Yellow Cake in Niger
WMDs in Iraq
Chavez in Venezuela

you get my drift....

as in right wing you mean.

Or right as in say the right thing they want you to say.

But not right as in true.

Harry Truman regretted signing off on it within months. "I didn't think it was going to be a goddamn cloak-and-dagger outfit," he said. Truman had been misled by the proponents of the CIA, thinking that it was just going to gather intelligence to help the president and Congress make better decisions. Almost immediately, they began killing people, plotting the overthrow of governments.

The CIA is not a good organization gone bad. It has been evil from the start.

the coups and assassinations started right away.

The United States recruited Nazi scientists after the end of World War II and put them to work on secret military and intelligence programs during the Cold War -- that is the astonishing topic of a new book published this week.

In "Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America," journalist Annie Jacobsen documents how the Joint Chiefs of Staff brought more than 1,600 German scientists to work for the U.S. after 1945.

The book describes the roles of 21 Nazi scientists who were part of Operation Paperclip, drawing on declassified intelligence and historical records to detail their startling role in America's Cold War effort. According to Jacobson, the scientists had helped Adolf Hitler to develop weapons such as sarin gas and weaponized bubonic plague, and several had even stood trial for war crimes.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/13/operation-paperclip_n_4781137.html

But I guess we might not have made it to the moon without Werner von Braun.

the fahter of modern rocketry wasn't American.

to assassinate Castro.

They've been telling us for years that they're James Bond when too often they're the Spy with One Red Shoe.

one of a few attempts.

And speaking of which, they pretty much got everything that had to do with the Cuban revolution wrong as well.

Poppy Bush and some dude by the name of Angleton took out JFK for wanting to disband this Agency. No wonder our President is reluctant to move against certain people. There has to be a ton of stuff in those Snowden papers to come.

it's to keep the interests of the corporate elites safe.

But a case can be made that they end up failing at that as well, with their wonderful talent for creating blow back that bites the elites in the ass along with the rest of us.

Iran is a good example. They topple the democratically elected government there in 1953 to protect the interests of Western oil companies. In what would become standard operating procedure, they then install a brutal, pro-American dictator (the Shah) who represses the population until he's overthrown and replaced with a regime that's hostile to the US (the Ayatollah).



"I want to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds." JFK

I wish he had been successful.

I'll add that.

Mostly agree with what you say.

...supposedly, he cleaned the place up...