Because it puts the accent on psychological warfare, LIC is sometimes seen by far left activists as a veritable Deus ex machina, allowing Washington to manipulate at will the situation in the Philippines. Every division inside the workers' movement, every significant divergence within the
Communist movement risks being simply analyzed as the product of imperialist manipulation. So there is a great danger
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Cotabato that the only response to disunity will be the denunciation of the manipulative hand and of the suspicious naiveté of the manipulated.
Things are certainly much less clear.
The US Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) and other intelligence services evidently try to exploit the divisions of the left both at the trade union and political level, and indeed the divergences that are expressed even inside the CPP. But disunity is also, indeed above all, rooted in the socio-political history of the country and in the complex experience of international socialism. To overcome it, responses other than mere denunciation are necessary.
It is not simply a matter of the involve-
Clark air base
13th Air Force
Area: 55,000 hectares
Military personnel: 8,000
Civilians: 800
Dependants: 12,000
Injection into economy: $115m.
Capacity: 800 aircraft
Subic naval base
Radar & supply depot of US 7th Fleet
Area: 26,000 hectares (11,000 water)
Military personnel: 7,000
Clvilians: 500
Dependants: 6,200
Injection into economy: $ 200m.
Ships inport daily: 12
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