Finish the sentence: "I believe the CIA is...

[Minstrel Boy]

[reprehensor]

1. Related DVD...

At addictedtowar.com, look up the 'What I Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy' DVD and order it. Very eye-opening. Also has nice expose about the SOA...

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. I believe the CIA has a dark side and a light side

We DO need intelligence and our nation DOES have interests. Not everything they do is of questionable morals or values.

[lostnfound]

14. Well put. I'd have voted for criminal enterprise but instead I agree w/you

[bobthedrummer]

3. It had real Nazis within it at it's foundation in 1947, it recruited many

more Nazi war criminals, it is a criminal enterprise IMO.
http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/ratlines.htm

http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities/composition/assignments/experiment/paperclip.html

http://www.goordnance.apg.army.mil/OPpaperclip.htm

http://www.infoage.org/paperclip.html

[Terwilliger]

4. other

it's kind of an amalgam

It has been an instrument of an imperialist nation for most of its existence, so right there, it has some bad history

[Minstrel Boy]

5. Intelligence gathering and analysis is one thing, but

it's a small part of the picture.

The CIA's hands are bloodied by assassinations both foreign and domestic, the destabilization and overthrow of democratic governments, false-flag terrorism, abusive medical research, the protected drug trade....

JFK was right. It ought to have been shattered into a thousand pieces and scattered to the wind 40 years ago.

[CityZen-X]

6. I Believe The CIA Is.......

The Corporate Intelligence Agency!

[Terwilliger]

7. kick

[Astarho]

8. The Paramilitary Arm

of Corporate America.

[havocmom]

9. Peppered with good and bad

just like every other entity comprised of people. Some are there for their own purpose and some truly desire to serve the good of the greater community.

And capitalism will fall of the same illness that brought down the communists: human nature.

[Postman]

10. designed to protect capitalists by any means....

although socialism will always be the savior of capitalism because whenever capitalism fails it's the people's money that bails the capitalist out.

[Snappy]

11. Capital

The CIA is designed to protect Capitalists of the USA. It is 100% obvious that the US Govt. now and in the past is not interested in Democracy. That concept is merely an ideal to dupe the American people in order to gain their support of Imperialsim.

[MrPrax]

12. ...How a Friend Described It"

He personally never worried about the CIA EVER being effective because it is made up of three distinct factions that continually cannibalize each others success...

Bureaucrats, Criminals and Ideologues - they have similar interests, but are divergent on end-results when it comes to 'what to do with intelligence the Company has gathered?'

[are_we_united_yet]

13. I've gained a great deal of respect for the CIA

especially since they've been at odds with the WH.