The CIA has performed terribly through the years. They spend more on fixing mistakes than anything else. Military intelligence has a far better structure for accountability Too many daydreamers in the CIA. You understand
Dear Peter,
I concur. But on a different level.
The worst CIA daydreamers of them all were those wishful and/or spiteful, under-endowded "thinkers" like Leonard McCoy, John L. Hart, Bruce Solie and Richards J. Heuer who so desperately wanted to believe that Yuri Nosenko was a true defector, that the KGB had had nothing to do with Lee Harvey Oswald while he was living in the USSR, and, most importantly, that KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn was all wet in his claims that Popov had been betrayed by a mole in U.S. Intelligence, that Penkovsky had been betrayed by a mole in British or U.S. Intelligence, and that there was, in 1959, created a top-secret "KGB within the KGB," known officially as "Department 14 of the Second Chief Directorate" (the SCD being today's FSB).
Thereby tearing CIA counter- intelligence efforts against the Kremlin apart, and unwittingly(?) clearing the way for someone like Aldrich Ames to betray the U.S. for nine years, etc, etc, etc.
Enter, in no particular order, Oliver Stone's
JFK, "Anna Chapman and The Eleven Dwarfs Spy Ring," James "Jumbo Duh" DiEugenio, Tommy Mangold, Jefferson "Intellectually Dishonest" Morley, oodles and gobs of tinfoil hat conspiracy theories, and ... gasp ... Donald "Useful Idiot" Trump For President!
-- MWT
