# Claims of CIA and MI6 Influence on European Politics

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118826696790983162
- Source account: [@StapelAndrew](https://x.com/StapelAndrew)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:35
- Published: 2026-11-07
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5g94Qhcx99pQ/en/claims-of-cia-and-mi6-influence-on-european-politics

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5g94Qhcx99pQ/en/claims-of-cia-and-mi6-influence-on-european-politics) I take some hope from the fact that I was there.

[0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5g94Qhcx99pQ/en/claims-of-cia-and-mi6-influence-on-european-politics?t=4) I know what we did. I know what we did to Europe.

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5g94Qhcx99pQ/en/claims-of-cia-and-mi6-influence-on-european-politics?t=9) I know how painstakingly the agency, CIA, how painstakingly SIS, MI6, and to a certain extent Mossad, though they weren't, uh, in the beginning willing partners, they became partners because they saw how much money was going into it.

[0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5g94Qhcx99pQ/en/claims-of-cia-and-mi6-influence-on-european-politics?t=29) How we, in this Asian scholar's words, "Taught the dogs to bark."

[0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5g94Qhcx99pQ/en/claims-of-cia-and-mi6-influence-on-european-politics?t=35) We bought newspaper editors. We bought labor union heads.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5g94Qhcx99pQ/en/claims-of-cia-and-mi6-influence-on-european-politics?t=39) We bought parliamentarians. We bought two secretaries general, Jens Stoltenberg and Mark Rutte.

[0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5g94Qhcx99pQ/en/claims-of-cia-and-mi6-influence-on-european-politics?t=47) We bought whole countries in terms of their political apparatus and what influences them.

[0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5g94Qhcx99pQ/en/claims-of-cia-and-mi6-influence-on-european-politics?t=54) Starting in two thousand and two, really putting the rubber to the road, as in billions of dollars to the CIA and others.

[1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5g94Qhcx99pQ/en/claims-of-cia-and-mi6-influence-on-european-politics?t=63) US aid was an instrument. They weaponized liberal democracy.

[1:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5g94Qhcx99pQ/en/claims-of-cia-and-mi6-influence-on-european-politics?t=68) We created the Europe that exists right now on purpose, and now we're paying the piper for that, I think, because it's gonna take another six to twelve, maybe eighteen months to get rid of some of these people.

[1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5g94Qhcx99pQ/en/claims-of-cia-and-mi6-influence-on-european-politics?t=83) And the parliaments, God knows how long it's gonna take to get rid of the people there.

[1:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5g94Qhcx99pQ/en/claims-of-cia-and-mi6-influence-on-european-politics?t=87) We painstakingly crafted Europe in the image we wanted.