Steve Kangas

About the author: Steve Kangas was a well-known champion of liberal causes and creator of the award-winning website Liberalism Resurgent. Kangas died in February 1999.

The CIA promotes political unrest, human rights violations, and military coups worldwide. The agency uses appalling tactics, including propaganda, purchased elections, blackmail, kidnapping, torture, death squads, and assassination. The CIA justifies these methods as necessary to fight the war against communism, but most of the CIA's actions are undertaken to protect America's economic interests abroad. More specifically, the agency protects the interests of wealthy Americans—who exploit the workers in developing nations such as Nicaragua and Iran—at the expense of poorer Americans who must pay the price for wars stemming from CIA actions. In light of these atrocities, the CIA should be abolished.

CIA operations follow the same recurring script. First...