Maybe your department lived up to the public “legend” but at some point you gotta look into the Air America heroin extraction and transshipment from the Golden Triangle, which led to the Agency’s rip off of the Marseilles heroin mafia and on and on and... This data is out there in a hundred books and YouTube videos and web sites. Ever hear of the term “black budget”? Never mind all those mind control experiments brought to light in the 1970’s Church Commission investigations. How the ding dong hell would you know what other sections were up to? The whole point is to compartmentalize operations. In 1964 I supplied jungle wood samples to my Peace Corps supervisor, a request that came out of nowhere, not related to my job description or task assignment. A year later, I’m watching a docu on a pipeline that ran from the jungle over the Andes right through my zone of operation and sussed what those samples were for. The CIA greases the skids for Bechtel and Utah Construction and other US based globalist corporations to create infrastructure for raw materials extraction, period. Zero concern for internal development as a vehicle for autonomous self-development of raw materials by 3rd World countries. The CIA is a nasty business, always has been. Now FACTIONS within the intel community are sabotaging our President. I say put Langley under the control of the Pentagon.
Air America never ran heroin I don’t care how many books there are on the subject. Yeah there were mind control experiments, and there were some issues, and yes there was a bit to much of a cowboy attitude in the 60’s. But nothing like people purport in books. That is why I said Church did a bit of good while causing immense destruction.
The entire CIA budget is classified and, therefore, ‘black’.
It’s not like the movies where there are secret ‘sections’ and ‘factions’. Think about it - even at the section level where you have 30 case officers and assorted other staff - if some illegal order came down from the DCI what would happen? Half of those people would go have a chat with the IG or even their favorite Senator. Probably 50% of the US staff are Democrats and the other half Repubs and libertarians. Nothing too wacky one way or the other is going to go anywhere.
I cannot speak to 1964 but Peace Corp was completely off limits. So was using any kind of missionary organization or front. I’m pretty sure that was the case in 1964 also.
“The CIA greases the skids...” Sorry no.
“Factions”... Sorry no. There are no “factions”. There is Brennan and his direct staff sure - he was appointed by Obunghole. There are a few individual nutters. But even the nutters realize that they will fail their next poly if they do something illegal - and leaking is illegal.
All this stuff you believe, sir, just isn’t true. Most of the time working in the CIA is like working in the post office.