After WWII - operation paperclip - from CIA web site:
Other prominent Nazis hired under Operation Paperclip included:
General Reinhard Gehlen, former head of Nazi intelligence operations against the Soviets, was hired by the US Army and later by the CIA to operate 600 ex-Nazi agents in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany. In 1948, CIA Director Roscoe Hillenkoetter assumed control of the so-called Gehlen Organization.
German biologist Dr. Kurt Blome was hired to develop offensive and defensive capabilities to counter Soviet biological warfare activities.
The CIA in it’s formative years learned from the Nazis.
In Dec 1963, Truman wrote an opinion piece regarding CIA(the month after JFK was killed):
His conclusion and link is below:
But there are now some searching questions that need to be answered. I, therefore, would like to see the CIA be restored to its original assignment as the intelligence arm of the President, and that whatever else it can properly perform in that special field—and that its operational duties be terminated or properly used elsewhere.
We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society.
There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.
http://www.maebrussell.com/Prouty/Harry%20Truman%27s%20CIA%20article.html
In the 60s the CIA was so secret, that no one in Congress even knew it’s budget. The Church committee in the 70s set up some oversight and attempted to rein it in - the Obama CIA and cronies in other Intelligence Agencies are really Arrogant, and through the JTTF with FBI, they have been expanded their reach to the States.
To keep our children free, DJT must be successful in draining the Swamp. Pray like crazy.
praying