10 Myths About the CIA You Probably Believe
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Simon blink twice if you're being held at gunpoint
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@Peter B gonna end up locked in a suitcase if he crosses em
Not gonna lie, now you need a companion video “10 Horrifying Things the CIA has Actually Done”…
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Yep, said the same thing before I read you comment.
no fkn doubt!
well that comment didnt take long......
Sounds like something the CIA would say
Simon is MI5 not CIA though... He's occationally british.
Why are you still promoting NordVPN? After how they handled getting hacked and not telling anyone, I don't feel like they still deserve to be trusted.
@thisguy hahahahahah are you serious?
No one should be trusted. If you do then you should lose the right to cry over the results.
@drew pedersen Quite a few actually. As a company I would just want their money, and wouldn't care who they were and where said money came from. Plenty of VPN's worth their salt will take cash or crypto as payment (not even CC info is gathered or kept).
The elefant in the room is of course... Does the CIA tap into NordVPN?
drew pedersen ProtonMail knows as little as possible, and they have a VPN service.
*waves to the agent monitoring my internet usage* Hi Frank!
The agent watching my Internet is an FBI Agent... And she seems pretty nice too...
Don't be silly. As Simon said, I work for the FBI or NSA, Anyone, in fact, besides the Secret Legeon Of Franks. We don't exist (Jedi hand wave).
Are there 300 million agents?
Suggested title edit: Top Ten Myths the CIA Wants You to Believe Are Myths.
Apparently they also have a better dental plan than the FBI.
They also only torture the guys they don't like... you're probably gonna be okay
Possibly the last thing I would think about when thinking the cia.
@@adamabbas1487 Chase and I are referencing the Weird Al Yankovic song "Party in the CIA".
Wow, way to not mention the circumstances surrounding Gary Webb's death, Simon!
As a Canadian, it's much more likely it's the cia watching me.
I'm not your buddy, pal.
Canadian Infiltration Agency. We’re coming for you guy, and your buddies too.
@@JasPer-xi8qc 😂😂
@Teena Courtney get a clue lol
@Teena Courtney In the video he states that it's more likely the FBI etc than the CIA, but no, it's true, if you're international then the FBI doesn't have jurisdiction. The video is phrased as if all the listeners are American.
This video is made possible by the CIA
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“Not nonsense” lol
Your right there
*you're
F.B.I. again!
@@oneeye3625 Simon are you in love with your own voice? Would you quit beggin
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Simon can't say Bush without derision pouring from his lips.
#4
"Two words, Mr President... plausible deniablity..."
Independence Day (movie)
They've got the FBI and the NSA fort that. Sums it up neatly.
The CIA knows that a secret between 2 people can only stay a secret if one of them is dead.
I enjoy your videos but I think sometimes while technically being correct you're still getting wrong. Case in point, saying that the CIA didn't flood the ghettos with heroin. Technically that's true, they never involved themselves with domestic operations (with some exceptions) The intentional flooding of the ghettos with cheap heroin was ...in fact intentional. One of the Nixon White House staff made a famous quote about it... and you have to remember that at that time leftwing and black nationalist militancy was at its highest. Members of Nixon's staff suggested manipulating people's priorities by means of promoting drug addiction. People like Donald Segretti, who had his hands in a number of dirty black ops like coordinating the SAO (Secret Army Organisation) into conducting violent and potentially deadly attacks against Southern California's anti war movement.
Anyways he was connected to various figures in the East Coast mob who would conduct this operation.
This was all during the Vietnam War, and in order for the US military to get the Meo tribesmen to align with the US intrests and fight against the Vietcong, the CIA had to buy their heroin crops, which were then taken to a facility (that was funded by the US Congress under the auspices of being a Pepsi Cola refinery but was actually a heroin refinery operated by South Vietnam military figures), then it was flown out by Air America to the US to be distributed by the mob.
