keep in mind this is a cia radio station. at the outset, the agency is concerned with how do we create a cover story to hide this? so, they came up with an ingenious idea that they are going to create the fiction that it's supported by private donations. do is they they create an elaborate fundraising drive called the crusade for freedom. that continued for 20 years. it went through a name change in 1960. each year, every year, it asked americans to contribute money to support the cause of radio free europe. and a sort of put that into perspective, imagine an advertising campaign. that goes on for 20 years. encouraging americans to buy a particular product. only you can't see that product, you can't use that product or in this case, you cannot hear it. because radio free europe is the product. it's broadcasting overseas. behind the iron curtain. a. place where americans can go -- can't og. they are, asking for donations from americans to contribute this product of radio free europe. a thing they never listen to. asking funds

>> keep in mind this is a cia radio station. is concerned with how to we create a cover story to hide this. they came up with the ingenious idea that they are going to create the fiction supported by private donations. they create in elaborate fundraising drive. it went for 20 years and each year every year it asked americans to contribute money to support the cause of radio free europe. imagine an advertising campaign. only you can't see that product, you can't use that product, or in this case you can't hear it. europe is the product, it is broadcasting overseas. they are asking donations for americans to contribute money thisuy this product campaign asking funds for american citizens was endorsed by every president from truman to nixon. the interesting thing is the media continually supported this campaign from 1914 to 1970's -- 1942 the 1970's. 1940 two the 1970's. asking americans for money. it came out in 1967 that the cia was behind this, as the result of an upstart new left magazine out of san francisco called ramparts m

keep in mind, this was a cia radio station. at the outset, the agency is concerned with how do we create a cover story to hide this? they came up with these -- the ingenious idea that they will create the fiction that it is supported by private donations. they created an elaborate fundraising drive called the crusade for freedom. .hat continued for 20 years it went through a name change in 1960. it went for 20 years, and each year, it asked americans to contribute money to support the cause of radio free europe. perspective,n imagine an advertising campaign that goes on for 20 years. it encourages americans to buy a particular product. that product,see can't use that product, or in this case, you cannot hear it. radio free europe is the product. it is broadcasting overseas. it is behind the iron curtain, a place where americans cannot go. they're asking donations for americans to contribute money, buy this product of radio free europe. i can never listen to it. asking funds for american citizens was endorsed by every president

this that's ite came out that the cia was behind -- it came out that the cia was behind this. expose of ashed an broad range of private american groups that the agency was secretly funding. most scandalous was a group of college students who are anti-communist college students. it was funded quite lavishly. did is that itle traced the web of foundation that the cia used to hide its sponsorship. typically what would happen is for realould get money foundations like the ford foundation. they would funnel money through this foundation and that would write the checks that would pay for the parent organization. revealing how the funding source was revealed, cbs news in 1967 and exposed a larger range of groups. this was a big news story for precisely one day. was going onabout here, it was disclosed for 17 years. there was this phony fundraising charade. large to mr. propaganda and advertising campaign. new story for one day and then was gone. thereafter, the campaign continue to be at even after we knew cia was behind it, media organizations, journalists and politicians continued

keep in mind this is a cia radio station. outset, the agency is concerned with, how do we create a cover story to hide to this? so they came up with the ingenious idea that they are going to create the fiction supported by private donations. so what they did is created an elaborate fundraising drive that continued for 20 years, with a name change in 1960, but for 20 years, and each year every year it asked americans to contribute , money to support the cause of radio free europe. and to sort of put that into perspective, imagine an advertising campaign that goes on for 20 years, encouraging americans to buy a particular product, only you cannot see that product, you cannot use that product, or in this case you can't hear it. ,because radio free europe is the product. it is broadcasting overseas, behind the iron curtain, a place where americans cannot go, so they are asking donations from americans to contribute money product, radio free europe, this campaign asking for funds from american citizens endorsed by every president

keep in mind this is a cia radio station. so at the outset, the agency is concerned with how do we create a cover story to hide to this? so they came up with the ingenious idea that they are going to create the fiction that it is supported by private donations. so what they did is created an elaborate fundraising drive that continued for 20 years, with a name change in 1960, but for 20 years. each year every year, it asked americans to contribute money to support the cause of radio free europe. and to sort of put that into perspective, imagine an advertising campaign that goes on for 20 years, encouraging americans to buy a particular product. only you cannot see that product, you cannot use that product, or in this case, you can't hear it. because radio free europe is the -- the interesting thing is the media continually supported this campaign from 1940 to the 1970's. asking americans for money. it came out in 1967 that the cia was behind this, as the result of an upstart new left magazine out of san francisco called "rampa

