photograph of the Bible-quote to the right – is of the marble wall in the front lobby of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Fairfax County, Virginia, in the USA. Their use of the Christian Bible well expresses this organisation's long term moral hypocrisy, which should be at least an embarrassment to any nation which regards itself as having any semblance of Christianity. The full quote below shows the manner in which the CIA has taken Christ's words and twisted His meaning. Jesus said –

“IF ye continue in MY word, THEN are ye MY disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth [about Jesus], and the truth shall make you free.” 

if the inspired words of Christ Himself have been so flagrantly twisted in this way, it should not surprise the thinking person that other misrepresentations by this organisation would follow. Every human government needs some form of intelligence agency, but this power and its activities must always be kept accountable to more than the executive agency of government on whose behalf they officially act.

The United States of America's Central Intelligence Agency was originally formed during World War II under the name Office of Strategic Services to coordinate espionage activities. In 1947 the US National Security Act formally established the CIA, affording it – 'no police or law enforcement functions, either at home [USA] or abroad'.

the CIA's foreign paramilitary activity is quite widely known, including its abduction-and-surrogate-torture practices known as 'rendition'. But a less well known example of this corrupting effect of the CIA in our present world situation is Iran.

Tragically for Iran, and for the whole Middle East in its backlash: the CIA's (Eisenhower approved operation TPAJAX) financing and orchestrating of the 1953 overthrow of Iran's democratically elected government, so that they could install the Shah to secure American oil interests and also not let it slip into the Soviet camp, led directly to the eventual creation of the present day anti-West Islamic republic which continues to fuel terrorism in the Middle East against Western interests. (For a perspective see Smithsonian Magazine's 2008 article by Stephen Kinzer).

In the fighting in Teheran, 300 people were killed before Iran's democratic forces were defeated by the Shah’s CIA supported forces. A US general later testified that “the guns they had in their hands, the trucks they rode in, the armoured cars that they drove through the streets, and the radio communications that permitted their control, were all furnished through the [US] military defence assistance program”.

During the international arms embargo against South Africa, 'officially' implemented by the United States –

The CIA conducts a biological warfare experiment (despite the Fourth Geneva Convention) releasing whooping cough bacteria from boats outside of Tampa Bay, Florida, causing a whooping cough epidemic in the city, and killing at least 12 people.

July 31: In his job evaluation George Efthyron Joannides (CIA station chief in Miami, Florida) is credited with having established control over the Cuban dissident group Revolutionary Cuban Student Directorate or DRE.

March 8: In West Beirut – United States car-bombing of the mosque (specially authorized by CIA Director William Casey) at the close of Friday prayers to kill Shi'ite cleric Sheikh Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah (who still escaped), which killed 80 people and wounded 256 others. Most of the dead were girls and women, who had been leaving the mosque, though the ferocity of the blast "burned babies in their beds," "killed a bride buying her trousseau," and "blew away three children as they walked home from the mosque" and "devastated the main street of the densely populated" suburb (source: Nora Boustany, Washington Post 1988).

May: The Clinton Administration temporarily suspends the CIA aircraft shootdown drug-war over Columbia and Peru after the Departments of Justice and State, as well as the Pentagon, say that the United States might be in violation of treaties on international aviation safety and that the shooting down of an innocent civilian plane could result in wrongful death suits being brought against the United States and its contractors. Congress therefore adopts legislation exempting U.S. government officials and contractors from any liability resulting from the killing of innocent air travelers. See 2001.

The reports of Iraq's mobile bioweapons programme invented by Rafeed al-Janabi to persuade Germany to grant him asylum (he is codenamed 'Curveball' by American & German intelligence) are shown to be untrue. German and British intelligence had traveled to Dubai to meet Dr Bassil Latif, his former boss at Iraq's Military Industries Commission, who proved that Curveball's claims could not be true.
CIA's head of operations in Europe, Tyler Drumheller, passes on warnings from German intelligence that they considered Curveball's testimony to be highly dubious, but the head of the US CIA, George Tenet, ignores the advice and this false information is later presented by the US to the world in 2003 as its justification for a military attack and invasion of Iraq.

The Peruvian Air Force shoots down a civilian plane (registered to the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism) without warning after receiving erroneous information from the CIA that the plane was trafficking in narcotics. It wasn't! It was filled with Christian missionaries. The missionary plane was vectored for an attack intercept by a radar-equipped U.S. military Cessna Citation surveillance plane operated by a CIA contractor, Aviation Development Corp., which is located at the Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. See 2008.

April: Mohamed, an Ethiopian national and British resident, is arrested in Pakistan, flown to Morocco on a CIA plane and held for 18 months, during which he is repeatedly tortured, including having his penis cut with a knife. (Morocco denies holding him. He is transferred to Afghanistan in 2004 and later moved to Guantanamo Bay, U.S. authorities have admitted. He was never charged and returned to Britain in February 2009).