So in a sense, the CIA was mostly an important link in the chain. In the same sense obliquely responsible as they were during the CIA/Manuel Noriega drug transport partnership until Washington decided that Noriega was no longer controllable and had to be taken out. And, don't forget when Eugene Hasenfuss, a CIA contracted pilot got shot down and busted with a lot of drugs and guns during the CIA Iran/Contra operations.
Again, you're correct that they didn't deal drugs domestically themselves they were however important players in the game both in procurement and dealing the drugs in other countries.
Who wrote this?? The CIA? Lol
Nice job on this man
#4 - Hollywood gets wrong so many times. They write characters that have a level of security clearance and act as if they are privy to all information at that level.
Right!? Just because you have clearance to be here doesn't mean you have any business here.
One thing that most people do not understand is that 80% or more of the information gathered is from the public domain. EG newspapers, news feeds, news agencies, and such like. The clever bit is figuring out which information is important or useful.
The CIA almost certainly did not introduce crack to the black community. Mini essay to follow:
Freebased cocaine was a well know, but extremely expensive way to process cocaine into a more potent form. It was very popular amongst celebrities in the 70s. But, at upwards of $2000 per hit for a 10 minute high, users had long been searching for a cheaper alternative. Crack provided a similar high to free based cocaine for about 1/200th the cost. Beyond that, crack was half the cost of pure cocaine and provided a far more intense, although fleeting, high. This revelation became the crack epidemic.
Meanwhile, the CIA was involved in the Contra War in Central America. To grossly oversimplify things, the Contras needed money to fund their war and the met this need in part from the sale of cocaine. Some of that cocaine was sold to black markets in the US and some ended up in predominantly black communities, fueling the aforementioned epidemic.
It’s this fact that causes people to erroneously blame the CIA for introducing crack to black communities. The CIA was complicit with the Contra’s elicit sale of narcotics to the USA according to congressional reports from 1989 and 1998 report, but black communities were not targeted.
TL;DR The crack epidemic and the CIA’s complicity with the Contras selling cocaine to the US coincided coincidently.
Yes, it looks like the infamous split-second attention span of Internet users cast your accurate narrative to the curb after the first or second line. Rest assured, though, that you are among the few who has the record straight.
Jack Ryan Sr., John Clark, Felix Leiter, & Nick Fury would be proud of Simon.
Mmm hmm...sure guy who makes those excellent Biographics videos, sure...or should I say, CIA Agent who’s disguised as the guy who makes the excellent Biographics videos!
13:46 I smashed my thumbs up button. I've never been in so much pain. Thanks a lot SIMON!
I think “need to know” is probably a cover for a lot of horrific abuses and crimes against humanity.
It can be used for that, certainly. It is also how every military in the world acts. The "need to know" is in the very early training in UK, from soliers to cadet forces.
"If you don't have a need to know X, why should you know it?"
Scott Watson There are situations that this may be necessary but practically speaking, more information is always better. Take the soldier example, the military organization benefits from “need to know” practices but individual military personnel are exploited by the same practice: “if I’d have known X I would have done differently”.
So it depends.
That they don't glow is by far the biggest myth.
Hey Simon, can you do a vid about, FBI or DEA
Toptenz your video is very well done and detailed but I would like to know some things, I read that the CIA should have assassins (martial arts experts) or things like that but do you know anything about it?
Some people to CIA: You can't torture prisoners!
CIA to some people: So what do we do with all these bad prisoners if we can't interrogate them?
Some people to CIA: Well you can't hold them forever so just let them go.
CIA to some people: That sounds like a really bad idea but OK.
SOCOM to CIA: Hey, we just killed some really bad people that we gave you a while back, what's up?
CIA to SOCOM: Some people said we couldn't interrogate them and couldn't keep them so we had to let them go.
SOCOM to CIA: So what do we do with really bad people when we catch them?
CIA to SOCOM: No prisoners!
SOCOM to CIA: That's really F.... Up, but OK. Man, some people are really stupid.