cia documents that just recently have been declassified shows strong ties between u.s. intelligence and ukrainian nationalists since one thousand nine hundred forty six from the cia agency report it is clear that they were not mistaken about the nature of ukrainian nationalist organizations or their leader step on bond dare i himself according to an o.s.'s report of september one thousand nine hundred forty five bundy era had earned a fierce reputation for conducting a reign of terror during world war two after the second world war under another ukrainian nazi leaders fled to europe where the cia helped them hide. the cia later inform the immigration and naturalization service that it had concealed steffen bond darragh and other ukrainians from the soviets the operations involving ukrainians continued for many years the nuremberg trials of one thousand nine hundred forty five in one nine hundred forty six brought the political economic and military leaders of fascist germany to justice and revealed to the world the monstrous face of naziism and the crimes they committed

foreign policies right now you have a foreign policy which is coming out of congress coming out of the cia and part of the state department and then you have a truck foreign policy which is a family in french foreign policy and that's what's protecting m.p.'s at this point the question is not of troops going to change his positions not but how for congress will go to try to hold not only m.p.'s but also trump accountable or for what is the murder of a journalist and why are human rights abuse so the thaw you were there in istanbul at the heart of this oh i'm going saga so clearly this is going to generate more political anger and heat in washington what will it do to the political debate taking place in your country. well turkey's position was very clear from the very beginning this was a brutal murder premeditated of course and it is obviously be find out that there are some unknown personalities would indeed government of saudi arabia who actually ordered this solidity. i agree with totally with the professor in rome that it is nothing to do with the shutdown. i mean this is actually. a

is just accused for example senator lindsey graham a republican a close ally of donald trump and the cia of being allies of iran in a conspiracy to try to pull the u.s. out of yemen let's get to what the real point here is i think that u.s. agencies and u.s. congress will not be able to go after to be yes they won't be able to hold him responsible but where you might see the effect is this because many come. most men are so angry and the agencies are so unsettled by what trump is not there may be a move for legislation which will cut u.s. arms sales to saudi arabia and possibly into u.s. support for the saudi led intervention which includes the u.a.e. in the yemeni civil war you've got that on the one side but the problem is is that on the other side you've got the trump administration which is pursuing regime change in iran so if you go too hard against the saudis over young men if you go to war against them b.s. you pretty much undercut that trungpa ministration approach which is to change the leadership in tehran which way does u.s. foreign policy go to actually try to hold the saudis

it here is the actual memorandum from the inspector general of the cia security notified me that they had conducted an inquiry prob did by routine counterintelligence monitoring of government computer systems as a result cia personnel obtained e-mails between our executive director of whistle blowing and congressional staff it was routine monitoring of computer systems we just had. to read even whistleblowers communiques into congress we were not dating sketchy. that's like some dude taking up skirt photo and then saying it was just routine photographing all the yes that happened to point up her skirt the no continued i am concerned about the potential compromise the whistleblower confidentiality and the consequent chilling effect that the president monitoring system might have on intelligence community whistle blowing. is concerned that maybe spying on whistleblowers could hurt their confidentiality and good possibly create a chilling effect on future whistle blowing of course and well you thank thank you thank you thank you. drug cartel hit man saying i'm a little concerned that kil

according to david de graw the cia was able to stay one step ahead and manipulate the process and they ended up effectively countering and shutting down the congressional investigations and these were the few whistleblower complaints that were actually investigated to begin with here's the actual memorandum from the inspector general of the cia security notified me that they had conducted an inquiry prob did by routine counterintelligence monitoring of government computer systems as a result cia personnel obtained e-mails between our executive director of whistle blowing and congressional staff it was routine monitoring of computer systems we just had. to read even mellows about whistleblowers communiques into congress we were not do anything sketchy now that's like some dude taking up skirt photo and then saying it was just routine photographing all of. that happened to point up her skirt the note continued i am concerned about. the potential compromise the whistleblower confidentiality and the consequent chilling effect that the present monitoring system might have on intelligence co

