Thursday, March 9, 2017

Washington's Blog — The President Who Created the CIA Came to Regret It … Said the CIA Was a “Government All Its Own” Which Was Destroying Democracy


Harry Truman.

Washington's Blog
The President Who Created the CIA Came to Regret It … Said the CIA Was a “Government All Its Own” Which Was Destroying Democracy … “Something the Founding Fathers Didn’t Have In Mind”
WashingtonsBlog

7 comments:

lastgreek said...

Tom, when did it become a paramilitary organisation?

John said...

lastgreek, from day one.

Tom Hickey said...

Actually, before day one.

The CIA was cobbled out of existing "intel" ops during WWII. This included intel and covert operations.

In addition, US intel integrated German intel post WWII.

Wikipedia

This goes into some detail

How Was The CIA Formed? By absorbing the Nazi war criminal infrastructure by Jared Israel

Malmo's Ghost said...

Easily the worst governmental entity in modern American history--that includes the FBI too.

Tom Hickey said...

Easily the worst governmental entity in modern American history--that includes the FBI too.

That saying something since J. Edgar Hoover was essentially a dictator.

GLH said...

Do you think that the CIA has just met its Waterloo with latest Wikileaks?

GLH said...

Kennedy was going to destroy the CIA because it was a criminal organization set up by people like Meyer Lansky. Oswald was killed by Jack Rubinstein to keep him from going to trial.
http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/wikileaks-password-is-an-anticia-jfk-quote/news-story/d6c1cc5385c4f1330bb87f1be2ecefa3
The CIA killed Kennedy and Oswald was just a patsy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbR6vHXD1j0