Nothing notable distinguished the birth of Heinz Alfred Kissinger on 27 May 1923 to a German Jewish family in Furth, a city in Bavaria.
In 1938, when he was 15, he and his family fled Nazi Germany to New York before Kristallnacht. When the adolescent Heinz became Henry in the US, while retaining his heavy German accent, no one could have predicted that he would order the murder of hundreds of thousands of people as an adult, and become a millionaire as a result.
Anti-Communist Propaganda During The Korean War
At the age of 20 in 1943 Kissinger was drafted into the US army. That same year he was naturalised as a US citizen. Serving in army intelligence due to his German fluency and was put in charge of US occupied Germany and the denazification program.
After the war he attended Harvard. While still at school in 1952 he worked for the US government Psychological Strategy Board. Created in 1951 it’s function was to propagandise against communism in support of US and “democracy”. This was during the Korean war where the United States had cut the Peoples Republic of Korea (unified Korea) in half at the 38th parallel and declared a military dictatorship in the south of Korea where the national language was English.
As a result of this murderous war in pursuit of US hegemony (who’s intention had been to cut through north of Korea, into China then on into the Soviet Union) US imperialism murdered up to 20 percent of the population.
Nuclear Policy"Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — 20 percent of the population," Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean War, told the Office of Air Force History in 1984. Dean Rusk, a supporter of the war and later secretary of state, said the United States bombed "everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another." After running low on urban targets, U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops.
https://www.vox.com/2015/8/3/9089913/no ... -war-crime
He was also study director in nuclear weapons and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations in 1955-56, and published his book Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy in 1957, arguing that the US should use tactical nuclear weapons on a regular basis in war to ensure victory. Critics would later parody him as “Dr Henry Killinger”, as the cartoon show Venture Bros did in the 2000s.
His right-wing authorised biographer, Niall Ferguson, states that the argument of Kissinger’s book “might very easily be presented as evidence” that he was “the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove”. Kissinger finally received tenure at Harvard with the support of the dean, McGeorge Bundy, despite faculty objections that his book on nuclear weapons was not scholarly.
Kissinger and the Rockefellers – A Match Made In Hell
He did not limit himself to academe, but became a consultant to politicians and presidential candidates, such as Nelson Rockefeller. When Bundy became President John F Kennedy’s national security adviser in 1961, Kissinger joined him as an adviser, a position he would retain under Lyndon Johnson.
Even though Kissinger believed in the futility of the US war in Vietnam, he conspired with Richard Nixon’s electoral campaign in 1968 by leaking information to it from the Paris Peace Talks to prolong the war, lest the Democrats win the elections. Once Nixon was elected, Kissinger came on board as national security adviser in January 1969, a position he occupied until 1975.
Nixon referred to him as “Jew boy”, but it seems right-wing antisemitism never bothered him, as he had been a lifelong conservative Republican. He also served as secretary of state from September 1973 until January 1977.
Rockefellers and Population Control
Rising high in the Nixon administration was the rise of the Neo-Malthusians who proudly proclaimed the need to control population sizes. Culminating in National Security Memorandum 200 (nicknamed the "Kissinger Report" which outlined
Bombing of Vietnam, Laos and CambodiaThe basic thesis of the memorandum was that population growth in the least developed countries (LDCs) is a concern to US national security, because it would tend to risk civil unrest and political instability in countries that had a high potential for economic development. The policy gives "paramount importance" to population control measures and the promotion of contraception among 13 populous countries to control rapid population growth which the US deems inimical to the socio-political and economic growth of these countries and to the national interests of the United States since the "U.S. economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad" and the countries can produce destabilizing opposition forces against the US.
In summary, the NSSM200 provides four main observations:[3]
1. Population growth of foreign nations provides more geopolitical power and possible opposition to US interests
2. The United States relies on countries being underdeveloped in order to easily obtain natural resources
3. High birth rates result with more younger individuals who oppose established governments
4. American businesses are vulnerable to interference by foreign governments that are required to provide for growing populations
It recommends that US leadership "influence national leaders" and that "improved world-wide support for population-related efforts should be sought through increased emphasis on mass media and other population education and motivation programs by the UN, USIA, and USAID."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_ ... randum_200
The Johnson administration began it’s war against Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in 1965 which intensified under the Nixon admin.