December: The facts of Khaled El-Masri's case are no secret. He is the innocent victim of a joint US-Macedonian rendition operation.
A German national, El-Masri was seized by Macedonian security officers while on holiday with his family. He was detained incommunicado and abused in Macedonian custody for 23 days, after which he was handcuffed, blindfolded, driven to the airport, and handed over to the CIA. After subjecting him to further abuse, the CIA flew him to Kabul, Afghanistan, and locked him up in a secret prison known as the "Salt Pit" where he was slammed into walls, kicked, beaten, and subjected to other forms of abuse. Held at the Salt Pit for four months, El-Masri was never charged, brought before a judge, or given access to his family or German government representatives.
On May 24, 2004, he was flown, blindfolded, ear-muffed, and chained to his seat, to Albania, where he was dumped on the side of the road without explanation.

The United States government has falsely insisted that Khaled El-Masri's case implicates "state secrets" and obtained dismissal of his U.S. lawsuit without even responding to the allegations. In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review that dismissal.
So much for the impartiality of American justice!

March 27: The CIA fly Abu Zubaydah, Abd al-Nashiri, Ramzi Binalshibh and Mustafa al-Hawsawi out of the US Navy Guantanamo Bay 'Strawberry Fields' detention center to various foreign prisons ('black sites') to avoid them having access to any legal representation.
The CIA begins operating hellfire missile equipped drones (MQ-1 Predator) out of Shamsi airfield in Pakistan to attack militants in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

December: The US Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act takes away some government and intelligence community functions that had previously been the CIA's responsibility.

October 19: Based on fact, the movie Rendition is released.

The CIA inspector general reveals that the CIA had lied to Congress about the accidental shoot down of American missionaries over Peru in 2001. The CIA's general counsel had advised agency managers not to write anything down in an effort to avoid criminal charges being brought against CIA officers.

July 9: Congress Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., a House Intelligence subcommittee chairwoman, who chairs the Intelligence subcommittee on oversight and investigations, writes to Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas (chairman of the House Intelligence Committee) that the CIA's lying was systematic and inexcusable. Schakowsky informed that Reyes indicated the committee would conduct a probe into whether the CIA violated the National Security Act, which requires, with rare exceptions, that Congress be informed of its covert activities.
Schakowsky says this is the fourth time that she knows of that the CIA has misled Congress or not informed it in a timely manner, as required by law, since she began serving on the Intelligence Committee two and half years ago.

September 18: Seven former heads of the CIA (Michael Hayden, Porter Goss, George Tenet, John Deutch, James Woolsey, William Webster, and James Schlesinger) write to President Barack Obama urging him to end the Justice Department probe into allegations of abuse (torture) of prisoners held by the agency.

November 4: In Italy – Judge Oscar Magi sentences Robert Seldon Lady (retired, CIA Milan station chief at the time) to an eight-year prison term in absentia, and another 22 Americans (including a US air force Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph L. Romano* commander of the 31st Security Police Squadron at the Aviano Air Base at the time) to five years in prison, for the 2003 abduction of Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr (Abu Omar) in Milan and sending him via US base in Ramstein, Germany, to Egypt where he was allegedly tortured on behalf of the CIA, held for years and released without charge. The court also ruled that those convicted must pay 1m euros ($1.5m) in damages to Abu Omar and 500,000 euros to his wife. CIA spokesman George Little in Washington declined to comment on the convictions. Lady's Italian retirement villa has been seized by magistrates to cover court costs.

United States Government's official response to this Italian court verdict:

"The United States is disappointed"
(concerning the verdict, not concerning the crimes of its agents).

February: In Poland – Official flight records obtained by rights groups confirm that at least six CIA rendition flights landed in Poland in 2003 and reveal details of a cover-up by U.S. and Polish authorities. The Polish Air Navigation Services Agency (PANSA) provided the flight logs in response to a freedom of information request filed by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in collaboration with the Open Society Justice Initiative. The disclosure marks the first time a Polish government agency has confirmed, on the record, that aircraft associated with the CIA landed repeatedly at Szymany Airport, close to a suspected CIA secret detention and interrogation site for "high-value detainees" in northern Poland. In the past, the Polish government had denied its involvement in rendition. It failed to provide any of these flight records to previous investigations conducted by the European Parliament and the Council of Europe.
February 2: The CIA "Red Cell" report looks at what will happen if it is internationally understood that the United States is an exporter of terrorism:

The report looks at a number cases of US exported terrorism, including attacks by US based or financed Jewish, Muslim and Irish-nationalism terrorists. It concludes that foreign perceptions of the US as an "Exporter of Terrorism" together with US double standards in international law, may lead to noncooperation in renditions (including the arrest of CIA officers) and the decision to not share terrorism related intelligence with the United States.