John Knapp interrogation is not torture. Interrogation is taking to people to get information out of them.
I was going to tell my favorite CIA story.
Common sense tells me not to...
Simon, the NSA is watching - everybody!
The Iran-Contra affair is one of the dark realities of the 1980s
This is exactly the type of video the CIA would produce 😆
Why are there commercials in a sponsored video? I thought having a sponsor meant you could skip the commercials.
Thanks a lot Simon! Now you’ve ruined the fun!
This video is a Public Service Announcement sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency. They are not a Lahwr Enforcement Agency.
Looks at comments for Conspiracy theories on this video.... Was not disappointed lol
Wow Simon. You actually mean a person decided to kill people with a firearm? That would explain why I haven’t seen any firearms walking down the street in search of victims.
If you say the CIA is not watching me, that means YOU must work for the CIA!
This is really interesting
I think you guys are naively soft pedaling the Agency's history. You should read CIA Diary by Victor Marchetti ...and Inside The Company by Phillip Agee. And, Coup d'etat In America by A J Weberman (an old friend of mine)
@Stephen Jenkins You forget their history .....like how they were created and what they were used for from WWII on up to the 1970's (and what tethered them in) The Dulles brothers who ran the OSS used captured nazis to build the idea and basis for the CIA as well as special forces units. The Cold War saw Congress giving them carte blanche including not only a large secret budget but ok'ing various other ways that they could fund their own operations. In those times they were completely unaccountable to even Congress (even though they were doing Congress' bidding). They DID indeed have that much power. Where it all changed was Watergate...that, and after the fall of Allende in Chile ...the assassination of Orlando Letelier (the Chilean ambassador) in Washington DC... after Watergate, Congress had decided that it had had enough of the CIA's unaccountability and endless conspiracy nonsense. That you can indulge your own naivete on this subject is no less thanks to Nixon (and J Edgar Hoover) ruining it for all would-be wannabe gods.
Btw, ....I spent the mid to late 1970's living in DC being an errand boy for investigators collecting documents for our writers from various government agencies as well as our contacts within the intelligence community. So, you'll pardon me if I come off as assuming to know something about all this. I'd probably still be neck deep in it but for a change of location and the advent of punk rock.... much more fun times from then on.
First reaction; only an idiot would believe any of these myths.
Reaction after reading the comments; there are a LOT more idiots out there than I thought!
The Gary Web thing is true though. The CIA didnt sell anything they did help fund the whole contra thing by allowing Rick Ross to buy coke.
I've always thought you might be spy Simon.
The fact that you know so many secrets could make you a spy
Really interesting. Can you do videos on NSA MI5 & 6 & GCHQ please? One on COBRA would be great too
sorry, could you please share the stuff about gary webb, because i read quite a bit on him and i would like to read all the sides to the story.
thx
Very informative
How dare you spit on Gary Webb's name? He has won more awards in journalism then you have hairs on your head. And to my knowledge the only person to put 2 bullets into his anatomy during a suicide.
Next you need to do one about the famous MI-6, which in spite of the movies does not issue a "licence to kill."
@Peter B 42 indeed, Douglas Adams.
As a former NSA operative; this list is not correct on a number of points, and the reason I didn't seek employment at Central Intelligence. Well, just goes to show you: just because it's on the Internet doesn't make it true. Better luck next time, Simon.
I would just love to be a spy, but I would most definitely be the worst one ever
They've gotten to Simon... They can get any of us!!!
Wow the CIA got to Simon...
#10, the CIA is probably not watching you
NSA: has entered the chat
THE INTERNET DEBUNKS NONSENSE? WHO KNEW LOL
Simon explain freeway ricky ross and the cia
Man you are right! It’s really our Lizard Overlords, may they live forever!
The video actually starts at 0:22.
CIA is not watching, NSA is
They aren't watching you unless your in a foreign country, well Simon's in a foreign country.
I still wouldn't trust them - I'm looking at you MK-Ultra.