In early March 1969, Kissinger told Nixon:
“Hit them!”
http://library.lol/main/CC080A03F951A79 ... EBC7D1258A
By 1973, between 150,000 and half a million Cambodians were killed. Kissinger callously described the excessive bombing by saying: “We would rather err on the side of doing too much.”
Just as the United States had wanted to drop a “pearl of nuclear bombs” around China during the Korean war, Kissinger was advocating to drop nuclear bombs on North Vietnam and the codenamed “Duck Hook”.
1965 Indonesian Genocide"I refuse to believe that a little fourth-rate power like North Vietnam does not have a breaking point," Kissinger confessed. "It shall be the assignment of this group to examine the option of a savage, decisive blow against North Vietnam. You start without any preconceptions at all." The president, he told them, wanted a "military plan designed for maximum impact on the enemy's military capability" in order to "force a rapid conclusion" to the war.
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Regarding the latter requirement, the president would need to decide in advance "the fateful question of how far we will go. He cannot, for example, confront the issue of using tactical nuclear weapons in the midst of the exercise. He must be prepared to play out whatever string necessary in this case."
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB195/index.htm
IN 1965 both Britain and United States created black propaganda intended to stir up a civil war and genocide against Communists in Indonesia. This mass murder would come to be known as the "Jakarta Method".
Last year the Observer revealed how British officials secretly deployed black propaganda in the 1960s to incite prominent Indonesians to “cut out” the “communist cancer”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... communists
The British also wrote the script for a ghoulish radio broadcast, purportedly from the dead generals whose bodies had been dumped in a well. “Worms may feed upon our rotting flesh,” cried the dead generals “but our voices have become the voices of the Nation’s conscience.” “Oh Subandrio!” they shrieked, “Do you not think that a hangman’s rope is too easy a way out for such a man as you?”
Immediately after the coup attempt, General Suharto took control of the Indonesian army and oversaw the massacres of the anti-communist purge. Over the next months, the rightwing, pro-west Suharto usurped the ailing Sukarno. He was appointed acting president in 1967 and then president the following year. His dictatorship lasted for 32 years.
It is estimated that at least 500,000 people linked to the Indonesia communist party (PKI) were eliminated between 1965 and 1966.Armed with wide-bladed knives called parangs, Moslem bands crept at night into the homes of communists, killing
entire families. ... Travellers ... tell of small rivers and streams that have been literally clogged with bodies. River
transportation has at places been seriously impeded.
Time magazine, December 1965
Nearly 100 Communists, or suspected Communists, were herded into the town's botanical garden
and mowed down with a machine gun ... the head chat had belonged to the school principal, a P.K.I.
[Communist Party] member, was stuck on a pole and paraded among his former pupils, convened in
special assembly.
New York Times, May 1966
The Indonesian Communist party was the largest Communist Party outside of China.
Indonesia held a very important geopolitcal role in the “non-aligned movement” stating they did not want to be part of either the United States led imperialist West or the Soviet/Chinese communism.
Murdering everyone even tangentially connected to the Indonesian Communist Party was a big win for the United States and would keep Indonesia as a poor supplier of raw materials to the West without their own industrial development.
Mao had warned the Indonesian Communist Party to arm itself and prepare for war. The Communist Party of Indonesia – with it’s huge public support and affiliation to trade unions did not do so believing in a “transitional state” being able to take place.
What happened next can be seen in the broken eyes of the documentary, Act Of Killing and Look Of Silence, where degenerate cosmopolitan lumpen-proletariat scum, brainwashed by American gangster movies relive the “exciting” mass murders they partook in.
1970 Chilean Genocide – Overthrowing Salvaldor Allende
When Allende was democratically elected by the country in 1970 Kissinger stated:
“I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.”
He pushed Nixon to organise a violent coup against Allende, subjecting the country to fascist rule for the next decade and a half, with thousands killed by the US-supported military junta.
