Le 21 d\u00e9cembre 1963, un mois apr\u00e8s un inopin\u00e9 accident de voiture<\/em>, l’ex-pr\u00e9sident Truman, c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour sa doctrine \u00e9ponyme, sa Guerre Froide, sa bombe d’Hiroshima, sa guerre de Cor\u00e9e, sa bombe de Nagasaki, son Otan et autres merveilles r\u00e9dige une maladroite lettre publi\u00e9e le matin et censur\u00e9e le soir-m\u00eame.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Il s’interroge sur le destin de son enfant terrible, la CIA. Et sans le vouloir il nous r\u00e9v\u00e8le (confesse ?) plus de choses que dix imaginatifs articles conspiratifs. Cochin et Tocqueville nous le disaient d\u00e9j\u00e0 (lisez mon livre sur Litt\u00e9rature et conspiration) : pourquoi en effet avoir recours aux conspirations quand il s’agit le plus souvent de pratiquer la th\u00e9orie de la constatation dans les textes officiels<\/strong> ? Le syst\u00e8me est en effet sûr de lui : il ne cesse confesser ses crimes et ses erreurs, pr\u00e9f\u00e9rant se fier \u00e0 notre ineptie !<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Truman regrette donc le d\u00e9tournement et la d\u00e9t\u00e9rioration de la CIA (pour notre ami Ralph Raico, la CIA est d\u00e8s le d\u00e9but « comiquement inepte », inspiratrice de coups pourris et des pires sc\u00e9narios hollywoodiens –voyez et revoyez le g\u00e9nial film germano-am\u00e9ricain Red<\/em> avec Bruce Willis). Et cela donnait ceci : Truman rappelle que l’on avait besoin d’intelligence et d’informations pour mieux agir. Son efficacit\u00e9, \u00e9crit-il avec pompe, d\u00e9pend de la qualit\u00e9 de ses informations.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Or cette information, toute cette intelligence s’entasse et devient encombrante. Il y a tant d’agences et de sous-branches qui en collectent… Truman pr\u00e9cise alors qu’il en r\u00e9sulte des conclusions conflictuelles. Cela me rappelle cet ordinateur qui pronostiquait la victoire au Vietnam pour 1965. On \u00e9tait en 1967. Le temps passe, surtout si on ne sait pas le remonter.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Conclusions conflictuelles, Mr le pr\u00e9sident ? Les uns pr\u00f4nent le bombardement les autres l’extermination ?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Enfin, une belle cerise sur le g\u00e2teau : l’ex-mandataire de la plus grande puissance du monde (et de tous les temps d’ailleurs) rappelle que l’on accumulerait des rapports orient\u00e9s pour renforcer des d\u00e9cisions d\u00e9j\u00e0 prises<\/strong> (l’Irak et les ADM ; la Russie et ses invasions ; la Syrie et ses armements chimiques ; l’Iran et le terrorisme).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n C’est \u00e0 croire que les s\u00e9vices secrets<\/em> travaillent comme notre presse aux ordres. Comme les courtisans du roi nu d’Andersen ils s’aveuglent pour mieux servir les desiderata du nouveau pion \u00e9lu ! Iran, prends garde.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n De toute mani\u00e8re un pr\u00e9sident \u00e7a sert d’abord (comme la g\u00e9ographie de notre Yves Lacoste) \u00e0 faire la guerre. Que lui importe l’intelligence alors? A creuser un peu plus le d\u00e9ficit budg\u00e9taire aliment\u00e9 par une dette immonde infinie. Mon vieux maître John Flynn se plaignait de la dette \u00e0 46 milliards, de la dette \u00e0 252 milliards, on a maintenant la dette \u00e0 vingt mille milliards, demain \u00e0 trois millions de milliards. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Les m\u00e9contents et les iraniens iront se faire voir sous le futur tapis persan de bombes avec la b\u00e9n\u00e9diction de nos r\u00e9dactions.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n On continue avec notre lyrique ex-pr\u00e9sident (un ex-pr\u00e9sident est souvent converti en clown, revoyez l’\u00e9mouvant film Point Break<\/em>). Il voulait une organisation sp\u00e9ciale<\/em> pour synth\u00e9tiser les rapports de toute source disponible<\/em>. Truman voulait une information sûre et \u00e0 l’\u00e9tat pur (natural raw<\/em>) comme le p\u00e9trole Texan.