To the Authoritarian/reactionary left, the CIA is not just the US inteligence agency. Rather its this omnipresent shadowy entity that is both very incompetent and also the source of all evil and in particular its the source of any and all narratives that they dont agree with.— Lilithxrmx (@lilithxrmx) February 19, 2021
The CIA isn't incompetent. The CIA has enough funding and political power to throw everything, including Wiley Cayoty contraptions, at the wall to see what sticks. We just only hear about what goes wrong. That way they can get more funding and hide their actual insidious shit.
Yeah and to add to this, imagine that the exploding cigars had worked - we would have been hearing "lol commies so stupid died from an exploding cigar what a chump" for decades now from the most insufferable people on earth, it would have been a huge propaganda win beyond just killing Castro. So yeah if I was in charge of the CIA, fuck it why not give it a shot?
The CIA isn't incompetent. The CIA has enough funding and political power to throw everything, including Wiley Cayoty contraptions, at the wall to see what sticks. We just only hear about what goes wrong. That way they can get more funding and hide their actual insidious shit.
Yeah and to add to this, imagine that the exploding cigars had worked - we would have been hearing "lol commies so stupid died from an exploding cigar what a chump" for decades now from the most insufferable people on earth, it would have been a huge propaganda win beyond just killing Castro. So yeah if I was in charge of the CIA, fuck it why not give it a shot?
"Smoke my cigar" would become the new "ride my helicopter" for reactionaries.