How many people have CIA killed? | Annie Jacobsen and Lex Fridman
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Full podcast episode: kzhead.info/sun/erygd7Zwgqp8lKc/bejne.html Lex Fridman podcast channel: kzhead.info Guest bio: Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and author of "Nuclear War: A Scenario" and many other books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security.
It isn’t but that’s the point of clandestine operations.
Even if you don't think 9/11 was them, how many people did the Opium from Afghanistan kill globally???
Lex, you need to watch the movie, "Red Sparrow" it is an example of women assassin's, how they are selected, groomed, and trained to kill men.
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Worked with them many times in my previous life. They are super incompetent.
Directly? Thousands. Indirectly? Millions.
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@@WeAreLegion-I get it. HGTTG
Millions? Absolutely delusional. You'd have a better time making the argument that American voters have done that killing.
@@420MrReeferThe title is 'How many people has the CIA killed' not assassinated. In this case saying that the CIA has indirectly killed millions is certainly true.
Anticommunism and the jakarta protocols alone killed over 100 million.
"How many people has the CIA killed....?" CIA : "Today.....?"
No the last 2 hours?
@@roroflowazoro”dozens of kids, rape, murder, lies… quite a bit we can do in a two hours”- CIA
The central intelligence agency's role does not include harming anyone.
@@religionisapoison2413 who told u that? 😭
@@roroflowazoro economics. Contract work.
Even those working in/for CIA have no idea how many.
It's so classified that just about none of them know the answer. Just like the recipes for the grilled sandwiches in the cafeteria...
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Follow the money it comes from you, that's who to blame
@@walkertongdee The average American who is just trying to survive is to blame for the things that our high and mighty government does? Your foolishness amazes me 🫢
Lorena Bobbitt was a Russian spy, her real name was Lorena Cutachunkov
Remember it's not the president in control.
Certainly not his own bowel movements!
For sure it’s the CIA & NSA.
Pretty sure CIA revealed to the World that they are indeed in control, November 22,1963.
- Biden 2024
The intelligence community has 6 ways from Sunday at getting back at the president... or so I've heard.
They dont even know how many people they've ended.
they know what happens in the field stays in the field.
Yes they do, it's just under a different company as "privatized trade secrets" 😂😂😂
You have to be as evil as those you fight &silent for ever
They probably know the number of the high profile targets but as for the "colletaral damage" theyr approach is probably "Who's counting"
God is Love
*"Women can get a lot closer to a target"* - Indirectly implies that all targets are male.
I mean if I had to guess I'd bet that 90% of them are
Of course men think with the little head first
Yes most leaders of other countries are men. It's very easy to point the finger at men when men are the ones voted into power. Cleopatra didn't do much better.
Not necessarily... women are also less threatened by women
It doesn’t at all
CIA has no authority to arrest anyone......however......
Laf. “No, sorry, I can’t bring you in as my prisoner. Buuuut….”
You pay them, you enable them.
Well why would you need authority to arrest if you can just make them disappear?
John Perkins called them “Jackals”
Tony calls them night creeping American soldiers
That is a great book!!
@@jamiparrish8806 books...the second one might be even better....but yeah...then he went all spiritual South American herb-studies....not dissing it...totally love and respect the man forever.
@@planetclayI didn’t know he had other books- will check them out, thanks
@@jamiparrish8806 The Secret History Of The American Empire is his amazing follow-up.
Secrets are making our country fall apart.
Well judging by religions job in your country most cant handle truth.
Arrogance. Letting out hideous secrets as a form of intimidation. Flexing their muscles so to speak.
3 letters agencies have been destroying this country for decades.
@@TheMohisa lmao. No one has to flex.
@@religionisapoison2413 You act like you approve of the sh!t they're doing. They're not doing it for you. They're doing it for themselves. You will be left behind to die in case of a catastrophic event, and it will be your tax dollar that they use to do it with.
First unnofficial Halo Jump in history? August 24, 1964. Performed by a CIA Operative named: John (last name classified). Operative Unit: FOX. Operative codename: Naked Snake. Target location: Tselinoyarsk, USSR. Mission name: Virtuous.
mission result?
The book, The Science of Coercion fits in well with this conversation. Annie is a great journalist!
Annie Jacobson should narrate audiobooks. Great voice.
She narrates her own books, go get one!
Right
As long as she doesn’t say “right?” or “Okay?” after every sentence I’m all for it
@@ryancarmona290 are they in the fiction section?