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Les ann\u00e9es passent et le jouet coûteux et comiquement inepte<\/em> s’enraye tr\u00e8s vite : l’ex-pr\u00e9sident explique que la CIA a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9tourn\u00e9e de ses objectifs premiers, que cela pose probl\u00e8me et accroît les difficult\u00e9s dans des zones explosives ! Truman ajoute qu’il n’avait pas pens\u00e9 qu’un temps de paix (les USA en temps de paix ?) la CIA serait projet\u00e9e dans des op\u00e9rations cape et poignard<\/em> (cloak and dagger<\/em>) ! Revoyez les meilleurs Gary Cooper. Truman ajoute que cela ne fait pas une bonne publicit\u00e9 \u00e0 la vieille maison. La CIA est alors consid\u00e9r\u00e9e comme un « symbole de d’intrigue \u00e9trang\u00e8re sinistre et myst\u00e9rieuse, et un sujet pour la propagande ennemie de la guerre froide. »<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Comme on sait tout s’est bien termin\u00e9, une grande partie des anciens bureaucrates communistes ayant fait de leur pays une « plantation coloniale » (Eric Zuesse) pour les capitaux am\u00e9ricains : Chine, Vietnam, la Russie sous Eltsine.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Truman se sent un peu plus en position de faiblesse : il rappelle que la propagande communiste et anticoloniale insiste beaucoup sur la violence des op\u00e9rations US. Donc il faudrait \u00e9viter que la CIA soit consid\u00e9r\u00e9e comme op\u00e9rant une influence subversive dans les affaires des autres peuples. <\/em>A transmettre \u00e0 Sarkozy et \u00e0 Hollande.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Je serais devenu bien d’accord avec la vieille propagande communiste et antiimp\u00e9rialiste de l’\u00e9poque : le capitalisme exploiteur, les fauteurs de guerre (war-monger), les monopoles, l’imp\u00e9rialisme yankee, <\/em>tout cela ne me semble pas du tout un non-sens…<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Apr\u00e8s cette confession au Grand Architecte de cet Univers<\/em>, le vœu pieux, toujours dans un anglais d’op\u00e9rette : il faut restaurer la CIA dans ses objectifs originaux de bras de l’intelligence du pr\u00e9sident.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Tu parles comme ils t’ont \u00e9cout\u00e9, Harry. Le soir-m\u00eame l’article de l’ancien pr\u00e9sident \u00e9tait censur\u00e9 partout. On le retrouve aujourd’hui, mais comme nous sommes peu \u00e0 le lire, et peu \u00e0 lire !<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Une autre cerise sur le g\u00e2teau : nous avons grandi comme une nation respect\u00e9e pour ses institutions libres et notre capacit\u00e9 \u00e0 maintenir une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 libre et ouverte (free and open society). <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Open society, notre soci\u00e9t\u00e9 ouverte ? On croyait que c’\u00e9tait Soros. Il faudra d’ailleurs qu’un jour j’explique ce que cela veut dire \u00e0 la lumi\u00e8re de Bergson.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n En tout cas on n’est pas sortis de leur auberge am\u00e9ricaine !<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Terminons ; sur la Cia et l’intelligence, on oublie le pauvre Jean et on rappellera ces fortes paroles de Job, 28 : se retirer du mal, c’est l’intelligence.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Bergson – Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion<\/p>\n<\/p>\n La Bible – Job, 28<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Nicolas Bonnal – Litt\u00e9rature et conspiration ; les grands auteurs \u00e0 l’\u00e2ge des complots (Dualpha)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n John T. Flynn – Forgotten lessons (Mises.org)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Ralph Raico – Great leaders, a libertarian rebuttal (Mises.org)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n _________________________<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n INDEPENDENCE, MO., Dec. 21, 1963 — I think it has become necessary to take another look at the purpose and operations of our Central Intelligence Agency—CIA. At least, I would like to submit here the original reason why I thought it necessary to organize this Agency during my Administration, what I expected it to do and how it was to operate as an arm of the President.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n I think it is fairly obvious that by and large a President’s performance in office is as effective as the information he has and the information he gets. That is to say, that assuming the President himself possesses a knowledge of our history, a sensitive understanding of our institutions, and an insight into the needs and aspirations of the people, he needs to have available to him the most accurate and up-to-the-minute information on what is going on everywhere in the world, and particularly of the trends and developments in all the danger spots in the contest between East and West. This is an immense task and requires a special kind of an intelligence facility.