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title: Democrazia Cristiana
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- Democrazia Cristiana
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- Christian Democracy
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- Italian Christian Democracy
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- Christian Democrats
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summary: "Democrazia Cristiana (DC) was Italy's dominant postwar political party, governing continuously from 1945 to 1994 with CIA support during the Cold War, whose leading figures included Alcide De Gasperi, Aldo Moro, and Giulio Andreotti, and which dissolved in 1994 under the weight of the Tangentopoli corruption investigations."
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start: 1943-12-15
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end: 1994-01-18
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location: "Rome, Italy"
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Democrazia Cristiana (Christian Democracy, DC) was the dominant political party of postwar Italy, founded on December 15, 1943, as the successor to the pre-fascist Partito Popolare Italiano and governing Italy without interruption from the first postwar elections in 1946 until 1994. Rooted in Catholic social teaching and anchored by the institutional support of the Catholic Church, the DC held the prime ministership for all but a few months of the entire postwar period until its dissolution in January 1994 under the pressure of the Tangentopoli (Bribesville) corruption investigations.[^1]
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### Foundation and Early Governance
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The DC was founded by Alcide De Gasperi, a former Habsburg-era parliamentary deputy who had survived the Mussolini years in exile at the Vatican. As Prime Minister from 1945 to 1953, De Gasperi steered Italy into the Western alliance, secured Marshall Plan assistance, and established the DC as the indispensable center of Italian political life.
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The party's relationship with the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] in its early years was institutionally close. The CIA, under Allen Dulles, provided financial support for DC electoral campaigns in the critical 1948 election, in which the party faced a joint Italian Communist Party-Socialist coalition. The 1948 result - DC victory with approximately 48% of the vote - was decisive in orienting Italy permanently toward the Western alliance rather than the neutralist or communist alternatives.[^1]
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### Cold War Role and CIA Support
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Throughout the Cold War the DC's governing position rested partly on CIA financial support, channeled through multiple mechanisms, and on the organizational structure of the Catholic Church. The CIA-DC relationship was less a conspiracy than an institutional alignment: both saw a communist government in Italy as catastrophic, and both had resources the other could use.
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The [[Operation Gladio|Gladio]] stay-behind network was organized with the knowledge of DC governments and operated partly as an instrument of DC political survival. The [[Propaganda Due|P2]] Masonic lodge penetrated the DC's institutional allies in the intelligence services, military, and media in ways that reinforced the party's grip on power while creating parallel power structures the party could not fully control.[^2]
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### The Historic Compromise and Moro
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The DC's most significant internal division in the 1970s was between the right wing, led by [[Giulio Andreotti]] and Amintore Fanfani, which opposed any engagement with the [[Italian Communist Party|PCI]], and the left wing, led by [[Aldo Moro]], which advocated the "historic compromise" - formal cooperation between the DC and PCI that would bring the communists into government support.
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Moro's kidnapping and murder by the [[Brigate Rosse|Red Brigades]] on March 16 - May 9, 1978 destroyed the political conditions for the compromise. The DC leadership's refusal to negotiate for Moro's release, maintained by Andreotti against the advocacy of [[Bettino Craxi]] and the Socialists, was one of the most consequential political decisions of the postwar period.[^2]
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### Tangentopoli and Dissolution
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The Tangentopoli investigations, initiated by Milan magistrates in February 1992, disclosed that the DC had maintained a systematic system of political financing through corporate bribes administered by party treasurers. The scale of the financing - involving virtually every major Italian corporation and every major party - and the DC's central role in it destroyed the party's credibility.
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In January 1994 the DC formally dissolved and reconstituted itself as the Partito Popolare Italiano (PPI), a smaller center-left formation. Other DC factions joined the new center-right parties. After 50 years of continuous governance, the DC vanished from Italian politics within months of the corruption investigations' peak.[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Ginsborg, Paul. *A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics 1943-1988.* Penguin, 1990. This is the standard English-language history of postwar Italy.
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[^2]: Ganser, Daniele. *NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe.* Frank Cass, 2005. Flamini, Gianni. *Il Partito del Golpe.* Bovolenta, 1982-1985.
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title: Italian Communist Party
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- Italian Communist Party
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- PCI
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- Partito Comunista Italiano
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- Italian Communists
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summary: "The Italian Communist Party (PCI) was Western Europe's largest communist party, achieving 34 percent of the Italian vote in 1976 under Enrico Berlinguer's Eurocommunist leadership, whose proposed historic compromise with the Democrazia Cristiana was ended by Aldo Moro's murder in 1978 and which dissolved in 1991 to become the Democratic Party of the Left."