"Right?!" 😂
We need to get Whitney Webb and Annie Jacobsen together!
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Whitney Webb seems too gleeful about misery to me. Also she mixes facts with assumptions. I like this lady better.
@@nancysmith4848 This lady seems to revere the psychopaths she writes about.
@@nancysmith4848 interesting take Nancy, Whitney could definitely learn a thing or two from Annie for sure. Partly why I was saying this, it would be interesting to see
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Do we count US presidents in the list?
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Epstein knows this first hand lol
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P. Diddy may find out as well I hear.
Geoffrey was alive until he wasn’t.
who said he isnt alive you werent there
Murdering people so to out trial based on your own interests and ideology? How is this different to ‘terrorism’?
Because the US government says so?
It’s not
Terrorism is trying to deal with something by causing straight terror. Assassinations are the opposite, they're for when democracy is impossible and when war is unavoidable, if a leader of a country for example was clearly leading his people to March on the US im pre sure if you were in the US' shoes you would want that leader dealt with quickly and quietly. Again terrorism is causing terror on purpose to achieve a goal, assassinations are about quietly dealing with a threat in order to avoid causing terror. Literally the opposite.
@@defatgames2796 found the bootlicking mental gymnast
Indiscriminate targeting of civilians would be terrorism. This is surgical. Though it doesn't feel right. But to outright diss it without diligence is another level of ignorance.
KENNEDY and KING for sure.
They're in the mix for the swedish prime minister Olof Palme too.
Kennedys!
At minute 10:04, I could be wrong but I believe she was referring to Ric Prado, who was the former CIA Counterterrorist Chief of Operations, he has a book called Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior. I hope you see this Lex.
Just did a search on Wikipedia for Ric Prado and of course nothing came up. We are like mushrooms - kept in the dark & fed shit.
Yes, check out his interview on The Team House podcast.
She clearly said Prada, not Proto.
When I get a book on an historical topic, I FIRST turn to the sources/bibliography to determine whether it's worth the effort to read. Annie's statement at the end about her book having "100 pages" of sources at the end will see me heading to the bookstore cash-in-hand.
You think that's impressive you should read Whitney Webb's two volume mammoth of a research/historical text I have ever encountered. It is absolutely absurd.
"Killing people is a dirty game" thanks for that info,I will remember that when I am job seeking.
Do not be hypocrite !
The lack of regard for human lives makes you wonder if being a good person is really worth it, because the good people always end up as “collateral damage” smh!
@@Mr.G237 why not back further? Did history start that day??
It's not, but the good people can't help it.
True. The worse thing free Americans ever did was to trust the government. Blacks were not free and ha no say do in the matter.
@@jumpinjohnnyruss Yes, you could. You could have stood up and said no when they were telling you to hate the Indians and the Black slaves when the government was small. It's too late now.
Be good, but know when to turn your humanity off.
Hey Lex - I’m a big fan of your podcast been following for a couple years now. Big fan of Annie Jacobson as well so this one was a real treat. I believe you may have spliced in the wrong Richard Proto - I believe she was talking about Rick Prado, legendary SAD operator. I did have a good laugh imagining a math guy and Billy Waugh in a fight to the death though. Keep up the fantastic work my man!
She keeps mentioning how it was not classified. She knows more than she’s saying, she just knows how the game works.
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She probably is CIA
@@daniellazarus7943 she's literally their podcast correspondent
yeah, definitely plays safe even though knows much more
You know what happens to someone who reports classified information. They go to jail. Do you want her speaking in public and writing books or in jail and doing none of that. Use your brain
The "accountants" lost count in 1959.
Thanks Ms. Jacobsen and Lex. I almost forgot what a real journalist is supposed to be like. God Bless, and thank you both for your work.
A always question someone who continually says “ RIGHT”. Right
I don't know about being the sign of a great journalist.... But at least the sign of a truthful journalist. 🤷🏽
Excellent Interview.
Always a pleasure Lex thanks Annie I've lived knowing it's about time it was discussed openly, enough time has gone by and this affects everyone ,respect from sxx bravo Juliett
I serviced two MACV SOG pilots. (Owner of a business) All their citations were classified because of the locations and missions. I did get to hear some stories as I’m a Marine Vet. They were a little open to talk about it. Crazy stuff.
3:14 The current president just wants some ice cream and hair to sniff. 😢
You be voting for the guy that wants the constitution terminated, lies on a scale far beyond anyone and who tried to steal an election to keep himself in power.
