By Bill Blum
Originally JULY 5, 2012
So Why the Omission?
In his autobiography, Dreams From My Fathers, Barack Obama writes of taking a job at some point after graduating from Columbia University in 1983. He describes his employer as “a consulting house to multinational corporations” in New York City, and his functions as a “research assistant” and “financial writer”.
Oddly, Obama doesn’t mention the name of his employer. However, a New York Times story of October 30, 2007 identifies the company as Business International Corporation. Equally odd is that the Times did not remind its readers that the newspaper itself had disclosed in 1977 that Business International had provided cover for four CIA employees in various countries between 1955 and 1960.10
The British journal, Lobster — which, despite its incongruous name, is a venerable international publication on intelligence matters — has reported that Business International was active in the 1980s promoting the candidacy of Washington-favored candidates in Australia and Fiji.11 In 1987, the CIA overthrew the Fiji government after but one month in office because of its policy of maintaining the island as a nuclear-free zone, meaning that American nuclear-powered or nuclear-weapons-carrying ships could not make port calls.12 After the Fiji coup, the candidate supported by Business International, who was much more amenable to Washington’s nuclear desires, was reinstated to power — R.S.K. Mara was Prime Minister or President of Fiji from 1970 to 2000, except for the one-month break in 1987.
In his book, not only doesn’t Obama mention his employer’s name; he fails to say exactly when he worked there, or why he left the job. There may well be no significance to these omissions, but inasmuch as Business International has a long association with the world of intelligence, covert actions, and attempts to penetrate the radical left — including Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)13— it’s reasonable to wonder if the inscrutable Mr. Obama is concealing something about his own association with this world.
Adding to the wonder is the fact that his mother, Ann Dunham, had been associated during the 1970s and 80s — as employee, consultant, grantee, or student — with at least five organizations with intimate CIA connections during the Cold War: The Ford Foundation, Agency for International Development (AID), the Asia Foundation, Development Alternatives, Inc., and the East-West Center of Hawaii.14 Much of this time she worked as an anthropologist in Indonesia and Hawaii, being in good position to gather intelligence about local communities.
As one example of the CIA connections of these organizations, consider the disclosure by John Gilligan, Director of AID during the Carter administration (1977-81). “At one time, many AID field offices were infiltrated from top to bottom with CIA people. The idea was to plant operatives in every kind of activity we had overseas, government, volunteer, religious, every kind.”15 And Development Alternatives, Inc. is the organization for whom Alan Gross was working when arrested in Cuba and charged with being part of the ongoing American operation to destabilize the Cuban government […]
So Why the Omission?
cause they didnt want us to know the cia was controlling the presidency; that obama was a cia asset from birth, perhaps even before. who really is his daddy? what the anvil? what the chain? in what furnace was his brain?
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Tubularsock particularly likes. “perhaps even before”.
Tubularsock is not a big fan of Obomber but that may give him a little more credit than he deserves.
As for CIA ties …… does the Pope shit in the woods?
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That’s what I really like about you, Tube. A mixed metaphor for every occasion.
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IMHO nomad, the CIA has been controlling the presidency a really long time.
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i wonder how long? any guesses? i know ike and jfk were blowing whistles about forces manipulating the federal government. and the cia was apparently involved in the jfk assassination. when did they take over?
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It’s my impression they have controlled US foreign policy since 1948. To the best of my knowledge George H W Bush was the first with a CIA pedigree. Every president since then has had a CIA pedigree – except for Trump, who’s had strong Deep STate minders.
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At least since they became ‘the’ CIA and orchestrated the take over of the Vietnam war from the French. That war was run from Langley as was the war in Afghanistan as I understand it.
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2010/09/wayne-madsen/the-story-of-obama-allinthecompany/
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cant find the post im looking for from this site but prince ray got a ton of info on obama’s cia background. a sample:
“Ann Dunham was born at the Fort Leavenworth Army Base in Kansas. Fort Leavenworth was the center of the U.S. Army School of Intelligence.[52] Soon after her birth, she was drawn into the Luciferian Cult of the Military Intelligence and the CIA. And, undoubtedly she and her first born son, Barack Obama, had been sacrificed unto them for multi-generational MK ULTRA mind control programming as future assets as a sick patriotic demonic expression of a world without morals and religion.”
https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/8790377/posts/636
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oops. heres the link:
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Great links, nomad. Thanks.
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Is everybody on the CIA payroll except me? I feel left out.
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Checks in the mail. ….. Gina.
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What about MY check? I put in 42 years at Coca Cola, surely a bona fide front for CIA operations world wide… so where’s by back pay? My additional pension? I feel neglected. Are they waiting for me to become a whistle blower? I can do a pretty mean harmonica but never been big on whistles although I’ve amused a lot of kids by carving them out of willow stems when the sap flows in spring…
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Dear Sha’Tara:
Our CIA disavowed Coca Cola way back when they attempted to change their original recipe and changed to “New Coke”! Thus temporarily causing the CIA “coke” sales to plummet.
We at the CIA, blame you for this mishap Sha’Tara and THAT is why there is NO check for you.
Gina
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That’s it Gina I’ve had it. I’m starting my own anti anti subversive revolutionary para military operation made up of every kind of disgruntled individual including elephants and polar bears fully trained in the lethal use of trumpets, bagpipes, ice flinging, longbows, dog whistles drugged to the hilt with unlimited supplies of new taste Coke. When we crush the CIA and you come begging for mercy you won’t be able to say you weren’t given fair warning. The gloves are off!
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A warning: gloves off ……… finger prints on!
One who is reckless is a danger to the operation.
(CIA Manual, p. 333 section 9 sub chapter 11.7)
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Katherine, I believe they’re limiting new recruits to drug dealers and suicide bombers.
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Good to know! Tubularsock is sending in Tubularsock’s request for one of those positions. With an explosive personality already drug dealer at Mar-a-Lago looks promising.
Wish Tubularsock luck!
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Drug dealers for the state don’t count?
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Tube, drug dealers for the state count, don’t they?
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Katharine & Dr.B:
Trust Dr. Tubularsock on this ……….
If the DRUG DEALERS FOR THE STATE didn’t count
then what would the medical Doctors do to maintain their
Country Club golf fees!
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Hello! When did I fall asleep and wake up in a Thomas Pynchon novel? Or have I even fallen asleep yet? Or am I still sleeping? “A screaming comes across the sky!”
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And here’s me, boomrx, constantly wondering why I have nightmares about performing in a play without being given a script.
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