“...Kennedy had fired CIA director Alan Dulles and two other high CIA officials, he had also promised to 'splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.'”
One does not look upon the face of the Gorgon and live.
8 posted on 05/01/2012 9:44:08 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts
(I will not comply. I will NEVER submit.)
It's not so much the CIA, as what's behind the CIA. The long history of the CIA had them recruiting primarily from places like Yale. the OSS also had a fondness for Yale.
If you were an upper-class family, whose income stream came from investments, there would be tremendous advantages in having somebody having a good amount of non-public inside information.
21 posted on 05/01/2012 11:49:04 AM PDT by PapaBear3625
(In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)