Eisenhower and the CIA

[John Simkin]

Passage from an article by Jay Janson on the Family Jewels:

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_ja...cus_on_the_.htm

Corporate media covered in a blanket of cold war contingency whatever came out in the New York Times about Eisenhower’s known acts of belligerency: the bombing of the poor little rebellious French colony Laos; his refusal to allow the all Vietnam elections that had been agreed upon in Geneva, while opening acknowledging Ho Chi Minh would have won overwhelmingly; his gangster-like overthrowing of a popular democratically elected President Arbenz of Guatemala; ordering the assassination of the first elected President of the newly independent Congo. Media presented the fatherly figure of a World War Two hero, General Eisenhower, as a veritable ‘Mr. Clean’