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CIA's Creator Came to Regret It ... Said the CIA Was a 'Government All Its Own' Which Was Destroying Democracy |
2017-03-10 |
[Zero Hedge] President Truman created the CIA. He explained that it was solely an attempt to consolidate intelligence from many different intelligence agencies (page 285): I needed ... the President needed at that time a central organization that would bring all the various intelligence reports we were getting in those days, and there must have been a dozen of them, maybe more, bring them all into one organization so that the President would get one report on what was going on in various parts of the world. Now that made sense, and that's why I went ahead and set up what they called the Central Intelligence Agency. I think [creation of the CIA] was a mistake. And if I'd know what was going to happen, I never would have done it. Why, they've got an organization over there in Virginia now that is practically the equal of the Pentagon in many ways. And I think I've told you, one Pentagon is one too many. Now, as nearly as I can make out, those fellows in the CIA don't just report on wars and the like, they go out and make their own, and there's nobody to keep track of what they're up to. They spend billions of dollars on stirring up trouble so they'll have something to report on. They've become ... it's become a government all of its own and all secret. They don't have to account to anybody. Similarly, President Kennedy said he wanted "to splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds". But he was assassinated a month later. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#3 NSA might need some housekeeping too. |
Posted by: 3dc 2017-03-10 16:06 |
#2 A good housecleaning is called for in the intelligence community and the State Dept. Possibly, some of the CIA intelligence load can be shifted to the military branches. |
Posted by: JohnQC 2017-03-10 15:58 |
#1 They spend billions of dollars on stirring up trouble so they'll have something to report on. And so it would seem a budget cut really is in order. |
Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-03-10 10:43 |