How the US Is Cementing Its World Domination

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The gigantic U.S. spying apparatus had its origins in the Philippines.

How the US Is Cementing Its World Domination
Die Presse, Austria

How the US Is Cementing Its World Domination
By Burkhard Bischof
Translated By Holly Bickerton
11 November 2013
Edited by Bora Mici

Neither James R. Clapper, director of National Intelligence, nor Keith B. Alexander, NSA director, is a particularly good ambassador for his native United States. They are typical, gruff, standoffish career soldiers, but, without a doubt, both understand a great deal about the business of spying. In this respect, they are the right men, in the right jobs.

It was also military men who stood at the dawn of the U.S. intelligence apparatus, as the American historian Alfred McCoy, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, writes in the August issue of Lettre International. In 1901, Gen. Ralph Van Deman became head of the Military Intelligence Division of the American occupying forces in the Philippines and began to gather detailed information about thousands of Filipinos.

Back home, in America, he formed the Army's Military Intelligence Division, which, together with the FBI, compiled over a million pages of surveillance documents on American citizens of German descent during World War I. McCoy calls this "the institutional foundations for a future internal security state." The next victims of the new spying apparatus were left-wingers and trade unionists. When Van Deman retired in 1929 — a major general by that time — he had over a quarter-million of files on suspected "subversives" in his house in San Francisco.

Clearly, spying on fellow citizens had become something of an addiction for some secret service agents. Since then, the U.S. has been busily building a surveillance state on an unprecedented scale. George W. Bush’s successor, Obama, is expanding the surveillance systems he created after 9/11.