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start: 1921-01-21
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The Partito Comunista Italiano (Italian Communist Party, PCI) was founded on January 21, 1921, in Livorno, as a split from the Italian Socialist Party led by Antonio Gramsci and Palmiro Togliatti. It became the largest communist party in any Western democracy and the second-largest party in Italy throughout the postwar period, dissolving in February 1991 to reconstitute itself as the Partito Democratico della Sinistra (Democratic Party of the Left, PDS).[^1]
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### Postwar Position
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The PCI emerged from the Resistance as one of Italy's two mass parties (alongside the [[Democrazia Cristiana]]). Under Togliatti, who led the party from 1927 until his death in 1964, it followed the "Italian road to socialism" - parliamentary participation rather than insurrection. The CIA and the Western alliance treated the PCI's large electoral base as a fundamental security threat, and the [[Operation Gladio|Gladio]] stay-behind network was explicitly designed in part to prevent a communist electoral victory from leading to communist governance.
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In the critical 1948 election, against a joint PCI-PSI electoral front, the DC won approximately 48% to the left coalition's 31% - a result shaped partly by CIA financial support for the DC and partly by the Church's mobilization of its institutional networks. The defeat set the terms of Italian politics for the next generation: the PCI as the permanent opposition, the DC as the permanent government.[^1]
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### Berlinguer and Eurocommunism
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[[Enrico Berlinguer]] became General Secretary in 1972 and transformed the PCI's international positioning. He explicitly distanced the party from Moscow, supported Italian membership in [[NATO]], condemned the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and articulated Eurocommunism - the doctrine that Western communist parties should pursue democratic socialism independently of Soviet direction.
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Under Berlinguer the PCI reached its electoral peak of approximately 34% in the 1976 elections, making it the largest communist party in any NATO member state and placing it within reach of government participation. The "historic compromise" - Berlinguer's proposal for formal cooperation between the PCI and the DC - was the political project whose realization the [[Brigate Rosse|Red Brigades]] kidnapping of [[Aldo Moro]] prevented.[^2]
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### The Painful Position
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The PCI's most contested decision was its support for the DC government's refusal to negotiate for Moro's release in 1978. Berlinguer, calculating that the PCI's institutional credibility required supporting the state against terrorism, backed [[Giulio Andreotti]]'s no-negotiation stance. This position - supporting the death of the politician who was the PCI's primary interlocutor in the DC - was deeply painful within the party and ultimately delegitimizing for the historic compromise project.[^2]
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### Dissolution
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Following the collapse of Soviet communism in 1989-1991, the PCI dissolved at its congress of February 3, 1991. The majority faction became the PDS. A minority faction that rejected the transformation founded Rifondazione Comunista (Communist Refoundation). The PDS subsequently merged into the broader center-left Democratici di Sinistra and eventually the Partito Democratico. The PCI's organizational disappearance was one of the most significant realignments in postwar European politics.[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Ginsborg, Paul. *A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics 1943-1988.* Penguin, 1990. Sassoon, Donald. *One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century.* New Press, 1996.
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[^2]: Hellman, Stephen. *Italian Communism in Transition: The Rise and Fall of the Historic Compromise in Turin, 1975-1980.* Oxford University Press, 1988. Drake, Richard. *The Aldo Moro Murder Case.* Harvard University Press, 1995.
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title: Italian Socialist Party
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- Italian Socialist Party
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- PSI
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- Partito Socialista Italiano
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- Italian Socialists
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summary: "The Italian Socialist Party (PSI) was Italy's third major postwar political force, which ran a joint electoral front with the Communists in 1948 before gradually moving to center-left autonomy, reached its peak of influence under Bettino Craxi's prime ministership from 1983 to 1987, and was destroyed by the Tangentopoli corruption investigations in 1992-1994."
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The Partito Socialista Italiano (Italian Socialist Party, PSI) was founded in Genoa in August 1892, making it the oldest mass party in Italian political history. Throughout the postwar period it occupied the contested space between the dominant [[Democrazia Cristiana]] and the larger [[Italian Communist Party|PCI]], shifting from a joint electoral front with the communists in 1948 to autonomous center-left positioning by the late 1950s, and eventually to governmental collaboration with the DC under [[Bettino Craxi]]'s leadership. It formally dissolved on November 13, 1994, overwhelmed by the Tangentopoli corruption investigations.[^1]
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### Postwar Position and the 1948 Election
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The PSI emerged from the Resistance under Pietro Nenni, who maintained the Patto d'Unità d'Azione (Pact of Action Unity) with the PCI that had been formed during the clandestine years. In the pivotal 1948 election, the PSI ran on a joint Fronte Democratico Popolare (Democratic People's Front) list with the PCI against the DC. The left coalition received approximately 31% to the DC's 48%, a defeat that set the terms of Italian politics for a generation and that the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] partly shaped through its financial support of the DC.