is just accused for example senator lindsey graham a republican a close ally of donald trump and the cia of being allies of iran in a conspiracy to try to pull the u.s. out of yemen let's get to what the real point here is i think that u.s. agencies and u.s. congress will not be able to go after him b.s. they won't be able to hold him responsible for where you might see the instructors is because many come. most men are so angry and the agencies are so unsettled by what trump is not there may be a move for legislation which will cut u.s. arms sales to saudi arabia and possibly into u.s. support for the saudi led intervention which includes the u.a.e. in the yemeni civil war you've got that on the one side but the problem is is that on the other side you've got the trump administration which is pursuing regime change in iran so if you go too hard against the saudis over young men if you go to war against them b.s. you pretty much undercut that troponin astrachan approach which is to change the leadership in tehran which way does u.s. foreign policy go to actually try to hold the saudis to

on all the way back to when i was first putting the briefing together for president clinton and his cia director it was well known that there was there are deep secrets on this issue but for the most part the elected officials at least in this country aren't given control over those projects if you doubt this go remember what jimmy carter said after he became president when he tried to look into this and president carter said that when someone asked what it's like being the most powerful man in the world he said i wasn't that man because there were things that they would not tell me about and i had no control over so this is a really big problem for democracy and for governance all over the world this level of secrecy and it's reached the point in at least in the united states the united kingdom and a number of other countries where the secrecy is and of itself criminal i'm saying this very specifically and has subverted the constitution and the rule of law and proper oversight and this is what we found with president obama and with clinton also if you look all the way back to the time

way to reagan and so on but i mean jeanne a house full of a hands on torture is now director of the cia so much for accountability. clapper and brendan during the obama era both lie under oath to congress in the house and the senate didn't run the risk terminus well there were no more cash and no repercussions for them so and you know the same people have been elevated in the trump administration to these positions house bill is just one example at the cia and pompei oh becoming secretary of state dan coats they're all ripped from from the same page a lot of them have prior military experience and experience within what i think we ben rhodes called the blob and he identified the blob there in your. administration as the the both the commentary it's the appointed bureaucracy the city is if you will that is unelected and that formulates us foreign policy and has repeatedly formulated a policy of a germany and regime change that has failed again and again and again so mr ideology you saw in through the open to your because it has nothing to do with political party what i mean coming back t

have taken part in a cia program of rendition. yes the good old cia rendition program raises its ugly head again you remember that wonderful program value that was the whole plot where the cia contractor didn't use private airlines to transport individuals they abducted who were suspected of being terrorists to secret black sites around the world where then they experience that most lovely of us exports enhanced interrogations or torture for us laymen for its part both twenty one error on the company responsible for chartering the plane to venezuela g.p.s. or have denied any accusations of gun running the venezuelan for the us government says other messages and a manager a g.p.s. the squits said quote the cargo doesn't belong to twenty one air it doesn't belong to g.p.s. air quote naturally would be controversial elliott abrams of iran contra fame skulking around d.c. sitting at the forefront of current us foreign policy in operations in venezuela this whole gun flights and all of that has raised many eyebrows and concerns which i

and so this model was made by the cia. dino brujioni was given this after he left the cia.n after he passed away, his son gave this ear to the museum. this is a very unique piece of cold war history, created by the cia, to make sure that a foreign leader was identified correctly when he was out in public. we had different exhibits here, little information on different spies who were caught, and what espionage is about. and how you're able to communicate secretly, covertly. a little parody on spy versus spy through "mad" magazine, a cold war era cartoon that would talk about the black spy and the white spy and how they tried to get the best of each other. a little more information on espionage, human intelligence. and how people would go into foreign countries illegally, set up a foreign cover, and then extract information to bring back to their country's homeland, such as rudolph abel. rudolph abel was the soviet spy who snuck into america in the '50s, worked with people such as the rosenbergs to get information back to the soviet union to find out the strengths and weaknes

been elevated in the trump administration to these positions house bill is just one example at the cia and pompei oh becoming secretary of state dan coats they're all ripped from from the same page a lot of them have prior military experience and experience within what i think we ben rhodes called the blob and he identified the blob during the obama administration as the the both the commentary it and the appointed bureaucracy the city is today if you will that is unelected and that formulates us foreign policy and has repeatedly formulated a policy of a gemini and regime change that has failed again and again and again so mr ideology you saw in through. to your week is it has nothing to do with political parties well i mean coming back to that conventional wisdom what does it mean conventional wisdom let's be blunt conventional means we've that means war then they want to make sure war happens always very possible i mean mr trump believes the i.m.f. treaty initiated there were some protests inside the united states in the european union then they realized that it was actually brillian

