“I always try to stress that the CIA is second fiddle in everything it does. It is, it only exists for two purposes. One is, it is a plausibly deniable support agency for the State Department to pursue state department goals, or it’s a plausibly deniable covert support unit for the military for paramilitary DoD activity.
… behind every dirty cloak and dagger CIA operation is a dirty Assistant Secretary at the State Department or a dirty member of the State Department's policy planning staff, or a dirty under Secretary of Defense, or a dirty person on the National Security Council who's coordinating that.”
The CIA exists primarily as a support mechanism for State Department goals, operating as the “low-level hit man” rather than the mastermind of foreign operations.
“I always try to stress that the CIA is second fiddle in everything it does. It is, it only exists for two purposes. One is, it is a plausibly deniable support agency for the State Department to pursue state department goals, or it’s a plausibly deniable covert support unit for the military for paramilitary DoD activity.
… behind every dirty cloak and dagger CIA operation is a dirty Assistant Secretary at the State Department or a dirty member of the State Department's policy planning staff, or a dirty under Secretary of Defense, or a dirty person on the National Security Council who's coordinating that.”
The CIA exists primarily as a support mechanism for State Department goals, operating as the “low-level hit man” rather than the mastermind of foreign operations.
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