As a practical matter, it has proven difficult to either reform or abolish the CIA, ... The logical alternative may be to simply create an entirely new agency. -Steven Aftergood

 

As a practical matter, it has proven difficult to either reform or abolish the CIA, ... The logical alternative may be to simply create an entirely new agency.


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As a practical matter, it has proven difficult to either reform or abolish the CIA, ... The logical alternative may be to simply create an entirely new agency.

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I thought, Wow!, ... Here's a historical revelation that will cause the history books to be rewritten. No one's ever heard of a U.S. nuclear test in the Sudan in 1962.

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It's a bit of a compromise, ... There is a cultural resistance to the polygraph that is different at the FBI than at the CIA. A polygraph is something that is given to new employees and suspected criminals, not to employees in good standing. -Steven Aftergood
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So somehow the notion that the U.S. had conducted a nuke test in Sudan had gotten into the news food chain and had triggered alarms on the part of the Sudanese government.

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It is ironic, ... We sued the C.I.A. four times for this kind of information and lost. You can't get it through legal channels.

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An implicit repudiation of the CIA, which was established to be the central focus and the integrator of the nation's intelligence production. -Steven Aftergood
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It is important to acknowledge that CIA hasn't totally neglected the issue [of records management].

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