was given this when he left the cia.er he passed away, his son gave the ear to the museum. it was a unique piece of history to make sure a foreign leader was identified correctly when he was in public. we have some other exhibits, a little information on different spies who were caught, and what espionage is about and how you're able to communicate secretly, covertly. a little parody on spy versus "mad magazine" that talks about the black and white spy, how they try to get the best of each other. then we have a little more information on espionage, human intelligence, and how people would go in to foreign countries illegally, set up a foreign cover and then extract information to bring back to their country's homeland. such as rudolph abel. he was the soviet spy who snuck into america in the 1950's, he worked with people such as the rosenbergs to get information back to the soviet union to find out the strengths and weaknesses of america. here we have an exhibit on area 51 and the atomic bomb. what was taking place with

. >> but what that scammer didn't know is he called the former director of the cia and the fbi, now sharing his wild story and his warning. it's an nbc news exclusive. >>> pursued and vilified. george clooney sounding the alarm about princess diana and the frenzy following the new princess, her daughter-in-law. >>> and believe it or not, doggy dna. more and more families are having their best friends tested. would you do it? what you should know before you try it. >> this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> good evening, everyone. as we welcome our viewers in the west, the misery spread east today with winter storm warnings and alerts now stretching virtually coast to coast. much of the northeast battling snow and ice today. for others, a freezing, slushy mix. pennsylvania and new jersey under states of emergency from the same system that has been clobbering the upper midwest with blowing snow, causing spinouts on the roads, disru disrupting air travel and leaving many in the dark. our kathy park is out in it with the latest. >> reporter: winter still packing a brutal punch in much o

cia is somewhat exaggerated in many ways. i'm sorry. >> cia has never said, we did it. they made a point of reference that we did not do it. they're fairly adamant on that point. >> i just want to repeat, i mean, for over 150 years throughout almost all of the middle east, the secular military men had been beating the hell out of the religious establishments. they were submerging so it's not at all surprising that the idea that a cleric could come back and essentially rule the roost. it was pretty unthinkable. >> anyway, i'll open up the questions. please identify yourself and ask your question, not a comment. >> thank you very much. let's move forward a little bit, away from history. what's the future of the islamic republic? >> if you want to do this, it's your prerogative. this is one session we decided we're going to devote to history. if you want to know about jcpoa, good or bad, and have the taste great, less filling debate, there are plenty of places you can do that. what's the final anniversary? >> who knows. >> well, let me ask you a question that's different.

that might lend some credence to the idea he wants to build a better economy. >> ed: the cia can pullhat kind of intel together and suggest, this is somebody who wants to make a deal, this is somebody who wants to get his economy going again. >> first is understanding kim jong un's negotiation strategy. after the fire and fury period where he launched ballistic missiles and build the nuclear program, he resembled more of a chess player, his opening gambit at the olympics in south korea was to make an opening expressing a willingness to engage with the united states and south korea. he is cautious, and at the same time, he is the first north korean leader to cross the demarcation line at me with a south korean counterpart, the first to meet a sitting u.s. president. that might mean he is willing to make a bold step here in vietnam. >> ed: it is breathtaking how much openness that has been in just a few months. getting on this train, traveling through china, kim jong un, to get here to vietnam. what about the president, though? went back to his news conference after singapore, and he ta

the cia trained osama bin laden, supplied him with weapons to fight the soviets.ump forward to 9/11, osama bin laden uses some of what he has learned to attack america. here we have this tie in from the cold war to the war on terror. that is why it is so important for students to understand the significance of the cold war to understand how it got us here today. >> this weekend, american history tv joins our comcast cable partners to showcase the alia, california. to learn more, visit c-span.org/citiestour. we continue now to learn about the history of visalia. >> we are at a lake, it was dammed to capture some of the water for use in the valley. it was elevated to hold the percent more water fairly recently. it is used for recreation but is also a really important -- to us in the valley. one of the largest native americans inside a

the cia was not by the late 1970's. what has been said that henry kissinger had a deal with the shah that the americans were not really going to work the iranian targets. that the primary objective would be the soviet target, i think that would bear some fruit. i don't know how good american reporting would have been if kissinger had not made that agreement. there were two officers who were on the ground, both of them were state officers. be here andposed to i had asked michael to be here, but can't get him away from his farm in pennsylvania. it would be good to have their perspective as they look back now to see how much did they , whether theyate were in favor of the revolution or not. there were some very sympathetic to the downfall of the shah and others who were oblivious and those like kissinger, he is a bit earlier, who i think was just delusional. i remember a party in paris where kissinger was explaining to a young iranian woman where if her generation had only been more patient than somehow the shah would have