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Of course, every President has available to him all the information gathered by the many intelligence agencies already in existence. The Departments of State, Defence, Commerce, Interior and others are constantly engaged in extensive information gathering and have done excellent work.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n But their collective information reached the President all too frequently in conflicting conclusions. At times, the intelligence reports tended to be slanted to conform to established positions of a given department. This becomes confusing and what’s worse, such intelligence is of little use to a President in reaching the right decisions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Therefore, I decided to set up a special organization charged with the collection of all intelligence reports from every available source, and to have those reports reach me as President without department "treatment" or interpretations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n I wanted and needed the information in its "natural raw" state and in as comprehensive a volume as it was practical for me to make full use of it.<\/strong> But the most important thing about this move was to guard against the chance of intelligence being used to influence or to lead the President into unwise decisions—and I thought it was necessary that the President do his own thinking and evaluating.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Since the responsibility for decision making was his—then he had to be sure that no information is kept from him for whatever reason at the discretion of any one department or agency, or that unpleasant facts be kept from him. There are always those who would want to shield a President from bad news or misjudgements to spare him from being "upset."<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment.<\/strong> It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations.<\/strong> Some of the complications and embarrassment I think we have experienced are in part attributable to the fact that this quiet intelligence arm of the President has been so removed from its intended role that it is being interpreted as a symbol of sinister and mysterious foreign intrigue—and a subject for cold war enemy propaganda<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n With all the nonsense put out by Communist propaganda about "Yankee imperialism," "exploitive capitalism," "war-mongering," "monopolists," in their name-calling assault on the West, the last thing we needed was for the CIA to be seized upon as something akin to a subverting influence in the affairs of other people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n I well knew the first temporary director of the CIA, Adm. Souers, and the later permanent directors of the CIA, Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg and Allen Dulles. These were men of the highest character, patriotism and integrity—and I assume this is true of all those who continue in charge.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n But there are now some searching questions that need to be answered. I, therefore, would like to see the CIA be restored to its original assignment as the intelligence arm of the President, and that whatever else it can properly perform in that special field—and that its operational duties be terminated or properly used elsewhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society.<\/strong> There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Truman et le proc\u00e8s de la CIA (d\u00e9cembre 1963) Le 21 d\u00e9cembre 1963, un mois apr\u00e8s un inopin\u00e9 accident de voiture, l’ex-pr\u00e9sident Truman, c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour sa doctrine \u00e9ponyme, sa Guerre Froide, sa bombe d’Hiroshima, sa guerre de Cor\u00e9e, sa bombe de Nagasaki, son Otan et autres merveilles r\u00e9dige une maladroite lettre publi\u00e9e le matin et… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5264,2640,3104,3611,1010],"class_list":["post-77098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-les-carnets-de-nicolas-bonnal-1","tag-blowback","tag-bonnal","tag-cia","tag-truman","tag-vietnam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Bibliographie<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
Texte original de la lettre de Truman<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Harry S. Truman<\/h4><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"