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The joint-front strategy became a liability as the Cold War hardened. Nenni's continued alignment with the PCI, including his approval of the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary, produced an internal split: the right wing of the PSI broke away to form the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI), which joined DC-led governing coalitions.[^1]
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### The Opening to the Left
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Through the late 1950s and early 1960s, the PSI gradually distanced itself from the PCI. The process, known as the "opening to the left" (apertura a sinistra), culminated in the PSI joining the DC in a center-left coalition government in 1963 - the first formal inclusion of the socialists in the governing majority since the immediate postwar period. This repositioning made the PSI a governing party but also began the process of its absorption into the DC's patronage system.[^2]
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### The Craxi Era
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[[Bettino Craxi|Bettino Craxi]] became PSI national secretary in 1976 and transformed the party's profile: abandoning residual Marxist symbolism (replacing the hammer-and-sickle with a red carnation), emphasizing modernization and economic liberalism, and positioning the PSI as the indispensable swing partner in any governing coalition. He leveraged this position to become Prime Minister in August 1983 - the first socialist to hold the office in the Republic's history.
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Craxi's government lasted until March 1987, longer than most postwar Italian governments. His tenure included the Achille Lauro confrontation with the United States (1985), a period of strong economic growth, and the PSI's deepening penetration of state enterprises, media, and public contracts. The PSI under Craxi was estimated to control access to significant portions of public sector spending through what was described as "tangentismo" - systematic kickback arrangements.[^1]
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The PSI's most significant political act during the 1978 [[Aldo Moro]] kidnapping was Craxi's public advocacy for negotiating with the [[Brigate Rosse|Red Brigades]], a position that put him in direct opposition to both the DC under [[Giulio Andreotti]] and the PCI under [[Enrico Berlinguer]].
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### Tangentopoli and Dissolution
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The Tangentopoli investigations that began in Milan in February 1992 exposed the PSI as one of the central nodes of the Italian corruption system. Craxi himself was indicted on multiple counts. The political devastation was rapid: the PSI's electoral support collapsed from 14% in 1987 to 2.2% in the March 1994 elections. Craxi fled to Tunisia in May 1994; the party formally dissolved in November 1994.
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Various successor formations attempted to carry on under different names; none achieved political significance. The PSI's disappearance removed one of the three major parties of the Italian Republic within two years, along with the DC and in parallel with the PCI's voluntary dissolution in 1991.[^1]
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[^1]: Ginsborg, Paul. *A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics 1943-1988.* Penguin, 1990. Sassoon, Donald. *One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century.* New Press, 1996.
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[^2]: Mammarella, Giuseppe. *Italy after Fascism: A Political History 1943-1965.* University of Notre Dame Press, 1966.
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summary: "The KGB was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, serving as its intelligence agency, secret police, and border guard."
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summary: "The KGB (Committee for State Security) was the Soviet Union's main security agency from 1954 to 1991, serving as its foreign intelligence service, secret police, and internal security apparatus, and the institutional counterpart to the CIA throughout the Cold War."
