Remember the coalition of the coerced?
The coerced and bribed, I believe.
No, actually, and the hubris of your "Next" comment is telling about how you summarily dismissed this without doing any actual research. Have you ever actually tried to do a traffic correlation attack? Do you even know how Tor works?
Tor, in order to defeat traffic correlation attacks (or at least make them much more difficult), re-negotiates its connection to use a different circuit every ten minutes. The NSA themselves in the leaked "Tor Stinks" document even pointed to this as being extremely difficult, if not impossible, to track users through. The NSA admits that even with manual analysis, only a small fraction of tor users can be exposed. Reference.
Former CIA agents are not current CIA agents.
As the Cambodian situation became worse, the Cambodian government sought military assistance from the United States and South Vietnam.
This is an official military source that misses the point that the "government" of Cambodia was not de facto sovereign at the time, nor legal..the request came from Lon Nol, a pro-US general who was just installed in a coup d'etat.
The US was out of South Vietnam in 1975. That is nearly 40 years ago. I doubt there are many CIA agents that were working in Vietnam still working at the CIA.
They'd be 60-70 years old but it's still quite possible. The CIA doesn't really publish lists of employees so this can be checked.
Iran Contra is also well into the past. And once again, a former Director of CIA is not a current Director or employee.
The internet certainly did exist in the 1980s.
Yes, but mostly as U.S-only network, it would be more accurate to say the "Internet did not exist in the way we know it today". CERN and Europe didn't largely uplink into the TCP/IP-based internet until 1989..post-Berlin Wall.
The real contributor to freedom was the CIA, not the small Tails project only a few years old.
If you think that the CIA contributed to "freedom" then you speak propaganda only. The CIA contributed to realpolitik, and only came to create "freedom" in places that mattered to the U.S.'s strategic interests. In the same way the KGB helped enforce a "prison of states" around Eastern Europe, the CIA helped foster a similar situation in South America. See Guatemalan Coup . Let's not forget also about Chile and Grenada. Also, the CIA helped stifle dissent in America and reduce American political freedoms during thist ime. Reference: Operation CHAOS
Now maybe you can tell me, how much did the Tails project help dissidents against the Communist governments of Poland, USSR, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and many others? What did the Tails project do to defeat Communist takeover attempts in free European countries like Greece? Nothing.
It didn't exist then and neither did the internet. Today, it would help bring down the "Iron Curtain" and be a valuable instrument in these areas. The CIA also didn't do this out of the goodness of their heart or do defend "freedom" -- they were doing it to expand U.S. power and influence in Europe and check the influence of Russia.
Are you claiming that Cambodia was outside its rights to ask for assistance against the North Vietnamese occupation of its territory?
Cambodia never did this. Can you find a source that says that? And I don't mean their powerless government-in-exile asking for military assisntace, if that was legal, then the Dali Lama could authorize the U.S. to invade Tibet.
The CIA was involved and Nixon's men were former CIA agents.
Heres' a reference
What I wrote has the irritating quality of being true.
No, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts. You've invented your own facts for the purposes of rebuttal, which is quite irritating.
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