He wants that little to keep a bullet from his brain. Ice cream and little girls hair to sniff. What a bad man a real jackass
Last time I looked he isn't headed for the slammer like you very well know who. My antipathy for you know who is more than just political/cultural, it's about social aesthetics. I refuse to be associated with or governed by what appears to be utterly gross and psychotic trash if I can help it.
3:50 Seals were chosen..ìt was rotation..but I believe U.S. Could have gotten him years earlier.but GWB & family were too closely tied to his family.. Prior..and couldn't DO IT SOONER..
Great interview
And God said “Love your enemy”, and I obeyed him and loved myself.
Her covert ops book surprise kill vanish is great highly recommend
IMO, one of the best Podcasts going today. For sure one of the best interviewers.
Saying "right" at the end of a sentence repeatedly makes a person sound less confident. It's a way of telling someone how they should think rather than asking for agreement.
I'm an author of many books. When explaining quite unusual things to people, I will often say 'see?'...
Right!
Couldn’t finish listening, to the hundreds of “right” …… “right”……. “right”……..
Thanks Dr. Freud! It doesn't mean that and it doesn't not mean it
Very hard to get through this clip with how distracting “RIGHT?” being said every 5 seconds was
The guy who broke the halo jump world record for the US jump team and also a macv sog operator in vietnam and did halo jumps after Wahs, was my good neighbor and family friend James W. Hauck, callsign "Ninja Man" RIP sir we miss you
The whole Angolan war, and many others, were kicked off by CIA.
They didn't mind using South Africa as their proxy .... to what end?
Telling assassination stories with smile, USA does it that's national interest and security but if Saudi or Iran does that breaking international law and proxy terrorism label put upon them. Saudi assassinating journalist was wrong but if USA agent in foreign country doing that its ok. There are multiple examples of USA doing that. Not supporting any country assassinating on foreign land but that does shows any one with power can do it 1000 times and still be called hero using soft power and social media. These rules and regulations are for all countries except USA which can force power to do the opposite while if any other country does it sanctions and threats roam around them.
It's not just the US. I'm convinced 99% of the countries are in bed with one another and have talks to allow certain things to get away with other things. Like the US either allowing 911 to get something in trade or doing it themselves for another country to get something from said country, such as, the blame on certain individuals and the take down of others. Not saying that's what I necessarily think happened, I'm just using it as an example.
@10:00 Wrong person in the photo edited in. She's talking about Ric Prado, not Rich Proto
Lol
Probably from PR.
It's a dirty world.
The world isn't dirty. The people are.
Excellent audio💪💪
I was lucky to listen to one of Annie’s books, and it really sounded like true journalism with sources and tough questions. Thank you both for this interview.
The Jerky Boys taught us to never trust a Rizzo.
Fantastic! "GET BRETT WEIR I SAID!!!!"
I’m the super across the way!
When you listen to the Jocko podcast, the guests he is truly in awe of are the MAC-V SOG that he gets to tell their story.
Damn right✊🏾
Lex is so good he commented 5 days ago on a 5 min old vid
Because all of these came out days ago he's just editing them to boost views.
No it’s a scheduled upload
@@TheLeadHook no... Lex is just that damn good.
@@208flatheads3 no... Lex is just that damn good.
✨ scheduled posts ✨
Great interview! Also can we get her to narrate audiobooks?
Thank you for the report.
When the sentient A.I. gets created, I hope it has the same voice as Annie Jacobsen.
She narrates her own audio books. They're free if you pay for Spotify. Listening to one atm 👌👌👌👌
@@nadimkhoury5547 thanks for the heads up!
I cant ever see AI becoming sentient. That's the god factor and AI is man made. But if they do learn to want, then that's what they'd want. Just like us, and why people like Gates, Bezo's and Musk are fucking insane. They have it all. What's the point of getting out of bed? So they come up with theses Ideals and try to convince the world that they're right. They could use their money for the good of mankind. But they grow meat in labs, create deadly viruses and fly to places we will never live. They think they're like a god and man will exist for ever. Yet history shows we get wiped out pretty bad every 12,000 years and completely every few hundred thousand years. In the time span of the history of the universe. A mere blink in time.
@@nadimkhoury5547yes, ty!