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The [[KGB]] was the main security agency for the [[Soviet Union]] from 1954 until 1991, serving as its intelligence agency, secret police, and border guard. In the context of the *Remote Viewers* narrative, the KGB was deeply interested in [[Parapsychology|psi]] phenomena and was reported to have funded and directed psi research laboratories, such as that of [[I. M. Kogan]].[^1]
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The KGB was the main security agency for the [[Soviet Union]] from 1954 until 1991, serving as its intelligence agency, secret police, and border guard. In the context of the *Remote Viewers* narrative, the KGB was deeply interested in [[Parapsychology|psi]] phenomena and was reported to have funded and directed psi research laboratories, such as that of [[I. M. Kogan]].[^1]
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The 1972 [[Controlled Offensive Behavior - USSR]] report by the [[Defense Intelligence Agency|DIA]] explicitly stated that the "major impetus behind the Soviet drive to harness the possible capabilities of telepathic communication, telekinetics, and bionics are said to come from the Soviet military and the KGB." The report even outlined potential threats, such as the KGB knowing the contents of top-secret U.S. documents or molding the thoughts of U.S. leaders at a distance.[^1]
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The [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) is a primary intelligence-gathering organization of the United States government. In the context of psychic research, the CIA played a significant, albeit often covert, role in funding and overseeing programs aimed at exploring and utilizing psychic phenomena for intelligence purposes.[^1]
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a primary intelligence-gathering organization of the United States government. In the context of psychic research, the CIA played a significant, albeit often covert, role in funding and overseeing programs aimed at exploring and utilizing psychic phenomena for intelligence purposes.[^1]
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The CIA, particularly through its Photographic Intelligence Division, was instrumental in aerial reconnaissance efforts, especially with the U-2 spy plane, to monitor Soviet nuclear programs and later, the Israeli nuclear facility at [[Dimona]].[^2]
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### Intelligence Liaison with Israel
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The CIA's relationship with [[Israel]]i intelligence, particularly [[Mossad]], was extensive, involving 28 formal cooperative ventures in strategic intelligence since the 1950s. These arrangements were often financed off-the-books through a special contingency fund maintained by the Director of Central Intelligence. One such operation, code-named KK MOUNTAIN, involved millions in annual cash payments to [[Mossad]] in exchange for their agents acting as American surrogates in North Africa and other regions. Other agreements financed Israeli operations in [[Syria]] and the [[Soviet Union]], where the CIA found it difficult to operate.[^2]
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The CIA's relationship with [[Israel]]i intelligence, particularly [[Mossad]], was extensive, involving 28 formal cooperative ventures in strategic intelligence since the 1950s. These arrangements were often financed off-the-books through a special contingency fund maintained by the Director of Central Intelligence. One such operation, code-named KK MOUNTAIN, involved millions in annual cash payments to Mossad in exchange for their agents acting as American surrogates in North Africa and other regions. Other agreements financed Israeli operations in [[Syria]] and the [[Soviet Union]], where the CIA found it difficult to operate.[^2]
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In 1977, [[Stansfield Turner]], then Director of Central Intelligence, abruptly cut back intelligence liaison with [[Israel]] as part of a CIA restructuring. This led to a sharp reduction in the flow of intelligence from [[Israel]] to [[Washington, D.C.]]. However, the CIA's "embarrassingly inept reporting on [[Iran]]", particularly their failure to anticipate the overthrow of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, forced the American leadership to turn back to Israeli help in anticipating world events. This contributed to the March 1979 KH-11 agreement, which granted [[Israel]] access to high-tech satellite imagery.[^2]
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In 1977, [[Stansfield Turner]], then Director of Central Intelligence, abruptly cut back intelligence liaison with Israel as part of a CIA restructuring. This led to a sharp reduction in the flow of intelligence from Israel to [[Washington, D.C.]]. However, the CIA's "embarrassingly inept reporting on [[Iran]]", particularly their failure to anticipate the overthrow of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, forced the American leadership to turn back to Israeli help in anticipating world events. This contributed to the March 1979 KH-11 agreement, which granted Israel access to high-tech satellite imagery.[^2]
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Initially, the KH-11 satellite's images were tightly restricted, even to close allies like [[Great Britain]]. However, [[Jimmy Carter]]'s decision to provide [[Israel]] with direct access to the KH-11 in March 1979 disrupted the satellite's careful scheduling and meant less access for some American intelligence agencies. This decision was suspected by some American intelligence officials as a reward for the [[Camp David Accords|Camp David summit]].[^2]
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Initially, the KH-11 satellite's images were tightly restricted, even to close allies like [[Great Britain]]. However, [[Jimmy Carter]]'s decision to provide Israel with direct access to the KH-11 in March 1979 disrupted the satellite's careful scheduling and meant less access for some American intelligence agencies. This decision was suspected by some American intelligence officials as a reward for the [[Camp David Accords|Camp David summit]].[^2]
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Following the Israeli bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor at [[Osirak bombing]] in June 1981, [[William J. Casey]], [[Ronald Reagan]]'s Director of Central Intelligence, ordered a review of [[Israel]]'s use of the KH-11 intelligence-sharing agreement. The review found that [[Israel]] had expanded the agreement to extract virtually any photograph desired, including extensive coverage of western [[Russia]] and [[Moscow]]. This led to anger within the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] and [[Defense Intelligence Agency|DIA]] over the "very lax" management of the liaison agreement. Despite this, it was agreed that photographs would continue to flow to [[Israel]], but with the initial 1979 restrictions re-enforced.[^2]
