After presenting 70 or so years of the history and details of the CIA and its chess masters, the conclusion can only be that it is a government all its own, that runs its own foreign policy, that is unconcerned with law or democracy or the Constitution. Presidents do not know what the CIA does, cannot constrain it or its players, and are swept into the international chaos that it causes. Assassination, coups, propaganda wars, blackmail against any political enemy, funding of rebel groups through ill-gotten monies that Congress wouldn’t give them (arms trading, drug running, theft), protecting the ultra rich and their international corporations at the expense of the local citizens and their own governments – just tools for its designs.
Jim Angleton, a disciple of Allen Dulles, in The Agency from its inception post-WWII, and a central player in all of the dark deeds, said on his lung cancer death bed, “Fundamentally, the founding fathers of US intelligence were liars…. The better you lied and the more you betrayed, the more likely you would be promoted…. Outside of their duplicity, the only thing they had in common was a desire for absolute power. I did things that, in looking back on my life, I regret. But I was part of it and loved being in it.” Speaking of these grand masters, “If you were in a room with them, you were in a room full of people that you had to believe would deservedly end up in hell…. I guess I will see them there soon.” (pg 620)
Yes, I’m sure you did.