The people staffing the OSS & early CIA (and State Dept in those years) tended to overlap with Wall Street (and sometimes go back & forth to Wall Street as with Bill Casey). So easy to imagine covert info feeding into stock market purchases.
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In his novel, Libra, Don DeLillo talks about that topic. The CIA agents thought they were doing good for the nation and themselves financially.
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Package this as a fun empirical test for any rumored CIA action that could/should have had market-moving effects
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I think the United Fruit Company owned half of Guatemala.
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Is that why US stocks went up after the Russian/GOP coup of '16? "All the Shah's Men" by Stephen Kinzer is imo, the best book on the Iranian coup.
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Paul Linebarger, the CIA spook who wrote science fiction as Cordwainer Smith, did a little insider trading. (You have to scan down to the reply to a long letter.) https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1996/12/29/letters/e6f65c41-a475-4ef8-b1b5-3e7a05d3e98f/ …
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Holy cow! That's really interesting. I think
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Part of an intricate system of economic extraction, which is an all out assault on humanity. We have two choices, give up this failed paradigm and embrace the possibility of a utopian society or continue on this trend in which increasing violence hate must be taught/inflicted.
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