Simarlily to the tragedy of Indonesia, Allende had ignored Castro's plea to form a Dictatorship of the Proletariat capable of defending itself and reigning a terror on reactionaries.
Whilst insisting on a "second way"During the month that Castro spent inspecting the novel “revolutionary process” underway in Chile during the fall of 1971, he and his old friend Allende met frequently for inti mate breakfast conversations. One morning Allende listened to Castro go on at length about weaknesses in the “revolutionary mobilization of the masses,” about labor indiscipline, the evils of parliamentary democracy, “fascist reaction” and other dangers detected by the Cuban. Then Allende handed Castro a batch of papers. They were recent speeches delivered by leaders of the opposition in Congress, in the universities and in private busi ness assemblies, as well as some critical editorials published by Chile's free‐swinging political press. “Read these, and then we will talk,” Allende said.
The next day at breakfast, Castro gave his as sessment: “If you don't get these people under control, the revolution is not going to succeed. We were never up against anything like this in Cuba.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/17/arch ... t-get.html
The working people of Chile paid dearly for Allende's social-democratic opportunism. And they paid for it in mass murder, forced disappearances and a regime of torture.Allende claims that this is Chile's historic opportunity to open a “second way” to socialism without the human costs of revolutionary violence.
1971 West Pakistan Invades East Pakistan
West Pakistan invaded what is now Bangladesh.
1975 Genocide Against East TimorNixon and Kissinger knew that “selective genocide,” as the US envoy to Dhaka described the brutality of the invasion, was taking place. But they silently extended military aid to Pakistan. The result was half a million dead, hundreds of thousands of women raped, and millions of refugees pouring into India. At one point, Nixon compared the slaughter to the Holocaust, indicating that he realized the immorality of remaining quiet. Kissinger told him not to worry. Kissinger wanted to appease Pakistan’s ally, China. And Pakistan itself was an important Cold War friend.
Greg Grandin, Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman, p71
With Suharto in Indonesia, a right wing anticommunist puppet of the United States, now in power and the Communist Party scattered to the winds Suharto was now free to attack the people of East Timor. Asking Kissinger for a green light before commencing his attack.
Indonesia, with its vast natural resources, including significant oil reserves, was even more important. On December 6, 1975, on a layover in Jakarta on the way back to Washington from a state visit to China, Kissinger and President Gerald Ford had given the country’s president, Suharto, the go-ahead to invade East Timor, a former Portuguese colony seeking independence. Would it be a “long guerilla war”? Kissinger wanted to know. “A small guerilla war,” Suharto replied. “It is important that whatever you do succeeds quickly,” Kissinger said, asking only that Suharto wait until he and Ford had returned to the United States before launching the operations. The conversation then turned to Indonesian petroleum production, with Kissinger advising Suharto to “not create a climate that discourages investment.” Suharto was in even more of a hurry than Kissinger. He had been planning the invasion for some time but fear of diplomatic isolation led him to hold off. Now that he had his green light, he began the assault on East Timor the next day. At least 102,800 Timorese were killed in the invasion and during the twenty-four-year Indonesian occupation, either in combat or by starvation and illness, according to a United Nations truth commission. Other sources estimate an even higher number of victims, including hundreds of thousands put in Indonesian concentration camps. This out of a population of less than 700,000. Throughout it all, Suharto continued to receive thousands of M-16s and other small arms, armored cars, and aircraft, including Bronco planes, specially designed during the Vietnam War for counterinsurgent operations, able to fly low over rugged terrain like that found in East Timor. Major fighting went on for three years, followed by a low intensity counterinsurgency that continued until 1999.
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With Kissinger becomes the personification of US's murderous foreign policy. The problem is that US foreign policy is not reducible to a single individual. Later in life Kissinger was outmaneuvered by war-hawks in the US Admin.
Showing that Kissingers foreign policy became moderate as US imperialism desired ever more domination.
A boogeyman to be upheld and personally attacked, he acts as a shield for the entire liberal establishment which deserves the actual condemnation.