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Following the Israeli bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor at [[Osirak bombing]] in June 1981, [[William J. Casey]], [[Ronald Reagan]]'s Director of Central Intelligence, ordered a review of Israel's use of the KH-11 intelligence-sharing agreement. The review found that Israel had expanded the agreement to extract virtually any photograph desired, including extensive coverage of western [[Russia]] and [[Moscow]]. This led to anger within the CIA and [[Defense Intelligence Agency|DIA]] over the "very lax" management of the liaison agreement. Despite this, it was agreed that photographs would continue to flow to Israel, but with the initial 1979 restrictions re-enforced.[^2]
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In 1986, the CIA issued a report stating that BCCI had owned [[First American Bank]] since 1982.[^5] In 1991, Acting CIA Director [[Richard J. Kerr]] confirmed that the agency had used BCCI to move money around the world.[^6] The CIA also maintained slush funds at BCCI branches, which were used for payoffs of Pakistani military officers and Afghan rebel leaders.[^7]
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[[William J. Casey]], former CIA Director, met secretly with [[Agha Hasan Abedi]] over a three-year period, discussing U.S. arms deals with [[Iran]] and the arming of Afghan resistance forces.[^8] The CIA began using BCCI in the bank's earliest days, as it was establishing itself in countries where American intelligence had few assets.[^8]
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William J. Casey, former CIA Director, met secretly with [[Agha Hasan Abedi]] over a three-year period, discussing U.S. arms deals with Iran and the arming of Afghan resistance forces.[^8] The CIA began using BCCI in the bank's earliest days, as it was establishing itself in countries where American intelligence had few assets.[^8]
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The CIA sent the [[Inter-Services Intelligence|Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)]] agency enormous quantities of cash to keep things moving through [[Pakistan]] during the [[Soviet-Afghan War]].[^9] The CIA was responsible for obtaining arms and ammunition for the [[Mujahideen]], but once delivered to [[Karachi]], the ISI was responsible for moving the equipment.[^9]
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In 1980, [[Jimmy Carter]] signed a presidential "finding" authorizing the CIA to aid the Afghan rebels in "harassment" of the Soviet occupying forces through secret supplies of light weapons and limited funds.[^10] This became the largest covert-action program since [[World War Two]].[^10]
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In 1980, Jimmy Carter signed a presidential "finding" authorizing the CIA to aid the Afghan rebels in "harassment" of the Soviet occupying forces through secret supplies of light weapons and limited funds.[^10] This became the largest covert-action program since [[World War Two]].[^10]
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The CIA's covert action division, the Directorate of Operations, created and managed the Contra project during the 1980s, with its Latin American Division headed by [[Dewey Clarridge]] from 1981 to 1984. The agency recruited Contra leaders including [[Enrique Bermudez|Enrique Bermúdez]] in 1980 and [[Eden Pastora]] in 1981. The CIA maintained station chiefs in [[Costa Rica]], notably [[Joseph Fernandez|Joseph Fernández]] from 1984 to 1986, who were integral to [[Oliver North]]'s illegal Contra resupply operation.[^12]
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The CIA's covert action division, the Directorate of Operations, created and managed the Contra project during the 1980s, with its Latin American Division headed by [[Dewey Clarridge]] from 1981 to 1984. The agency recruited Contra leaders including [[Enrique Bermudez|Enrique Bermúdez]] in 1980 and [[Eden Pastora]] in 1981. The CIA maintained station chiefs in [[Costa Rica]], notably [[Joseph Fernandez|Joseph Fernández]] from 1984 to 1986, who were integral to Oliver North's illegal Contra resupply operation.[^12]
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### The Secret 1982 Agreement with the Justice Department
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In early 1982, CIA director [[William J. Casey]] and Attorney General [[William French Smith]] signed a formal Memorandum of Understanding that exempted the CIA from reporting drug crimes committed by its non-employees - a category including agents, assets, and non-staff employees. Drug offenses were specifically removed from the list of crimes the CIA was required to report. The agreement remained in effect from 1982 to 1995.[^14]
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In early 1982, CIA director William J. Casey and Attorney General [[William French Smith]] signed a formal Memorandum of Understanding that exempted the CIA from reporting drug crimes committed by its non-employees - a category including agents, assets, and non-staff employees. Drug offenses were specifically removed from the list of crimes the CIA was required to report. The agreement remained in effect from 1982 to 1995.[^14]
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### Ilopango Obstruction
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- FBI
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description: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
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- DarkAllianceInvestigation
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category: "U.S. Government"
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summary: "The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency."
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start: 1908
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location: "Washington, D.C."
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The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. The FBI was aware of the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Grill Flame]] program and occasionally sought assistance from its remote viewers for counterintelligence situations.[^1]
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. The FBI was aware of the [[STARGATE PROJECT|Grill Flame]] program and occasionally sought assistance from its remote viewers for counterintelligence situations.[^1]
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