11. The following are true about the OSS/CIA during the period covered by this course, EXCEPT:...

 

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11. The following are true about the OSS/CIA during the period covered by this course, EXCEPT: b. a. It actively recruited and brokered deals with Nazi scientists, soldiers, and intelligence assets for use in expanding and strengthening the power of the post-war US war machine. Though justified as an intelligence gathering and analyzing agency, it capitalized upon the vague language of its founding to create an operations wing that engages in sabotage, public manipulation, assassination, the overthrow of foreign governments, and the proxy of militants useful to its objectives, including death squads. c. Though it has always been prevented by congress and the president from manipulating the perceptions, values, and behaviors of the American public, it infiltrates news, information, and cultural sources abroad to advance "American interests." d. It's earliest recruits came from the business elite and its leadership had long careers as corporate lawyers. e. The nature of its operations as advancing the certain profit interests rather than national security led to the nickname, "Capitalism's International Army." 12. Even as American military intervention and invasion picked-up speed abroad, President Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly lamented: a. That militarization limited investment in schools and social uplift and diverted the nation's labor and creative, technological, and scientific potentials toward destructive ends. b. That the permanent war economy had spawned corruption and agendas other than national defense among certain war capitalists, government officials, and military leadership, impacting national policy. c. That the permanent war economy created a monetary incentive among powerful people to continue and expand militarization and military operations. All the Above d. 11. The following are true about the OSS/CIA during the period covered by this course, EXCEPT: b. a. It actively recruited and brokered deals with Nazi scientists, soldiers, and intelligence assets for use in expanding and strengthening the power of the post-war US war machine. Though justified as an intelligence gathering and analyzing agency, it capitalized upon the vague language of its founding to create an operations wing that engages in sabotage, public manipulation, assassination, the overthrow of foreign governments, and the proxy of militants useful to its objectives, including death squads. c. Though it has always been prevented by congress and the president from manipulating the perceptions, values, and behaviors of the American public, it infiltrates news, information, and cultural sources abroad to advance "American interests." d. It's earliest recruits came from the business elite and its leadership had long careers as corporate lawyers. e. The nature of its operations as advancing the certain profit interests rather than national security led to the nickname, "Capitalism's International Army." 12. Even as American military intervention and invasion picked-up speed abroad, President Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly lamented: a. That militarization limited investment in schools and social uplift and diverted the nation's labor and creative, technological, and scientific potentials toward destructive ends. b. That the permanent war economy had spawned corruption and agendas other than national defense among certain war capitalists, government officials, and military leadership, impacting national policy. c. That the permanent war economy created a monetary incentive among powerful people to continue and expand militarization and military operations. All the Above d.

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