Just curious. As far back as I remember I only hear about them destabilizing countries that aren’t fully in the pocket of American powerplayers. Sometimes they assassinate people, sometimes instigate coups, subvert media… and the #1 way to encounter them seems to be to try and take back control locally of one’s country’s oil and other valuable resources.
So my question is, have they ever done anything good?
They did write this manual on how to resist facism, which went viral recently, so I guess there’s that?
https://www.404media.co/content/files/2025/02/simplesabotage.pdf
Also operation Argo to rescue 6 trapped US diplomats during the Iranian hostage crisis.
Depending on your perspective, operation paperclip, which brought 1,600 German scientists to the US after WW2, might also qualify, though that will depend on:
A. How “forced” you think their Nazi party affiliations were, and how culpable you believe they were for the Nazi’s crimes in general
B. What you think their lives would have been like had they stayed in Germany or, more likely, been “recruited” by Russia in their own competing operation, as indeed many were.
Von Braun oversaw the construction of missiles in factories that used forced Jewish (and other targeted groups) labour.