oatmeal<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> / Newly released CIA report reveals Cold War activities targeting Israeli Communist Party</p><p>A declassified 1961 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CIA</span></a> report details the agency's surveillance of the Israeli Communist Party (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MAKI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAKI</span></a>). The 25-page document, released under the Trump administration, examines MAKI's leadership, its youth wing, and its connections to various Israeli organizations. The report highlights the CIA's concerns about the party's political influence and its efforts to undermine it. The report details the party's membership, split by ethnicity and origin. The report also reveals the CIA's focus on encouraging internal divisions within the party. </p><p>[...] The secret document reveals a glimpse of the depth of American global imperialist activity, and one can only wonder how involved then-Prime Minister Ben-Gurion was in the anti-democratic campaign in Israel, as according to the document, he expressed concern on more than one occasion that 'MAKI, MAPAM, and Israeli leftists would seize power</p><p>This release is part of a larger declassification effort related to the John F. Kennedy assassination.</p><p>Hebrew <a href="https://zoha.org.il/136188/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">zoha.org.il/136188/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>israel</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zionism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USImperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USImperialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWar</span></a></p>