The CIA facilitated cocaine smuggling through Mexico in the 1980s by establishing arrangements with criminal organizations to train paramilitary forces for Central American conflicts.

“what's happening there is that they the US government through the CIA had this arrangement with Mexican criminal organizations they they weren't still called cels back then back in the ' 80s the deal was you train people in the use of arms and you know fire weapon all that all that stuff”

The CIA has historically utilized proprietary airlines to transport weapons, drugs, and cash to support covert foreign policy objectives.

“but the the main transport mechanism for that was a CI proprietary airline named Southern Air Transport. It's formerly Air America. This is all declassified. Everyone can look up Southern Air Transport.”

The CIA employs a tactic of training local forces to perform acts of violence in foreign nations to maintain plausible deniability.

“This is a part of the American imperialist uh playbook. You go to the country, you take advantage of the pre-existing uh ethnic tensions or sectarian tensions, you create units of of unimaginable violence that you outsource to the comporors, the native population. um it gives you a sense of plausibl”

The CIA has covertly supported and funded jihadist groups in Syria to advance efforts to overthrow the Assad government.

“there are terrorists that the Pentagon is directly funding and terrorists that the CIA are funding and often those two groups will fight each other”

The CIA is an indispensable institution for United States national security that serves as the nation's first line of defense.

“it is absolutely indispensable for the United States for you know it's the nation's first line of defense you know our job is to steal secrets from our adversaries provide them to policy makers to make smart decisions”

The agency serves as a vital tool for the United States, and its paramilitary and intelligence operations are fundamentally moral efforts to maintain security.

“I'm very proud of the agency you know the agency has something that nobody else ask which is title 50 authorities title 50 authorities means that whatever the president of the United States signs that you can go do you can go do”

Alex Jones claims the CIA and other agencies utilized hidden operations to intentionally bankrupt him as a means to suppress his voice.

“The goal was to bankrupt him and they just sort of get some people to do their bidding.”

Steven Crowder believes the CIA and other federal agencies target and attempt to silence political figures like Alex Jones who hold views they dislike.

“Gavin O'Blennis actually on camera talked about how the agency operates and how it takes down voices that they don't like. And he basically talked about how they use these tactics against Alex Jones.”