you still alive i mean why are you allowed to make documentaries stepped stream on that flakes the cia has killed people for way less than disclosing very close a huge government cover up. yeah there are three people on my team who have been assassinated who have been helping me including a former cia director i want to go into that right now however we have systems in place to protect what we're doing i have a lot of information that if something happened to me that would hit the internet that would be catastrophic for those folks so that's just something we put in place about twenty years ago and it's something that my view of it is is there are and this is the other thing there are people at the pentagon and cia i've dealt with who are very much in favor of disclosing this information so this is not a monolithic us versus them there's a huge number of people who are on the side of bringing this out all over the world of a friend of mine carol rosin who's worked very closely with senior russian contacts who want to see this disclosed for the same reasons we do so and we have similar

con backfired big-time when the professional scammer tried to extort thousands from former fbi and cia director william webster. nbc's pete williams has the exclusive report. >> reporter: the calls from jamaica promised a $15 million lottery prize in return for wiring $50,000 to cover taxes. but when the 90-year-old washington, d.c. man who didn't send phone any money and neither did his wife, the caller threatened violence. >> going to [ bleep ] kill you. i'm going to [ bleep ] kill your husband. i'm going to [ bleep ] set your house on fire. i'm not giving you any more warning. >> reporter: what the scammer w didn't reali that the man he targeted was william webster, former director of the cia and the fbi. >> it seemed to me that something wasn't quite right. this was pretty obvious to me that there was something about it. >> reporter: he and his wife linda notified the fbi. >> when heea tned violence, did it seem like a legitimate threat? >> he terrified me. he told me that what the sn sniper's bullet would do to my head. >> reporter: the fbi says thomau evly realized who william we

is just accused for example senator lindsey graham a republican a close ally of donald trump and the cia of being allies of iran in a conspiracy to try to pull the u.s. out of yemen let's get to what the real point here is i think that u.s. agencies and u.s. congress will not be able to go after to be yes they won't be able to hold him responsible but where you might see those factors is because many come. most men are so angry and the agencies are so unsettled by what trump is not there may be a move for legislation which will cut u.s. arms sales to saudi arabia and possibly into u.s. support for the saudi led intervention which includes the u.a.e. in the yemeni civil war you've got down on the one side but the problem is is that on the other side you've got the trump administration which is pursuing regime change in iran so if you go too hard against the saudis over young men if you go to war against them b.s. you pretty much undercut that trungpa ministration approach which is to change the leadership in tehran which way does u.s. foreign policy go to actually try to hold the saudis t

he said his mission was directed by the cia, but u.s. officials say the flights were privately directed. his wife joined him this week. onhas binge else and maybe trial in july. juan: the documentary also featured an interview with eugene hasenfus's wife sally. >>>> the next morning g i triedo call p president reagan. i thought, well, it is the only place i'm going to get answers. i should be able to trust him. he is ththe president. .nd i knew he knew he put me in touch with a man named elliot abrams. he said, i don't know who you are and i don't know what you're talking about. i got angry. before i hung up, he did admit he knew what i was talking about adding caps on warning me to be careful of the press and be careful what you say, because what you do. juan: interestingly or coincidentally, elliott abrams is now the special envoy of the white house to venezuela. of wondering your assessment this affair back then, the impact it had on what was going on at the time in terms of the work going on at the contras? >> i'm not sure i can real

the hospitals around the cia so manage to have run black sites from guantanamo and thailand you know about black sites i was in the cia black sites what works the worst for it like even when i talk about it it breaks me. i mean there they were there was no limitations to what they what what they can do to us not imitation whatever they want tons of detainees died under torture you just become a ghost it's been two three four five months one year and just blindfolded. loud music naked hand to the ceiling or tied to the wall sometimes they would defeat something we couldn't walk we collapse they would drag us to the ground i guess preferred if done and remember those the critics but it was not that help the detainees at guantanamo your bringing out a book will not from guantanamo you not at all like the art started the chinese the one you need to bride if your life we start losing your identity your tried to survive you try to scare the life in jail you try to find something which actually you need to forget that you can get that you feel the pain but everything around you examine to b