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How long have you lived in this country, and you've never heard of the CIA being involved in coups like in Vietnam, assassinating Presidents, blowing up pipelines, using paid assets to do their dirty work? You do know that the CIA hired known Nazi war criminals after WWII, and used them for intelligence purposes...people like Klaus Barbie, and Nazi Intelligence Officer Reinhard Gehlen who they allowed to set up his own organization which they had no control over. Gehlen was allowed to function in anonymity, hiring other known war criminals, and using tax payer dollars to run his show. Some of the SS, SD and former German police he hired were helping other Nazi war criminals to escape from Germany. One of them was Dr. Josef Mengele.

Some members of Gehlen's group, unknown to him, were spying for Russia, while others moved to Syria and Egypt, and conducted gun trafficking to equip those countries with weapons to use against Israel. The CIA was extremely embarrassed by all of this, and dropped Gehlen and his group like a hot potato. Gehlen eventually wormed his way into becoming President of the BND under Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of West Germany. Gehlen eventually fell out with Adenauer because his lack of leadership allowed a KGB agent to infiltrate the BND.

Today's CIA is likely as corrupt and incompetent as it was in the 50's and 60's. Even more so, because they don't have to report to anyone, and are held accountable for nothing.