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The CIA’s New “Woke” Façade
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
02 Jun 2021

Margaret Kimberley · The CIA’s New “Woke” Façade

The planet’s premier assassination and regime-change agency is advertising itself as a “woke” workplace populated by young Black, Latina and LGBTQ staffers. The ads are “an attempt to blend identity politics and intersectionality with imperialism,” said Ramiro Sebastion Funez, on his podcast “Unmasking Imperialism.”

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