When it gets created? I mean uffa buddy if u saw what they saw what i at Clonaid HQ in Windsor,Ontario,Canada then u might feel vile for a full year plus so forgetaboutit pal,but on the flipside this broad has the imagination of James Cameron n George Lucas if they used strictly dirty meth so what im saying here is shes selling her books at all costs,u gentz figure out the rest huh That's my time everybody i gotta go take a sh*t👌
Slightly more then the clintons
Great questions Lex
She’s so measured, I could listen to this lady talk about a paint factory and be intrigued.
Jan Michael Vincent played a young hitman against Charles Bronson's older hitman in "The Mechanic". Spoiler alert, the young guy got the drop, but the old guy boobytrapped the getaway rig... Some games aren't worth playing if you believe you have a soul and value its positive integrity.
Did you spoil the ending...
Wow, there’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. I man crushed (well, boy crushed) Stringfellow Hawk and his faithful steed, Airwolf when I was growing up in the 80s. Couldn’t believe the gutter he ended up in. He looked like the dead walking…well, sitting; think he lost both legs to diabetes or something alcohol related.
SOG part. Sent chills down my spine
Interesting explanation on the legality of it. On a lower level, the USCG falls under DHS instead of DOD to be able to conduct Law Enforcement capabilities, even though they are a Military Branch. When conducting military operations, specific units are detached and assigned to either the Dept. Of the Navy or the Dept. Of the Army. So what she is saying is true.
Annie needs to go to Israel and talk to Mossad Agents. They have o many stories I'd love to hear about. And she's the one person we can trust to tell it like it is.
Like how they got caught doin 911... N were let go???
Lex needs to interview John Perkins. I wonder if Annie knows him.
Agreed on the great question, and even more with your thoughts on Annie saying she doesn't know. Great Interview, you both are class acts.
What about the PRU, Provincial Reconnaissance Units in Vietnam, and Phoenix program.
I remember President Obama in late 2015 said, in regards to Assad in Syria, that we (the US/him) does not do "pin-prick" strikes on foreign political leaders. Syria had a crazy humanitarian warcrime situation going on back then, but I remember him saying that.
Obama campaigned on being directly opposite of crazy war mongering republican George Bush. He ended up signing more executive orders and more drone bombing deaths all across globe. He ran out all the parts nessary to keep jet fighter's in air during war-time. Used up all bombs. That is why Trump took so much criticism at first in white house. Biden has run into same thing with equipment left behind in Afghanistan. Then spending 160 billion in Ukraine. Everything is running out and will cost even possibly double due to inflation. So that 80 billion of equipment lost in Afghanistan is now over 160 billion. 160 billion plus in Ukraine is double too. That's taxes for now and next 100 year's. China refused to sell rare earth minerals that are needed to make computer chips in our guidance control systems. Strategic oil reserves gone too. Petrol dollar gone because of President Joe Biden spending Stock market crash now & bsnk failures are close to 1929 levels
And when he said the word "foreign" did he give Bernie the side-eye?
@@jumpinjohnnyruss no he was alone in the Oval Office
Syria is sending us back the gmo soldiers that the US secretly sent there. The war crimes were done by Obama...
they lost count around 1970 and havent kept track since
Fascinating life Annie.
Yall may have just made the list.
Same answer that a cop gets when he asks how many beers you’ve had. TWO
Thank you Lex. Awesome topic.
I love all her books
I respect people who can say "I don't know."
It's also a good dodge...
Open your parachute at 1000 feet? In the French Foreign Legion we opened our chutes at 100 feet and the Japanese never used chutes.😂😂
The japs didn’t need em 😂😂😂😂😂 but did you guys seriously pop at 100ft dude that’s insane!!! Balls of steel!!
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Ninja no need chute
I could fall asleep listening to her soothing voice.❤
She really gets off on this stuff...the little smiles.
General Mcraven got the seals the mission. Lol socom operates under different laws/orders than conventional.
The CIA doesn't kill people, they contract operators to neutralize targets in accordance with the mission - which is classified. Thank you for your service.
Why you thanking her? For killing innocent people that her gang targets. Is that why? She's dangerous and very evil. You hear that soft sweet voice. Very deceptive. She's a mean girl.
Found the fed
@jamesdiehl4716 CIA isn't Federal, it's a stepchild of the Pentagon. Thank you for your service
Just because it’s under law doesn’t excuse it from being murder if you’re going to live by what the government deems you won’t live
They are actually called assets and yes they work for the company and came right off the farm at langley, but that's Top Secret.
I love this woman. Her books are truly incredible.
