eisenhower
17:35 - The assassination of Dag Hammarskjold (Operation Celeste) & Ray’s thoughts on JFK
20:48 - Indonesian mineral deposit & oil
21:44 - The CIA overthrows the democratically elected Sukarno with a military coup (“if you’re not with us you’re against us”)
22:33 - CIA list of atrocities & Ray’s thoughts on the logistics of the ruling class
24:18 - The CIA as a tool of the ruling class & the Neo-Darwinian-Malthusianism “religion” of the ruling class
25:21 - The Obama family connection to the Indonesian genocide (Wayne Madsen)
28:10 - The CIA & the Drug Trade by James Corbett (https://youtu.be/vcp9bcypZo4)
28:51 - ‘The Act of Killing’ & ‘The Look of Silence’ — films by Joshua Oppenheimer
29:03 - Ray’s thoughts on the Rampart’s Affair (limited hangout?) & the interconnectedness of the ruling class
31:00 - Zbigniew Brezinski, David Rockefeller & The Trilateral Commission
33:00 - Afghanistan before & after (Brezinski as the architect of Muslim extremism)
33:50 - Brezinski & Obama (Hillary & Kissinger)
34:24 - Hillary explains the real meaning of '1984' in her new book & Guiliani's quote: "What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do." - Giuliani (http://nyti.ms/2hkjVfC)
35:00 - Ray’s read on the current political climate
36:00 - “People always prefer surfaces…”
36:42 - Is the CIA or the US government the main problem?
38:12 - Ray’s thoughts on Lee Harvey Oswald & JFK’s assassination
39:18 - Danny thinks Ray has read David Talbott’s book, The Devil’s Chessboard, but he hasn’t
39:25 - Ray’s general thoughts on Trump
40:55 - "I think [creation of the CIA] was a mistake. And if I'd know what was going to happen, I never would have done it." "Why, they've got an organization over there in Virginia now that is practically the equal of the Pentagon in many ways. And I think I've told you, one Pentagon is one too many.” "Now, as nearly as I can make out, those fellows in the CIA don't just report on wars and the like, they go out and make their own, and there's nobody to keep track of what they're up to. They spend billions of dollars on stirring up trouble so they'll have something to report on. They've become... it's become a government all of its own and all secret. They don't have to account to anybody.” - Truman
41:30 - “Dag Hammarskjold was on the point of getting something done when they killed him. Notice that I said, ‘When they killed him.’” - Truman
42:07 - Ray’s thoughts on Operation Northwoods (original PDF: http://bit.ly/2hkRLRl [A Brief History of False Flag Terror by James Corbett: https://youtu.be/sNRh1vlGksk])
43:20 - Does Ray see things improving in the future? (‘power should never be exercised in secret’)
44:48 - "It is inconceivable that a secret intelligence arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government." - CIA CounterIntelligence head James Angleton, in testimony to the Church Committee
45:12 - What is Ray working on right now?
45:46 - "The newsletter is available by email now, and it's $28 US which can be paid through PayPal, at [e-mail]." Ray Peat