Etterra ah yes the failed experiment closed decades ago?
The C.I.A. appreciates your viewership.
NSA is watching while the DIA listens...
This is exactly the kind of video I'd put out if I got paid to help throw everyone off the CIA's scent.
The CIA is the NSA's fall guy.
thats what the CIA would want you to belive.
Love the vids man. Keep it up but why does this channel have so many subs, so little views, and an almost negligible amount of comments?
Did you notice that the word "nonsense" was marked out? So this means it is Not nonsense, right?!? 😂😂😳
So the president is on a need to know basis… How timely.
How about a video on NSA - No Such Agency as it was called for many years.
Seems like some people need some tin foil. Conspiracy theories breed like rabbits. I could care less who is listening to my use of Echo, because I’m not doing anything wrong. Lol
This video brought to you by the CIA.
Myth: Langley, Virginia is not an actual city.
A lot of respect, must go to the CIA. I think that they are a brilliant organization. Great video Simon.
but what about the presedential black book with all the secrets only handed down from pres to pres??
They are watching everyone.
Nice try CIA
Can't fool me😎
Simon! Dinner out is still a go, right?
If the CIA are watching me they must be getting very bery bored by now....
But was Weird Al right, do they party?
Thank you Agent Whistler, this has been very informative and has dispelled all the misconceptions I had about the agency. I now think it's a lawful and well meant organization. 😃
(Oh hi CIA-san, please don't mind that folder in my PC, I assure you those drawings of 2B are for research purposes only.
...W-what am I researching? Uh, it's you know, robotics and stuff. I think one day I can make a yorha sexbot... I mean make robotic assistants to help the elderly and stuff and make the world a better place! Yep.)
I hate to tell you guys this but Simon is actually American and from Mississippi. That's a fake English accent.
Guns don't kill,people do.
Would alex's role in cod mw on the first mission (before it becomes kinda ridiculous) be accurate?
Top ten underdogs! Of human history please. I think it would be a very inspiring video. But thanks for the video anyway.
Literally 1/5th of your video is a Nord VPN ad.
This video brought to you by the office of the CIA for public affairs
The president is the exception, he is the judge of the classification system. He might get push back but he is the one who can get the file that peek his interest.
Even though the CIA takes orders, they are often providing the information and supporting or propping up various regimes that influence policy and decision that result in them receiving orders.
if you found out that the CIA was up to something evil and you confronted them about it , do you think that they are just going to say yah you caught me I'll come alone peacefully.
Damn, hes been compromised.
Now I'm curious to know if the CIA propaganda arm helped with this video, it seems very well researched. Too well researched. 🤓😜
Nicely done agent Whistler. 😋
I'd feel sorry for the poor schlub in charge of listening in on phone calls of people like me lmao Theyd have to take up a drug habit just to stay awake,I'm sure
What’s the frequency, Kenneth…?
Raise your hand if you think there was a black guy in the ghetto in a lab trying to figure out how to make cocaine more addictive and profitable.😏
Yeah, I doubt it, but I don't know for sure. Necessity is the mother of invention, right? What I do know is that the Govt. never said that there was a "crack epidemic" unlike when mostly white people got hooked on oxycodone and they declared an "opioid epidemic." Instead, they passed laws requiring mandatory minimums for simple possession of crack that were much harsher than sentences for possession of powder cocaine. It seems rather racist to me on its face.
I was going to make a rebuttal comment - but many have already been made, far better put and more succinctly than I ever could normally. Ian Morris is one of them, from one week ago. The alphabet agencies are among those who perpetrate the worst offenses against any set of common moral decency, ethics or just basic human rights in general, no matter how ya slice it! Also notoriously in contrast to this "top 10", there is ample proof for at least most of these "myths" being very true. Certain things, like needing to know a foreign language? Yeah sure, I don't know that one for sure. But many of them have been proven unequivocally. Same goes for all govts and their black ops agencies.