March: In Ireland – The 10-year US visa of Dr. Edward Horgan of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe is revoked to prevent him speaking on extraordinary rendition at a Duke University conference in North Carolina. Dr Horgan is co-founder of ShannonWatch, which has documented the use of Ireland’s Shannon Airport in the CIA kidnapping practice known as “extraordinary rendition”. Dr Horgan is a former UN peacekeeper who also served in the Irish military.
June 3: In Pakistan – Senior United Nations official Philip Alston Alston (UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings) accuses the US of inventing a "law of 9/11" to issue the CIA with a "licence to kill" that, if copied by other countries, could lead to "chaos".
Alston said –

August 27: In the US – The Washington Post newspaper reports from a former CIA official that the CIA continues to bribe officials in the Afghan government for information. The Afghan President's bother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, a businessman and political power broker in Kandahar has been widely accused of amassing a vast fortune from the illicit drug trade, intimidating rivals and having links to the CIA.

December: In the US – Retired CIA Analyst officer RAY McGOVERN, employed under seven US presidents for over 27 years (presenting the morning intelligence briefings at the White House under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush), states that America's CIA had concluded in 2007 that Iran had stopped its nuclear weapons development in the fall of 2003. (However this knowledge was suppressed for political reasons).
December 13: In Pakistan – Karim Khan files papers for a court case against the CIA for the killing of his son and brother in a drone attack in December 2009, naming the station head of the Pakistan operation of the CIA (the lawsuit also named CIA Director Leon Panetta and Defense Secretary Robert Gates). Karim Khan said "We appeal to the authorities not to let Jonathan Banks [CIA station chief] escape from Pakistan. He should be arrested and executed in this country". The drone target is named as Haji Omar, a leading Taliban commander, and Khan insists that Omar was not in the house and that his executed family were innocent. "These men had nothing to do with the Taliban", said his lawyer Shahzad Akbar.
In Washington – The CIA establishes a 'WikiLeaks Task Force' known internally as WTF. CIA spokesman George Little states that "The director asked the task force to examine whether the latest release of WikiLeaks documents might affect the agency's foreign relationships or operations".
The panel is led by the CIA's Counterintelligence Center but has more than two dozen members from departments across the CIA.
December 29: In the UK – Wikileaks founder Julian Assange informs Al Jazeera that he has the names of government officials in Arab countries who are working for the CIA and says:

Assange says he fears that the US might slap laws declaring him as a spy who had been acting against Washington. The Pentagon with the CIA has set up a ‘war room’ manned by 120 officials apparently to disrupt and destroy WikiLeaks.

January 26: In New York – The Open Society Justice Initiative calls on the United States government to comply with requests from Polish prosecutors for legal assistance and information regarding Guantanamo detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who was imprisoned and tortured on Polish soil by America's CIA. Prosecutors in Warsaw have been investigating the possible abuse of power by Polish public officials with regard to a CIA black site since March 2008. In connection with their investigation, the prosecutors have reportedly requested information and other assistance from U.S. authorities, which have been denied.

March 16: In Pakistan – CIA contractor Raymond Allen Davis, charged with shooting dead two Pakistani citizens, is freed and flown to the US after payment of US$2million.

Mr House, who is a member of private Manning's legal advocacy team, alleges the conditions Manning is being held in at the Quantico military brig outside Washington amount to torture.

Bradley Manning has also been forced to sleep naked in his cell, according to his lawyers.

10: Cambridge, Mass., USA – PJ Crowley, the assistant secretary of state for public affairs at the US state department, tells a forum that Manning is being "mistreated" in the military brig at Quantico, Virginia.

(Crowley later resigns as a consequence of his honest comment being an embarrassment to his government).

office of Manfred Nowak, the UN special rapporteur on torture (in Geneva) is investigating whether Manning's pre-trial treatment in the American military prison amounts to torture.
[The office has been in negotiations since the beginning of this year with the US Government over unrestricted access to Mr. Manning, but was last month informed (June 2011) that the US Government is not in a position to accede to the request for a private and unmonitored meeting].

In the UK – In a letter to the British Foreign Secretary, Bradley Manning's mother Susan Manning writes:

The US Government has now moved Mr. Manning from their Quantico confinement facility to a facility in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He continues to be held in pre-trial detention pending a court martial.

In the US – Yale law professor Bruce Ackerman and Harvard law professor Yochai Benkler publish a letter of concern signed by 300 academics, mostly law professors, calling on the Obama administration to end the military's abusive treatment of Manning – or justify its conduct, which many experts say amounts to torture.

