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has the cia ever been the goodguys? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by allo@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Just curious. As far back as I remember I only hear about them destabilizing countries that aren't fully in the pocket of American powerplayers. Sometimes they assassinate people, sometimes instigate coups, subvert media... and the #1 way to encounter them seems to be to try and take back control locally of one's country's oil and other valuable resources.

So my question is, have they ever done anything good?

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[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They made a pretty good case through a series of generally ethical experiments to prove that at least some forms of psychic phenomena like remote viewing are almost certainly real, if not exactly reliable or common. I thought that was pretty neat.

Other than that, no, I can't think of much.

[–] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow people really want to believe magic is real and random YouTube videos and cia quacks are a good source

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I mean, these are all real CIA documents being referenced, you can go read them yourself. It's trustable in as much as you can trust the CIA to be straightforward within their own documentation that wasn't declassified until 20 years later.