I’ve read several of Jacobsen’s books and she basically makes a living by regurgitating official government policy. She points out that everything in her books is unclassified and publicly available. Lex should interview Seymour Hersh.
Right and Ok are like punctuation marks
No, that’s an attempt to get one to believe a lie! Never believe someone who talks like that!!!
You know when people try to convince you. They say “right?” All the time to make you agree. Just saying
It's a verbal tic, like "you know" and "I mean." Don't read things into it. Why would your uncharitable hypothesis be correct? He's not hostile. He's not contesting anything she says. She doesn't need to convince him of anything.
It's also something smug people say in condescension. Like, this is obvious, right?
Right.......just saying, right?
Fantastic interview, I enjoy listening to both of y'all ❤👍🏼🙏🏼💐🎉
Bedtime stories with Annie Jacobsen……terrifying.
There was a movie that helped end the Cold War. “ The Day After”. It’s dated now but is still worth a watch.
Wasn’t that a TV movie…? I vaguely remember it as a child.
@@BrightResultsMedia yep. I think you can find it on KZhead
@@BrightResultsMedia there’s another, very similar movie that came out of the UK around the same time, also on KZhead. It’s call “Threads”
@@BrightResultsMediaya. It was required viewing in grade school, think someone here said in 83, so I’d have been 13. Think I only saw it the one time, but it made an impression. I remember a pastor trying to hold service outside, with a handful of people there, traumatized, dying of radiation poisoning…
Nuclear war is bad for business. Great piece of propaganda, worked like a dream.
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I really like her and I hope she’s still alive! History is really important and it’s an after thought in the American education… I’m old and have never used the math that forced down my throat in college! History was always “We’re the best, and I’ll tell you why “ yeees Murica!
Did Billy ever talk about the removal of President Diem of South Vietnam in October of 1963? That's a pretty fascinating story, especially the why.
I really don't understand how Annie makes a dime. On all the podcasts I've seen her on, she is only parroting long-known and pretty widely available information. It's only marketed as 'secret' information.
Unfortunately, unlike yourself, many people are naive and ignorant. They don't know how to research or read two seemingly non related articles and see a common thread by reading between the lines. All they know is what MSM spoon feeds them. They can tell you who all the Kardashians are but couldn't name their state Senators.
I have had serious doubts about her for a long time like is she just a tool for the C IA ?
@@larrysnipes7113same as that big-haired dude with the hair band. I don’t trust him either. Can’t remember his name but he makes the podcast circuit.
“Health alteration” 🤣💀🖤
Drone last-package delivery 😅
Religion verification..
Annie is amazing I love listening to her ❤
She has a great voice for a navigation aid! Especially if you needed to turn right! Right?
We are better than them.
Probably, the varied intelligence agencies either knew Israel was about to be attacked and allowed it or none of them knew and there’s a systematic failure
You can read it in my book!!!
Thank you Lex, and as well as Annie💞
I wonder what the salary would be for someone in that role. No doubt its attracts people who probably dont care about money but realistically it would still need some decent numbers.
America is great country…i mean this people are freely talking about such topics and they are still alive, safe and sound as well as their families.
Most not all
I am quite sure this woman has lots of "kill switches"!
Except for all the other ones.
Because what they’re saying doesn’t really harm the CIA or military if u were to expose similar things that Julian Assange exposed you’d be in jail by the next day.
Her voice has resonance
Dangit...now I gotta buy another book.
I could listen to Annie all day! Shes a wealth of knowledge
It’s all BS. Listen to Whitney Webb for real journalism.
“Right?” “Right?” “Right?” “Right?”
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Right?😂
Right?? 😂
OK?? OK ??? OK ???
Riiiiiiiight..
She says "right" and "OK" a lot. It's a habit of speech. We all have them to some degree. Neil Degrasse Tyson does the same thing.
Whitney Webb does and she’s great
Jordan Petersen too. “It’s like…”
Right
@@johnnyjamz6372I love Whitney. She does amazing research
Mike Baker on jre is the worst!
Was one of the code names for a mission called The black widow spider? By one who gets closer to the target then most. Sure that name has already been taken.
Very interesting stuff
Too many "rights?"
Right, Right, Right, Right and, Right! Yeah, starts to get a bit annoying, right?
@@jaykay6387 I know right? Good info but it hurts the delivery to use that so many times. It sounds like "believe me, believe me, believe me." She could fix it probably pretty easy. No big
A sign of lying or not knowing facts.