In Abbottãbad, Pakistan – The US CIA bribe a senior government medical doctor to run a fake child vacccination programme offering Hepatitis B vaccinations in order to obtain DNA samples that match with a sample from Osama bin Laden's sister who died in a Boston hospital in the US in 2010. DNA samples are obtained from children in the walled compound where bin Laden lives.

2: In Abbottãbad, Pakistan – In a US government vigilante action Osama bin Laden is shot dead at close range in his home, even though the only armed persons in the walled compound are two brothers living in its gate-house.

9: In Washington – At his Thursday confirmation hearing to become secretary of defense, CIA Director Panetta makes a broad case for expanding the US’ already extensive shadow wars. Now that bin Laden is dead, "we’ve got to keep the pressure up," Panetta urged senators. So, expect a lot of drone strikes and a lot of special ops vigilante raids — some conducted by future CIA Director David Petraeus. In a lot of places.

his written responses to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Panetta also endorsed a command scheme that would place select U.S. military personnel temporarily under the authority of the CIA director for the most sensitive counterterrorism operations [in foreign countries].

12: In Somalia – The US Central Intelligence Agency is reported to be using a secret facility for 'counterterrorism' purposes as well as a secret prison in the Somali capital in a back corner of Mogadishu’s Aden Adde International Airport. The CIA has its own aircraft at the airport and has "a sprawling walled compound" on the coast of the Indian Ocean which looks like a small gated community, with more than a dozen buildings behind large protective walls. It is guarded by Somali soldiers, but the Americans control access. The CIA seeks to build "an indigenous strike force" capable of international snatch/abduction operations and targeted ‘combat’ operations. The CIA also uses a secret prison deep in the basement of Somalia’s National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters, where prisoners are held. Some prisoners have been captured in Kenya or other foreign locations. The prison is officially run by the Somali NSA, but US intelligence personnel pay the salaries and interrogate its detainees. (Source: Jeremy Scahill).

Bureau of Investigative Journalism investigating the CIA's use of unmanned drones in Pakistan tribal areas (Covert War investigation) finds a minimum of 392 reported civilians killed in drone attacks by the CIA. Some 175 are reported to have been children. But the CIA maintains that its drones have killed no civilians since May 2010.

1: In New York, USA – Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the US district court for the southern district of New York, in response to a motion by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) dating back to 2007, refuses to hold the CIA in contempt of court for destroying 92 videotapes depicting the torture of two prisoners in the course of the "war on terror." The court had first ordered the CIA in September 2004 to produce or identify all records regarding the treatment of detainees in its custody. But the CIA did not produce the videos and did not reveal that they had existed until 2007, shortly before amendments to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) took effect on 31 December 2007.

3: In Tripoli, Libya – Documents found at a Libyan security agency by the Transitional Government of Libya indicate that the American CIA worked closely with Muammar Gadhafi's intelligence services in the rendition of terror suspects to Libya for interrogation. One example is Abdel Hakim Belhaj, commander of the anti-Gadhafi rebel force that now controls Tripoli. Belhaj, former leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (a now-dissolved militant group which had links to Al-Qaeda) says he was tortured by CIA agents at a secret prison, then returned to Libya. Two documents from March 2004 show American correspondence to Libyan officials to arrange Belhaj's rendition.

24: In Teheran, Iran – Twelve CIA agents and collaborators are arrested by Iranian Intelligence. Parliamentarian Parviz Sorouri, who sits on the committee of foreign policy and national security, claims that the arrested agents planned to strike at Iranian interests in the military and nuclear sectors, with the aid of Israel.

many pro-Israel (Zionist) Christian preachers quote that God will bless those who bless/support the State of Israel and curse those who curse the State of Israel (seriously perverting the intent of Holy Scripture in that regard).

across the world today, a new kind of terrorism kills the innocent and drains national economies which did not exist before the State of Israel existed! International Islamic terrorism todayexists in direct response to the West's unconditional support for the State of Israel, and follows the example of the 1930s Jewish Irgun's terrorism against Palestinian civilians (before the Nazi Holocaust)!

either God is unfaithful to His Word, or God thinks otherwise than the pro-Israel preachers of today.

The tragedy of 9/11 and every other atrocity at home or overseas in Iraq, Afghanistan, or elsewhere, is part of the West reaping the results of what it has sowed in its unconditional support of a State which, from its beginning, identified itself in racist (Jewish) terms, and in disregard of the nationhood of more than 24% of its own non-Jewish citizens, apart from its basic disregard of non-Jewish human dignity in its collective punishment practices, and continuing violation of Palestinian human rights.

judgment on the West for its continuing support of the racist State of Israel is more than morally justified, and every Christian is therefore without excuse for not recognising it, for it was clearly stated in the Bible concerning the great and impartial Judge of All –